Fiction

When Words Collide – Conference Schedule

Well, I’m attending When Words Collide, a literary festival held in Calgary,  Alberta.  And I’ve volunteered to contribute to programming so I’ve got five sessions up.

Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17
Volunteering in the Merchant Room
D.G. Valdron books available
* Squad Thirteen
* Starlost Unauthorized
* Drunk Slutty Elf and Zombies.

 

Friday, August 15
1:00 pm to 1:30, Merchant Room
D.G. Valdron and Arlene Marks
Autograph Session

Friday, August 15
2:00 PM Sheraton West Room
D.G. Valdron – Solo Presentation
A Crash Course in Copyright
Just what it says. I’m a lawyer, I kind of deal with this stuff. A run through on all the basic concepts that a writer needs.

Saturday, August 16
4:00 PM – Barlow Room
MODERATOR – Den Valdron. Panelists -Panelists: Marie Powell, Anna Shannon, David Worsick
Accuracy in History, Science, and General Knowledge
When and when not to have it. How far can you ignore it or exalt it in a story before you either bore readers (too much accuracy) or anger readers (too little accuracy).

Sunday, August 17
9:00 AM – Barlow Room
Moderator: Heather Wilkey
Panelists: Denis Valdron, David Worsick, R. Overwater
Alternate History
Explorations of other paths, what to read, what to write, what to research and what to watch out for.

Sunday, August 17
2:00 PM – Sheraton West Room
D.G. Valdron Solo Presentation
A Crash Course in Contracts for Writers
Just what it says – I’m a lawyer, Contracts are my life. I explain the basics and run through the Important Issues.

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SQUAD THIRTEEN – It’s official

IN THE LAST DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, all over America, unstoppable masked killers began to emerge.  Called slashers, and using everything from machetes to chain saws, these figures would appear out of nowhere, slaughter a group of people, and then vanish, leaving traumatized survivors, only to reappear again, months or years later.

LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS HELPLESS against Killers who would not die, who appeared and disappeared out of nowhere, who would not be stopped.  Eventually, the Army was sent in.  They couldn’t stop the slashers.”

SO THEY RECRUITED THEM.

IT WAS PROBABLY A REALLY BAD IDEA. 

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SQUAD THIRTEEN – COMING SOON!

LAUNCHING AUGUST 2025 – AVAILABLE AS A PRE-ORDER EXLCUSIVE EBOOK ON AMAZON

SQUAD THIRTEEN: Worse than Death eBook : Valdron, D.G.: Amazon.ca: Books

ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK, AUGUST 2025,

AMAZON, BARNES & NOBLE, KOBO, APPLE AND MANY OTHER PLATFORMS

ORDER YOUR ADVANCE COPY NOW

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IN THE MEANTIME – HERE’S A TEASER!  SQUAD THIRTEEN PROLOGUE

SQUAD THIRTEEN, Prologue With a Vampire

CAN’T GET ENOUGH?

Squad Thirteen- The Desert, Chapter One

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WARNING

POTENTIAL TRIGGER ALERTS

Potential Triggers: Horror, Existential Horror, Absence or negation of God/good, Evil as a default state, slashers, zombies, vampires, religious and ethical crisis, destruction of small town virtue, monsters, wendigo, cannibal god hippopotamus, regular hippopotami, cannibalism, suicide, mass murder, spree murder, serial killers, really graphic murder, Ferris wheel atrocity, rain forests, alien invasion, cocaine-based fuel air explosion, firestorm (Dresden style), magic, sorcery, erosion of the self, ghosts, philosophical horror, b-movie horror, slashers, harsh language, the price is right, runaway forest fire obliterates town, factory farm practices, factory farm of humans, failure to rescue a baby in danger, animal cruelty, allusions to Halloween, Friday the Thirteenth, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dead-Alive, Black Christmas, African Queen, Apocalypse Now, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Phantasm, Mattel’s Hungry Hungry Hippos, 1970s existential horror, B-movies, one sexually explicit scene, depictions of depression, moral compromise, existential powerlessness, futility, hopelessness, pain, suffering, cancer, self-mutilation, mental illness, fascism, Donald Trump, roccocco, Norman Rockwell, chainsaw biological navigation, some minor nudity and references to consensual sex. Free will, determinism. Religion. Ancient religions. Human sacrifice. [Please note – this list is not exhaustive]

 

PAGE  178 is probably safe to read.

WRITER’S YEAR, 2024 WRAP UP

Well, here’s my writer’s year in review. What have we got? Another year of nothing much, unfortunately. Another year of spinning the wheels. Six books in all, though I didn’t write one of them, and only partial for another. I’ve been doing this the last few year, trying to keep track of what I’ve been up to and how far along I’ve gotten.  I went back and reviewed the last few roundups. It’s rather distressing – basically, plugging away hard, the same projects slowly advancing or not advancing year by year. Word counts piling up, but an uncertain sense of accomplishment.  Anyway, let’s jump in.

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STARLOST UNAUTHORIZED – Now Available

The giant Earthship Ark, drifting through deep space over eight hundred years into the far future, its passengers descendants of the last survivors of the dead planet earth, locked in separate worlds heading for destruction… The Starlost (1973)

Starlost, a Canadian television series, running sixteen episodes in 1973. The premise was interesting – Earth was long gone, the last survivors of humanity had fled in a giant generation ship composed of interlinked domes. But something had gone horribly wrong, an accident had taken out the bridge crew and locked the domes away from each other, and the ship had drifted out of control for four hundred years. Now it was heading on a collision course with a nearby star, and only Devon, Rachel and Garth, three exiles from a rural dome, understood the danger and faced the almost insurmountable task of trying to save what was left of humanity.

Originally, it got off to a great start with names like Harlan Ellison, Ben Bova, Doug Trumbull, Keir Dullea, Walter Koenig and Ursula K. LeGuin attached to it.  But things went wrong – Harlan Ellison threw a tantrum, scripts weren’t ready, the revolutionary special effects system didn’t work. The big names departed, leaving the show in the hands of an inexperienced production crew who had no time, no money and no experience. The verdict was catastrophe, one of the worst series ever produced in the sci fi genre.

But was it?  I just wrote a book saying different.

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PERVERSIONS & INFIDELITIES, DEUX

Eve St. Albert returns with her second volume of Perversions and Infidelities, three more novellas of desire, transgression, sex and satisfaction. Perversions and Infidelities is a four book series being produced by Fossil Cove Publishing, with Dawne Dominque as the cover artist.  The first three books each contain a series of novellas featuring erotic tales for a women’s readership. These are stories of empowerment, adventure and satisfaction. Of women breaking free of their normal lives, embarking on transgressive sexual journeys, exploring power, identity, fantasy and desire and ultimately, finding their true selves.

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Perversions & Infidelities, an Erotic Collection

Welcome to Fossil Cove Publishing’s foray into Erotica, Perversions and Infidelities, the first of a four book series written by Eve St. Albert, with cover by Dawne Dominique.

Perversions and Infidelities, is a collection of four erotic novellas of women’s erotic. In particular, it focuses on women stepping out of assigned roles, refusing to accept the place life designates for them, and struggling to break free, to find fulfillment and adventure, even if their satisfaction requires transgression.

The stories explore themes of identity, both identities assigned and identities assumed; fantasy, and self discovery. Each character finds themselves in a position where they go beyond the rules to discover themselves. Sometimes they stumble there accidentally, sometimes they flee in desperation and restlessness, and for some a doorway into temptation opens. It is erotica with a literary edge, nasty stories of women who unapologetically want what they want.

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STARLOST KICKSTARTER – FINAL WEEK

Starlost Unauthorized by D.G. Valdron — Kickstarter

Hello Boys and Girls and Other, Children of all ages, Sapient beings of any description!  Welcome to my Starlost Kickstarter!

I am thrilled to say, that we exceeded our initial goal in the first week!  We are now into our Stretch Goal of $2000 – $2500.

It’s been a great experience, I want to thank everyone for their support.  But now I want to do the final push. If you’ve pledged support, god bless you, and thank you so much.  I’m not asking you for money.  If you’d like to support, but don’t have money, that’s okay too.  But what I am asking for every single one of you, is to help spread the message, pass the word, email, post, repost this, send it to friends, send it to groups you think might get into it.

This is going to be a hell of a book, I am passionate about it. Help me make it great!

DARK CANDLE by R.J. Hore

THE LATEST RELEASE FROM FOSSIL COVE PUBLISHING

A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST. An experiment in hypnotic regression at a socialites party awakens a mysterious shadow of the past in the body of mild mannered accountant, Martin Owen. As the experiments progress, a band of friends are slowly drawn into a quest for King Arthur’s tomb and a Roman Emperor’s lost treasure. But the mysterious shadow has its own agenda, and as it slowly takes over Martin’s life, the friends must come to grips with their own desires, betrayals and illicit passions. Is the shadow from out of time leading them to glory… or doom!

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0D5H13HZM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30DJGTKLRTE2Z