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Video Update – New Thriller Series
Posted UncategorizedI chat about the challenges starting my next thriller series.
Gods & Martyrs – Chapter Five
Posted Chapter Sample, Gods & Martyrs“What are you willing to die for?” Father Peters asked. His question hung in the air as the teens surrounding Gabby struggled to come up with an honest answer. Her recent brushes with death hadn’t clarified one for her, either. In those terrifying moments, she didn’t think, she acted. Sometimes, that meant her life could […]
Gods & Martyrs – Chapter Four
Posted Chapter Sample, Gods & MartyrsHamilton’s mouth kept moving, but Gabby couldn’t hear anything he was saying. Her world fell mute the moment her lanky love interest terminated their friendship. As he stammered and avoided making eye contact, she grew fixated with his ears for some reason. She’d never noticed them before. They were small and tight against his head. […]
Gods & Martyrs – Chapter Three
Posted Chapter Sample, Gods & MartyrsGabby liked the Burger Hut. Not for the food, the ambience, or the service, but because it was where she had fallen in love with Hamilton. They even had their favorite booth. The second one from the entrance, next to the large front window, which faced the mirror image of the Burger Hut logo painted […]
Gods & Martyrs – Chapter Two
Posted Chapter Sample, Gods & MartyrsThe glint off the Russian’s wide knife glistened in Hamilton’s eyes. Gabby’s nerdy friend shook like a dead leaf in a winter breeze as the determined foreigner’s hardened glare threatened to crumble him into a million pieces. The sharpened edge of the blade pointed at Hamilton’s skinny neck, and Gabby could see his blood pulsing […]
Gods & Martyrs – Chapter One
Posted Chapter Sample, Gods & MartyrsBeing bound by rope to a metal pole in the middle of a dark room probably should have elicited more fear in Gabby. Most fifteen-year-old girls would be trembling in fear and screaming at the top of their lungs. She was doing neither. This wasn’t her first rodeo. Like most of her misadventures, she was […]
Sins & Suicide – Chapter Five
Posted Chapter Sample, Sins & SuicideThe incessant repeated rings invaded Gabby’s dream. It was a nice dream too, about talking donuts and ice cream cones performing an interpretive dance of spring. She rolled over and pried one eye open to see her phone illuminated with each ring. No, not the chlorinated phone. That one was toast. What filled her room […]
Sins & Suicide – Chapter Four
Posted Chapter Sample, Sins & SuicideGabby had heard hitting water from a high speed made the normally flexible liquid feel like cement. She was relatively certain falling a mere fifteen feet wouldn’t allow her to gain that sort of velocity, but there was a good chance it wasn’t going to feel all that refreshing either. As the water quickly approached […]
Sins & Suicide – Chapter Three
Posted Chapter Sample, Sins & SuicideGabby wished Hamilton were with her. Not only because his smooth voice made her all squishy inside, but because he’d know how much weight aluminum beams on the top of a screened-in pool could handle. The one thing with which Gabby never concerned herself was her weight. Until today. She had above-average height with above-average […]
Sins & Suicide – Chapter Two
Posted Chapter Sample, Sins & SuicideGabby wanted to implode into a single atom. Above her, through the semi-transparent dust cover stapled to the wooden box spring, she could hear kissing, breathing, and saliva being shared in ways she didn’t want to think about. It was nothing like the movies. No crescendo of string music. No mood lighting. No romantic words […]
Sins & Suicide – Chapter One
Posted Chapter Sample, Sins & SuicideNaked pictures. That’s why Gabby was hiding under Logan’s bed. They were also why she couldn’t leave. The pictures weren’t of Gabby. Lord knew she would never let that happen. She relished her modesty. Besides, if someone had taken nude pictures of her without her consent, she’d be doing more than sneaking into their bedroom […]
Killing Your Darlings – Ending the My Name Is Not Steve Podcast
Posted MNINSIn writing there’s a phrase called “killing your darlings” which means, sometimes you have to edit or cut things you adore from your manuscript in order to make the story better. Ending our podcast My Name Is Not Steve is like that. I’ve loved doing this podcast with my daughter. It’s our third podcast together […]
Author Pete Bauer Talks About Changing Gabby Wells Book Covers
Posted UncategorizedIndy Authors Are Libertarian Capitalists, Even Though They Don’t Know It Yet
Posted Author BlogI’m a simple man. Obvious contradictions confuse me. As I considered the current state of independent writing, especially through the largest marketplace, Amazon, there appeared to be a disconnect between how many make their living and their political leanings. Growing up in a world where entitlement programs, safety nets and heavy government regulation are the […]
MNINS: Season 3, Episode 12 – Uncharted 4: The Future of Storytelling
Posted MNINSWelcome to Season 3, Episode 12 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about the Uncharted game series, including the latest release, A Thief’s End, and how gaming may be the future of storytelling. Mobile Users Listen Here […]
Writing Evil
Posted Author Blog, Gabby Wells - Book 4, Gods & Martyrs, Novel, story telling, WritingI was writing a chapter in the fourth Gabby Wells novel, Gods & Martyrs, and, when I was done, was so disturbed by what I had written, I pushed the keyboard away in disgust. Creating characters is a tricky thing. They end up taking on their own lives and making decisions you don’t want them […]
MNINS: Season 3, Episode 11 – The Castle Collapse, Or How to Destroy a Series in One Horrible Finale
Posted MNINSWelcome to Season 3, Episode 11 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about The Castle Collapse – how horrendous writing killed the show and discuss just about everything wrong with the Castle series finale. Mobile Users Listen […]
MNINS: Season 3, Episode 10 – Reluctant Heroes – Harry Potter, Hans Solo, Katniss Everdeen, John McClane and Gabby Wells
Posted MNINSWelcome to Season 3, Episode 10 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about Reluctant Heroes – Harry Potter, Hans Solo, Katniss Everdeen, John McClane and Gabby Wells. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this […]
MNINS: Season 3, Episode 9 – Page Turners and MI:3
Posted MNINSWelcome to Season 3, Episode 9 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about the concept of page turners and use the film Mission Impossible: III as a cinematic example of one. THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MI:3 SPOILERS! Mobile […]
