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     There is something to be said for ongoing projects. But in order to continue anything in an "ongoing" fashion, one must satisfy the need for structure in the "project" part and that's exactly what I originally set out to do here. Extra Heroes, if you want to be very picky, started when I was just a tot in Yorktown, Virginia. But if you want to be broader, it really started in early May of 2003 when I truly started this website and posted a revised version of an old story. Even though that story was originally conceived years ago, it is fitting that it begin this entire project. It further continued with some children's stories based on a few characters I created with my then daughter-to-be in mind.

     So enter National Novel Writing Month 2004... Thanks to an aggressive push by myself and my life, I finally transported some of these ideas onto the electronic page. These characters, scenes and plot lines I have been scribbling in small notebooks for years finally were treated as they should and put into a full novel, complete with new ideas and frameworks. The series has truly been started and the continuity born.

     Some house-cleaning was in order. The novel was polished and edited to death and finally unleashed via Lulu.com. The story I posted two years before the novel has been removed from the site (it's part of a story that will come out later). It's wonderful to have such a fresh start on things, with real backstory and real timelines falling into place. I look forward to releasing more Extra Heroes material, through this site as exclusive extras and in future novels. I hope you'll come along for the ride!

-Dean Browell
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P.S. "Extra Heroes" Novel Mentioned in the Roanoke Times: Read Article Here!

P.P. S. In the the Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 edition of the Franklin News Post there is an article on Patterns & Choices and its author... Click here to read the article! A larger but easier to read version is at this link.

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     Dean Browell is a writer and designer in Ferrum, Virginia where he lives with his wife Corrine and daughter Addison Jade. He has written more than a dozen works for the stage including the one-act The Funeral Scene, which made its debut on SkewedPerspective.com. His popular online serials will be collected and released as the novel 23.

     Extra Heroes: Patterns & Choices marks his foray into the superhero genre with a series of novels for young adults.

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In California a young man slices through the sky in a red streak. In Virginia a young girl builds an android in her garage that can carry her to school. In Louisiana a woman bursts into flames. In a small town in Indiana, an entire stadium is overwhelmed with emotion thanks to one man. And in an apartment in New York, two men attempt to make contact with all of them via a list they shouldn’t have.

All over the country individuals are exposing strange and wonderful abilities to a world that may not be seeing such activity for the first time. Everyone wants a piece of their attention and assistance but they will decide for themselves what their fate will be. Misusing their power is not an option when an unexpected and deadly adversary alters the course of their lives forever.

Patterns & Choices, the first Extra Heroes novel, takes the super-hero genre out of its typical comic book element and explores themes of heroism and responsibility through surprising realism and a thoughtful, original cast of characters. Extra Heroes: Patterns & Choices is a novel for many ages (13+) by Dean Browell.

(NOTE: Extra Heroes: Patterns & Choices is for Teen Audiences and Up: Content is suitable for persons ages 13 and older. May contain mild or strong language, mild violence, and/or suggestive themes.)