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What do you get when you throw The Lord of the Rings, Catch-22, Monty Python, and Hunter S. Thompson into a blender? An epic fantasy novel that goes to 11.Low-level adventurer Elberon of the Isles has a problem. Through a chance encounter with a mysterious woman, he's come into possession of a horned skull that keeps screaming at him - and whenever it screams, it summons hordes of monsters to kill him.Even worse, this screaming skull may in fact be the very skull of the Deathless One, the dark wizard who last appeared five hundred years ago to conquer the Free Kingdoms. Can Elberon and his friends learn the secret of the Screaming Skull before the evil forces arrayed against them can kill him dead? And more importantly, where can a simple fighter get a stiff drink around here? The Screaming Skull is the first volume of the epic and hilarious heavy-metal fantasy trilogy The Chronicles of Elberon.
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Rick Ferguson is a globally recognized marketing expert with appearances in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Fast Company, the Globe & Mail in Canada, the Guardian in the United Kingdom, the Financial Times in India, MSNBC, and the Fox Business Channel. He has delivered keynote speeches on marketing principles and best practices on six continents. He is also a master of time, space, and dimension. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Allison, son Ian, and cat Penny.Rick writes fantasy fiction inspired by classics of the genre as well as by absurdist and post-modern authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and Tom Robbins. When he's not writing, you can find him raging Page-side at a Phish concert, hiking in the wilderness with his family, or at the local dive bar.Connect with him via his website at www.phabulousity.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RickFergusonAuthor/ and on Twitter @phabulous65.
