Coupon HEARD at Smashwords

Use coupon HEARD now until 12/31/2025 at my Smashwords author page to get 50% to 100% off on my ebooks. 

Thank you for sharing this info on your social media accounts. I am an indie author building awareness and finding my readers. 

A variety of titles and topics are listed on my author page at Smashwords.com, URL: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Carma_GagneChan (linked above). 

Smashwords is a trusted source for ebook publication to Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and many other affiliates and libraries. 

Smashwords allows authors and publishers to create their own coupons to offer privately or publicly. I have created HEARD to remain in effect until the end of 2025, U.S. Pacific Time (PST/PDT). 

Some of the books will be free because the total must be at lease 0.99 and the book is already 0.99, so with the coupon, which is 50%, it will be free. 

All books that are listed for 1.99 or more will be half price with coupon HEARD, until 12/31/2025. 

The ebook is an EPUB download in most cases. EPUBs can be read on most devices with various e-reading apps. I open EPUB with my Apple devices. If you do not have a way to enjoy EPUBs, you can find my books at Amazon, paperback and Kindle editions. (Not free and the coupon is only good at Smashwords.)

Below are my books published at Smashwords. 

Thank you for supporting my journey as an indie author! ❤

Saardu Movie Script

The movie rights to Saardu are available. 

The original award-winning script is online. Click the link to explore: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQLJHJ4P

Book Cover | SAARDU: The Original Award-Winning Script

Inquiries may be sent via social media, found on the About page of this blog. 

Mars Intervention 2992

I was informed at 2:43 a.m. that I was a minute late for today's task. Rascal wants me to republish the Mars story. They are pretty peeved that I unpublished it, but anyway, have some new twists. That's the thing with Zenyans...they never give up, they are relentless, they are prolific, they are pestilential, and they can be very funny. 

Rascal wants it to be titled Mars Intervention 2992 instead of The Mars Agenda. They want me to use some of the Zenyan Concept art prompted a while back when I was playing with dream.ai, a Wombo tool.

Here are some samples of what will be included in the updated ebook. (NOW AVAILABLE)

Rascal, a Zenyan

Zenyans are polydimensional childlike creators. They are native to the eleventh dimension but not restricted to it. Zenya is the eleventh dimension. (Anyone who knows me knows that much!)

Rascal made it clear to me today that our gender pronouns are insufficient for 11D polydimensional beingness. Nonetheless, Zey (they, the Zenyans overall) tolerate whatever pronoun Humans feel necessary to be comfortable around them. It is meaningless. Zey are asexual unless they are playing Behu, and even in the game of being human Zey have found ways to express Zeir extraordinary personage without body part interaction. 

We can make and unmake all the laws we want, Zey will do what they do as Behu players. If our laws torment Zem, there will be hell to pay (Karma really is an 11D strict Zenanny). Banishment to one-dimensional being for a duration to be determined by Zem based on Zeir judgment of how long it will take for the insecure ego to grow out of itself -- something along those lines is what Karma does. 

Karma, 11D Zookeeper

Hot Air Balloons on Mars

In 2092 there are hot air balloons on Mars. 

The solar system will experience a rapid warping of spacetime caused by a miniature black hole generated on Earth by accident during a particle smashing experiment to test a hypothesis related to String Theory. The experiment is a spectacular failure. So says Rascal. It probably has something to do with Karma. Suddenly, it is 2992, or so everyone thinks. Blip. Glitch. Just like that. Spacetime warp. Happens more than we know. 

Feed Your Head

Poster pop art of polydimensional being. I do not know who this is (yet). 

Amelia, a Zenyan

Amelia played Behu as dramatically as it gets. Zey are a celebrated doyen at The Eclectic Muse at Zenya and influence all 4D aerodynamic inventions. 

Abstract, Feeling More Alive

Traveling inside a Zenyan spacecraft, Ruby notices that she feels more alive than she felt on Mars. The above abstract art will be used to convey the otherworldly, inexplicable experience. 

Ruby

This floral art conveys Ruby on her wedding day on Mars, 2092, before the calamity. This Behu persona is a sequel of Ruby's persona on Saardu; as a baby born in the Triton spaceship community, she was cultivated and engineered to represent ancient Egypt. She likes the experience of having skin that looks and feels like silky dark chocolate. 

Abstract: Prison

Mars is a kind of prison. To be explained. No spoilers here.

Concept: Zenyan Quorum

A quorum of 11D beings determines what is and is not allowed to be done on other dimensions. Within the 11th dimensions, Zenyans are free to be, do and have anything they imagine and speak into being. When they want to intervene or play in the lower natures, a ZenQ convenes. I doubt they have a firepit at the center, this is only metaphorical. Maybe they do. Why not? What would you choose if you could be, do and have anything imaginable? 

Concept: Travel In Style

Excerpt: 

    It is true.  All four of the vessels sent to Earth from Zenya were a sentient being in a constant state of change between the balance of chaos and order.  Reese Griffith lights up as he explains, as best he understands, to his son.  

“It's an animal?” 

“No.  A Zenyan, projecting itself as a spaceship!” 

Dylan stares at his father, dumbfounded. 

“They are from the eleventh dimension.  Some of them can be in two or more dimensions at once!”  

It slowly dawned on Dylan why his father did not seem as upset as anyone should under the circumstances.  The 72-year-old philanthropist was giddy! "We will live in a familiar, flexible environment, maintenance-free."

That's it for now. 

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Art Gallery: Alexandre Nodopaka

The Crow by Alexandre Nodopaka

Before my friend Alex died last year, he entrusted me with the legacy of his artwork. He did not say those words exactly. He lived those words in my presence. 

Alex collaborated with me on his biography, a gallery in literary form, He gave me permission to continue to use his artwork in my publications, knowing that I am a kind and gentle soul, a teacher, a fellow artist and art lover, a nature lover, an explorer forever wandering and wondering. 

Alex and I were peas in a pod, birds of a feather...he was a mentor and a treasured friend whose gravitational influence in my tiny piece of Earth forever altered the trajectory of my soul. Simply put, I learned to appreciate Art through Alex's passion for it and his mind-blowing prolific creativity. 

He was many things. A Renaissance man, for sure. A mechanical engineer, photography virtuoso, digital magician, sculptor and poetic wordsmith. 

In the years before he died, he would forward me the links to his latest publication. Alex was a retired gentleman, husband, pet fish keeper and gardener, who created artwork daily. DAILY. He played with his food. He took a picture of it. He transformed the picture into a masterpiece. He submitted the artwork to magazines. He got published. Over and over and over and over again. The list of his publications is here: https://alexandrenodopaka.blogspot.com/p/many-publications-have-featured.html

The above artwork by Alex was featured on the cover of Sunspot Literary Journal Volume 5 Issue #1, Sun Dog Creations, in April 2023. A free PDF of the issue can be downloaded by navigating to THE JOURNAL > Editions: 2023, scroll down to April, below the artwork is a DOWNLOAD button. 

Watching Alex grow old taught me how to survive, how to tolerate the effects of aging, how to enjoy life no matter what. 

It was only at the bitter end... when age robbed him of the ability to make art... 

...to be artistic...

to express innermost thoughts creatively, in ways that communicate

...

the otherworldly, 

the inexplicable experiences

... 

of fully alive minds
of very old
and most wise
Humans

.

That is when Alex died inside. It took his body about nine months to accept the fact that Elvis had left the building. Alex was done. 

Today, coming across the need to utilize his artwork to teach concepts in a children's picture book about artificial intelligence and internet safety, I got the itch to blog about Alex, share his artwork, and remind the world that there is a biography about him, and that encountering this artist's mind through his body of artwork is life-changing. 

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Sweet Like John

Dad at age 25 (book cover)

Whenever I tell people about my Chinese stepdad and how he came to America, what he survived as a child, how he met my mother and fell in love with all of us, added two more children with her, making us a family of ten, and achieved his American dream, retired and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s…they listen with eyes wide, often shiny with tears, and in soft voices say, “You should write a book!”

I have given this book my very best. I hope it honors my parents and lives up to their high bar of compassion and decency. John has earned his place in the library of humanity.

Sweet Like John is the title chosen to keep me and the story clear and focused. Though his childhood was shattered by war, his enduring sweetness touches every page. And though our story begins with the darkness of abandonment by my natural father, it positively blooms into a sunny garden tended by the one who stepped up. My childhood was rescued by a good stepfather. My discarded soul was resuscitated by his trustworthiness.

Though power struggles and faith crisscross every aspect of living, John did not push his philosophies on me. As the giver of his story to the world, I do not push politics or religion. There are inescapable facts, such as the religion of my parents, which must be mentioned to establish the arc of my character as the storyteller and prodigal daughter.

As you read the pages of our lives, you join me on a journey of cherishing loved ones who are gone, yet live in who we become. John's unconditional love of my mother and all eight of the children they raised is the star that guides my path. I am a work in progress.

All heroes are flawed. John was not perfect. However, he shines in my world like a supernova. Long after he burst on the scene and transcended into that mystical place we call Heaven, his light continues on Earth. His kindness and empathy stand tall and indestructible, more real than a statue. John Wang Leong Chan was and will always be to me the best man who ever walked the Earth. The world needs more men to be sweet like John.

Who am I to say such a thing? Merely one of eight children who called him Dad. I was very young when I met John. While the youngest two are genetically related and the world calls them half, they are and always have been my full brother and sister, same as all the others. They were simply more fortunate to be able to call him Daddy without feeling like a traitor and an impostor. There was someone that six of us called Daddy before John. Sadly, I must remember that part of our story, too.

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