The Fosterical Library’s Pledge To You In The New Year!

The Fosterical Library O’ Modern Classics is pleased to bring you even more great reading, at great prices with tons of availability and great purchase options!

More Adventury! More Thrillage! More Mysteriosity! More Laughery! More Excitiousness! More Horrority! More Shenanigan for your book-purchase buck!

More titles will come your way in the following year. ALL available in paperback… and digital format for your Kindle®, Nook® or other device with a Reader app.

Plus, all of Foster’s past titles remain waiting to capture your imagination, and provide hours of reading enjoyment! Click ‘View All Titles’ above, and browse, buy and enjoy to your heart’s content!

In the meantime, we here at Fosterical Labs wish you and yours a happiest of New Years, and continued success!

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of (gulp) TWO remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Why Santa WON'T Deliver Your Fosterical Paperbacks On Time This Year...

With four more days 'til the Big Day... it just isn't possible for your Fosterical paperback to arrive on time, unless maybe you live right next door to the Amazon® warehouse.

Why? Well, maybe not for the reason you think... Santa isn't running late by accident.

He's reading your Fosterical order. In fact, he can't put it down. Your book(s) may arrive looking pre-opened.

Not to worry. That's how you know you've picked something perfect; some 'Santa' has given in to the irresistable urge to read it before giftwrapping it.

Of course, this problem only affects paperback purchases. Your E-reader digital version can be delivered within the hour, even on Christmas morning! With all our great other purchase options, it only gets better!

Booky Christmas and Happy New Read!

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

New Title – And It's A Real Bellringer!

Available right now in E-reader format and Paperback! (Direct links in text below!)

Just in time to grapple your Christmas list.

Inspired by Foster's love of the game, and by Ken Kessey's final novel, 'The Last Go-Around'...

THEIR MONEY'S WORTH:
Pro Wrestling Isn't A Sport, It's An Addiction

Perhaps Foster's funniest, and most poignant novel yet.

Square off against less-than-ethical promoters, talent, bookers, agents, ring announcers... as Johnny Nightmare, wrestler/promoter/CEO of his own wrestling 'territory' struggles to survive an industry in the punishing headlock of corporate giants.

Can he and his cast of hardworking jobbers and jabronies make it through the gauntlet of an invasion of their turf by a rival promotion, the morality brigades attacking the TV station where their weekly show airs, and their main eventer dropping dead in the ring?

It's a crazy, hilarious behind-the-scenes look into the wild world of Independent Professional Wrestling – the babyfaces, the heels, the crowds... not to mention the chair-shots!

Available in digital e-reader, and in paperback!

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Rest Up Before The Holiday Rush!

OK, you survived Black Friday. You brawled your way to victory, coming home with that new swag and stuff. And you even bought a little something to give as gifts.

Now it heats up for real. Slower than molasses traffic. Giddy young'ns. Long lines. All the cooking and cleaning. And gawd, relatives!!

Take a break. Give your psyche a treat! We have total faith in you! You'll pull through it. Make yourself that big steaming mug of Chai, break out the Snickerdoodles early, and settle in for a great read.

We have something for everyone! Comedy. Adventure. Thrills. Sci-Fi intrigue. Horror. Nostalgia. Even Superheroes!!

All available at fair prices. In digital format for you Kindle®, Nook® and Android Reading App users, and in paperback for you tangible product fans! And all browsable with ease – just click ‘View All Titles’ above, and go to town!

It isn’t costly. Some titles go for mere pennies – as low as 99¢. Nothing’s over a deuce – $20.

We’ll chase away those boring moments between the feast, the parades, the game, the naps… and when the clan decides to leave and you’re stuck pondering a sink full of messy dishes.

On top of all that, we have lots of purchase options! It’s all good:

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

What ‘Cyber-Monday Madness’? It's Always Like This Around Here!

EVERY DAY is a Cyber-Shopping Day here at the Fosterical Library O’ Modern Classics!

Just like every day is Groundhog Day at the Jimmy Dean® Sausage plant.

Since you’re safe at home and browsing online already, swing that mouse over here before you leave! Like that candy bar you snag at the checkout line?

We offer tons of reading enjoyment while you’re waiting for the FedEx® man to deliver all those other goodies & nabbin’s!

ALL Fosterical titles are available – at no-brainer prices all year long, not just on Cyber Monday – in paperback… and digital format for your Kindle®, Nook® or other Android device with a reader app. You can even read them on your desktop computer – where you’re likely looking at us right now!

Adventure! Thrills! Comedy! Horror! Even Superheroes!! Click ‘View All Titles’ above, and shop till you drop!

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Escape The Black Friday Fracas!

Some of you, we imagine, won't see this post right away – you're too busy out risking life and limb to get your hungry little mits on a 67" Flatscreen by beating everyone else bloody who tries to get to it first.

Why? You know manufacturers produce extra-cheap but expensive-looking crap just to dump it on you at a "bargain" price today, right? They know you'll bust your bank account into their pockets and brawl with your neighbor to do it.

All when you could be safe and sound, sipping a hot cuppa, and getting all the great (reading) entertainment you crave, at already-great reasonable pricing.

The Fosterical Library has a whole slew of fascinating, captivating and entertaining stuff, that won't sacrifice your savings to own. Paperback or Digital – or both! Click 'View All Titles' above and browse knowing that your personal bodily safety is guaranteed. We're beating up the post-holiday doldrums instead. Make yourself a turkey sandwich, grab another cup of that good stuff, and enjoy!

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

We’re Giving Thanks, But There Are No Turkeys Here!

Today the Fosterical Library gives thanks for all our customers and browsers!

Only you won’t find any “turkeys” on our shelf! Every single book in our inventory is an eagle waiting to make your imagination soar!

We have something for everyone! Comedy. Adventure. Thrills. Sci-Fi intrigue. Horror. Nostalgia. Even Superheroes!!

All available at fair prices. In digital format for you Kindle®, Nook® and Android Reading App users, and in paperback for you tangible product fans! And all browsable with ease – just click ‘View All Titles’ above, and go to town!

It isn’t costly. Some titles go for mere pennies – as low as 99¢. Nothing’s over a deuce – $20.

We’ll chase away those boring moments between the feast, the parades, the game, the naps… and when the clan decides to leave and you’re stuck pondering a sink full of messy dishes.

On top of all that, we have lots of purchase options! It’s all good:

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Buyer Beware: Third Party Bloodsuckers!

No, we do not refer to the Independent Party.

We mean unscrupulous re-sellers peddling you Fosterical products at marked-up prices that don’t tender any royalty back to their creator.

Yes, it happens. You may find Foster’s books on Ebay. On someone’s Etsy, or perhaps on some other independent re-marketing site. You might see them priced upwards of $75 or more, for a single copy!

This isn’t our doing. It’s just the way of the wild frontier that is The Internet. To be honest at risk of down-selling ourselves, Foster’s books are not exactly collector’s items… yet. If you took your original copy of say, Just Wrong to the guy on Antique Roadshow, he might try to steal it from you… but not give you a collector’s price for it.

But there are morals-free third party re-sellers who may try to convince you to buy at those inflated prices. If anything rubs us the wrong way, this is it. Buying from these hucksters is a lose-lose. Though the reading enjoyment may not waver, you’re still spending more than you need to – and what’s more, there is no royalty percentage going toward the author!

Accept no imitators!

Every link to Foster’s books you’ll see on MMCD, directs you to a fair market price – that is parceled to meet printing costs, provide the royalty, and give you the best available price deal. There are also a gaggle of purchase options that sweeten the pot even more:

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Browse the complete Fosterical Library with ease, using the View All Titles link above. All titles available in paperback or digital format.

Flagged For Obscenity!

We can hardly believe it.

Someone flagged the MMCD Blog for being a little too nasty for their taste!

Now Goodreads is giving us the ol’ Stinkeye until we’re investigated. Welcome to the future.

Really? Well…

What you get for the modest cover prices is so good, it really is profane. So in a way… BUSTED!

Comedy shenanigans… heart-racing thrills… mind-blowing mystery… eyebrow-curling horror… or tear-tugging nostalgia… Some titles go for mere pennies – as low as 99¢. Nothing’s over a deuce – $20. Unless, that is, you buy something from a third party charging more than the book’s original asking price. Yep, they’re out there… it’s a compliment in a way, but everything is still available at the affordable original price.

Where does the money go? After we cover production costs – printing, assembly, marketing, etc… The meager remainder provides a small royalty (about 30%) with which Foster can address his mounting medical costs. It sucks to be sick.

And on top of the great bargain pricing, we have lots of purchase options.

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Browse the complete Fosterical Library with ease, using the View All Titles link above. All titles available in paperback or digital format.

It Takes Work To Be This Cheap

How much work and quality goes into a Fosterical book?

Foster’s writing is a culmination of over 40 years writing for stageplays, screenplays, comics, short stories, newspaper articles, poetry, essays, fiction and non-fiction… Writing isn’t just a recent experimental hobby, like say, staring at houseflies and drooling at the table.

A lifetime of answering the call to write, is what you see manifest between the covers of every book in the Fosterical Library. Foster even designs his own covers, marketing materials, and heck THIS VERY BLOG. Everything you see here is all him!

The devotions of a man’s life make for quite a commodity, considering our pricing is so budget friendly. Some titles go for mere pennies – as low as 99¢. Nothing’s over a deuce – $20. Unless, that is, you buy something from a third party charging more than the book’s original asking price. Yep, they’re out there – there’s nothing we can do about it.

Where does the money go? Most of it covers production costs – printing, assembly, marketing. The meager remainder provides a small royalty with which Foster can address his medical bills. Yes, these literary treasures were created, in some cases, from hospital beds, secluded alcoves and secret unglamorous hideaways that may no longer exist!

But we have lots of purchase options.

Did you know…

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Browse the complete Fosterical Library with ease, using the View All Titles link above. All titles available in paperback or digital format.

For The Ladies…

What’s this we hear about gender equality in entertainment? We’re not short on that, here at the Fosterical Library.

Did you know…

In both of Foster’s superhero novels Outsupered & Outsupered II, the world is left in the capable hands of superheroines? In his latest book Murder She Laughed, there’s no uneven share of feminine villainy? And even in his bestseller When Silence Was Golden, due credit is given to Mabel Normand, who it is argued, may have been entirely responsible for the Golden Age of Silent Comedy?

We love the ladies here at Fosterical. We love adventure, comedy, horror, thrills and mystery!

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. Yes, we said GIFTS, and we said FREE. Start clicking!

Browse the complete Fosterical Library with ease, using the View All Titles link above. All titles available in paperback or digital format.

Something For Everybody

There are days when we just want to give everyone a big hug. Y’know?

The way we accomplish that is by including everyone in on the shenanigans, comedy, horror, mystery, thrills, adventure and nostalgia. We can’t claim to cover every subject under the sun, but we do guarantee a read you’ll never forget.

We constantly strive to get these titles on mainstream booklists and the like, but in the meantime, our click numbers are growing here on MMCD. We thank you for your few minutes browsing, and hopefully shopping, our range of titles. Our aim is to give you something good for our budget-friendly prices and other purchase options.

Buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Browse the complete Fosterical Library with ease, using the View All Titles link above. All titles available in paperback or digital format.

You Actually Look Way Cooler Than Usual Reading A Fosterical Book In Public…

You reddit right. Admit it, the only reason you do stuff in those “hip” coffee, brew & que houses that you could do way easier at home, is to be seen. We need to remind the outside world, sometimes on a daily basis, how too-cool-for-school we are.

We’ve done it. You’ve done it.

Well, the level above mere “coolness” is when you have an actual “mystique” going. That means, not only are you noticed, but people can’t tear their stares from you. They wonder what you’re thinking. Who you are. Why you've chosen their particular sphere to hang out in.

In other words – they can’t help obsessing over you. Think that doesn’t really happen? What about Monroe? Dean? Garbo? They’re not even IN THE ROOM anymore.

What better way to create instant mystique, than to be seen reading something that draws in onlookers like chum does sharks? That’s part of our mission here at Fosterical Laboratories.

The Fosterical Library offers you a whole range of curiosity-stoking reading matter to take with you into coffeeshops, restaurants, brewpubs, cyber cafes and other trend-crowd hangouts, and upstage the cool kids’ table. Each and every Fosterical book is basically a Mystique Starter Kit!

Plus, buying a Fosterical book is a win-win. You get premium literary entertainment, and Foster gets a little help with his hospital bills. And… buy using AmazonSmile® and part of your purchase total can go to your favorite charity!

Read it FREE with a KindleUnlimited® membership, and gift a pal who’s got an e-reader with the same book using Amazon Matchbook®!

Review the book well, on its Amazon page, and choose one of three remaining FREE GIFTS from the Fosterical Library. There are no wrong moves here. Start clicking!

Browse the complete Fosterical Library with ease, using the View All Titles link above. All titles available in paperback or digital format.

Halloween Candy For Your Brain

Don’t be such a bee-itch when it comes to Halloween fun!

We can’t keep stuffing ourselves with sweets forever. There’s a reason parents often enforce a rule about only eating one piece of candy from the Halloween booty – they’re afraid of you growing up to get the Diabeedus! Of undoing all their hard work to instill healthy dietary habits in your dark little psyche.

But your brain requires a level of sugar – at least the mental kind. And that, dear reader, is exactly what The Fosterical Library is handing out, at this scarily fun time of year!

Turn down the lights except for your favorite reading lamp, curl up in the big comfy chair or other favorite reading spot, keep some of the leftover Halloween goodies nearby, and dive face-first into the most shockingly fun batch of terrifying tales to titillate and tweak you!

AmazonSmile® allows you to designate a portion of your purchase total as a donation to a favorite charity of your choice! A KindleUnlimited® membership allows you to read books (including the ones mentioned below) for FREE first, and purchase later. Amazon Matchbook® allows you to pick up a free – or price-reduced – e-reader copy (to keep or gift) of whatever paperback you buy.

Your purchase provides Rob with a modest royalty, with which he can address his medical expenses – not buy a Corvette (yet, anyway.) You get all this reading enjoyment, plus become a positive doer and shaker in the lives of others. It’s a win-win!!

MURDER SHE LAUGHED

The Zodiac Killer returns in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z…

Sherlock Holmes matches wits with the mysterious Dr. Caligari and his homicidal slave The Somnambulist, in The Sleeper Rises…

Plus… an all original cast of villains and victims await you in stories with dreadfully benign titles like Under Par, A Quick Solution and Way To Go, Mr. Weaver…

169 pages of killer fun and tenacious twists! Available in paperback, and e-reader format for your Kindle®, Nook®, or Android book app.

Get in a nap before you order – it will be a loooonng time before you want to sleep again.

NO EXIT

It may share its title with a number of better-known works, but if you enjoy science fiction mystery with a twist, you ought to give this voracious volume a look.

Journalist Michael Arc mysteriously disappeared in 2003. In the years following, all written and photographic evidence of his existence began to disappear as well. Before he vanished, he was working on the bizarre topic of time travel and certain nefarious forces who may be using it to alter the past and create a new future that favors their evil. Evil like the Allies’ loss of World War II, like a certain thwarted assassination attempt in Dallas, and other historical game-changing events! Arc’s secret files have now been discovered! Astonishing tales of chrono-chaos; there's historical chicanery, alien agendas, confused scientists, mysterious strangers… even a dinosaur!

If they drop the big one tomorrow, you won't sweat it, having survived the terrifying tale contained in…


YOU CAN RUN: A Horror Novella

Who are they? What are they? The world of supernatural lore knows them only as “marchers.” Ancient ethereal predators from beyond the veil. For centuries they have hunted humans, silently, relentlessly. With no concept of mercy, they cannot be pleaded with, and pursue their victims to the death – those whom by unholy mischief or betrayal, become marked. Once a marcher has latched on, the hunted have only one option – to run, for as long as possible, with a desperation to pass the mark onto some other unwitting soul, and hope the new victim can as well, lest the mark fall back to them after that person is caught and devoured. Troy Terrill, a young upstart in the game of paranormal investigation, finds himself the only hope of not one, but two cursed people with marchers on their trail. Can he rid them of their pursuing abominations? Can anyone? Don’t dwell upon the answer too deeply; the act of pondering a marcher gives it your scent...

There they are, brave reader. One or all, if you prefer – they’re not that pricey. In paperback, or e-reader. On Amazon or your preferred online book vault. Browse and buy with ease, using the above links.

Read them in your favorite hiding place, and maybe we’ll see you come dawn… … …

(These stories are recommended for readers 18+ only; not something to read to kids at bedtime – or any other time. We’re serious. You’ve been warned.)

One Or Two Messhuggahs With Your Coffee?

HAPPY... DEATHDAY, LENNY??

The Fosterical Library hasn't been sweeter on anyone than Lenny Bruce! There's not one, but two books to enjoy – and even a chapter about him in our book on Ernie Kovacs – browse that too!

We just used every version of "to" in one sentence!

Since today is the anniversary of the iconic rebel-rouser's passing – and since we f'ed up and missed doing this promo on his birthday this year – we're plugging 'em both here:

MR. BRUCE, DO YOU SWEAR?

and

IN THEIR FACES: COMEDY OUTSIDE THE BOX, UP TO LENNY BRUCE

In the first, Lenny Bruce, the most important stand-up comedian of the 20th century, gets one more chance to defend his life on the witness stand. And you are the jury. Bruce's struggle for his right to speak his mind on stage brought about an evolution in stand-up comedy and transformed the way we interpret our freedoms under the First Amendment of the Constitution. Every American should know his story. A stage play by Rob Foster, "Mr. Bruce, Do You Swear?" brings Bruce and the legal battle he waged back to life, recreating some of his legendary, status-quo threatening comedy along the way! Sit back and prepare to have your eyes opened and your mind blown, by the tumultuous life of one of American culture's true originals... ya shmuck! The book includes the entire text of the play, plus original review notices, author's commentary and a photo-strewn biographical chapter on the man himself, Lenny Bruce!

The other, the third volume of The Legendry Laughter Series, is about some of the classic comedy masters who spent their careers pushing the envelope of their profession - turning heads, raising eyebrows, and reinventing the craft of laughmaking - up to the era when one particular comic turned it on its ear. Need a laugh-break? Relax, pull up a whoopie-cushion and enjoy!

Each is valuable in paperback and e-reader format. Order via AmazonSmile and a portion of your purchase total will be donated to the charity of your choice, shmuck. Now there's some joy you can create yourself!

Your Safe Space...

... is my danger zone.

Let me fill it with wacky novels, time-warped mystery, and a league of superheroes who'll protect you from takeover by hostile elitists and supernatural giants.

Think it can't be found all in one place? Click the link "View All Titles" above, and browse yourself into a wider, wilder, comfort zone.

All Rob's books are priced to move, easy to buy, fun to read, and great to gift.

Order through AmazonSmile and make a small chunk of your purchase total a donation to a favorite charity.

Read in comfort, and good health, and help Rob with a few hospital bills. We thank you.

Do your part this Halloween! Stay scared!

While you’re searching all the supermarkets and discount stores for just the right goodies to hand out at the door this Spooky Season (or if you merely plan to snuff the porchlight and let the neighbors feed the little cosplaying ragamuffins this year)…

Be sure to get yourself some brain candy! The Fosterical Library has some delectably dastardly delights to dazzle and dumbfound you this Halloween!

Turn out the lights, snuggle into your comfy place beneath your fave reading lamp, and crack open these horrifyingly good reads:

(Read them at your own risk…)

MURDER SHE LAUGHED

This book will keep you up… unwilling to stop reading, desperately in need to find out who survives, who gets away with the vilest of acts, and who walks away without a whisper of suspicion. Unveiled are such over-the-top tales as: Sherlock Holmes faces his own unending nightmare in The Sleeper Rises… The elusive Zodiac Killer resurfaces to keep hidden his own identity in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z… plus other spine shivering stories of horrible mind-bending visions and mysteries past and future. Stay awake! Beware of what lurks just around that dark corner.

NO EXIT

It may share its title with a number of better-known works, but if you enjoy science fiction mystery with a twist, you ought to give this voracious volume a look.

Journalist Michael Arc mysteriously disappeared in 2003. In the years following, all written and photographic evidence of his existence began to disappear as well. Before he vanished, he was working on the bizarre topic of time travel and certain nefarious forces who may be using it to alter the past and create a new future that favors their evil. Evil like the Allies’ loss of World War II, like a certain thwarted assassination attempt in Dallas, and other historical game-changing events! Arc’s secret files have now been discovered! Astonishing tales of chrono-chaos; there's historical chicanery, alien agendas, confused scientists, mysterious strangers… even a dinosaur!

If they drop the big one tomorrow, you won't sweat it, having survived the terrifying tale contained in…

YOU CAN RUN: A Horror Novella

Who are they? What are they? The world of supernatural lore knows them only as “marchers.” Ancient ethereal predators from beyond the veil. For centuries they have hunted humans, silently, relentlessly. With no concept of mercy, they cannot be pleaded with, and pursue their victims to the death – those whom by unholy mischief or betrayal, become marked. Once a marcher has latched on, the hunted have only one option – to run, for as long as possible, with a desperation to pass the mark onto some other unwitting soul, and hope the new victim can as well, lest the mark fall back to them after that person is caught and devoured. Troy Terrill, a young upstart in the game of paranormal investigation, finds himself the only hope of not one, but two cursed people with marchers on their trail. Can he rid them of their pursuing abominations? Can anyone? Don’t dwell upon the answer too deeply; the act of pondering a marcher gives it your scent...

There they are, brave reader. Door 1, 2 or 3… or all, if you prefer – they’re not that pricey. Available in paperback, or e-reader. On Amazon or your preferred online book vault. Browse and buy with ease, using the above links.

On Amazon, all usual options apply: AmazonSmile® charities, KindleUnlimited® offers, and Amazon Matchbook®.

Read them in your favorite hiding place, and maybe we’ll see you come dawn… … …

Highly Recommended…

It doesn’t take a fiend to appreciate Foster’s latest work, MURDER SHE LAUGHED… just a reader ready to be entertained senseless by some of the scariest tales ever to stalk your bookshelf this Halloween!

It’s been gestating in the Fosterical Vault O’ Mysteriosity & Sinister Shenanigans for an entire year, and now it’s available to tingle your spine and keep you awake!
Turn down the lights except for your favorite reading lamp, curl up with your kitty-cat in the big comfy chair or other favorite reading spot, keep some of the leftover Halloween goodies nearby, and dive face-first into the most shockingly fun batch of terrifying tales to titillate and tweak you!

The Zodiac Killer returns in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z…

Sherlock Holmes matches wits with the mysterious Dr. Caligari and his homicidal slave The Somnambulist, in The Sleeper Rises…

Plus… an all original cast of villains and victims await you in stories with dreadfully benign titles like Under Par, A Quick Solution and Way To Go, Mr. Weaver…

169 pages of killer fun and tenacious twists! Available in paperback, and e-reader format for your Kindle®, Nook®, or Android book app.

Get in a nap before you order – it will be a loooonng time before you want to fall asleep again.

AmazonSmile® allows you to designate a portion of your purchase total as a donation to a favorite charity of your choice! A KindleUnlimited® membership allows you to read books (including this one) for FREE first, and purchase later. Amazon Matchbook® allows you to pick up a free – or price-reduced – e-reader copy (to keep or gift) of whatever paperback you buy.

Your purchase provides Rob with a modest royalty, with which he can address his medical expenses – not buy a Corvette (yet, anyway.) You get all this reading enjoyment, plus become a positive doer and shaker in the lives of others. It’s a win-win!!
And don’t forget to check out Rob’s other scary books this Halloween season – NO EXIT and YOU CAN RUN.

Read in good spirits and health. Click away!

(This collection of short stories is recommended for readers 18+ only; not something to read to kids at bedtime – or any other time. We’re serious. You’ve been warned.)

New Title Alert!

Almost ready to send to press, Foster’s newest title is sure to prime the pulse rate and tickle the fancy of the latent detective in you lovers of mystery and horror!

Just in time (hopefully) for Halloween, and if not then – maybe Christmas:

MURDER SHE LAUGHED:
Outrageous Tales of Terrifying Mystery and Blood Curdling Revenge

Here’s the back cover blurb:

This book will keep you up at night… unwilling to stop reading, desperately in need to find out who survives, who gets away with the vilest of acts, and who walks away without a whisper of suspicion. Or you’ll simply lie in bed, staring into the darkness… wondering, dreading, unable to find relief even in the privacy of your own thoughts.

The terrors, manmade or otherwise, are relentless in a world where blood, and alliances no matter how loyal or grudging, are cheap. Who can you trust when surrounded by strangers with unknown intentions? Or completely alone in a landscape of peril? How confident are you of your own resourcefulness amid a maze of killers?

Long lost tales of the famous and infamous dubiously light the way to your escape. Sherlock Holmes faces his own unending nightmare in The Sleeper Rises, and the forever elusive Zodiac Killer resurfaces to solve, and keep hidden, his own identity in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z… plus other spine shivering tales of horrible revelation and mind-bending unwanted visions of mysteries past and future. Stay awake! Beware of what lurks just around that dark corner.

It’s due out soon, so keep watching this space. (Don’t worry, we’ll remind ya!)

It will be, like all of Foster’s great books, available in paperback and e-reader format! On Amazon, and likely on the platform of whichever online bookseller you may prefer instead!

In the meantime, click ‘View All Titles’ above to access Foster’s Author Page and browse from his array of books currently available!

Read well, in fair weather and foul!

Fall is in the air.

Yep, it's just beginning to turn a tad nippy out.

Time to drain the pool, and dig out your warm nighties. Get the ol' burner cleaned, oiled and ready to get the house all toasty & good for those long frosty nights. Make sure Fido and Kuddles have fluffy beds indoors and get the litter box refilled. Make sure the radio has batteries.

You know what else will come in super handy? Some great reading matter to cozy up with under the big comforter and your favorite bedside lamp.

And yeppers, the Fosterical Library has some fantastic suggestions, in paperback or e-reader format, and priced to move!

Read stuff for FREE with your KindleUnlimited® membership! In hopes that you'll want a permanent copy.

What's NOT to like? What's there left to hum-haw about?

Click 'View All Titles' just below the main heading up there, and browse your little socks off!

We promise shenanigans you'll not soon forget; laughter, adventure, horror, thrills, nostalgia... and new titles coming soon! So get clicking!

Well, that was interesting…

What do billiards, golf and advertising have in common?

Besides needing balls to do any of them?

I have been in the advertising business – all considered – for about 38 years. I started as an editorial cartoonist and feature writer for various college newspapers, worked as a be-all flunky at an ad agency upon exiting college, was the art director of a direct-sales auto industry magazine, did graphics for a book publisher, then went to work for the first of four (4) daily newspapers in 1991.

This year (2018), the proliferation of overseas outsourcing combined with my cumulative health problems, led to my finally conceding to retirement, even though I’m not quite “retirement age.”

Along the way I grew dissatisfied. I spent my career doing my best work, to make someone else’s life financially stable. In return I was shown the door, when cheaper help came along. But during that time, one would think I picked up some degree of savvy regarding that industry – the business called ‘advertising & marketing.’

Like Socialism, or one of Leonardo DaVinci’s man-powered flying machines – it looks fine on paper. Actual field testing in the real world is where its terrible, fatal flaws emerge.

So how do billiards and golf become relevant?

If one decides to take up either billiards or golf, one realizes something terrible as time passes. One can spend hours a day practicing billiards at a local pub or in one’s home. Controlling every geometric strategem, knowing the cue ball's sweet spot from any vantage point. One can spend every day on a golf course mastering which club to use, the correct ‘English’ to put on a ball, lawn break patterns, wind factors… everything. And on ‘Game Day,’ when all that accumulated expertise is brought to bear – you can still STINK.

Play the worst round of your life.

Choke. Rookie out.

Look like the pantsless guy in the enema factory.

Advertising has the same risk. You can technically know exactly what it takes to sell snow to polar bears. As the hired help aboard some company making its living by providing ad services, you might pull off sales that save fiscal years for the firm. You might make the difference between the company falling short, or it having a boom month.

But when it comes time to make great sales for yourself… that’s when you run into the polar bear who’d rather eat you than purchase fresh snow.

In my self-styled side career as an indy author, I’ve had both kinds of years. But the same old marketing strategy doesn’t cut the mustard forever. This year I tried hiring a third party to promote my work. SHOUTMyBook-dot-com has fulfilled their promises to get my book covers (and my own promo text) onto social networks, and reposted by other book blogs. It’s all been great.

On paper.

But after three months, and even resorting to giving them my personal best-selling book to promote – there have been no sales. A lot of bluster, but no cash register ca-ching. In short, they’ve made a nice little sum from me. I don’t blame them – I blame the strategy becoming old too soon.

So in the next few months, you’ll see the return of the MMCD Blog! Yes, it will get a bit crazy, but I can do no worse for myself than SMB has done. Plus – it’s FREE!

So let me be the first to welcome you all back to the sink or swim world of My Mind Creates Danger! At the very least, I promise you interesting promo stuff. I hope you’ll browse my product while you’re here too. The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics awaits you!

Amazon still has all its great promotional add-ons that I can, in turn, pitch to you!

All my books are available in paperback and e-reader format!

KindleUnlimited members can read stuff FREE!

AmazonSmile lets you mark part of your purchase total as a donation to your favorite worthy cause. (You could stick it to me, for not liking my politics, by donating to a charity you’d think would get my goat – while helping me with my medical bills by buying a book!)

Amazon Matchbook lets you get a free/price-reduced digital copy of whichever paperback you purchase – to gift a friend with an e-reader, or take along on your own.

Yep, I have new titles on the way – hopefully before year’s end. But if not, then 2019 will be chock-full of surprises!

Just click ‘View All Titles’ above, and do some really early Christmas shopping for the bookworms on your gift list! There’s something (or there WILL BE) for everyone!

Read in renewed vigor!

GIVEAWAY!! Two Prizes Spoken For! TWO LEFT!

NOW TWO PRIZES HAVE BEEN NABBED! Unpacked from the Fosterical Archives, we have a remaining 2 – count'em – 2 free gifts still up for grabs!

One could be yours! All you have to do is a teensy favor... Don't worry, it's easy as... well... it's darn easy, trust us! But it would also be muy appreciated!

Book reviews are more important to indy authors than one might think. More positive reviews mean greater exposure – which in turn means more readers! That, in turn, hopefully means more reviews, more purchases, more readers – you see that upward pattern?

That's exactly what we want here at The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics!

So here's the deal:

If you have already read one of Rob's fifteen – (yes, fifteen, we can hardly believe it ourselves) – available books... AND would be kind enough to go on that book's Amazon Page*... and rate the book (preferably high) on their 1-5 star scale, and even write a short review of that book (it can be one sentence, one word even... "stupendous," "original," "memorable," etc.)... then...

Send us a quick note telling us which book you reviewed... with permission to display your review on social media...

While they last, you can choose between these four items! We'll send it to you free!

ERNIE'S JOURNEYS
Paperback – Foster's thoughtful collection of essays on the life and media impact of iconic early television comedian Ernie Kovacs! Ernie's last night on Earth, musings on what might have come to pass had he enjoyed a full lifespan, what he'd make of modern advancements like the Internet, plus the surviving remnant of a proposed Kovacs stageplay.

OR

I'M ROB, AND SO ARE WE
Compact Disc – A rarity indeed! Inspired by the multi-voice comedy of comedians Jonathan Winters and Phil Hendrie, and the in-studio antics of The Firesign Theater, Rob produced this, his one and only Comedy CD! It is still in the original plastic – never played (which is no guarantee of its playback quality but we have it to give away!) 12 tracks. Approximately 45 minutes of funnery and enjoymentness! You want it – here's your chance to grab it! (Note: You will NOT find this item on Amazon – it's only available through this offer.)

We only have ONE of each in our possession, so act fast!

Already spoken for, are...
AMBROSE BIERCE, THE LAST STAND OF
Paperback – Foster's original 2-act stageplay first performed in 2001, with actor/musician Thomas Burks in the title-role. Rebel newsman, writer, iconoclast Ambrose Bierce hides out in a back bedroom of a Mexican brothel in bitter January of 1914, from what he believes is a Federalé lynch mob searching for him in the wake of ally Pancho Villa's capture. Instead, show up an old cohort newsman, and Bierce's cousin, a Calvinist minister, who try to persuade him to return home with them. What results is a verbal battle of wits between the Man of the Cloth, and the author of The Devil's Dictionary! The book also includes production photos, Director's notes, samples of actual local reviews, and a historical overview of Bierce's life. A great read!!

AND

PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE: THE FINAL SOLUTION
Paperback – Foster grabs your funnybone and won't let go in this novelized 'sequel' to the Worst Movie Of All Time, "Plan 9 From Outer Space!" The menacing aliens are back to give it one more try; all your favorite annoying characters return – all written lovingly in the prose style of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

If you can't find the book's Amazon page, just click 'View All Titles' above (*or the link in this text, in the 6th paragraph) to be fast-tracked to it.

If you've never read one of Foster's books (shame on you), you can browse Rob's author page... all links above go to it... buy something, or read it free with your KindleUnlimited® membership... review it according to the above directions... and choose your free gift – if anything is left.

It's even easier than we've made it sound. Don't let details get in your way – start clicking.

Yes, with our (Rob's) enormous THANK YOU.

Read in resplendent health... and get your free stuff!

You've tried the rest...

Now try the best, lest we jest.

Seriously, no media is as personal as a favorite book. You read, you remember, you return.

You can scan your bookshelf and bring a bucketful of memories tumbling down on you. Or lean the shelf too forward and need paramedics.

But one thing is certain – only that the adventure, the thrills, the joy, the laughter, the romance, the horror, the whatever-it-is... plays out on a unique stage, the theatre of your mind. The show, the story, the experience, is uniquely yours.

At the Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics, we have a few stories you may want to see on that epic platform. It costs very little, if anything at all, to make them uniquely yours!

Laughs, chills, sci-fi thrills, and stunning commentary; and you can help out others with your purchase – a favorite charity, and me with my staggering medical costs.

AmazonSmile® let's you stick it to Rob's politics with a donation to a charity you know he'd poo-poo. Or just help a fave charity despite what anyone thinks.

We promote freedom of thought, here!

Matchbook® gives you a free (or reduced price) digital copy of your purchase for your – or a pal's – e-reader.

KindleUnlimited® membership lets you read stuff free!

Browse, buy, read, enjoy, pillage, plunder, stink up the place with reading pleasure!

Sometimes you have to pause and think...

You need a book that will stick with you after the final page is read. A book you can't unread.

Anything else is just not right. You need to read Just Wrong, A Novel About Hollywood.

Along with everything else in the Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics, it's the icing on the cake of your Spring Reading List!

It's your ticket to shenanigans you cannot forget, no matter how hard you try. Hollywood can't ignore it much longer!

Remember, you can stick it to Rob by using AmazonSmile® to donate to a charity that will get revenge on him for writing this!

You can get a free/reduced price copy for your e-reader with Matchbook®!

You can use your KindleUnlimited® membership to read it, and other Foster titles, FREE!

What are you waiting for? We already told you how to get it free!

Happy Reading, you.

Got Some Great Reading On Your Mind?

Need I even mention The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics?

Adventury, Thrillery, Comedicness, Suspensiosity – you'll have plenty to ponder, and more!

Update your Spring Reading List with hilarious novels: Just Wrong, Plan 10... Scary tomes like You Can Run and No Exit... Comedy collections like Ernie's Journeys and When Silence Was Golden... Stage shenanigans like Just Lovely, Ambrose Bierce, and How To Assemble A Whale... Or superheroics and derring-do like in Outsupered I & II...

I've written so much stuff, my fingers are bleeding, and my brain hurts, and I have medical bills. Take a browse, by clicking 'View All Titles' above, shall you?

Help out a favorite charity along the way by shopping with AmazonSmile®!

Gift someone (or yourself) with a free/price-reduced digital copy, with Matchbook®!

Heck, read it free, with a KindleUnlimited® membership!

Whatever ya do... thanks fer listenin'. Have a wunnerful day, you!

Still waiting for the bookmobile?

Why? The books you need to get your mits on are right here, at the stroke of a key!

The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics is open 24/7... every title is available in paperback (for you stubborn tangible book folks) and e-reader format (for you compooter-age peeps).

You can even help out a favorite charity with your purchase, by browsing on AmazonSmile®. Don't like my politics? Stick it to me by making a donation to a charity you think I'd get all indignant-n-shit about. Or choose your own online bookseller – you'll find my titles there too!

You can use Matchbook® to obtain a free, or reduced-price, digital copy of whatever paperback you buy at full price. Gift it to one of your pals with an e-reader, or just keep it to take along on some long journey to your happy place!

You can use your KindleUnlimited® membership to read stuff free, and decide later if you want a permanent copy. I hope ya do!

There's tons of options!

But I guarantee you'll find something here to whet your literary appetite, and your only option will be to read it to the last page... You'll want more!

Take my challenge. Browse, buy, read, gift, share... it's all good.

Have a splendid day!

Whadda ya mean yer too 'old-fashioned' for an e-reader?

That's a load o' hooey, buster!

So you don't want to shell out the cash (anywhere from $50 to $200) for another gadget, just to read a book? Well... OK, that's a legit argument. A Kindle® or Nook® sound fun, but it's really just loading yourself down even further with another computerized learning curve...

Fair enough. BUT...

Did you know there are FREE E-reader Apps that work just like those gadgets, for your computer or tablet? Hey, even your phone!! You're here on social media, so you obviously already have – and are familiar with – one of those.

Here's a quick link to a list of FREE e-reader applications... all FREE, without a penny of outlay.

There's no excuse now.

You can enjoy one (or more, or all) of my books on the device you're staring at, as you read this.

Plus all the usual neato stuff: AmazonSmile® lets you help your favorite charity with your purchase total. A KindleUnlimited® membership allows you to read FREE! Matchbook® gives you an e-reader version (free, or at a reduced price) of whatever paperback you purchase at retail price, to take it with you anywhere, or gift a friend you think would love that book too!

Click 'View All Titles' above, under the main heading, to hook up to my Auther's Page! Browse, buy, read, gift, enjoy life!

Pull up your Big Girl Pants and enjoy reading something!

Aren't you tired of flapping your political gums yet?

Give it a rest. The world will still be here tomorrow, anxious for you to save it.

The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics may have a solution, droopy drawers! Are ya ready? It just may be what you need to escape those droning talkhead tones.

It’s not a masterpiece. Its source material was hardly one either. But there’s a reason it has hung around — people love it.

Unfortunately, Edward D. Wood Jr. wasn’t around long enough for his true fans to connect. Maybe they weren’t born yet.

At any rate, the sequel to his grand opus, Plan 9 From Outer Space has been recovered... As told to author Foster by a close, irrefutable(?) source. We now unleash it upon an unsuspecting world! Yes, can your heart stand the arrival of...

PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE: THE FINAL SOLUTION

From the darkest bowels of space, they come for the tenth and final time, on an ultimate mission of conquest and destruction! Can yet another band of brave humans, armed with just their wits and determination as Americans, turn back the horrible tide of invasion? The answer will amaze and surprise!

Written in the epic style of the master himself, Ed Wood... this is it – the Literary Event of the Year. Okay, maybe the season. Maybe the month. Would ya believe, the weekend?

And as usual, it's available in both paperback and e-reader. Priced to sell, to enjoy, to read and gift.

AmazonSmile® purchasers can make a part of their purchase price a gift to a favorite charity.

Some of Rob's other titles are available to read FREE, via your KindleUnlimited® membership!

And NOW... Amazon's Matchbook program allows you to purchase this title in paperback and receive a free e-reader copy for your device, or to gift a fellow reader!

Hey Perky!!

That got you perked up, did it? Alrighty! There’s nothing else about Bettie here, but an important message nonetheless!

The old selling points have been bully-pulpitted to exhaustion! Yes…

KindleUnlimited® members can read some digital titles FREE!

AmazonSmile® purchases allow a donation to your favorite causes!

All purchases provide the author a small royalty with which to address his mounting medical costs.

Yeah, yeah… we are confident you know all of these, to the point that you can recite them back to us. Well here’s a new one: You can do America a favor!

Students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade have a greater risk to end up in jail or on welfare. Reports show that the rate of low literacy in the United States directly costs the healthcare industry over $70 million every year. — www.dosomething.org

Wouldn’t you rather that money went toward something better? To rebuild our infrastructure? To feed and shelter our homeless? To care for our Veterans? Or even just stayed in our pockets?

It costs relatively little to hold onto that $70 Mil! Like, in some cases, just 99¢! Let’s see… 99¢, or $70 million…? What does 99¢ buy? Well if you have an e-reader device, it buys something fun and cool from the Fosterical Library O’ Modern Classics, that’s what. Paperbacks are all under $20. Click ‘View All Titles’ above and take a look.

Rob's books are great to gift that little potential felon in your family! Make America Read Again… or just make yourself or a loved one read, and enjoy! Help save your country’s wealth. And help Rob save his health. That even rhymes!

Have a fantastic day, you perky devil you!

Watch the skies!!

The Fosterical Library wishes to announce that our contest has been won – by loyal reader, J. Rankin, of California!

He has guessed – somewhat precisely – the nature of Rob's next book, forthcoming in March, and wins a free copy of said book, in paperback or e-reader format. His choice! Hold the butterscotch syrup.

PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE: THE FINAL SOLUTION!

Watch for it to appear on Amazon, and other fine online book retail sites. Stay tuned here to this blog for a direct link, to come!

In the meantime, enjoy the regular slew of goodreads from Fosterical Laboratories – click the link “View All Titles’ above, and browse ’till you drop!

KindleUnlimited® members can read some digital titles FREE!

AmazonSmile® purchases allow a donation to your favorite cause!

All your purchases provide the author a small royalty with which to address his mounting medical costs.

Give us a browse, shall you?

Is it worth your minute?

The Fosterical Library has some announcements that we hope are worth a minute you’ll never get back. A new title upcoming in a month or three, and a contest!

It’s rather simple, really – guess what the upcoming new title is, based on the above photo clue, be the first to produce a “correct enough” answer, and a free gift is yours! What’s the gift? Well… it’s a free copy of said new title, that’s what!

The only deadline is the date the project becomes available.

In the meantime, enjoy the regular slew of goodreads from Fosterical Laboratories – click the link “View All Titles’ above, and browse ’till you drop!

KindleUnlimited® members can read some digital titles free!

AmazonSmile® purchases allow a donation to your favorite cause!

All your purchases provide the author a small royalty with which to address his mounting medical costs.

Written with love, for YOU. Give us a browse, won’t you?