Chronicles of Nowhere

by Jason Merkoski

"Vasil's temper improved for the best after he died...." That's how this book starts; like 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this book treats the chronology of a family over the generations. The family are a (true to life) nomadic group of wanderers in central Europe, from the middle of the 1700s through the modern day. It's a book in which magic is still alive, in a mysterious region called Mirror Lake. The magic fades, against the onslaught of modernity, but never dies. It's a magic which can make "peaceful" zombies and portable holes. And it's a family that sticks together, through wars, and emigrations to America. It's a book whose people still live in the era of folklore, even in modern times; it's a book of spiritual people who believe in saints you've likely never heard of. And, as always, it features the devil, though his powers wane too, as all magic wanes....

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 23, 2016

About the author

Jason Merkoski was a development manager, product manager, and the first technology evangelist at Amazon. He helped to invent technology used in today’s eBooks and was a member of the launch team for each of the first three Kindle devices. Trained in theoretical math at MIT, he worked for almost two decades in telecommunications and e-commerce with America’s biggest online retailers, and he’s worked with publishers large and small to shape the future of eBooks. As a digital pioneer, he wrote and published the first online eBook in the 1990s. As a futurist, he’s equally at home in Seattle or Silicon Valley, although he’s drawn to the high desert of New Mexico, where he can string up his hammock and stare into the clouds and ancient petroglyphs.