CORP/BIZ Excellent book called Potters Run

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OldArcher

Has No Life - Lives on TB
jward said:
looks like good prep/practice/reading material. Thanks for the tip.

Jeff Potter's battered body carries the scars (and more) of battles no one ever knew, in a war most people forgot. Now, as the big one has kicked off, he's tired of fighting for the fortune of others and he's not going to let his son and daughter get drafted.

As total global war envelopes the world, the Potter family is going to sit this one out. Of course, the powers that be can't allow that. They can't let an individual get away with saying... no.

Jeff Potter has learned from their wars and now he has a plan.

As the Feds close in, the County Sheriff and the community stand up.

How far would you be willing to go to protect your children from being conscripted into a war in which you didn't believe? Would you be willing to go to jail? Would you be willing to die? Would you be willing to kill?

Inspired by actual events just over one hundred years ago, the setting is now the near future, where young men and young women are both subject to conscription in yet another avoidable, foreign war.

This is Jeff Potter's mission. This is Potter's struggle. This is POTTERS' RUN...
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Decided long ago, when they were little- now 40 and 34. Answer? Whatever it takes. To the Knife. Period.

OA
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
OldArcher said:
Decided long ago, when they were little- now 40 and 34. Answer? Whatever it takes. To the Knife. Period.

OA
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I hear where yer coming from; unfortunately, they grow to an age where it is their own road to chart.
..same with sweet boys n ladies..which is why I recommend a really well built "bunker" in the basement ; )
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
momma_soapmaker said:
OUTSTANDING!! Even better than the first one, which I thought was excellent.

Well done, sir!! I am anxiously awaiting the next installment.
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Try some of his other stuff to tide you over- it's all been really good. In fact, I'm gonna have to split my time between patting the table and saying "MOAR MOAR MOAR" o'er potters' series, and the short military paranormal ones- and oliphants o course, they're always my first <3
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gunwish

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I am about half way through the second book and man, I am scared. Not scared because the book is bad or has horror in it, but because of the how the truthful the story could be. I need to come up for air sometimes to get a reality check. I won't post spoilers about the story. It is one of the stories that grabs you and won't let go. The scary part of the book is that the story could be on the news and happening in real life. Events wrote in the book could be happening here in our country tomorrow. Not in some far off country, but here in your local town. Everything the author wrote sounds like it could happen and I believe could be happening. I know the book is "fiction" with the way the author writes it reads as a true story. Some stories I read, I know are fiction. This one is scary close to being true

Overall great book!!!!! Please support the author. It is very reasonably prices on Amazon, dead tree paperback and digital.
 
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Notasheep

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Have been a bit out of pocket so am late catching this thread. Looks like a great series, so have just ordered both paperback books. Can't wait for them to arrive! Thanks for joining the chat room, writerrecluse. BTW..that quinzhee looks a whole lot like the snow caves my brother and I used to build in MN when the plow piled up snow at the side of our driveway. LOL!!!
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

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gunwish said:
I am about half way through the second book and man, I am scared. Not scared because the book is bad or has horror in it, but because of the how the truthful the story could be. I need to come up for air sometimes to get a reality check. I won't post spoilers about the story. It is one of the stories that grabs you and won't let go. The scary part of the book is that the story could be on the news and happening in real life. Events wrote in the book could be happening here in our country tomorrow. Not in some far off country, but here in your local town. Everything the author wrote sounds like it could happen and I believe could be happening. I know the book is "fiction" with the way the author writes it reads as a true story. Some stories I read, I know are fiction. This one is scary close to being true

Overall great book!!!!! Please support the author. It is very reasonably prices on Amazon, dead tree paperback and digital.
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Thanks so much for that. And writing this is, to be honest, kind of taxing. Trying to stay out ahead of the headlines and trying to keep it believable. I have started Potter's War, just a few pages in. I'm at a point where an overall sitrep is briefed to the some of the characters to give an idea of what is going on in the world. One of the things I was going to include was open violence/warfare on the southern border... ugh.

I'm thinking Potter's War will be the last in the series. I'm trying to end on some kind of inspirational note, but as I look through the news and think about the direction we're going, I'm realizing that's the part that will take the most creativity.

In the next few days I'll try to post a picture of some of the books I'm reading to get some background for this book. I'll go ahead and say now one of them is "Miracles Of The American Revolution" by Larkin Spivey.

A lot of folks get wrapped up in who they want to see running in the next presidential election. I think we're at a point where we need a lot more than just a great president.
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

Contributing Member
Notasheep said:
Have been a bit out of pocket so am late catching this thread. Looks like a great series, so have just ordered both paperback books. Can't wait for them to arrive! Thanks for joining the chat room, writerrecluse. BTW..that quinzhee looks a whole lot like the snow caves my brother and I used to build in MN when the plow piled up snow at the side of our driveway. LOL!!!
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Thanks! My brother and I built things like that when we were kids in Wisconsin too. Strangely, I don't remember it being so cold or so much work...
 
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Czechsix

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writerrecluse said:
I was just talking to a friend about that the other day. I think I used the words peaceful Balkanization... He pointed out there was nothing peaceful about the Balkans, he had been there.
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Yep. Kinda like saying "Civil War". Ain't nothing civil about it.

I'm first generation American, but my kin on the other side of the pond know how to hold a multi-generational grudge. They're Tier 1 as far as that goes.
 
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Notasheep

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So...both of your paperback books arrived today. They're sitting on our kitchen table. My quandary? I can either dive into them NOW (the temptation is overwhelming) or wait to read them when I'm down for a few weeks from surgery come July. THAT would be something to look forward to. Meanwhile, I can lend them to a couple of Millenials to read between now and then. Think...think...think..what to do????
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

Contributing Member
Notasheep said:
So...both of your paperback books arrived today. They're sitting on our kitchen table. My quandary? I can either dive into them NOW (the temptation is overwhelming) or wait to read them when I'm down for a few weeks from surgery come July. THAT would be something to look forward to. Meanwhile, I can lend them to a couple of Millenials to read between now and then. Think...think...think..what to do????
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Hmm... I'm about 10 pages into Potter's War. It looks like book three will be combining the story lines of the Paper Tiger, Paper Dragon series and Potters' Run. So, you could also check those out as characters will be carrying over.

I have to say, I have a lot of regrets with Paper Tiger, Paper Dragon and it's sequel, Night of the Tracker. I love the story and the characters, but at the time I really believed China was going to move on Taiwan before Russia moved on Ukraine. In hindsight, obviously, this was so wrong. First, I regret rushing those books to completion the way history unfolded, second, looking back, it should have been SO OBVIOUS! I really believe the only winner in the war in Ukraine, between Russia, the Ukrainians and the US, is China. Brilliant, really, the way it has unfolded.

Remember, China allegedly requested Russia hold off until after their olympics for the invasion. And this turned out to be a problem for Russia because of the weather. I fully believe China will go Barbarossa on Russia first chance it gets if things go well for them.

Currently, we are having a hard time delivering weapon systems the Taiwanese have already paid for. The next optimum weather window for China to move on Taiwan is October. I believe that they may move before they are fully prepared just because they have a permissive political environment.

Anyway, that's a long way of saying there are two other books out there to read. I apologize, they are not the level of editing I now hold myself to, and they are a little more... edgy, perhaps? There is more swearing and violence in them. In Potters' Run and Stand, everything is confined to the County. It's a more wholesome environment than the rest of the world, so keeping a lot of that stuff out made sense.
 
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Old Goat

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I enjoyed reading both Potter books in paperback and have a question; Tom was told that his AM/FM shortwave portable radio was track able when only used to receive news. Does a transistorized radio receiver emit detectable RF energy?
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

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Old Goat said:
I enjoyed reading both Potter books in paperback and have a question; Tom was told that his AM/FM shortwave portable radio was track able when only used to receive news. Does a transistorized radio receiver emit detectable RF energy?
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Ah, this is a great question.
I saw a really good video on this last year. My belief was anything that didn't emit was safe, but this isn't always true. That may be a little more obvious with some newer tech, but with old school radio receivers, you'd think you'd be safe, right? And if you're not then it must have to do with some kind of algorithmic digital wizardry or something.

In writing the book I was desperately looking for that video again to be able answer this question in the book.

Apparently, during WWII when various resistance groups in occupied Europe were using radio receivers to get news and covert assignments, the Nazis figured out a way to locate the RECEIVERS. Now I'm getting way out of my depth and that's why that detail kind of trailed off and became a piece of my Hemingway Iceberg.

It has to do with broadcasting certain RF energy in the area of a receiver that excites or stimulates part of the radio that can then be pinged by direction finding equipment. I believe a similar technology was later employed by the British government to find unlicensed television sets. (yeah, really, they used to and maybe still do require a license to own and operate a television and actually went to such lengths to hunt down 'illegal' televisions...)

So, lessons here are that technology is really scary and I'm getting even more into that as I write and develop Potter's War. The surveillance state that China has achieved, and what the powers that be want to employ here is really something evil beyond the technology itself (I'm still working on this piece and it's not clear in my head yet, but I hope you can see where that seems to be going). The good news is that nature and God are more scary, and as sinister and intrusive as the technology is and the defense contractors advertise it to be... it always fails.

I'm about twenty pages into Potter's War and in a few weeks I'm going on a road trip that will be a combined job hunt/scene research for the book. I'll just say that the trip will take me the length of Idaho, into Western Montana and into Norther Utah. The book is coalescing in my head and I've got a great editorial team now, hopefully I can put together a story that is worthy of all their help and expertise. I'm getting more and more excited about it with each page I write.
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

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Jeff Allen said:
Started Potter's run this morning....and just could not put it down...done. Ordered next book already!

Good sir, you give Matt Bracken a run for his money I think. Well done, and thank you!

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Thank you!
Just got my first three star rating today on amazon for Potters' Run, what's most discouraging is that it's a rating, so I don't have any input to work with. I don't know if they have a valid critique of the book that could help me improve, or if they didn't like the font style or something... sorry, just venting.

Thanks for your support and the kind words.

I'm diligently working on Potter's War, but I'm afraid to estimate a release date for it. This one could run longer, it could get more complex as it draws a couple of story lines together. One of the interesting things is that the Paper Tiger, Paper Dragon story line is subtly fitting in better than I consciously thought it might. I'll just say the target was more than it seemed...
 
Jeff Allen

Jeff Allen

Producer
I’ll get on Amazon and 5 star it when I get time in the office…maybe next weekend, super heavy travel week for me ahead..

J
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

Contributing Member
Jeff Allen said:
I’ll get on Amazon and 5 star it when I get time in the office…maybe next weekend, super heavy travel week for me ahead..

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Sorry, I wasn't fishing for reviews, just lamenting. I don't even mind getting bad reviews that come with something I can learn from and improve on. That said, positive reviews are great, they let me know I'm getting something right and they help against the evil algorithms.
 
writerrecluse

writerrecluse

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genrim said:
I'm late to this thread and haven't read any of the books yet. But wanted to say that I love the cover art for Potter's Stand!
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Thanks! As an independent author, I either have to hire someone to do that stuff or do it myself. Since I'm broke, I gotta do it myself. Fortunately my kids are into photography so we do photo shoots and post production editing ourselves.
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
writerrecluse said:
he book is coalescing in my head and I've got a great editorial team now, hopefully I can put together a story that is worthy of all their help and expertise.
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Aww, thank you.

I went back, purchased and reread Potters' Stand after a wee bit o' time away from it to see if it still seemed fresh and as authentic as reading the daily news.

Fortunately, and unfortunately, it does.

I am more convinced than ever that bringing the rougher characters into the mix will also only increase the authenticity of the stories "voice". I know I live in a smaller, conservative area and I'm as likely to bump into and share a table at the local coffee hut with a man who's done time for manslaughter as one of the towns elected officials or nuns/priests. That's how we roll here, and we're "everywhere usa", so. . .

You might even consider giving deeper roles to your women and liberals. NO ONE, not even pappa bears, fight harder, dirtier or with more conviction than a momma bear who sees threats to her babies- and what you write about is, of course, just that. Likewise, though much of the liberals (and libertines and conservatives too) have gone batscat cray cray in this crazy paradigmn shifting time we are in, at their very core we will probably find a few core commonalities.

Anyway, I'll be dropping my (glowing,natch) reviews on all the sites next time I figure out how to mask my real name and can catch a few moments in which to do so.
...n I look fwd to seeing what wild life makes a cameo in the next edition. I remain eternally hopeful for oliphants, o' course.
 
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