home of the

Perpetual Writer

Home

and NOOK –

TAKE A LOOK !

Available Wherever Books are Sold

. . . intense, grabbing you from the beginning and not letting go. You are immersed into a battle between alternative energy and the status quo. When numerous subplots come together at plot central you can't get off the bus of compelling twists and turns while hurdled toward the climax.

-- Kathy Stanford/Editor/greatbooks.com

Customer Reviews

See all 13 customer reviews

“ Very engaging characters and intriguing plot twists. ” James Fleischer | 7 reviewers made a similar statement

“ It kept me absorbed from start to the exciting finish. ” Joan Stephens | 5 reviewers made a similar statement

“ It's detailed enough to make sure you understand, but treats you as a sophiscitated reader. ” L. S. Capron | 2 reviewers made a similar statement

In this first novel of the Perpetual series, Matthew, a dreamer with a savantlike gift for science, who envisions a safer and cleaner world, and Maria, a Spanish beauty intrigued with the criminal mind, run for their lives across America’s Eastern Seaboard—fleeing sinister forces of evil.

ISBN: 978-1-4363-0842-7

Perpetual’s myriad subplots filled with grinding tension and lightning-fast action lead to a stunning climax. Along the way, Matthew learns that, for him, Interstate 95 was never just a road . . . it was destiny. More . . .

The Perpetual Writer will be featured on the world's best site for writers: http://getyarny.com/featured-writers/brian-huey/ You can get a preview and learn a bit more about future Perpetual the series novels --

just click the Yarny below

Mr. Yarny is not affiliated with Yarny.me and is simply a figment of this author's imagination.

featured on top rated THE AUTHORS SHOW

If you missed the sheww, check back periodically, we'll have the taped version posted here at Brian Huey.com.

What I've been reading . . .

Back to the Classics for the Summer

Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers

Published 1844

I was curious as to what caused Dumas' story about three witty heroes engaged in fights and antics to last and expand exponentially over the past 150 years. Is it the dialogue that catapulted this work into sixty films and hundreds of reprints and hundreds of different languages? My first impression is that Dumas' dialogue keeps the book moving at a quick pace, something I try to achieve in Perpetual. I also like how he draws from history and actual events as well as previous works of nonfiction literature. I also think that I subconsiously follow that style. It's funny and worth noting that he was not considered a serious writer by his peers and the critics of his time -- how could he be a polished writer? His work was a smashing hit with the common man. I'm encouraged to continue to write the Perpetual series with plenty of dialogue and in common language. Maybe 150 years from now, I can enjoy the critics acclaim.

I’ll comment more later as I delve further into Dumas's work. I know -- is it Dumas' or Dumas's? I think the Chicago Manual would suggest the latter, but many editors would say it's a tossup. --BH

Also on my bookshelf for the month

Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

Published 1859

and

Conrad

A Secret Agent

Published 1907

-----------------

Previous Reading

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

When I read Steinbeck, I wonder if I'm a writer at all.

"When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolatiioin. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing." pp 20-21

* Past reading *

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

I have to tell you, that in High School and again at Chapel Hill, I read the Cliff Notes. So, this is my first reading of Ayn Rand's American Classic. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, she was a woman who knew where she wanted to be and what she wanted to do at nine years old. Mrs. Rand got to where she was going and she became what she conceptualized. I was challenged to read Atlas Shrugged while traveling to Hollywood recently. The flight attendant was reading a well worn hardback version. We struck up a conversation and he compared my writing to Mrs. Rand. I was humbled and intrigued. Perhaps the "Perpetual" premise has even more undercurrents and overtones than even I suspected. I find when discussing "Perpetual" with avid readers that the subconscious zone that all writers enter, brings forth more between the lines than even we consciously concocted. As Rand writes, there is concreteness and there is abstraction.

More to come as I stroll through these 1,073 pages of Objectivism.

Join me if you dare. ~ BHuey

"Dubliners"

By James Joyce

I find that Joyce wrote purely from experience giving the reader a picture of his life, family, friends, bars, as well as the political and economic climate of turn of the century Europe. It's interesting while studying his life, how difficult it was for him to publish. So, when we think it's tough to get published in today's crowded world, remember that all great writers from the classics to current thriller genre authors (like Patterson) tell the same story of rejection and struggle. It's the same for any artistic, business or inventive endeavor. Idea -> research and invention -> investment (time and money) -> struggle -> development -> sweat and sometimes tears -> completion -> struggle -> taking your talent, product, or idea to market -> waiting -> struggle -> losses -> break-even -> over the top! Your CJ Energy Cell, music, art, books, product, idea, service, is in distribution and you’re paying the bills. James Joyce stayed the course. He wrote poetry and prose whether anyone read or published his work, or not. He toiled with many side jobs as did the love of his life who stuck by his side until his death at only sixty years old. I wonder what he would have thought had he known his books, some of which only sold 1,500 copies during his time, became contemporary classics recommended at all levels of academia, societal strata. I think without looking up, he would have said, "Well isn’t that nice, lassie," poured him another scotch on the rocks and dabbed his pen into the inkwell.

--Brian

check out the

GOOGLE BOOKS FEATURE

Click Here for a Perpetual GOOGLE BOOKS Journey

Order Perpetual today from your favorite bookseller.

In any search box, type: Perpetual by Brian Huey.

To find out how to receive a personally signed copy

drop a note to info@BrianHuey.com

~THANKS!~

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?

Who doesn't love a page turner and Perpetual is that from page one!

From the unassuming and intimate introduction to the characters, from the first chapter to the last, you careen through the continual broadside of events with them, wondering when and how it will ever end.

Pick up this book when you have time to read it!

-- Marsha Donahue/ Northern Lights

READ MORE REVIEWS at

www.AMAZON.com

www.BN.com,

or right here:

READER REVIEWS

Signed & Numbered First Edition

PLEASE ORDER DIRECTLY FROM YOUR

FAVORITE BOOKSELLER

Not in the U.S.? INTERNATIONAL PURCHASES

Click here:

(allow 3 - 4 weeks for delivery - nearly anywhere in the world). Thank you to those in Scotland, Australia, Belize, Germany, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere who added Perpetual to their personal library. Next?

Now . . .

PERPETUAL is available through

Your favorite bookseller

SIMPLY TYPE IN ANY SEARCH ENGINE: PERPETUAL by Brian Huey

Thank you in advance, for becoming an owner of a first edition hardcover.

A few of our Merchant Partners: