I got a package in the mail from my favorite author.



Thanks, Mr. F!

I'm fairly new to this forum and this is my first actual post. I started reading F Paul Wilson books in January 2018 and I've now read almost all of the Secret History (apart from the 5th Harmonic). I just finished reading the UK Kindle edition of The Void Protocol and I noticed a mention of a novella entitled 'Signalz'. A google search, an Amazon search and a search of this forum have revealed nothing.

What is Signalz?

It's true. Jack is back but Tor doesn't want him.

The publisher of 23 Repairman Jack titles says "No mas." They've made it known to my agent that they've decided not to proceed with any new Jack novels.

I see this as the result of a perfect storm arising from a confluence of poor sales of the very noir, pure-crime Early Years Trilogy (for which I take full responsibility), plus the death of the long-time editor of the series, plus the sidelining of my long-time publisher, Tom Doherty. I suppose it doesn't help that Jack is not what you'd call a "woke" character and has no allies in the Tor editorial department
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[SIZE=3]However it will be published. Gauntlet is as anxious as ever to do the signed limited edition (hell, it might wind up the only edition) and I'm talking to Harry Morris now about the cover. The title is The Last Christmas and you can expect it in the fall. The print run will be limited. You can pre-order here to guarantee yourself a copy.[/SIZE]

As for trade editions, I'm looking into various options.

Why a new Repairman Jack novel? I never said I was through with Repairman Jack. I said I was through turning in a new novel every year. I also said when a story came along that was right for Jack, I’d write it. The Last Christmas is that story.

Consider: It’s late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack who’s perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julio’s. An old contact, Edward Burkes, convinces him to take on a missing-person fix. As usual, nothing is as it seems and it turns out the missing person isn’t exactly a person. In fact, it’s like nothing anyone has ever seen.

And in the middle of all this, the mysterious Madame de Medici hires him to safeguard a valuable object. Simple, right?

Not even close.

Yep, Jack is back and, as usual, weird trouble is close on his heels.


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NETFLIX says "Pick ONE book or book series that you want Netflix to make into a show or movie."

https://twitter.com/netflixlifee/status/...60038?s=21

You know what to do!

coming December 14 from JournalStone

Excerpt from the editorial in The Journal of New Historical Perspectives, Vol. 3, #4, 2011:

On the night of July 15, 1903, Nikola Tesla powered up his 190-foot tower in Wardenclyffe on Long Island’s north shore. The bolts of energy radiating from the apical dome were visible as far away as New Haven, Connecticut. This was the first and last time anyone would witness such a display. Three years later, broke and unable to secure further funding, Tesla abandoned the Wardenclyffe tower and his dream of worldwide wireless power. He returned to Manhattan where he promptly suffered a nervous breakdown.

So say the history books.

But new evidence has surfaced that a shadowy fraternal order stepped in and provided generous funding after J. P. Morgan reneged. Witnesses state that testing of the tower continued but only on foggy days when the discharges would not be noticed. The final test took place on April 18, 1906. Around dawn, in heavy fog, the tower was charged to maximum capacity; across the Atlantic, in Abereiddy, Wales, two copper prongs attached to a 50-watt lightbulb were thrust into the ground. The bulb lit. Tesla had proved that worldwide wireless power was possible.

Why then, at the moment of his greatest vindication, did Nikola Tesla abandon his project? What could possibly have transpired at Wardenclyffe that day to so rattle him that he would deny the world his transformative technology? We may never know.

Until now…

FPW-- Over the years, you've shoe-horned more and more of your non-Jack non-Adversary cycle work into the Secret History... Retconning earlier stuff, tying in newer stuff... Is there any of your work that you can say is definitively NOT, nor will ever be, part of the Secret History?

Otherwise, just update your Secret History timeline with your complete bibliography!

I noticed in the last F Files a note about an upcoming short story, "Wardenclyffe" but I can't find anything about it -- pub. date, what anthology it's in, etc. Does anyone have any wisdom?

I'm considering stepping away from Word to something....else.

Would you share your favorite writing app/word processing software?

Thanks!

I am almost finished and am really enjoying all the references, such as some reference to the Kick book and the dark man in that fire, which I assume is Rasalom. Oh and of course the torture doctor. Brilliant! Unfortunately it got me thinking of the awful IV.
I was thinking it would be interesting if Rasalom visited Reggie in the hospital or wherever he wound up, talk about soaking up misery.

Anyhow about 50 pages left, hopefully I can finish up tonight after work.

Today saw the 154th mass-shooting of the year in America. In June. This is not a political post. It is a medical one. “First, do no harm.”

I may be one of your most devout fans. Just finished re-re-re-reading the Cycle, searched out and bought used versions of Dydeetown, Enemy, LaNague, etc. I may own the last intact paperback version of “The Tery” in existence.

You took an oath. First, do no harm.