Free Tales of San Marco eBooks!

The short stories of Tales of San Marco are Free - for a limited time only! 

Download your eBooks now from the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble Nook, and from Lulu.com

(will be available at the Kindle store as well, soon)

http://www.lulu.com/jimnemesis

Featured Author in Unibook.com

Wow...

Never thought this would ever happen.

It started out as just a fulfillment of a lifelong dream when my wife encouraged me to go ahead with self-publishing.

But now...

Weeks later...

After being sold by several sellers at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk...

I feel blessed as I now have the privilege of being Unibook.com's featured author.

Sure wish this goes further :)

Woohoo!!!!

Tales of San Marco is now available from 5 Sellers in Amazon!

Wow...

Days after publishing my first book, Tales of San Marco, at Amazon, it's now

being sold by 4 other online stores aside from Amazon! Woohoo!

Not really sure if that's a big deal to others... but it sure is a big deal to me! :)

No idea what I'm talking about? Go to www.amazon.com and key in

"Tales of San Marco" at their search box. Click on the book cover as soon as it

comes out, then you'll see something that says "5 new".

As a first-time author trying to reach as many folks around the world with my stories, I think it's not pretty bad that my first book has now possibly been viewed by other potential retailers. Readers can still buy it through Amazon.com, but now have the option to purchase it from four other sellers: AnyEdition, the_book_depository_, brandnewgoodsus, pbshopus.

As I said, I'm not really sure how it all works in Amazon, but I sure am glad it's slowly going out there.

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Woohoo!

Tales of San Marco is now available on Amazon!

Finally...

After days of waiting, my first published book is now available on Amazon.com

If you want to purchase it from there, you can do so now. Just follow the link above.

And for those who already own the book, they can post their reviews there.

By the way, to those who have already purchased the book via Unibook or CreateSpace.com: Thanks once again!

"Tales of San Marco" by James L. Gagni Jr.

After another long... long... long...

(Need I say more? Hehe)

long... long... hiatus... I'm finally able to go back to blogging.

And I do think the time is right to do so... 'coz I'm celebrating!

Finally... a published book! Well... self-published... but at least... I'm able fulfill my lifelong dream of sharing my stories to the world.

Thanks largely to my wife who always keeps the "fire" of writing burning in me... and allowing me to relate those tales that I've kept in my mind all these time.

Those fantasy/ghost/suspense/sci-fi stories that have long been conjured in my brain. Now it finally has an outlet... a way of finding its way to the minds and hearts of others.

This book contains three ghost/fantasy stories which took place in the fictional town called San Marco. The setting was inspired by the town I grew up in... San Fabian, Pangasinan

in the Philippines, particularly two of the three tales inside it.

Anyways, should you be interested in purchasing a copy, you can do so online via Unibook at:

http://www.unibook.com/en/James-L%252E-Gagni-Jr%252E/Tales-of-San-Marco

You can also see an excerpt of the book from there.

I've also uploaded it at Amazon's CreateSpace.com site at:

https://www.createspace.com/3486446

It should be available for sale at CreateSpace.com in a few days time.

I'm also planning to look for a site where I could put it up as an e-book...

I'll just put it up in a future blog as soon as it comes out.

By the way, a big thanks as well to Chello Francisco of Mindwave House

(http://www.mindwave-house.com.sg) for introducing me to these 2 self-publishing sites.

That's all for now.

Hope to hear your comments/feedbacks on it.

Ciao!

Stephen King's Duma Key... really creepy...

Hey Hey Hey...
It's been quite some time since my last post. :)
Anyway, had a barrage of thoughts a while ago that I thought the best thing I should do is probably share it with y'all... one of those thoughts was how the novel I'm currently reading, Duma Key by Stephen King, has become one of the best books I've read so far.
Duma Key (photo courtesy of http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com) tells the story of how Edgar Freemantle, a guy who loses his right arm (& eventually his marriage) and almost loses his life after a freak accident, suddenly gains an unbelievable talent in painting as soon as he arrives at a rented vacation house in Duma Key in Florida. He soon realizes that his stunning but often eerie works-of-art are driven not by his talent but something else...
especially when strange things start happening around him.
Something evil... or something worse.
Even as I've yet to find out what causes these unfathomable events surrounding the protagonist's life, I'm already recommending it.
Truly, truly a wonderful read!

PAYNE Flops... BOND Rocks! - Episode 1

It's the PAYNE that kills me... sigh! sigh! sigh!

...I had high expectations for both films... had very high hopes, in fact, for Max Payne... as I was absolutely addicted to the two games brought forth by its creators. That's why I was absolutely disillusioned, so utterly disappointed, when my wife and I watched the movie.

Never mind that Max, oh I mean, Mark Wahlberg was the actor chosen to play the title role... though I never imagined it would be him... but I thought hey, he might be able to pull it off. The sad, sad, very very sad thing was that the adrenaline rush I felt while playing the game... I never felt it while watching the movie! Aaaarrrrgggghhh!

Oh... wait... there was at least one moment when that occurred. It was a "bullet-time" scene with Max Payne holding a shotgun, then... seeing a bad guy from above and behind him, jumped and shot the guy several times! Ah... at least there was that moment. Are those who adapted the game afraid of being compared to The Matrix series? Well they shouldn't be as the game itself featured bullet-time... it's actually one of the game's best features!

Max's story is a dark, gloomy one... good thing it was adapted onto the film as it's awesome to see it there. Unfortunately, the adaptation made was too much of the drama... not enough action... sigh sigh sigh sigh!!!

Anyways... despite all those unfortunate attributes, there are still some positive sides in it, even teeny-tiny ones (I guess I noticed them since as a Max Payne fan, it's a MUST for me to find something positive in it, lest I end up saying bad words at those who made the film). Aside from that single "bullet-time" scene (sigh...) and that dark mood faithful to the game, the visual effects were awesome... especially portions of the movie involving the Valkyries... yeah!

The Max Payne movie was truly a downer... especially for a game fan like me. Here's to hoping there'll be a remake... hopefully a better one!

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Oh, by the way...

ATTENTION: Prison Break and Heroes fans... Sucre of Prison Break was amazing as the big bad villain Lupino... and two new characters from Heroes season 3 appeared in the movie as well. =)

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