Sound Effect Infinity

Definitive Edition of “Sound Effect Infinity” to Release May 5

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Finally, the fully formed, definitive version of Sound Effect Infinity is ready for flight. Both the paperback and ebook launch on May 5th.

The team at Flat Branch Press has worked hard to get this edition up to snuff for readers everywhere. I love the new cover. Buy the book and you’ll learn the origin of that painting of a red house (if you look inside carefully enough). You’ll also definitely learn more about the famous red house in general – more than you ever thought you would.

If you are a music person, this book is for you. Also, if you know music people, especially those who love rock and electric blues, this is a perfect gift for them. Gifting books is a very important way to combat the anomie we are watching and experiencing in the world today – gifting books and reading them, too, and leaving them lying around the house or your office for others to see.

If you wonder about telepathy, CIA mind control experiments, the magic of improvisational loud guitar, answers to questions about altered states and psychedelic consciousness, especially those that were raised by Terence McKenna and others, this book will be at least intriguing and, hopefully, get you thinking up in the front of the line and around lots of corners. Obviously, if you know folks with those types of bent, give them Sound Effect Infinity for a perfect summer 2026 reading experience.

Also, if you are at least intrigued here, please share this post to your people everywhere. You never know who will thank you for the rest of their lives.

Final Note: The hardcover version of Sound Effect Infinity has been available as a special edition early adopter’s offering since late February of this year. You can read more on that in several posts that I’ve referenced below. It will be discontinued once the paperback and ebook arrive on the scene. A hardcover may return, but never with the preface I wrote in that original special edition or the weird textbook-looking cover.

Is the Book World Done with Science Fiction?

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A version of this essay was posted last year, but is certainly worth posting again in modified form given, finally, the publication of Sound Effect Infinity by Flat Branch Press.

I’d guess most hardcore readers of what used to be called “science fiction” know that the book industry has decided to wrap fantasy and science fiction into a single package they’re calling “speculative fiction.” However, the music world is also attempting to lump smooth jazz and R&B into “neo soul,” so…

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The Effect of Amplified Sound

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Crazy new sounds and melodies consistently showed up on the radio for those of us growing up in the 1950s and 1960s (and on into the early 1970s). Every week or so brought astoundingly unique, creative, highly developed songwriting, production, and performance that constantly knocked our socks off…again, and again, and again. The record companies back then understood they could only partially make the call about what would work and what wouldn’t. Artists ruled. So did their listeners.

I still remember hearing “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” in the first few days of 1964 right after it came out. I remember as well Elton John’s “Rocket Man” in April 1972, and “Sweet Caroline,” by Neil Diamond in May of 1969, both within the first day or two of release. And so many more. We were all sitting-duck virgins over and over again, sometimes on a daily basis, waiting for the latest by the performers we loved (and didn’t know we would come to love). DJs could be so artful with our pristine ears: “Here’s a new one from a guy we’ve never heard of named Don McLean. The song is called ‘American Pie.’ Weird name, but I think you’ll like it.”

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Sound Effect Infinity: early adopter special edition

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Finally, a hardcover, paperbound version of Sound Effect Infinity is available!

For now, you can only get it through Amazon. They’re set up to ship to you on-demand. Yes, you may have pre-ordered a version from my old publisher, but that book never shipped (sad face here). They were having issues with a big media company merger. After waiting three years, it seemed only right to take back my copyrights and go to work independently. That’s how real artists do things anyway. I’m not proud, just old-enough these days to be seriously tired and done with all of the bullshit.

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A Brief Scene from “Sound Effect Infinity”

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My novel, Sound Effect Infinity, is available exclusively, for now, through Amazon as a hardcover edition. We were busy prepping it for print-on-demand publishing by Flat Branch Press over the first two months of 2026.

Dropping a brief passage below, and not from the early sections of the book either. Deep in. You won’t likely have enough context to fully get it, but hopefully your interest will be piqued. If you love music and wonder why it has such a powerful effect on people, you will likely enjoy this book.

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What I’m Working on in 2024

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[Note from 2026: A lot happened to prevent the proper publication of Sound Effect Infinity until February 2026, where this note is coming from. Click the links where you see them, and you’ll find the book posted to Amazon as a special edition hardcover offering. If you read below, you’ll see where things were, but not where they are now]

I already feel like a jerk. The only thing that is going to keep me from being selfish and single-minded here in 2024 is if I need surgery or get diagnosed with cancer or just don’t wake up some morning. A solid, working draft of my third novel for The Story Plant is due in December of 2024. The title we’re operating with right now is Notes on the Golden Country. I spent much of 2023 doing research and making notes for this year’s efforts. By late August I had started up on a first draft. As 2024 gets uncaged, I am about 120 pages in to Part I of three parts. I’m going to be a selfish jerk the rest of this year until I’m done. Meaning, I don’t want to come over to your house, go on a long walk, or anything else that will muddle my focus on writing this very odd story.

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Lining Up for Flight: “Sound Effect Infinity” About to Lift Off

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Note: Sad but True, the below did not happen. I write now (April 15, 2026) a few weeks before we finally launch Sound Effect Infinity. Time to buy the book. It took a lot of patience and humility to get it out to you.

My new novel, Sound Effect Infinity, will be released on January 23, 2024 (fingers crossed, because you never know about this world we all live in now). It’s a science fiction story about a near-future world where the mysteries of music and sound and human connection are front and center, along with mind control experiments of the CIA, and questions about the power of psychedelic drugs and paranormal phenomena. I’d say it’s worth the read just to see if the author can carry all that off.

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