Have you checked out Smashwords lately?

If you’re looking for a great place to download books, then Smashwords is the place to be. Major authors, indie authors, they have them all…and yeah, of course they sell my stuff as well. Check it out at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jaerwine

Don’t forget my Amazon Page

If you’d like to keep up with all of my future releases, and there should be a couple of new short stories very soon, then please make sure you’re visiting my Amazon page often at https://amzn.to/3t5N3fi…or better yet, just follow me on Amazon that way you’ll get the updates automatically.

Thanks to everyone who supports my work!

Patreon Stories

Now that I’m able to sell titles directly through Patreon, without they buyer being obligated to become a patron, I decided to put together a special collection of ten stories that will only be available on Patreon. Although I have dabbled in horror, dark fantasy, children’s fantasy, and even mainstream/literary, I decided to make the collection a collection of just science fiction, since that’s my main passion…and I only play around in other fields when I come up with a really good idea. So if you’re interested, here’s the write-up for the collection:

Available only for download on Patreon, I give you Patreon Stories. This is a collection of 10 of my stories that best represent my various science fiction writing styles. Kind of gives you a taste of what you could expect if you become a patron.
The collection includes: The Galton Principle, Origins, Forgive Men Their Trespasses, The Limit of Tolerance, Lowering One’s Self Before Fate, On the Word of Ancients, Reality, Mission Unknown, It’s In the Water, and Fight or Flight.

Buy it today at https://www.patreon.com/jalanerwine/shop

Pick up my titles on Patreon

I’ve made some of my titles available on Patreon for download. You don’t have to be a supporter of mine in order to download them. You can buy them and read them with absolutely no obligation. And the best part is, for a limited time, I’ve made the titles available at a discount…so you can read and save a few pennies.

So, what are you waiting for? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/jalanerwine/shop and start downloading today.

The last week of fiction month is almost here

From the Nomadic Delirium Press Blog:

Fiction Month is almost over here at Nomadic Delirium Press, and that means that your chance to save 30% off of our fiction titles is almost over as well. Save on novels, collections, and anthologies at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/nomadicdelirium and at DriveThruFiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/browse/pub/2805/. And to make the last week of the sale even juicier, you can now download all 60 magazines that we published (The Martian Wave, The Fifth Di…, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Mundanities, and Environmental Holocaust) for just $6. Yes, just 10 cents an issue! Download all 60 today at: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/451677/

Download my Tales of Space Exploration and Discovery for 30% off

For decades, J Alan Erwine has been writing stories about space exploration and discovery…now all of those stories are gathered into one massive tome. Travel the far reaches of space, or explore the solar system with him. Some of the stories are dark, some are optimistic, but all of them are uniquely his.
This collection also features the first four stories in Erwine’s Solar Federation Series, and you can download it for just $2.79 at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1134741

Save 30% off of Manic Musings of a Maniacal Mind

For more than two decades, science fiction editors have been publishing the works of J Alan Erwine, exposing you, the reader, to the dark recesses of the author’s mind. Now, all of those stories have been combined together into one massive tome. Get a glimpse into Erwine’s grim view of the future, and explore the universe from his slightly off-kilter point of view. You can download this massive tome for 30% off, but only for a limited time at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/877392

The Smashwords sale continues

Remember, I still have a 30% off sale running at Smashwords. You can pick up my short story collections and my novels all at a great savings. And there are a few free short stories there as well. I just ask that if you read those, please review them. If you’re looking for science fiction writing that is somewhat off kilter from what you’re used to, then you just might like my fiction. Please check it out at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jaerwine

You’re running out of time for your third Taste of Madness

Very soon now, A Taste of the Madness Vol. 3 will be disappearing from Amazon, and you will no longer be able to order it, so you need to do it soon…https://amzn.to/3ZnNKwv And remember, for Kindle Unlimited members, the download is FREE!

The third volume is here!
A collection of six previously published short stories, that are available only for a limited time. Travel to distant planets and travel to different mad visions that prize-winning sf author J Alan Erwine has come up with, but beware, you can never be sure where his weird mind might take you.
Again, this collection is only available for a very limited time.

Does the economy have to be growing?

I’ve been reading a lot of eco-fiction lately, and I’m even working on a story that somewhat falls into that genre, and it all got me thinking about a conversation I’d had with a friend many years ago. Both of us were quite political, but didn’t always see eye to eye on things. He was a card carrying Democrat, and pretty much bought everything the dems said and did. I, on the other hand, have always been an adamant supporter of the destruction of the two-party system. I see both parties, with the exclusion of other parties, as an evil that the US can’t survive.

Now, on this particular day, we were discussing the economy. He made the observation that the American economy was like a flower. It had to either be growing or dying. I looked at him for what was probably ten seconds, because it just didn’t make any sense to me, and then I finally countered with my point of view.

The American economy is not like a flower, but rather the individuals within that economy are the flowers, growing richer or poorer. The American economy was more like the field of flowers. Some flowers are growing and some are dying, but the overall status of the field is to remain stable. Nature survives best with stability, so it was my point of view that the US economy should remain stable, rather than constantly trying to grow.

To this day, I still say that the American ideal of constantly growing the economy, and the GDP, is one of the biggest problems America faces. We’re so caught up in growth that we’re destroying everything else, and ultimately, our system will fail. And it doesn’t matter what any Democrat or Republican might tell you…their focus is in making the corporations of America richer…and that does not work in favor of “We the People.”