by Gary Jonas
“Um, Bret Michaels is the lead singer of Poison,” I said.
“Clerical error. They’d never heard of you or Michael, so they thought it was a misprint. They’ll have it corrected inside the hour.” She gave me a wink. “I made a call.”
“What happened to Apollo’s song?”
“When you kicked him into the jet engine, all the magic he worked went with him. Our contracts are gone. His song doesn’t exist anymore.”
“But my song was engineered by his guy.”
“Thomas? He’s a regular engineer. No god magic in that. You have the number one song in the nation, Brett.”
“Cool.” I thought occurred to me. “If his magic is gone, Michael can’t walk in the daytime.”
Helen pointed back to the plane. Michael went down the stairs with a blanket over his head to keep the sunlight off. “Looks like he figured that out on his own.”
“Good.”
“Well, I’m going to enjoy a night on the town, but first I want to get a hotel room and get freshened up. I smell like demon piss. Will you and Michael join me?”
“Any chance I’ll get lucky?”
“Landing the number one song isn’t lucky enough?”
I shook my head. “No, it’s not.”
“Then you’d better bring your A game.”
“I can do that.”
She climbed into her limo, and left me standing there feeling like a million bucks. I gave her a salute as the limo pulled away. Thirty seconds later, I realized she hadn’t told me where to meet her.
I guess luck has its limits.
The Half-Assed Wizard will return in
The Lame-Assed Doppelganger
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Jonas grew up in a military family, so he moved a lot as a child. His original plan was to be a comic book artist, but in college things changed. He took a creative writing class for the easy A, and found that when he wrote stories, people were affected emotionally by them in ways they weren’t by his artwork. He switched from art to writing without ever looking back. Well, he might have looked back a few times, but by then it was too late. He sold his first short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley for the anthology Sword and Sorceress VII. Many short story sales followed to various magazines and anthologies including Robert Bloch’s Psychos, It Came from the Drive-In, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, Prom Night, and many more.
His first novel, One-Way Ticket to Midnight, was published in 2002, It made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award. While the novel was well-reviewed, it didn’t sell diddly squat, so Gary turned to writing screenplays for a few years. A couple of Hollywood options led to nothing, and the notes from producers, while sometimes spot-on, were also sometimes way out in left field (if they were even in the ballpark). Gary returned to novel writing with Modern Sorcery. You can visit him online at www.garyjonasbooks.com, and sign up for his mailing list on his rarely updated blog. Or you can follow him on BookBub for notices of new releases. Whatever works for you.
Books by Gary Jonas
The Half-Assed Wizard series:
The Half-Assed Wizard
The Big-Ass Witch
The Dumbass Demon
The Lame-Assed Doppelganger (coming soon)
The Jonathan Shade series:
Modern Sorcery
Acheron Highway
Dragon Gate
Anubis Nights
Sunset Specters
Wizard’s Nocturne
Razor Dreams
Vertigo Effect
Club Eternity
Timeless Gods
Spirited Christmas (holiday novelette)
The Kelly Chan series:
Vampire Midnight
Werewolf Samurai
Subhuman Resources (w/Rebecca Hodgkins)
Zombie Rising (w/Rebecca Hodgkins)
The UFO Conspiracy Files series:
Guardians of the Sky
Stand-alone novels:
One-Way Ticket to Midnight
Pirates of the Outrigger Rift (w/Bill D. Allen)
Collection:
Quick Shots
Novella:
Night Marshal: A Tale of the Undead West
also available in Night Marshal Box Set (the first three Night Marshal tales in one bundle--includes Night Marshal by Gary Jonas, High Plains Moon by Glenn R. Sixbury, and This Dance, These Bones by Rebecca Hodgkins). The set kicks ass.
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Edited by Rebecca Hodgkins