Typo Squad
Typo Squad Book 1
by Stephen Lomer
by Stephen Lomer
Genre: Action, Adventure
Typos are lethal to 98% of the population. Be thankful Typo Squad is on patrol …
Richard Shonnary was a Typo Squad legend. He had a gift for seeking out and destroying errorist cells, and was almost single handedly responsible for bringing about the end of errorism. But one night, a single errant bullet fired by his brother prematurely ended his career.
Convinced to come out of self-imposed retirement after five years, Richard unknowingly gives rise to his greatest enemy — Anton Nym. Will he and his new partner be able to stop this latest threat before deadly typos are unleashed upon an unwitting world?
Return of the Wordmonger
Typo Squad Book 2
The quest to find Anton Nym and his errorist army are put on hold as Typo
Squad is called away to London to help one of their own confront a
villain from his past — a mysterious foe known only as the Wordmonger.
Joining forces with Her Majesty’s Royal Typo Brigade, Typo Squad takes up
residence in Buckingham Palace to try and draw out this dangerous madman.
With the lives of the royal family in their hands, will Typo Squad be up
to the challenge of finding and capturing the Wordmonger? Or will
history repeat itself?
Squad is called away to London to help one of their own confront a
villain from his past — a mysterious foe known only as the Wordmonger.
Joining forces with Her Majesty’s Royal Typo Brigade, Typo Squad takes up
residence in Buckingham Palace to try and draw out this dangerous madman.
With the lives of the royal family in their hands, will Typo Squad be up
to the challenge of finding and capturing the Wordmonger? Or will
history repeat itself?
The Typo Alliance
The Typo Squad Book 3
Typos are lethal to 98% of the population. Be thankful typo squad is on patrol …
Typo Squad is dealt a terrible blow by Anton Nym and his new errorist
cell, known as the Erristocracy. But when all seems lost, the tide
turns with the rise of the Typo Alliance.
With a new headquarters, a new captain, and the arrival of some truly
unexpected allies, Typo Squad is set on a collision course with the
most dangerous foes they’ve ever faced.
Will Dick and his team be able to overcome the odds and make the world
safe from typos once and for all? Or will Nym and his inner circle be
victorious in the end?
Typo Squad is dealt a terrible blow by Anton Nym and his new errorist
cell, known as the Erristocracy. But when all seems lost, the tide
turns with the rise of the Typo Alliance.
With a new headquarters, a new captain, and the arrival of some truly
unexpected allies, Typo Squad is set on a collision course with the
most dangerous foes they’ve ever faced.
Will Dick and his team be able to overcome the odds and make the world
safe from typos once and for all? Or will Nym and his inner circle be
victorious in the end?
What Do You Do When You’ve Got
No Genre?
by Stephen Lomer
Ah, how I envy romance
authors. And sci-fi authors. And horror authors. And fantasy authors. Authors
of any genre, really.
I can’t even imagine what it
must be like to upload your book to amazon and have amazon ask you “What genre
is this?” and be able to click the drop-down menu and say definitively, “This
one!”
When authors first start out,
the first piece of advice that’s almost universally proffered is “Pick a
winning genre and stick with it.” And that makes perfect sense. It’s the best
way to make money as an author. You can join all sorts of writing support
groups that focus on that genre. And it helps you stay in your lane.
Unfortunately for me, when I
started out, nobody said diddly to me about genre. I knew the novel I wanted to
write. It was Typo Squad. I was going to write it and that was that.
When I finished Typo Squad,
I was really happy with it. It was good. It was unique. It said exactly what
I’d wanted it to say. So I said, “Here you go, amazon. Sell this for me, would
you? There’s a nice unfeeling billon-dollar corporation.”
And, of course, amazon said to
me, “What genre is this?”
And I had no idea.
The overarching theme of it
was humor. So was humor the genre? No, not exactly. I mean, it wasn’t Totally
Tasteless Jokes Volume III or a Dilbert collection. So then I
thought, “Well, in addition to being funny, there’s also action and adventure
in it.” But then, wouldn’t you know it? Action and Adventure are two different
genres.
So I started digging deeper.
Typo Squad is set in a world where typos are lethal to 98% of the population.
Therefore, it’s set in a different reality. Would that make it fantasy then? No,
because then it would be lumped in with swords and dragons and whatnot. Would
it technically be sci-fi? A parallel universe? No, I think the sci-fi fans
would reject it outright.
What was my poor little book?
Ultimately, with “alternate
reality typo adventure” not being a genre – yet – I categorized it under humor.
Is that hurting the book? Helping it? I have no idea.
But to all you authors just
starting out on your journey, I will say this – look at the genre options on
amazon and pick one before you start. You will thank me.
Stephen Lomer is the Amazon best-selling author of the hugely popular Typo Squad book series, the short story collections Stargazer Lilies or Nothing at All and Hell's Nerds and Other Tales, and the holiday novella Belle's Christmas Carol. He also has featured stories in the anthologies UnCommon Evil, Once Upon a Time in Gravity City, and The Dystopian States of America.
Stephen wrote the screenplay for, and starred in, the short film Typo Squad: Words Can Hurt You, and is the host of the YouTube series Tell Me About Your Damn Book. He's a hardcore fan of the Houston Texans, despite living in the Hub of the Universe his whole life, and believes Mark Twain was correct about pretty much everything.
Stephen lives on Boston's North Shore with his wife, Teresa.
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