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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.

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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Conspiracy Theory and The Near Future

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A book announcement.

The 1970s were the pinnacle years for conspiracy theories in America. Uncertainties about JFK’s assassination got things rolling in the 1960s, but the stories got weirder and weirder the more we watched our great cultural heroes pass on into death well before their time — Kerouac, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, MLK, Jr., even Elvis — to name just a few.

For years it was said that no one ever saw The Doors’ Jim Morrison’s body after he died and that his grave in Paris was empty. 

Conspiracy theorists had a field day when evidence of CIA misdeeds came to light during the Church Committee Hearings. No one had ever heard of Remote Viewing. The experiments performed by various military and CIA intelligence units on unwitting citizens using psychedelic drugs seemed like proof that the mysteries of LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin were more than psychological fancy. 
As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s & 1990s, abandoned missile silos throughout the prairie belt of the US became decommissioned and old school Cold War paranoids became convinced the military was up to something far more dangerous than nuclear missiles. And then there were all the stories about secret “black helicopters” and paramilitary militia groups, bolstered by the realities of the Reverend Jim Jones, David Koresh, and other fanatic cult groups. 
My new novel, Beyond the Will of God, playfully links a good portion of these tantalizing “theories” together. Imagine as well that something far more important is at the root of what’s really been going on. Somewhere in the heart of central Missouri in the near future, mysterious music will filter through night darkened farmland. The dead body of an Amish teenager will launch a police investigation that leads to a great deal more than a simple homicide. Elvis will be seen roaming the countryside. A young, drug-addled clairvoyant will arrive in the area, confused about some odd power that improvisational psychedelic music has over human consciousness. The Sumter brothers and their unofficial militia group are also somehow involved.

Police Sergeant Jill Simpson teams up with Philadelphia tabloid reporter Franklin Harris to tie all of these issues together. These mysteries play out amidst the dense heat of rural central Missouri and on the edges of the almost forgotten city of Columbia. Secrets are revealed about the supposed doors of perception and the limits of expanded consciousness.

If you are looking for summer reading that is fun and thought provoking and far beyond the usual, this book is worth the read. I think of Beyond the Will of God as sort of a fairytale for Baby Boomers and other people who “get it.” It’s part thriller, part mystery, part science fiction, part paranormal speculation.

Publication is scheduled for June 15 at Amazon’s Kindle Store. Contact me if you’d like an advance digital copy (available by June 1). Just email me david.c.biddle@gmail.com and I will forward you a digital copy for your iPad, Kindle, Nook or most anything else.

See the top of the page to sign up for email updates regarding Beyond the Will of God and other stuff I’m working on.

And, lastly, for what it’s worth, please forward the link for this announcement to those who might be interested. Believe it or not, all the marketing studies out there say that word-of-mouth is the most effective way to sell books. I’m an independent writer. I need your help. Post the link on your FaceBook Page, email it to friends, Tweet it, whatever makes sense. I am Grateful!

-dcb