[Last Updated: May 9, 2023] You can find me and my works across the web. I’ve collected several links to my works and listed them below. A list of links to the sites of other people I think highly of is included at the bottom of the page.
Products
The Head Hoppers GameLit/LitRPG five-books series by MK Eidson (myself) and Emila H Thicke is complete for Kindle, available now on Amazon. The first three books are available in print, also now on Amazon, and as epub books in other online bookstores. The last two novels in the series, while currently available for Amazon Kindle, are undergoing additional proofreading before we take them to print. We’ve found a few items to correct, and we’ll update the Kindle versions once all desired corrections have been made. Print and epub versions of the last two volumes will be available July 1, 2023.
The Head Hoppers speculative fiction series features time travel, alternate realities, ghosts, nanobots, and role-playing game characters come to life, as well as inter-dimensional alien invaders, a planet-busting spaceship, and, of course, people hopping into other people’s heads. I plan to eventually create a page on this site dedicated to the series, so watch for that in the coming months.
Here’s a link to a page for The Longest Survivor, the first volume in the series, to get you started; the page links to several online stores, so perhaps your favorite will be among them.
Here’s the promotional video I created for The Longest Survivor, with musical score by Max Gumdrop. Note that the cover art for The Longest Survivor has changed since this video was released.
Co-authored with Dave Eidson, Huntress of Avaleor is a science fiction novella of low tech wits versus high tech machinations. The story is available in Kindle, epub, pdf, print, and audiobook formats. This story is my first foray into audiobook format. It’s an expensive proposition, and it’s doubtful I’ll do any more audiobooks in the near future.
I also create puzzle books. I’ve written software that generates the puzzles, verifies their solutions as being unique, checks for accidental occurrences of bad words within the puzzles that use letters, and generates the PDF files containing the laid-out puzzles. Some of these puzzle books are available as softcover paperbacks and some as print-and-play PDFs. The paperbacks are available on Amazon, where you can find them on my Amazon Author page. The PDFs are available on the Eposic storefront on DriveThruFiction. One of the puzzle books on DriveThruFiction is available as “Pay What You Want,” which means you can get it for free if you like, and then “buy it again” if you feel it’s worth something to you.
I have free samplers of puzzles on my publisher site, eposic.com. The download links are below. Full puzzle instructions are included in these samplers.
Download a free sampler of 16 Letter Search Maze puzzles.
Download a free sample booklet of 16 number search maze puzzles.
Download a free sample of 8 phrase word search puzzles.
Enchantment Chess by MK Eidson and Dave Eidson is available on Amazon and DriveThruRPG. It’s kind of like chess, but uses more pieces, including the multi-square Dragons. It allows the use of “enchantments” within the game, as the title suggests. If you like chess alternatives, it’s worth checking out. Dave and I invented the game decades ago and have thoroughly tested it.
Also check out the Eposic store on DriveThruRPG for some pay-what-you-want stock art of a fantasy nature.
I’m a member of Max Gumdrop, an electronic music group. None of us sing, so all the voices are sampled, altered, and/or arranged digitally. Our first album is Antiviral. We’re working on more tracks, though it will still be a while before we have another official release. But the latest track, Won’t Have Your Love, is on YouTube. Check out the Max Gumdrop artist channel on YouTube for other videos.
Check out Max Gumdrop on Bandcamp for the highest musical quality versions of our tracks. The entire album is available there for only $2 USD, and includes a bonus PDF we aren’t offering anywhere else.
The official music video for Don’t Get It Twisted, from our first album, features some animation I did, with an attempt to sync the words to the movement of the lips of the animated characters. It isn’t easy to do. Some of it turned out decently well. Apologies for the repetition of dance moves, especially in the beginning of the video. I was going for subtle changes at first, to become more obvious later, but it’s probably too subtle in the beginning, which may make it a bit tedious for the casual observer. If I were doing this video again, I’d make other choices. I’d like to think I’ve learned a few things from my mistakes over the past few years. 🙂
My Other Web Sites
Eposic.com – My publishing business site. The site needs revising. I can’t keep placing all the products on the home page.
Trollmystic.com – This has become a hodge-podge of posts ranging over any number of topics that happened to strike my fancy in the moment. There are a good deal of music-related posts over there, but also some open source JavaScript code for rolling dice; a T&T character generator; generators for magical effects, character personalities, and events suitable for plot lines in RPGs or stories; a text adventure online game; and maybe more you’ll find of interest.
Ethereality – I started a Wix site, and Ethereality was the result. I like Wix, except their process to create a site just takes too long, and I’m too impatient for it. But I’ve kept what I did, and a bunch of my 3D artwork is organized there, making it relatively easy to browse. There’s artwork there I haven’t posted anywhere else on the web. Go ahead and take a look, but note that some of the artwork there displays female nipples, so take that into consideration when you visit the site.
Something Smells Flowery – My free-to-read GameLit/LitRPG serial on Royal Road. I haven’t plotted it, but have a decent idea of how it will end. Posting one chapter of about 2K-3K words each week, typically posting it late Sunday or early Monday. Except that… I’m not actively posting there now. Not since I was struck with vertigo some time back. I do plan on returning to the story, but not before I finish up everything on the Head Hoppers series.
MonstersMonsters.org – Not exactly “my” website, but I did set it up and am the guy they turn to when issues or questions arise. The two main peeps behind the scenes there are Ken St. Andre and Steve Crompton. In response to the Dungeons and Dragons game, Ken created his own role-playing game, Tunnels and Trolls (T&T), back in the 70s. T&T has gone through several iterations since then. Ken lost his rights to T&T, but he has his other game, Monsters! Monsters!, that he actively produces product for now. Steve writes fiction and comic books, and is a fantastic artist. I’ve done other work for Ken and Steve, including creating a DAZ 3D digital model of Demi the Demoness, which has been put to use for decorating book covers and for animations in promotional videos.
More YouTube
The below video is a bit dated, but it uses the Demi character, as well as another character I created in DAZ Studio. I didn’t bother trying to make lip movements for the voice-overs in this video, as that would have made the video take much longer to produce and thus make it more expensive. Steve provided me audio files for the main voice in the video, but didn’t have anything for Demi’s voice, so I used a computer-generated voice for her. Some people commented that we should have hired voice actors, but they’re expensive, and would probably have cost Steve more than he paid me to do everything else for the video. The music in this project was not by Max Gumdrop.
Here’s an earlier promotional video I did for Steve that also uses Demi. The voice-overs used for Demi in this video are much better quality, because he had hired a voice artist to do them beforehand, not knowing exactly what he’d do with them. We put them to use in the video.
You’ll notice there’s a good deal of repetition in this video, to keep its production within budget. Generating these animations can be quite time-consuming. I generated sequences of the same movement from different camera angles, to make it seem less repetitious than it is.
In addition to the Max Gumdrop artist channel, I have two other YouTube channels. My Michael K. Eidson channel contains personal videos, which you’re welcome to watch if you want to kill some time.
The MK Eidson channel is for my creative pursuits, such as book promo videos and music videos for songs by artists other than Max Gumdrop. I posted a video for a Grimes song, with her permission, which I thought was way cool, even if someone decided to give it a thumbs down. You know you’re reaching more people when not everyone likes what you’ve done.
After my first Grimes video, I decided I wanted to do another one, this time without the use of DAZ Studio, which I used in the above video to create the 3D characters and scenes. Using DAZ Studio to create 3D material takes so much effort, and I wanted to do something quicker. I also modified the audio for the song in the second video.
Alexx Calise gave me permission to post an experimental video I made by doctoring up a live video capture of a Batfarm performance. It’s pretty basic video editing stuff, but at the time, it was a cool learning experience.
Social Media Sites
Facebook fan page – I’ve posted a good deal of my artwork on my Facebook fan page. Click to see all photos, as the photos posted there are primarily my digital renders. I belong to a number of Facebook groups focused on my particular interests, and once was fairly active in some of them. I’ve been a bit absent from Facebook lately, as I’ve been so preoccupied with other things. Some people are probably wondering if I’m still alive…. 🙂
Twitter profile – I sometimes post art on Twitter, but if a piece of art is there, it’s probably on Facebook too. My engagements with people on Twitter tend to be less focused on what I’m into creatively, and are more broad in nature. I try to steer clear of political and other triggering conversations on Twitter. I save my thoughts and opinions on sensitive issues to explore them more broadly in a fictional setting.
Goodreads – I have two Goodreads profiles, a reader profile using my full name, Michael K. Eidson, and an author profile under my pen name, MK Eidson. I’m not often on Goodreads, though I do sometimes update the site with my reads on the reader profile, and I try to keep the author profile updated with my published fiction books.
Linked In – I’m not terribly active on Linked In, but there might be a few tidbits of info posted there about me that you won’t find anywhere else.
Burrst – I joined Burrst back in 2013, I believe. After posting a trio of shorts, I stopped posting, but those three shorts are still there, and will stay there as long as the site remains online and doesn’t delete them. I haven’t updated my Burrst profile since 2013, and kinda think I won’t, to keep what’s there for posterity.
Kindred Web Sites
Check out the sites of a few other people I admire.
Emila H Thicke – She’s my co-author for the Head Hoppers GameLit/LitRPG series, of which The Longest Survivor is only the beginning. While I’m working on some other projects, she’s the one currently putting time in on the sequel, working to extend and modify an outline I started. I’ll be able to give the project some of my attention soon, I hope.
Creative Writing with the Crimson League – The site for Victoria Grefer, author of the Crimson League series of fantasy books. The book is full of magic, which I love. She released the original series about a decade ago. The revised version is set to be released in June 2023. I created the map of Herezoth she used inside the book. She seemed very pleased with it, as did her publisher.
Batfarm – I’m a long time fan of Alexx Calise, and love promoting her work. Check out the music of her band! She also has done solo work, which is how I first became a fan.
Ozarkbluefox – The YouTube channel for my cousin, Dave Eidson. He also creates music. When we were youngsters, I never knew he was that much into music. He’s turned out quite a number of tunes over the years.
Willfully and Persistently – Christina Lea allowed me to include one of her stories in The Book of Exodi, an anthology I published under my Eposic imprint way back in 2009. Some of my work was published in Troll Tunnels, an anthology from her company, Peryton Publishing. Amusingly, both anthologies are out of print now. Isn’t it amusing? Some day I’ll publish reprints of my stories from both anthologies.
Feath.com – A site with generators for all sorts of things, Feath.com is one of the few sites on the web that still links to either of my eposic.org / eposic.com domains. [Last time I tried to visit this site, I was sad to find I couldn’t. Not sure, but it might be defunct now.]
Katie Cross – One of my favorite authors of young adult fantasy novels involving magic and dragons. Yes, I still read young adult fantasy novels. They aren’t as juvenile or as simple as some people may think. Some of them are more mature and complex than many novels targeted at adult readers.
That’s all for now. Cheers!