Alterverse
The Age of Magic story arc, Book One
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-40-5)
"In a world without hope,
in a land of darkness and despair,
where chaos has replaced order,
one boy leads a ragtag band of rebels against omnipotent forces."
The forces of Chaos have defeated those of Order and recreated reality. The result is a dystopian multiverse ruled by the Dark Gods and policed by vampires who serve as their high priests. Into this Alterverse comes a heavensent African, gender-switching, interdimensional traveler who now finds himself permanently stuck in female form and tasked with the unenviable job of restoring reality. He/She must locate 17-year-old Alaric, son of the imprisoned witch Samantha Twitch and the banished demon Lucifer, and help him form a rebellion. But in this altered reality familiar faces are not who they may seem and some who had died now still live. Pandora and Cody's teenaged children Quinn and Ursula join Alaric's nascent resistance alongside the demon Asmodeus, Grand Duke of Hell Eligos, Nitrate (an emotive from the Dreamscape), Kita the kitsune, and a Kunoichi (Japanese female assassin) against overwhelming odds, as they seek not merely to change the world but the entire multiverse, and overthrow the gods themselves.
Book Nine in the Halos & Horns fantasy saga!
Warriors & Wizards
The Age of Magic story arc, Book Two
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-42-9)
In The Age of Magic, Anything is Possible!
Taking place 15 years after the conclusion of the Halos & Horns story arc, The Age of Magic marks Lucifer's return to the series but much of the story follows the next generation: the children of Samantha (witch) and Lucifer (demon) Cypher; Pandora (vampire) and Cody (werewolf) Fenris; and Kita (kitsune) and Reggie (mortal) Forster. Alaric Cypher spends his summer before starting college in Japan with the family of the kitsune Kita, where he finds love and danger. Lucifer travels back to the ancient land of Thenesia to aid the barbarian King Caliban and the wizard Balthazar in their fight against the Dark Gods. Bartholomew follows twins Quinn and Ursula Fenris through a dimensional portal to the Otherworld, where the Morrigan is preparing for final battle with Hecate, the goddess of all witches. A traitor is discovered at Nosferatu, Inc., and Asabi returns to Siofra after Alterverse... but in a dramatically different form.
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Shards: The Omnibus Edition
Published by Amber Book Company
Softcover (ISBN 978-1-935971-23-8)
Shards: The Omnibus Edition This new enlarged omnibus edition of the award-winning Shards short story collection features a whopping 760 pages of raw, cutting edge speculative fiction from one of today’s most provocative writers! Keith B. Darrell traverses multiple genres and dimensions, guiding the reader to a wondrous universe of speculative fiction in which he has loosed the gremlins of his imagination. He has tapped into a modern day Twilight Zone, chronicling the exploits of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. His tales hold a funhouse mirror up to society and force us to recognize ourselves in the reflection. Filled with pathos, they cross all genres and are alternately poignant, nostalgic, humorous, cautionary, and even terrifying.
Keith B. Darrell’s stories flow effortlessly. Do not be deceived. They are raw. They are politically incorrect. They are razor-sharp shards!
A Quirky Comedy - Crime Drama!
Cops and Robbers
"Grim" cover and "Whimsy" cover
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (grim cover, ISBN 978-1-935971-34-4) and (whimsy cover, ISBN 978-1-935971-33-7). Published by Amber Book Company
Cops and Robbers: A pair of FBI agents set up a bogus movie production as part of an unlikely sting operation to snare a mob kingpin. They buy the worst script in Hollywood and hire a failed movie producer whose career is on the skids; a third-rate aging actress whose claim to fame is having performed Shakespeare... on a cruise ship; an amphetamine-enhanced screenwriter; a hooker; a Yiddish-speaking accountant; a black, flaming gay actor; and a Native American actor who insists on dressing like an Old West dime store Indian. However, throughout the course of the film, the mobsters and one of the FBI agents become so enamored by the glitter and glamor of Hollywood that they actually end up working together to try to make the movie a success. Our hero is a hitman in search of the redemption he doesn't believe he deserves. He realizes the fake film was never meant to be produced and develops a conscience believing it's wrong to allow the innocent actors and film crew to spend months of their lives working on a movie no one will ever see, despite the delusions of everyone else involved. Knowing their hopes and dreams will be dashed, our hero sets about trying to do the right thing.
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Vampires vs. Aliens
Book One
Available in MOBIand EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-36-8)
A moonlit night, a young couple strolling hand-in-hand along a deserted country road. The perfect date night... until he leans over to kiss her and instead sinks his fangs into her throat. The vampire drains his prey, sating his hunger, and releases the lifeless corpse. He wipes the blood from his lips, content to leave her body in the field to be found in the morning by the humans. He's momentarily blinded by a harsh light from above. He feels a vibration around him, a powerful wind, and a tremor in the ground. He opens his eyes and sees a spaceship has landed.
The aliens notice the vampire. They're confused because their sensors indicated there were no life forms in the area. But their sensors are calibrated for humans and other life forms... Not the undead.
The vampire learns the aliens are setting up plants in coastal areas to steal the Earth's water, a scarce but necessary resource they need to survive. Escaping from the aliens, he warns other vampires of their arrival and plans which, if carried to fruition, would doom the human race... And with no humans or other life left on Earth, the planet's furtive vampire population would be deprived of its sole food source.
Now the vampires must wage a secret war against the invaders while hiding their own existence from the humans, just as the aliens don't wish for the humans to learn of their invasion that is already underway.
Science Fiction-Fantasy.
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Vampires vs. Aliens
Book Two
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-37-5)
Sebastian arrives. He's a mysterious Elder sent by the Conclave of Elders, who disapprove of Gaunt's decision to handle the alien threat without consulting the Conclave. But Sebastian has his own secrets...
Hailey Rumson arrives in town to start classes at the local college in the fall. She had moved away two years ago, before Courtney Cartwright came to town. Hailey is old friends with Brandon but has never met Courtney, who had become her cousin's BFF. Hailey wants to learn more about her cousin's death and distrusts Courtney because she spends so much time around her cousin's killer.
Saskia, an alien rebel, takes over the Neptune Corporation while Kevian is on the run; and we meet Baytok, a hermit - alien monk. Of course the vampires -- New Bloods, Young Bloods (Misha, Scarlett, Jaxson, Nicholas), Old Bloods (Zachary & Audrey), Elders (Gaunt, Talia, Tobias, Marcus, Francesca, Sebastian) -- are back.
Oh, and remember that message Jansa sent to the home world? Someone got the message. And they're coming. But not who anyone expects.
Science Fiction-Fantasy.
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Vampires vs. Aliens
Book Three
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-45-0)
They came from a dying world to steal the Earth's water but they didn't anticipate resistance from the vampires, who realize the aliens’ plans would doom the human race... depriving the planet's furtive vampire population of its sole food source.. Now the v
ampires must wage a secret war against the invaders while hiding their own existence from the humans. With the unanticipated destruction of their homeworld, the aliens have become refugees - but will the Earth perceive them as victims or villains? Reporter Pete Riley discovers the existence of both the aliens and the vampires but that knowledge may cost him his life. As the aliens choose a new leader, forcing Kevian and Kira to assume new roles, two new aliens arrive, precipitating a conflict between church and state. New arrivals also move into the mansion, including a familiar New Blood, an Ancient vampire older than the Earth itself, and an Elder hiding a deadly secret, each bringing new challenges to Gaunt and his family of vampires.
Science Fiction-Fantasy.
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Justin Tyme
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-44-3)
JUSTIN TYME: Impulsive, brilliant, protégé, physicist. He's the brains.
ELIZABETH MADISON: Martial arts fighter, polyglot, government agent. She's the brawn.
Together they'll make history…
while hopefully not changing it.
TIME TRAVEL WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
When the government pulls the plug on Dr. Daniel Spencer's Top Secret time travel project his brilliant young protégé, physicist Justin Tyme, impetuously sends himself into the timestream to prove Project Chronos' viability, undeterred by the fact they haven't yet figured out how to return a chrononaut safely. Fearing the brash scientist might inadvertently change the past, the Defense Department sends agent Elizabeth Madison to join Justin Tyme as his time-traveling companion. She's perfect for the job: she speaks 15 languages and is skilled in hand-to-hand combat.Elizabeth is proficient in judo, karate, jujitsu, aikido, kendo, tae kwon do, and wushu, the shaolin form of Chinese kung fu. Now Elizabeth must keep Justin Tyme out of trouble and prevent him from altering history – even if that means terminating him.
Science Fiction.
Also By This Author:
Wonderland
Available in MOBI and EPUB formats and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-51-1)
Detective Alice Dodgson follows a summons from Police Chief O’Hare to the futuristic city of Wonderland. O’Hare wants Alice to assume the job of Wonderland’s chief detective. She refuses, but he says, “You may find what you’re looking for here in Wonderland.” Alice agrees, hoping to find her sister who was abducted 15 years earlier. O’Hare’s late for a tea party being given by Mademoiselle Milliner, one of Wonderland’s patrons and socialites, who made her fortune from designing outrageous hats. He leaves her with Police Captain Jim Hooker, known as Capt. Hook because his left hand has been replaced by a metal hook. Alice encounters Dorothy Gale, a reporter for the Kansas Star who’s come to Wonderland following a lead on a local criminal enterprise led by gangster Edmund Tusk, known as The Walrus. Alice learns the Walrus and his partner Carpenter are luring “young oysters,” i.e., girls, into white slavery, their child sex trafficking emanating from Wonderland to Kansas and other locales. She decides to stay in Wonderland, suspecting her missing sister Wendy may have been one of their victims.
Quirky Crime Drama.
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Essays of a Reluctant Blogger
Published by Amber Book Company
Paperback ISBN 978-1-935971-19-1 Paperback ISBN 978-1-935971-27-6
Paperback ISBN 978-1-935971-38-2
Author Keith B. Darrell capers from humorous anecdotes to philosophical musings to insightful commentary on today's societal concerns in these collections of essays from his blog at KeithB.Darrell.com.
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Cub: The Story of a Boy Reporter
Published by Amber Book Company
Paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-17-7)
Cub: The Story of a Boy Reporter: A gallon of gas cost 60 cents — an outrageously high price in the inflationary mid-1970s. The Vietnam War had just ended, and the first videotape recorders were appearing in Japan. Bell-bottoms and teardrop eyeglasses were in style. Fugitive newspaper heiress Patty Hearst — who had joined her kidnappers in robbing a bank— had just been captured. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would soon form Apple Computer Company. A year after that, the lights would go out in Manhattan for 25 hours. The following year, Egypt and Israel would sign an historic peace treaty. These were the newspaper headlines of the times. Against this backdrop, a teenage reporter sought his own headlines, interviewing the famous and the powerful, seeking new stories to tell while in pursuit of “the scoop”: the Holy Grail of all reporters. Starting at the age of 16, armed with only a pencil, a borrowed camera, and his trusty typewriter, this intrepid “cub” reporter covered some of the greatest stories and people of the era. This is his story... and some of the stories he wrote.
Nonfiction.
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Published by Amber Book Company
Paperback (ISBN 978-1-935971-35-1). Also available as a digital download from VitalSource.
Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law, 11th Edition:
The 11th edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law has been updated for 2017 with the latest cases and trends in Internet Law. The new edition not only has an expanded glossary, and expanded statute and case indexes but a new chapter devoted to the NSA's spying on Internet users and a first look at the European Union's Right to be Forgotten court ruling and its aftermath.
Topics include:
Privacy: Invasion of Privacy, Public Records, Workplace Privacy, Employer & ISP Monitoring, Data Collection, Data Retention, Data Breaches, the Right to be Forgotten, E-Mail & Chat Room Privacy, Web Site Privacy Policies, Behavioral Marketing, Flash Cookies, Device Fingerprinting, Privacy & Children, Metadata, Border Searches, FISA & the USA PATRIOT Act, the NSA, FISA Court, PRISM, XKeyscore; EU Privacy Directives;
Free Speech: Defamation, SLAPPs, Gripe Sites, Revenge Porn Sites, Mugshot Sites, Blogs & Vlogs, Obscenity & Pornography, Harassment & Hate Speech, Prior Restraint, Repression, Student Speech, CDA, Anonymous Speech, Commercial Speech, Expressive Conduct; "Fake News";
Social Media: Misuse, Ownership, Coerced Access, the Courts;
Cybercrimes: Spam, Phishing, Identity Theft, Spyware & Malware, Cyberstalking, Cyberbullying, Computer Trespass, Wardriving, Virtual Crime;
Intellectual Property: Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Trade Secrets, Creative Commons, Linking, Framing, File-Sharing, Fair Use, Public Domain, Work-Made-For-Hire, DMCA, VARA, Domain Name Disputes, Keyword Advertising, America Invents Act;
Business & the Internet: Internet Taxation, Internet Interstate Commerce, Web Contracts, e-Discovery, Corporate Securities, Crowdfunding, Reg A, Reg D;
European Union: Directives and Regulations; the General Data Protection Regulation; the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive; the Privacy Shield;
Also: Cloud Computing; Digital Currency; Right of Publicity; the Internet of Things; Web Accessibility; Net Neutrality; Online Reputation Management; Social Media Monitoring; Podcasts; Geofiltering; Digital Journalism; Hyper Local Web Sites, Digital Estate Planning; Sexting; Facial Recognition; E-Books and many more subjects.
* Also used by online courses and many colleges in America and internationally as a textbook for Internet Law, business, IT, media, journalism, and sociology classes.
* Concisely written and covering a broad range of topics, this is the most current book of its kind!
Nonfiction.
About The Author
Keith B. Darrell is a cross-genre author of short stories, novels, epics, and nonfiction. His work is available in softcover and hardcover from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com; in e-book format from Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, and Payhip.com; as a digital download from VitalSource, and on his blog at KeithBDarrell.com.
Darrell earned his Associate of Arts degree from Broward Community College where he studied journalism, during which time he was awarded First Place for Best In-depth Re
porting from the 28-school Florida Community College Press Association. He wrote numerous hard news stories for the BCC newspaper The Phoenix, and articles for Silver Sands, the BCC feature news magazine. He was later selected as editor of Silver Sands and the BCC Orientations magazine which afforded him experience in magazine layout. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida with a concentration in News-Editorial (news writing, editing, and photojournalism). He had newspaper internships with the Gainesville Sun, High Springs Herald, and Alachua Herald. He was also a freelance writer and photographer for the Gainesville Sun, and a writer for the Emory Law Times and the Georgia State University Signal. He has interviewed dozens of celebrities and politicians.
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