The Ringmaster's Interview (The Ringmaster Series)

Product Description Stefan Hannberg is a food and entertainment critic. By all accounts he leads a comfortable, yet unremarkable life. Well-liked by his establishments and peers the last thing he’s looking for is adventure or excitement. Finding a scroll on his desk inviting him to meet with the Ringmaster was about to change everything and not just for him, but the world. From the Inside Flap

Also by Colin C. Martin

(The Ringmaster Series)

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The Ringmaster's

Interview

Colin C. Martin

Copyright © 2019 Colin C. Martin

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced inany form or by electronic or mechanical means, including information storageand retrieval systems without permission in writing from the author, except byreviewers who may quote brief passages in a review.

Published September 2019 ISBN: 9798686487123

This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, allthe names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book areeither the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner.Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purelycoincidental.

Cover art by Dave Lipscomb

Chapter images provided by Pixabay

I'd like to dedicate thiswork to M.R. Stover who sadly passed away in 2019. Mat you were an inspiration,it was your example that provided me with the motivation to pick up the penmyself. This has been a fascinating and wonderful since we first started tocollaborate and build a friendship. I'll do my best to keep your legacy aliveas you gave your time and effort to help me create mine.

I miss you buddy, rest inpower

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Firstly I'd like to thank MatStover and Rick Powell. Your storytelling has been an inspiration and hasawakened something inside me. Thank you also for taking the time to readthrough the initial drafts of this work pointing out my many, many mistakes. Wegot there in the end.

To Dave Lipscomb thank youfor providing your artwork and helping to bring life to my creation.

To everyone who hascollaborated with me in the past and continues to do so with my creativeendeavours, thank you.

I'd like to also thank myfamily and close friends for sticking with me. I always have been and alwayswill be a weirdo! This is something I will never apologise for. I've been builtdifferently from the start, however I don't think that is much of a surprise toyou. Just know that I'm always aiming to live life to the fullest andappreciate you being in it.

FORWARD

The Satanic Players Society was a podcast that ran between October2014 and December 2019. When I first came up with the idea the last thing Iimagined was that six years later I'd be writing my first novella. This wasmeant to be a one off fun segment paying homage to old time radio dramas.However as the podcast progressed and the Travelling Sideshow of the Macabrecame into being I started toying with the idea of bringing these characters tolife in their own story.

Originally I'd planned to write a mockumentary type of radio dramaand have the actors portray their avatars in an amusing manner and generallyhaving a laugh. I tried a couple of times to create the script, but nothingcame of it. Anyways another idea started bubbling up to the surface as timewent on and the framework for this story began to appear. When Dave Lipscombstarted drawing and providing the artwork for each of the troupes characteravatars this really made we want to tell a story about them.

This time around when I put pen to paper the words came so mucheasier. I'd find myself carrying a notebook around and jotting ideas downduring my breaks. Two years later this publication came into being. I hope thatyou enjoy the finished result.

THE INVITATION

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