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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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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 iTunes, 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 Reporting 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.
By age 24, Darrell had earned his A.A. from Broward Community College, his B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida, his M.B.A. from Emory University, and his J.D. from the Emory University School of Law. He went on to become a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Florida Bar. Darrell has held many positions as a reporter, advertising representative, entrepreneur, retail business owner, insurance agent, stockbroker, real estate agent, Web designer, attorney, and author. In 2005, Darrell founded Amber Book Company and wrote its flagship title, Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law, now in its 11th edition; it has been adapted as a textbook by colleges and universities worldwide. Darrell’s legal articles have been published in Securities Regulation Law Journal and JD/MBA Journal.
Darrell’s nonfiction books include: Cub: The Story of a Boy Reporter about his early career as a cub reporter, which includes celebrity interviews and photographs; and Collected Essays of a Reluctant Blogger, More Essays of a Reluctant Blogger, and Return of the Reluctant Blogger (three collections of humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, and insightful commentary on today's societal concerns derived from his blog at KeithBDarrell.com); Putting Your Business on the Internet; and The Web Designer’s Client Handbook.
He has also written more than 80 short stories contained in four collections, Randoms (NIE Awards Finalist, 2009), Careywood, Shards (NIE Awards Finalist, 2013), and Shards: The Omnibus Edition.
Darrell’s series include the Halos & Horns fantasy saga: Paved with Good Intentions (Book 1), And a Child Shall Lead Them (Book 2), To Hell in a Handbasket (Book 3), and The Witches’ Cauldron (Book 4); and The Halos & Horns Omnibus Edition (a 904-page book consisting of the four-book series with 61 color illustrations, commentary, and the novelette, The Pandora Chronicles); the Fangs & Fur fantasy series (the spin-off series from Halos & Horns for vampire and werewolf fans) consisting of Flashbacks (Book 1), Nightstalkers (Book 2), Nosferatu, Inc. (Book 3), and the Fangs & Fur Omnibus Edition; The Age of Magic fantasy series (a Halos & Horns spin-off) consisting of Alterverse (Book 1) and Warriors & Wizards (Book 2); the young adult science fiction trilogy, The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer: The 25th Hour (Book 1), The Tomorrow Paradox (Book 2), All the Time in the World (Book 3) and The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer Omnibus Edition; and Vampires Vs. Aliens (Books 1 & 2). He is also the author of the quirky crime drama Cops and Robbers.
Darrell’s interests include his pets, photography, genealogy, art, literature, theater, old comic books, travel, and learning about different cultures and languages.