JACK OF DIAMONDS

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 11

So hallowed and so gracious

Before we even start, I want you to know this is the paywall section of my ‘Stack.

I also want to thank those of you who upgraded to access the serial stories behind the paywall. I’d like to extend an invitation for all of you to upgrade and show my stories your support.

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Over the course of the last three or four days, I’ve had a huge surge in subscribers. I picked up close to 30 new subscribers, which is the largest jump I’ve ever had! As some of you know, my hope is to collect enough PAID subscribers so that I can print up hard cover copies of my stories and send them out to you, my readers. I hope that I’ll be able to print up three stories a year. All I require of you, is a self-addressed post card sent to my home address.

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I now have 430 Subscribers on my ‘Stack, and I’m grateful to have every one of you. I want you to stick with me because I have hopes and dreams for this ‘Stack, much the same as any other writer here. But I don’t have a lot to offer. I have my stories on Sunday, and I have the Serial novels I plan to write and put out on Wednesdays. Much like Charles Dickens put his novels out in serial, as well as Alexandre Dumas and others, it has become the new “norm” on Substack.

This is the story of Artemus Spencer, Artie, also known as: JACK OF DIAMONDS. He’s a cad, a liar and a cheat, as well as a womanizer, and a thief. He is — not commissioned, that’s the wrong word — but told by a London gangster to steal a Stradivarius violin out of a particular Manor house. He stays at the farm of his old war buddy, Reggie O’Dowd. He steals the violin, but upon entering the Manor house, meets Jenny Ashcroft, who tells him she wants to be his partner and will do anything to prove that she means it. When he tells her he doesn’t believe her, she blows him.

In order for Artie to enter the Manor houses he targets, he does what is commonly referred to as “buildering”, which means he scales the outside walls of buildings and gains access through open windows on the upper floors. Along the way, Artie gets mixed up with White Russian aristocrats hoping to topple the new Soviet regime, as well as Irish Gun Runners, murder, and three sisters who want nothing more than to have sex with him.

It’s a wild romp through 1923 England, with hints of Harry FLASHMAN and Jack REACHER.

At the same time, I have another Serial Novel in the works.

THE SHIELD OF LOCKSLEY, is an adventure story set in the Days of King Arthur, following the adventures of a young Knight who journeys to Camelot to participate in the Tournament of Youth. He is quickly swept up in intrigue and becomes entangled in the secret love affair of Launcelot and Guinevere. A wild, rollicking, romp of a story, with a different twist on the King Arthur you might remember.

(At the moment, Locksley is on hiatus, but will be returning. I just don’t know when yet.)

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