The Conspiracy of the Ravens

by Nelson McKeeby

Overview

His brain destroyed by epilepsy and his body wracked with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, an author sits down to pen his last book.

It's a tale of Rains-a-Lot, the warrior who ate Thomas Custer's heart; Ivy d' Seille, a child soldier and veteran of the French Resistance; Dr. Kelle Brainerd, holder of three Ph.D.s in Reality Physics; and a purple 1957 Chevy concealing the spirit of a New Orleans Macumba from the 19th century as they run into a wizard, a shadowy Company, and a whole bunch of ravens.

But no story is just a story, and our author isn't just an author.

The reviewers are raving about the War of the Ravens series.

"...ten pounds of crazy in a five pound sack." - A famous musician who refused to give her name.

"...everything that is wrong with the 420 movement." -an anonymous Iowan politician.

"You will never publish this crap in a million years..."- A writing professor in New England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823202336
Publisher:	4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	12/10/2023
Series:	War of the Ravens , #1
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Nelson McKeeby was born with autism and severe epilepsy in Spirit Lake, Iowa to a navy officer and a grade school teacher in the 1960s. He dropped out of high school at age sixteen and was told he was not suitable for formal education due to his handicaps. Seeking some form of employment he fell into a career as a television director specializing in fashion merchandizing and later became a commercial producer and an engineer.In his youth Nelson developed a range of hobbies that included hitchhiking - where he traveled across America, Mexico and the length of the Appalachian trial; role playing games; writing, and taking college courses for fun since he was not allowed to enroll full-time. In 1995 though he earned an accidental bachelors degree from a New England college, and followed it up with a Masters degree and a Masters of Fine Arts. He has at times found employment as a college professor, television producer, an engineer, a user interface designer, and as a professional writer. He served as a deputy sheriff and as a senior producer for the Department of Justice Office of Legal Education. He has also founded and lead technology research centers and worked with grant writing.Nelson has a long history of writing strange things, from role playing games to video manuals on how to prosecute terrorists. He also works with extending human capabilities with robotics in creative media, social media analysis for marketing, and in a range of digital to analog technologies.Nelson works extensively with neurodiversity and believes that many diverse mental courses from PTSD to autism are natural ways that the human species uses diverse cognition to survive troubled times. Instead of being handicaps, he considers many of them as super powers which may not result in the easiest or more comfortable life for the person who has them, but that is beneficial to the social group as a whole.