Where to buy in review

Remember, buy it at Amazon in paperback (now 13.99 plus s/h) or for Kindle (3.99 and no s/h).  Also,  buy the paperback here: CreateSpace.  Go to Barnes and Noble for the Nook version (3.99).  Well, you can get the paperback there, as well. 

Another revision

I thoroughly went through the book again and patched more errors I had found.  Every time I think it's error-free, I suddenly find one that I overlooked.  It's like smoothing out every lump in mashed potatoes made from scratch.  I'm currently updating the paperback, Kindle, and Nook versions.  Remember, when looking for the e-book version the matches to most current paperback version, make sure you see the new front cover picture.  The old version had a cartoon guy with ice cream cone hair and it was very dark.  The new version has a silhouette of Jimmy emerging from a "run-warp."  Anyway, it'll take a few days or even a week before the anyone can buy it while it's updating.

Prologue (newly revised)

PROLOGUE

You should never friggin’ swear on live T.V.! Trust me…your life will suck if you do.  My friend Jimmy Miller found this out the hard way.  In this stupid, crazy-crap world adults could say whatever the heck they wanted. However, when a kid, especially a nice one like my friend, says anything like this…well…let’s just say, it can get quite friggin’ ridiculous.  Before his foul-mouthed slip-up, people only talked about how wonderful he was and how grateful they were that he saved their sorry hind-ends. All I can say is that…they’re all lucky it happened to Jimmy and not me—I would have ripped them each a new you-know-what! 

Now, this story really is all about Jimmy told in his words, but before he got his say, I wanted mine.  You see, I don’t care what any of you think.  Jimmy, on the other hand, is a sensitive 9-year-old boy, and for some reason, is obsessed with the world’s opinion of him.  I wanted to give you losers a brief introduction of how he got his super-human abilities before he started his story.  

Who am I?  I’m the girl stuck with being best friends with him.  Don’t get me wrong—I love the kid.  And, it’s partly my fault we ended up with our unique friendship.  Mainly, our screwed-up childhoods brought us together due to events totally out of our control.  Without going too far into my background I will tell you that my mom is a complete mess and although I love her, I’m ashamed of her—for putting drugs over the welfare of my brother and me.  Some of you may wonder if I’m full of anger.  Well, what the friggin’ heck don’t you understand about all this?  God dealt me a mother who needs her own 9-year-old daughter to look after her—so she won’t screw everything up again!

Anyway, getting back to Jimmy, there was a time you all were itching to know the details of how he became super powerful.  For those of you losers who still might actually care about the scoop on him, I’ll give you a brief run-down.  You know the government?  I’m talking about like the President and the Congress over in Washington, D.C.?  Now, you adults reading this who vote for these clowns are partly responsible for what all happened, unless you’re foreigners.  Any kids who got permission to read this or happened to sneak it past your parents…You’re off the hook on this one.  But…pay attention because one day it’ll be us electing the government.  So, let’s learn not to screw things up when we’re older.

You see, our dumb-crap geniuses in the government gave a ton of money to a corporation called Etyouth, meaning “Eternal Youth.”  The money went to fund several research projects to “improve” human life, and the greatest effort went into the engineering of genetically-altered food. When my friend Jimmy was four, his mom died of an aggressive form of ovarian cancer, and Etyouth, subsequently, hired his dad, scientist Robert James Miller, as head researcher, developing fruits, vegetables, and grains that would provide unprecedented health benefits, such as immunity to ailments like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and general stupidity.  To combat the rising number of obese people in our country, the food hopefully would fool the human body into thinking it was exercising, even if someone never physically moved off the couch.  Due to the fact Etyouth and the government wished to keep this top secret, they restricted employees from leaving the facility, located near a military base in the New Mexican desert.

Jimmy lived there, too, with his dad in an apartment provided to employees.  With no other children around, he lived in a world surrounded by adults.  Instead of school, he learned through private tutors.  Etyouth built a playground for his exclusive use, providing him a cocker spaniel for companionship.  All this drastically changed when William McDonnell, the director of the corporation, decided to use Jimmy as a guinea pig to test out the experimental food.  He didn’t even notify his father!

Before Jimmy, the animals previously used for testing died—every single one!  Every day he ate his lunch at the employee cafeteria, but Etyouth secretly prepared a special plate just for him.  He swallowed it all, completely unaware of what he just put in his body.  Over time he became very sick, eventually sliding into a coma, necessitating a stay at the military hospital.  A month went by before he came to, but he quickly recovered, fully regaining his health.  Etyouth resumed their research efforts on Jimmy, until his dad found out.  Robert had some time to eat lunch with his son in the cafeteria, and he briefly filled in for the cashier who needed a bathroom break.  He happened to stumble upon the head cook preparing Jimmy’s meal, and instantly recognized the experimental food.

Enraged, he confronted William McDonnell, terminating his employment at Etyouth.  Instead, though, they placed Robert and Jimmy under house arrest.  Major Camp, head of security, ordered their apartment under guard 24 hours a day.  One night during torrential rainfall, Robert and Jimmy escaped out the bathroom window, climbing aboard the SUV they utilized around the compound and military base.  Unfortunately, off-duty security officers spotted them, spurring Camp to mobilize a chase.  They quickly overtook Robert and Jimmy, the squadron of Camp’s men blockading the vehicle, and dragged them both outside into the mud, placing them in handcuffs.  Major Camp mercilessly beat Robert several times, as the horrified Jimmy cried out in protest.  However, in an amazing feat of strength, Jimmy broke out of the handcuffs, ran over to his dad, and pushed Camp into the side of the SUV so hard, it knocked him out.  Breaking his father’s handcuffs, helping him to his feet, they proceeded to run on foot, hand-in-hand, as the security guards rushed after them, some of them slipping on the mucky, desert floor.  Much to their surprise, Jimmy and his dad accelerated at an incredible speed, eventually breaking the sound barrier with a boom.  Their velocity exponentially increased and for a brief moment, they stepped out of time and space. When they stopped, they found themselves in a swamp in the Florida Everglades.

While struggling to figure out their new surroundings, not to mention the unusual circumstance of how they ended up there, a 15 foot alligator bolted out of the water, seizing Robert by the neck, plunging him into the bottom of the shallow swamp.  Jimmy rushed over and pried the animal’s jaws open, releasing his dad from what should have been certain death.  Getting underneath the reptile’s body, he hurled it away.  As Jimmy dragged his dad to more solid ground, he detected a broken neck.  Then, while Jimmy held him, Robert’s injury miraculously healed.  Using Jimmy’s new found running speed, they departed the swamp.  They arrived at the front door of his grandparents in Sturgis, Michigan, where they lived for about a month. 
  

During this time they discovered more of Jimmy’s super-human abilities.  Aside from having quick speed, they realized that his body developed hardness greater than diamonds, making him nearly indestructible. They eventually determined all his powers as follows:  invulnerability, extraordinary speed, molecular manipulation, healing the injured or sick, walking through solid objects, lifting up to 2000 pounds, and exceptional buoyancy in water.  Oh, and did I mention that he could fly as fast as he could run?

Not only that, Jimmy could transform into a man in an instant, and his powers changed as an adult.   He acquired infinite strength, but lost much of his speed, most of his molecular manipulation, and all of his healing ability. However, he retained his capability to fly, but like I said, much slower.  The most impressive attribute had to be when he went colossal, something only possible in his adult form.  He grew into a giant over 50 feet tall with almost the same amount of infinite strength, but he couldn’t fly and he did not have any exceptional speed.  However, he did cover a lot of ground in a single step.  In review, Jimmy’s powers changed depending on the form he took—child, adult, or colossal.

Eventually, they settled into a house of their own in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Jimmy would attend a regular school for the first time.  He and his dad tried to assume a life as ordinary as possible, fearing that one day Etyouth would catch up to them.  And when they did, Jimmy would display his powers in front of the whole world, dragging even me, his best friend Annie Marshall, into a dangerous, yet extraordinary adventure.  

So now that you losers all know a little bit about him, get ready for Jimmy to tell his story.  And, you are so lucky it’s him telling it and not me.  I’m way too pissed off to give a crap! 

Prayers for Newtown, Connecticut

I'm interrupting this blog to express how grief stricken I am for the horror that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  With Hanukkah going on and Christmas in less than two weeks, those families who have prepared presents and a joyous celebration, now will have endless grief.  I can't even imagine.

Now Available at Barnesandnoble.com!

You can get it now at the Barnes and Nobles website in both paperback and for the Nook.  So, check 'em out.  See the previous post on Where to Buy for other links.!

Where to buy (updated)

The revised paperback edition is now available on Amazon right now.  It is also available right now for Kindle.  You may buy the revised paperback edition at the CreateSpace store right now as well.  Just go to Jimmy Miller the Super Powerful.  I've been having issues getting it ready for the Nook.  You can get the old version, but you won't get the revision in Chapter 5.

Anyone near the Battle Creek, Michigan area can also buy it directly from me!  I can then sign it for you.  Just e-mail me by following this link:  David Lichty is the author!  Then, I can come to you and personally deliver it.

Big changes to the book

BIG CHANGES!!!

I have made some major changes to Jimmy Miller the Super Powerful:  Forecast Acid Rain.  I have re-released a revised edition to the novel (don’t confuse it with the sequel; it’s the same story as before.)  The biggest change is in the publisher.  2 Moon Press is no longer the publisher of the novel. 

The other big change is in the cover.  It has been completely re-done.  I never liked the cover when it was first published.  I didn’t think it captured the essence of the story and gave the impression that it was some dark tale, which it isn’t, except maybe in a few scenes.  The new cover is brighter and does tell the reader it’s a sci-fi/superhero story, but hopefully it conveys that it is more than that.  There’s more information on the front cover that gives the reader a better understanding of what the book is…a work of fiction and nothing more.  Plus, the reader will know right away that it’s part of a series.  So, buy it now or wait for more volumes to appear.  Instead of the phrase “The fate of the world in one boy’s hands”, I have re-phrased it as a question:  “Is the fate of the world in one boy’s hands?”

Another change is the layout of the chapters and text.  In the first edition the layout was a mess, so I thought.  The lines of text were all single spaced and the margins were set too close to the end of the page.  It was not eye-friendly.  It also gave the book a length of 260 pages, which falsely gave the reader the idea that it was a shorter story than it really was.  In the second edition the line spacing is not so crowded and the margins at the edge of the pages are farther from the edge.  This makes the story 312 pages beginning from the Prologue.  Also, the pages are now cream-colored instead of bright white.

I also corrected an error of continuity.  In my original manuscript Chapter 5 had a scene that I took out because I didn’t like it.  However, in Chapter 14 there is some narration that referred back to that deleted scene, leaving the reader mystified.  So, I put that scene back, but I completely altered it so that it reads better; thus re-doing Chapter 5.  When the reader comes across the dialogue in Chapter 14 (when Jimmy and Annie blow up the rattlesnake); it will make sense.

I also corrected three typographical errors and one grammatical error in the narration.  These were small errors, but akin to eating a delicious white fish dinner, only to stumble across four little bones.  The meal is still good, but the bones take something away from the pleasure of fish (if you like white fish, that is).

It is still available for Kindle and Nook and paperback.  You can still buy it on Amazon.  The Nook version at Barnesandnoble.com. 

So, check out the changes.  Happy reading!