Fiction by the lineal foot.
Welcome
Have you read any good books lately? Here are some reading samples by author, editor, and publisher, Jon Robertson. Jon invites agents and publishers to inquire about his work.
Jon Robertson’s sixteenth year isn’t going well.
He thinks his father hates him, he’s desperate for a girlfriend, and his car keeps catching fire. Still, gas is 35¢, cigarettes are 30¢, and a six-pack of beer is $1.50. What more could a growing boy want?
During the glory days of the Pocono Mountains resorts, Jon is mentored by a cagey hotel maintenance man and a psychotic car mechanic. He’s nearly shot by a trigger-happy trailer drunk and encounters a disturbed child in an eerie old hotel. His adventures include dating disasters, nearly getting shot, high-speed chases, junkyard car repair, and beer-drenched capers. He also finds true love in a walk-in freezer.
His first love is a classmate at school, and a great romance ensues. At the same time, however, Jon can’t resist a younger girl, who soon gets pregnant. Jon believes his life to be over. He would lose his great love and forfeit college—his future is bleak.
By 1969, he falls in with members of a rock band, some of whom will be attending Penn State with him in the fall. At the now derelict old hotel where he worked years earlier, Jon considers the road he has traveled and the looming specter of adulthood.
He has found his first love, a classmate at school, and a great romance ensues. At the same time, however, Denny can’t resist a younger girl, who soon gets pregnant. Denny believes his life to be over. He would lose his great love and forfeit college—his future is bleak.
By 1969, he falls in with members of a rock band, some of whom will be attending Penn State with him in the fall. At the now derelict old hotel where he worked years earlier, Denny considers the road he has traveled and the looming specter of college.
Sterling Road is available from Amazon.com.
If you think the end of the world is scary, wait until Luray takes charge.
Luray Flitch is a neurotic, pill-popping recluse who discovers a prophetic Victorian diary, only to learn that the end of the world is just around the corner. With his trusty dog, Jason, Luray ventures out to warn the world that the end is near. But why do people keep trying to steal the diary?
The diary, written a century before by British clairvoyant Permelia Lyttle, hides many other secrets: a murder mystery and Permelia’s strange life in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, where she was forced to give psychic readings to the power elite of her day. Prophecies unite in this satirical novel of eccentric villains, top-level conspiracies, the Apocalypse, and one really terrific dog. Follow Luray’s intellectual low-speed chase, inept gun play, and search for the meaning of life while doing the naked tango with Abigail Lind at her secret mountain hideaway.
Permelia Lyttle’s Guide and reviews are available on Amazon.com.
Click here to read chapters 1 and 2
Sure, the end of the world came. But it wasn’t anything like Luray and Abigail had imagined.
In this sequel to Permelia Lyttle’s Guide to the End of the World, Luray’s wife Abigail believes the end is just around the corner. So, the resourceful heiress buys and restores an abandoned village where she hopes to create an idyllic community for surviving in style. However, the apocalypse turns out to be nothing like anyone imagined.
In Dunkard Bottom, humankind’s ultimate swan dive takes on new meaning as prophecies converge and dangers loom. Despite its bickering citizens, the village grows. But the community is soon simmering with romances, rivalries, distrust, and evidence of a traitor in their midst. Will Luray lose Abigail under the strain? Is Jason who he says he is? And whatever happened to Permelia Lyttle’s daughter?
With the digital age fizzled and the government a no-show, Dunkard Bottom is American ingenuity at its quirky best under the threat of white-collar terrorists, illness, death, and weeds.
Dunkard Bottom is available from Amazon.com.
