Episode 7: Summer Shudder

Cody has convinced Jordan to ditch his girlfriend and revisit an old hangout in the mall. But with his exodus from Venango County imminent and a long-distance relationship on the horizon, running off for a boys’ night may not have been Jordan’s smartest move.

Tyler and Shane escape mall security (for now), while elsewhere, Wes finds himself on a very different kind of adventure when his long-time crush, an older girl named Jessie, invites him to act as chauffeur. Determined to impress her, and having already lied about his age, Wes is prepared to double down on role-playing a confident, worldly college guy — even if it means entering the forbidden realm of the State Store.

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Choose Your Mp3 Player

Before Spotify. Before Apple Music. Before YouTube. Before listening to music on your cell phone was a thing.

You had an MP3 player.

Maybe it was an iPod. Maybe it was a little SanDisk clipped to your jeans. For many of us, it was some off-brand thing you got for Christmas one year that looked like it came out of a cereal box. But it held 1,000 songs! What is that, like, 50 CDs? Virtual insanity.

No notifications. No algorithm. No ads. Just YOUR songs.

You could put on your headphones and tune out everybody else on the school bus while you listened to Creed, or KC and JoJo, or Sugar Ray, or whatever. And, don’t try to deny it, all three of those were in your MP3 library at some point.

The Millennial in me is gratified to see that MP3 players are sort of making a comeback right now, so I've put together a Choose Your MP3 Player collection, featuring modern versions of old classics. These are perfect for kids if you want them to be able to listen to music without access to everything else, or for anyone who misses that feeling of having your music library in your pocket, no internet or cell service required.

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Fallen Odyssey Series Box Set

So, last week, I mentioned my book, The Fallen Odyssey, an epic portal fantasy novel. It stars a teenager from mid-western Pennsylvania, who wakes up in an Ancient Greek-inspired fantasy world.

I also mentioned that The Fallen Odyssey is book 1 in a 5-book fantasy series that is COMPLETE. That’s right. Unlike SOME fantasy authors, this one actually FINISHED what he started.

However, did you FURTHER know that instead of buying all five volumes individually, you can get them all for the price of a single ebook? The complete Fallen Odyssey Series is currently available in a single-volume digital collection.

This eBook box set includes:

• Book I: The Fallen Odyssey

• Book II: The Fallen Aeneid

• Book III: Shadows of the Fallen

• Book IV: Children of the Fallen

• Book V: The Cycle of Aurym

• Plus, never-before-released author's notes with behind-the-scenes stories about the making of The Fallen Odyssey Series.

I just checked, and the price on Amazon is currently $7.99 for the single-volume set. So, if hearing about The Fallen Odyssey last week had you mildly interested, it’s only a few bucks right now to get this entire series. And you’ve been meaning to start reading more anyway, right? If you pick it up, send me a message to let you know you grabbed it.