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Brutal Light is available from these vendors, among others. For a full list, go to my Brutal Light page on this site.

DamnationBooks.com -- .pdf, .mobi, .epub, .pdb
Amazon.com (U.S.) -- Kindle edition
Amazon.com (U.S.) -- Print edition
BarnesAndNoble.com -- Nook edition
BarnesAndNoble.com -- Print edition
Amazon (Canada) -- Print edition
Amazon (U.K.) -- Kindle edition
Amazon (U.K.) -- Print edition

More vendors...
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Gary W OlsonWelcome to the official website of Gary W. Olson, aspiring and perspiring writer of novels and shorter fictional works of speculative fiction. My first novel, Brutal Light is now available from Damnation Books, as well as Amazon.com. I hope to entice you to come along with me on the journey to that date. Failing that, I hope to entice you to keep reading, unaware that my minions are sneaking up behind you, ready to place my patent-pending mind-control cap atop your head. Failing that... I dunno, spare some tea?

My writing tends toward science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror, though I tend to overlook some of the usually-perceived boundaries of these genres. Over the years, I've learned that I am most fascinated by questions of identity, of how we know who we are, and what happens when our understandings of ourselves are disrupted. Genre fiction, I've discovered, lets me ask these questions in ways that ordinary-world fiction finds difficult at best. It is why I write, and perhaps is why you read. (For other fascinating nuggets about me, and maybe an answer to the question of just how tall I am, read more about me.)

I've set up pages for my published stories and novel for easy reference. My blog on this site, A Taste of Strange, will focus mainly on aspects of writing, both in the particular (announcements of upcoming publications and events) and the abstract (ramblings on why I write, questions that confound writers, and so on). (The RSS feed for this blog will make it easy to keep up with this without continually having to re-visit this site.) And there is a links area that collects links to other places on the web where I might be found, along with writing resource links, other authorial sites, webcomics, and anything else I like.

Whether you want to register as a user on this site is up to you--you don't need to in order to read anything here or get the RSS feed. You can also leave comments on blog posts without registering. But if you do register, you can set up a profile and an avatar and friend other registered users and I can eat your brains... that's fair, right?

You can also sign up for my newsletter, using the handy signup box on the left side of the screen. It will feature news of my upcoming works, events, interviews, and much else of import. This is an opt-in list, meaning you won't be on it unless you sign up using the signup box. Registering to this website won't put you on the newsletter list; conversely, you can sign up for the newsletter without registering to this website. (Registering for the website is entirely optional at this point.)

You can also contact me via my contact page, no sign up necessary. Tell me what you think of the site, my writings, my blog, that squirrel you saw outside... lay it on me. And thank you for reading!

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A free ebook short story featuring characters from Brutal Light, now downloadable from:
Smashwords (.mobi, .pdf, .epub, .pdb)
BarnesAndNoble.com (Nook)

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