J. V. Osborne AKA Rottweiler

He is me. The real deal. I am John Osborne, AKA 'Rottweiler', AKA 'Dyspneic'

I have been writing and publishing on this platform and Stories online for over three years now. If you see a new cover or revision to an existing story with my real name, is it because I am updating the book that has since been published 'outside' to the mainstream audience. Can't name the platforms and venues here, but you get it.

PS-Bookapy and Z Books are still the least expensive venues for my stories, AND you will find many here that are not (and never will be) available anywhere else.

Thank you for your continued support and kind words.

JVO 'Rotty'

I know it's been a minute. Just wanted to hop on and announce that my debut novel, Below The Belt, originally published 2 years ago, has undergone an entire makeover. Over the last year, I have paid for a developmental edit and then completely revised the story, adding new characters, character arcs, and over 10,000 words. Previous purchasers should be able to download the latest version for free. Having issues with the new cover art, but hopefully can resolve it soon.

Cheers,

J. V. Osborne
AKA Rotty

It's funny the praise I get for a story in my PMs but the hell I catch from the public comments. This is the case with the final chapter of Spyders's Web. Privately, readers have told me they loved it and publicly, they abhor it.

As much as I hate doing it--I decided to rewrite Chapter 13. This will not affect you if you have already purchased the book. You will see a notice in the book description (if you already own it) that a new download is available. If you want you can save the original as a different file so that it does not get overwritten.

If you prefer the darker, sadistic story ending and haven't bought it yet you have until the publishers upload the new epub and then the book will go back online with the new lighter version.

Merry Christmas.

Rotty

I just wanted to mention that there was a very small change made to Absence (Book #1) that does not require Owners to re-download (unless you want to). Well, the entire book got a complete makeover from a grammar standpoint--but I also changed Sam's Hacker name from 'Slacker' to 'Spyder'. This will make sense once Book #3 is complete and published. It is entitled 'Spyder's Web'. You can follow along with its progress on SOL.

Thanks

Rotty

Behold my first ever published story! I was encouraged to do this by the incredible reviews of all my SOL readers, if it weren't for their patience, kind words and tons of corrections and suggestions--who knows how this story might have turned out. I will say with complete sincerity that my writing is much improved, for their efforts. I would like to take a brief moment to recognize a select few of these readers and reviewers who have been especially helpful to me:

gun97, mousepotato2, mtravellerh, & ferdelance901

Thank you so much, we have a lot more to do.

Regards,

Rotty