Pete Kennedy

Mythology, Mystery, and a MonsterIt's October 1920. On Floodwood Pond, deep in the heart of the Adirondacks, two scientist argue as they paddle in search of long-lost Native American artifacts. They are both members of the prestigious Strabo society, but that's where their similarity ends. Anthony Cardonas is a rigidly self-righteous old-school explorer with political ambitions who becomes increasingly frustrated with the starry-eyed mysticism of his younger companion, Alistair Wulver. The animosity between them escalates into violence in the trackless wilderness, and a murder triggers an unstoppable chain of events. By the early 1960s a werewolf is terrorizing sedate, suburban Westchester County, New York, prompting Strabo's leadership to hire an intrepid female professor and world-class crossbow competitor named Artemis Fletcher to track down the beast. But all is not what it seems, and a greater pursuit unfolds in a breathless track from New York City across the Adirondacks to the high Himalayas and ancient temples of Kyoto Japan." Pete Kennedy pens fiction like he plays guitar, with great assurity and flair. Floodwood is an impressive first novel, full of taut energy, entertainment, heart, and soul. It grabs you by the lapels on the very first page and never lets you go. Floodwood had me at archeology, Native American lore, Buddhism, and blazing-eyed were-things. And then comes the kickass academic-ninja heroine who makes her own crossbows " - Gareth Branwyn, Boing Boing contributor, cyberculture and maker movement pioneer

The Nonogon Story tells the tale of Daniel O'Dork aka YODi who came from the Northern English town of Brunlea, an aspiring young artist in 1969 who began creating strange characters. These comic characters' gradually became quite important in his life; one of them he named Apulhed became his alter-ego. By 1999 he had more than ten personages that he made sculptures of, exhibiting them at Colchester Library in January 2000. As the New Millennium began, YODi (now a Middle Aged Dork, MAD) had a strange dream that he went to Arizona to meet the Hopi people who hold ceremonies in underground pits called kivas. YODi looked around the kiva and saw many people from his own past there; it seemed he was in an extraordinary meeting peopled by his lifelong friends, comic book heroes, and Old Souls. He saw he is part of The Nonogon Nomads (a Cosmic Tribe who travel in a Nine Sided Craft called The Nonogon). The Nonomads were gathering to take on the Vainglorious Arch-Villain BeeHellZeeBug before his forces take over the Universe! Look inside to see how they manage to control the Beast.