Tom Merritt works in Web content both video, audio and written.
"Thanks for checking in on the things I wrote. Boiling Point was written a long long time ago, so varies considerably from United Moon Colonies. UMC was written for National Novel Writing Month 2006, and is still in draft status."
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2007 Aug 20 I'm trying something out here, by putting the draft edition of United Moon Colonies up here in a draft edition. I still plan to do some editing but figured what the heck. So you can follow the adventures of President Richard Chong, his trusty aide Lawrence, and the sultry Speaker Malinao as they fight the Fundys. Go ahead, it's fun!
2006 Jul 09 I'm very excited that Boiling Point is now in print. It was published once before in 1999 by CrossroadsPub.com on the Web. Unfortunately it was only up on the Web for a few months before the company went out of business. The work lay dormant until Roger Chang mentioned it on our podcast, East Meets West. One of the listerns asked what the book was about, and it inspired me to pull it out. Then another listener mentioned Lulu as a place to self-publish for free. So I figured what the heck. I got the document out, formatted it for Lulu and gave it an edit. This version is a little tighter than the previous e-version. I still feel the first half is less polished than the second half. I also found a few continuity errors that I've corrected. Some things have happened over the life of the book that I have had to adapt to. The ubiquity of cell phones made me change the language around the calls the characters made. No longer do they search for phones, but rather just move away from the crowd to make a call. The Internet has actually grown into its role in the book as I originally projected it when I started the work in 1993. The spookiest of these adjustments I didn't make. In the 1997 version I added a scene where two characters go to a bar in a bad part of New Orleans. It's a part that never recovered after the "fire of '05'. I was very tempted to change it to flood but I couldn't. It was spooky enough that I predicted a diaster in New Orleans in '05, so I left it. There were some fires in New Orleans last year so maybe one of them spared the bar that will some day become 'The Slowdown.' I realise there are too many characters in this book and too many plotlines but the book is done so I hope you can thread your way through them and still enjoy the world. I may return to the world someday. I have a chronology for it that goes well beyond the end of Boiling Point. The separate countries begin to consolidate and take their places on the world stage. The treatment of that history predicts that Iraq becomes part of Texas. That plotline also seems to be growing into itself in real life a bit. Anyway, I can't wait to see the real print version of Boiling Point arrive in print in a week or two. --Tom 
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Print: $11.95 When the US goes broke, the states break loose and people across the country get caught in the chaos. The Lakota rise up in the north and Texas breaks free in the south. Meanwhile, Steve just wants to get back to Illinois with his love life intact. Mack, an Ozark militia member doesn't want his friend to sign up but knows they can't succeed without him. And a Texas Congressman struggles with his conscience and a manipulative Governor. Can the country stay together? Can the people?
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Print: $11.95 Download: $0.50 Richard Chong just led the United Moon Colonies to victory over the Fundamentalist Union, or Fundys, saving Earth from a totalitarian madman. Now as the Moon finally gains respect on it's parent planet, a new madman wants to kill Chong. But it's not all about the President. They have an even more insidious plot to rule both worlds and bring the Fundys back for good.
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