Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    12 Books in 12 Months?
    12 Books in 12 Months?
    12 Books in 12 Months?
    Ebook154 pages1 hour

    12 Books in 12 Months?

    By Studo Mke

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    12 Books in 12 Months? is a challenge I posed to myself. Can I put out 1 Book each month in 2018?
    12 Books in 12 Months? is a tasty sample of some of the work I'll be releasing this year and includes the introduction and first chapter of most of the books I've written thus far. It also includes two short stories from my Short Story Anthology and a couple recipes from the vegan cookbook Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk. 12 Books in 12 Months? gives readers a chance to experience the madness that is my mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStudo Mke
    Release dateJan 28, 2018
    ISBN9781370708222
    12 Books in 12 Months?
    Author

    Studo Mke

    STUD!O M!KE is a writer, musician, music producer, stand-up comic, multi-award winning artist and dreamer.

    Related to 12 Books in 12 Months?

    Related ebooks

    Literary Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Jun 30, 2023

      I WAS curious about getting into a submarine when I had to do it way back in 2005. I was sent to Mauritius to do a travel story for the women’s magazine I was working for at the time and had no idea what to expect. It took about two hours to go down

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Final Truth

      Jan 21, 2020

      The Final Truth
      5 min read

    • Article

      Morbidity & the Miniature

      May 11, 2018

      Morbidity & the Miniature
      14 min read

    • Article

      Birds Of A Feather Flock Together

      Oct 22, 2021

      Everyone’s ‘vegan awakening’ is different — for Mortimer Sparrow, it took meeting an unexpected, injured soul, to help her to see the truth. Now, Mort dedicates her time to rescuing and rehabilitating wild birds and uses her artistic talent to spread

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Symposium On The Mysterious

      Sep 1, 2023

      A Symposium On The Mysterious
      24 min read

    • Article

      Flying The Nest

      Apr 4, 2021

      Flying The Nest
      4 min read

    • Article

      Jane Goodall

      Apr 1, 2024

      Jane Goodall
      7 min read

    • Article

      Free As A Bird

      Jan 25, 2024

      Free As A Bird
      5 min read

    • Article

      Bug Off

      Jul 19, 2021

      Bug Off
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Cosmopolitan Ape: Empathy, morality, community, culture—apes can have it all!

      Apr 29, 2013

      The next time you mutter under your breath about the big gorilla in the next office, you might want to reconsider. The insult may reflect badly on you. Renowned primatologist Frans de Waal has spent decades studying chimpanzees and bonobos and found

      14 min read

    • Article

      Lying In Wait

      Jun 12, 2020

      Lying In Wait
      7 min read

    • Article

      Lying In Wait

      Jun 12, 2020

      Lying In Wait
      7 min read

    • Article

      Get That Sea Cucumber Out Of Here!

      Feb 3, 2022

      My kid came home from school yesterday and asked me if I knew what a Sea Lemon was. I told him I had no idea but that it would probably make me retch. Turns out I was right. It’s a kind of Sea Slug, yellow, green or brown, with warty lumps and feathe

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Last Word with Jonathan Weiner: The more science knows, the more rich and mysterious the world becomes.

      Nov 27, 2014

      Jonathan Weiner is one of our favorite science writers. He animates topics like evolution and genetics with personal stories about pioneer scientists that read like adventures you don’t want to end. You can go to the Galapagos Islands to marvel at bl

      6 min read

    • Article

      For The Birds

      May 28, 2021

      For The Birds
      5 min read

    • Article

      Bite Me For Science

      Mar 23, 2020

      Bite Me For Science
      2 min read

    • Article

      When The Little Owl Vanishes

      Mar 1, 2022

      When The Little Owl Vanishes
      4 min read

    • Article

      Where The Wild Things Are

      Oct 4, 2020

      Where The Wild Things Are
      2 min read

    • Article

      My Little Chickadee: I Know What He Likes Me For. But Is It Love?

      Jun 15, 2021

      Feeding one of the chickadees that nests in my yard has led to a fascinating human-animal bond. But is it love, or does he just want some mealworms?

      3 min read

    • Article

      For The Love Of Spiders

      Mar 2, 2024

      Many of us have seen friends or family react to a spider with shrieking, foot-stomping panic — we may have even been that person. But what threat does a spider pose to a comparatively huge human? Is this fear reasonable, especially in a spider-filled

      5 min read

    • Article

      Grounded

      Feb 23, 2021

      Grounded
      5 min read

    • Article

      Animal Spirit

      Jul 27, 2020

      Animal Spirit
      7 min read

    • Article

      Wisdom for The Future

      Dec 20, 2021

      Wisdom for The Future
      10 min read

    • Article

      Mycelium

      Jul 22, 2021

      Mycelium
      11 min read

    • Article

      Bug Off

      Jul 19, 2021

      Bug Off
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for 12 Books in 12 Months?

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      12 Books in 12 Months? - Studo Mke

      12 Books in 12 Months?

      12 Books in 12 Months?

      STUD!O M!KE

      The Compassion Experiment

      12 Books in 12 Months?

      STUD!O M!KE

      12 books in 12 months?

      Am I crazy or what? That is the goal though, to release one book a month, every month, during the year 2018.

      Some of the books I will release this year will include: Young Adult Fiction, Children’s Fiction, Adult Sci-fi/Fantasy, an Illustrated Novel, a Vegan Cook Book, a Short Story Anthology and a Non-Fictional musical adventure called My Wasted Youth.

      What makes this idea even crazier is that most of these books lie in an incomplete state. I’d say at least ten of them are near the finish line but this really will be a challenge and unless I put myself out the way I have, trying to make this somewhat outrageous idea a reality, none of them would probably ever see the light of day.

      They say everybody has at least one good book in them, so, I’ve decided to put out twelve books in twelve months with my fingers crossed that at least one of them is good, possibly even great.

      Twelve Books in Twelve Months? is a tasty sampling size of some of the work that I will release in 2018, to give potential readers a taste of the madness that is my mind.

      Enjoy the madness!

      STUD!O M!KE

      Table of Contents

      1. A Maggot Conspiracy :

      Young Adult - Illustrated Novel

      2. Moose and Turkey :

      Children’s Fiction

      3. The Mars Experiment Book 1 :

      Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy

      4. Lost in the Wilderness :

      Young Adult

      5. Short Story Anthology:

      Little Surfer Girl

      The Unlucky Burglar

      6. Compassionate Eating For Everyday Folk:

      Veggie Chill

      Shepherds Pie

      Carrot Ginger Soup

      Beet Risotto

      Chunky Cinnamon Applesauce

      7. My Wasted Youth:

      Non-fictional Musical Adventure

      Contents

      12 Books in 12 Months?

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      A Maggot Conspiracy

      My Name is Deegan

      Moose and Turkey

      Moose and Turkey

      Moose and Turkey

      Moose and Turkey

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      The Mars Experiment

      Lost in the Wilderness

      Lost in the Wilderness

      Short Story Anthology

      Short Story Anthology

      Short Story Anthology

      Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk

      Introduction

      Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk

      Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk

      Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk

      Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk

      Compassionate Eating for Everyday Folk

      My Wasted Youth

      Introduction

      My Wasted Youth

      My Wasted Youth

      My Wasted Youth

      My Wasted Youth

      My Wasted Youth

      My Wasted Youth

      My Wasted Youth

      About the Author

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever encouraged me to pursue my dreams, no matter how unrealistic.

      A Maggot Conspiracy

      The ideas for this story started to percolate in my brain in the year 2002, while I lay in bed, in a tiny, doorless room that I rented in a house with four other dudes.

      I spent most of my time in that house skateboarding on a half-pipe we built in the backyard and playing loud music in the basement - which was where the toilet backed-up into pretty much everyday.

      I got the idea for this story while staring up at the two giant oak trees that stood defiantly in the front yard.

      I wondered to myself: ‘What’s going on in those trees?’

      This is what I found out…

      My Name is Deegan

      Out of the corner of your eye you see them scuttling about. In nightmares they crawl all over your body and plant eggs in your throat and eyes. They bite, they buzz, they breed on your food, and they can kill you. They are everywhere and always will be. They are mighty insects and, may it be an ant, spider, hornet, or termite, these creepy-crawlies inflict more pain and death, than creatures twenty times their size.

      People blame ants for ruining their picnics. They blame termites for ruining their furniture. They blame bumble bees for suffocating their precious children. Maybe they’re right. But they are also painting a simplistic image of a diverse world that is out of sight of the average human eye.

      But that is exactly how the most vile of insects want it.

      They love secrecy, war and destruction, and anyone who stands in their way will be infected and destroyed.

      And though insects may be small, they cause painful death all over the world. And the evil ones love this, they also work hard to ensure the veil of fear and terror only few can see.

      These insects may vary in size, but you’ll rarely find one as big as a human and this frightens them. Every year, anti-human insect fundamentalists sacrifice their lives to ensure that people won’t forget the horror of a bloody insect war.

      To categorize every insect as evil and disgusting is wrong. But there are bad seeds everywhere, including in the insect world, which really isn’t all that different from the world you live in. The reality is, no one really ever looks close enough to see what really goes on down there, under the rocks, in the shadows, and anywhere that sugar can be found.

      When an insect is seen, it’s because they weren’t quick enough to escape from a heist. Most insects don’t want to be seen. They just want to be avoided. And can you blame them?

      Many children have favorite pastimes that include burning ants with a magnifying glass, pulling the legs off spiders, spraying flies with air freshener, putting firecrackers in ant compounds, and trapping grasshoppers and crickets. Indeed there are many time-honored insect-killing traditions.

      To an insect, this is insulting and considered a personal attack.

      If people don’t think karma works when it comes to killing insects, they’re seriously wrong, the repercussion being death, of course.

      Parents warn children that if they kill a spider, it will rain; the scary thing is that they aren’t that far off. When you kill a spider, it is instantly more likely that you, or someone you love, will die from complications due to repeated spider bites, or will suffocate while choking on a throat full of silken webbing.

      Insects live very tough, simple lives. For the evil ones, the one thing that they enjoy more than picnics and sweet garbage is revenge.

      They love it!

      When someone tries to swat a hornet hive with a tennis racket, they’re ready and waiting.

      But patience is definitely a virtue hornets were blessed with. They’ll wait as the teenager, stumbling from illicit substances, makes his way to a hive that he so badly needs to smash. They’ll pretend like no one is home.

      Or send out a couple drones to lure him in.

      The queen hornet always keeps a tight noose on her drones, but when the hive is threatened, it is open season on that unlucky individual.

      Hornets live for days like that, to release the frustration they have from living the confined and restrictive lifestyle that they are born into.

      Don’t feel sorry for the sad sack, swarmed by hornets on a quest for blood, because they’ve brought it on themselves . Of course they tell the doctor who treats their injuries that they don’t know how it possibly could have happened.

      Insects have no pity for a race that has no pity for theirs.

      Humans and insects are constantly at war, and a deadly and brilliant insect war collective has been watching and planning, and this could prove disastrous - for creatures far and wide.

      As hard as it might be to believe what I’m saying, it has proven to be true.

      Killer bees are just the first in a line of hybrid insects that have given up trying to hide their great hate for humans, we call them insect fundamentalists.

      Forget your insecticide, citronella and mosquito coils. When these insects arrive, RUN!

      They are quick and ruthless, and soon it will be too late, so keep your eyes peeled.

      Words are just words, of course I recognize this.

      And without evidence, who is going to believe me?

      People will continue to slaughter insects without remorse.

      And now more than ever, they need to stop it before it is too late.

      For everyone’s sake, let’s just hope it is not too late already!

      I can see this coming because I am closer to their world, than yours.

      I am warning people because things have to change, and I am destined to be a part of that change.

      I have always wanted to live in a world where insects, humans and

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1