Blog Tour {Interview & Giveaway} Murder in the Dog Park/Dog Spelled Backwards by Jill Yesko

 

Ms. Yesko is skilled as a writer… ~rantin’ ravin and reading

Great series, well-written and very entertaining. Four Stars! ~Mommasez

Murder in the Dog Park

Mystery

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: Baxter World Publishing (May 28, 2012)

ISBN-13: 978-0985485207

File Size: 242 KB

Print Length: 128 pages

ASIN: B00A10IU7O

Synopsis

Discovering a brutally murdered boy in a rainy dog park sends misanthropic private detective Jane Ronson on a journey through Baltimore’s gritty underbelly. Aided by a sexy cop, a bad-ass bull terrier, and an only-in-Baltimore cast of characters, Jane must use her computer-hacking and street-fighting skills to save her only family member from being framed as the killer.

Dog Spelled Backwards: An Unholy Mystery

Mystery

Paperback: 210 pages

Publisher: Baxter World Publishing (August 17, 2013)

ISBN-13: 978-0985485214

File Size: 1355 KB

Print Length: 118 pages

ASIN: B00FDXQVO8

Synopsis

Private investigator Jane Ronson suffers from oppositional defiant disorder, the uncontrollable urge to punch first then ask questions later. When a rabbi with a shady past offers her a bag of cash to spy on a rival rabbi, Jane jumps at the chance to make what think will be easy money. To get her cash, Jane impersonates an Orthodox Jewish woman and infiltrates a black market kidney ring in Baltimore’s Orthodox community. Between Russian gangsters and double crosses, Jane is number one on everyone’s hit list. To save her life, she forms an alliance with a religious woman and confronts a family.

 

About This Author

Jill Yesko’s 20+ year writing career has included stints as a sport writer, NPR commentator and investigative reporter. She’s written about everything from body piercing to human pyramids in Spain. After a solo trek around the world, Jill was profiled as an “adventurous traveler” in O, the Oprah magazine. Before becoming a writer, Jill was a national-class cyclist and graduate and cartographer. A New Jersey native, Jill now patrols Baltimore’s dog parks with her basset hound.

Interview

Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.

Seeing my books displayed in Barnes & Noble’s “favorite” section. I had to convince my friends that I didn’t secretly put the books there! I was also interviewed on the local NPR station. I’m still waiting for Laura Lippmann to ask me over for coffee--that would really be a highlight.

What’s one piece of advice you would give aspiring authors?

First drafts don’t have to be perfect. The temptation to self-edit and self-critique is a writer’s worst knee-jerk reflex. Just get something down then edit it later.

A word about reviews--good and bad. In the digital age is too easy for everyone to be critic (and an anonymous one at that). Be prepared for bad reviews. It doesn’t mean you’re not a good writer, it just means your work didn’t resonate with someone. Even though nobody likes stinky reviews, if the criticism is valid, you need to own up to it.

Which authors have influenced you most and how?

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy helped me understand that you can write a successful, compelling, and fantastic story that has major flaws. If you’ve read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo you know that there are whole sections that are a chore to get through. But you don’t dwell on them because the other 90% of the book is so darn good. I’m also a big fan of Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, and Andre DuBus III—men who write terrific genre fiction with an attitude.

What’s your favorite season/weather?

Summer solstice is the happiest time. The world is bathed in endless light with just the tiniest chill of spring still in the air. Even though the days get shorter after this crescendo, the whole luscious summer is ahead of you.

What TV show/movie/book do you watch/read that you’d be embarrassed to admit?

There are so many, must I pick just one? OK, now you’ll see what a shallow person I really am....I devour People magazine while at the dentist or in line at the supermarket. I developed a taste for gossip rags early on. I remember reading Photoplay magazine in the 1960s while waiting for my mother to get her hair done in a beehive at the hair salon in suburban New Jersey.

Favorite smell?

I love smoky campfires. They remind me of when I lived in Mexico and there was always a small wood fire being tended--usually with something delicious cooking.

What is something people would be surprised to know about you?

That I am a huge fan of heavy metal music and that I adore Will Ferrell movies. Sometimes I think I am a 12-year-old boy trapped in a 55-year-old woman’s body.

Happiest moment in your life so far?

Hiking in the Canary Islands I met a goat shepherd. This took place during a year I spend traveling solo halfway around the world. We chatted about this and that as his flock milled around us. I felt incredibly peaceful and at one with the world.

Any other books in the works? Goals for future projects?

I am pecking away at the concluding novel in my Dog Park series. After that I’ll got back to nonfiction. I want to write an expose about doping during the 1984 summer Olympics. It’s an open secret that many of the cyclists used blood boosting and other semi-legal techniques in the lead up and during the Olympics. Believe me, it didn’t all start with Lance Armstrong!

Author of Murder in the Dog Park and Dog Spelled Backwards: An Unholy Mystery www.murderinthedogpark.com.

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Blog Tour {Interview & $25 Giveaway} BURNOUT by Teresa Trent



The mystery is a real page-turner that will keep you guessing until the very end. And the small-town characters are a hoot. ~Traci Andrighetti’s Blog

Teresa is a new author to me… I like how she paints the town and the people in your mind so vividly. ~Shelley’s Book Case

Burnout (Pecan Bayou Series)

Cozy Mystery

E-Book File Size: 895 KB

Print Length: 202 pages

ASIN: B00ISDZK8S

Synopsis

It’s November in Pecan Bayou, Texas and while the town is getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday a deadly fire breaks out at the newspaper office. When Rocky, the editor is nowhere to be found, Betsy refuses to believe he has perished in the fire. The entire town is coming down with the stomach flu and Betsy must deal with her husband’s new found celebrity as an on-air weatherman filling in for and under-the-weather Hurricane Hal . Leo loves all the attention he’s getting, especially from the sexy administrative assistant who works at the station. Is their new marriage in trouble already? Find out in the fifth book of the Pecan Bayou Mystery Series. All the characters you’ve come to know and love are back and you’ll find plenty of the Happy Hinter’s recipes and tips included at the end of the book.

Book Excerpt

An hour later, Tyler and I walked into the Harvest Dance with our arms full of every baked item we could get our hands on from the grocery store. The tables were already covered in sparkling autumn colored table cloths with tasteful pumpkin and scarecrow centerpieces. It was stunning, and I hated to plop a box of Tasteeo Cupcakes on top of it all.

Phyllis, dressed in a mustard turtleneck with a maroon silk scarf tied around her neck approached. “What is this?” Her face turned white, and then was replaced with a complimentary fall color of scarlet red.

“Uh…” I stammered. “I had a little difficulty with the pumpkin squares, but you know kids. They’ll eat anything sweet, right?”

I waited for her to reassure me, but she seemed to be at a loss for words.

“You want me to open up these boxes, Betsy?” Tyler asked.

“Yes, if you would. I’m sure Mrs. Hamlin has lovely plates for us to put these on.”

Phyllis gritted her teeth and turned toward Tyler. “There are some paper plates over there.”

She turned back to me and took hold of my arm squeezing tightly on my bicep with her tastefully manicured nails.

“I specifically told you to make the pumpkin squares. If I wanted a hodge podge of junk food I would have simply stopped down at the Circle K Convenience store.”

Another mother stepped by with her freshly groomed son in tow. “Lovely tables Phyllis,” she said with a little wave.

“Thank you Shelley. We work very hard to make it a wonderful experience for our children.” Somehow I knew she wasn’t including me in that statement.

“I tried to make the pumpkin squares, but we’ve had flu at our house, and … I lost track of time, and they burnt.”

 “Then why didn’t you just make another batch?”

 “There’s not a can of pumpkin left in the entire town.”

 “Yes, there is. I have four cans of pumpkin in my pantry. All you had to do was call me.”

The principal walked by. “Beautiful job, Mrs. Hamlin. Don’t know what we’d do without you.”

Free on Kindle: Burnout (Pecan Bayou Series)

 

About The Author

Biography

Teresa Trent writes her Pecan Bayou Mystery Series from Houston, Texas. With a father in the army, her family moved often finally settling in Colorado. Living in Texas for the last 18 years she loves the people and even the weather. Teresa includes Danny, a character with Down Syndrome in her Pecan Bayou family and in real life is the mother of an adult son with Down Syndrome/PDD. Creating the character of Danny and all of the other inhabitants of Pecan Bayou has been a joy for her. Even though she lives in the big city, her writing is influenced by all of the interesting people she finds in small towns and the sense of family that seems to be woven through them all.

Interview

How much of a story did you have in mind before you started writing?

Because I'm writing a series, I usually know at the end of the last book what I want to have happen in the next book. With that in mind, I begin thinking about interesting characters and situations I want to work into the book. I write many drafts of my books and continually move around characters, ideas and scenes. It's NEVER right the first time and often the second.

Can you tell us what genre you write?

I write cozy mysteries. A cozy is different other forms of mystery like hardboiled detective fiction or thrillers. Cozies usually have small towns filled with loveable characters who struggle to solve a mystery with some elements of humor along the way.

How (or when) do you decide that you are finished writing a story?

It's like having children-you just know when you're done. Really, though, I try to make sure that I have resolved all of my plot lines and that I'm happy with my beginning and ending. Each one has a job to do. I also want to have at least one belly laugh and one scene that makes me cry.

What are you working on right now?

I have a book in second draft  that is not a mystery. I love the show Project Runway and have been working on a book about the struggles of a normal person competing among the divas. Because I'm a little out of my comfort zone, my habit of turning a story upside down is pretty rampant right now. After that, I start my sixth Pecan Bayou mystery and yes, I know what I want to happen in this book!

At what age did you discover your love of writing?

I think it was in my twenties, but I wasn't very serious or disciplined about it. When I really started studying the structure of a novel and working my ideas into that structure, my writing grew into the way I write today.

What was the first story that you wrote?

I know I should know this, but I'm not sure. My first attempts at writing often ended up in the trash.

When were you first published? How were you discovered?

I was published in local magazines and a few national things but getting discovered was another matter. Like many authors, I submitted work to publishers and agents for years and couldn't break in to traditional publishing. I guess you could say the readers discovered me. I became in Indie Author and have been tickled to pink to be in the top 100 of Amazon's cozy mystery list several times in the past few years (often beating out the traditional publishers who rejected me).

What is the most difficult part of the whole writing process?

Revising. It's easy to shoot out a story the first time, but then you see problems. You fix that, and then you see you've created another problem. I write in Scrivener and have this little "honey do" or should I say "writer do" list on the side.

What writer influences you the most?

There are so many! Probably Agatha Christie is the person I study. Sometimes I like to dissect her stories. I love the way all of her characters have a connection and how she masterfully weaves it all together.

Where can people learn more about you?

They can visit my website at www.teresatrent.com or follow me on Facebook Teresa Trent and Twitter Teresa Trent @ttrent_cozymys

Is there anything else you’d like to tell us about yourself?

I just want to thank you for some great questions! Burnout is the fifth book in my series, so here are the first four if your readers want to catch up on the life of Betsy Livingston and the town of Pecan Bayou.

#1 A Dash of Murder

#2 Overdue for Murder

#3 Doggone Dead

#4 Buzzkill

#5 Burnout

I am also releasing Mystery Road, a free collection of short stories that will be added to regularly at Wattpad.

Author Links:

Webpage: www.teresatrent.com

Facebook: Teresa Trent
GoodReads: Teresa Trent

Twitter: Teresa Trent @ttrent_cozymys

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Blog Tour {Excerpt & Giveaway} the GOOD Girl by Emma Nichols

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Book Description


**Please note: this book is rated MA for Adult Situations and the occasional curse word


When Willow Stone discovers that she is in competition with the exotic and worldly Molina for the coveted position of sex advice columnist, she realizes it's time to up her game. Though she has impeccable writing skills, there's no denying that a lifetime of being the good girl has left her ill prepared for this position. Realizing it's her lack of experience that will keep her from achieving this dream, she decides to proposition the bad boy who once lived in her college dorm that always had a stream of women doing the walk of shame from his room on a nearly nightly basis. Surely someone that shallow, that experienced, and that wildly attractive could teach her a thing or twenty.


Only Wyatt has his own plans, and they don't allow much time for teaching Willow what she would already know if she could just break free of the cool, calculating, proper demeanor that was part of being a Stone. His reputation has served him well through the years and being the black sheep of his family has never bothered him. What does bother him, however, is Willow. She is a mystery to unravel, a present to be cherished, a young woman who just might rock his world by bringing him back into his family's fold. She was everything they wanted for him and precisely what he had avoided since he started dating.


What will happen when the good girl gets mixed up with the bad boy?


Excerpt


“Hey, doll,” he said in that easy way he had of unnerving me. Slowly he leaned over the bar after pulling up a drink he already had poured. “Cosmo?” He chuckled. “It was your new favorite last night.”


Frozen in place, I paused before speaking. Breathe, Willow. Head high, chin up, chest out. Stones don’t get thrown. That was a paraphrase. My mother never would have spoken so informally. Her advice was sound, though. I pasted a smile on my face and headed to the nearest bar stool, directly across from him. “Good evening, Wyatt,” I said smoothly. “It looks like you’ve been expecting me.” Then I reached for the drink and took a healthy, stabilizing swig.


“Maybe just a little,” he responded with his classic wink. “I mean, how long could a type A like you survive without this.” He patted his vest pocket and after glancing about conspicuously, he pulled it open just enough to reveal the phone secreted within.


I could feel a squeal rising in my throat, it was all I could do to control the sound, but nothing could keep me from diving over the bar with my arm outstretched as I reached for my phone. Naturally, he had simply taken a step back and away from me while stifling a laugh.


“Sorry, doll,” he said while shaking his head. “Nothing in life is that easy. You should know that by now.” His blue eyes stared at me intently.


My stomach was doing somersaults. All I wanted to do was get my phone and go...maybe finish my drink. Instead, he was holding me hostage with my phone. “So now what?” I tried to project this relaxed and confident demeanor, but much like before, in his presence, I was doing a poor job of it.

“Well, I thought we might play a game. You’re fun, right?” He laughed at his cleverness.


“Oh, yeah. I’m loads of fun, especially when I’m loaded...apparently. Again, I ask...now what?” My arms were crossed over my chest now. He was making me good and nervous.


Once again, he leaned over the bar, “Well, I thought I’d ask you some questions...instead of Truth or Dare, we’ll make up our own game...Truth or Truth. I’ll decide if you reveal enough with your response. If you do, with each answer, you earn back a piece of your phone.” He studied me, watching for a reaction.


It was my turn to be calm and collected. I met him on the bar. We were practically nose to nose, separated by my martini glass. Stirring it slowly, I made him wait on my reaction. Then I took the cherry from the rim and popped it into my mouth. After devouring it while he watched, his eyes intense and hungry, I smiled. I had no choice, really. Wyatt had my phone and seemed determined to mess with me. I refused to let him win. Instead, I exuded confidence. “Let’s play.”

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What made her decide to be an erotica author?

Simple.

How else was she going to parlay her two favorite past times into a career?

Emma is single and loving it. Like her first character, Alysin, Sin for short, she doesn't believe in settling or in settling down. She loves to indulge in her passions whenever the mood strikes and enjoys keeping all of life's cliche moments spicy.

Known for her sense of humor, Emma surrounds herself with friends whose antics often become the source of book fodder. Her ideal situation would be to explore the Caribbean while writing. She pursues that dream daily.

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10 Winners will received signed copies of The Good Girl…

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Book Release Blast ~ Aqua by M.A. George

Aqua

By- M.A. George

Genre- YA Paranormal

Publication Date- April 16th, 2014 

Meet Layla McKelland:  

Novelist (unpublished, but cut her some slack…seventeen is a bit early to despair),

Slightly neurotic introvert (Alright, let’s be honest…there’s no “slightly” about it),

International Woman of Mystery, and…

Okay, just scratch the bio. 

The only real “mystery” in Layla’s life is why her father has never been on the scene.  Or why her mother drags Layla to a new coastal home every year.  

Nothing about the latest hometown seems too newsworthy…until a routine day at the beach leaves Layla questioning whether she’s read one too many paranormal fantasy novels.  The plot thickens when a random guy claims to know things about her father—a bizarre claim he backs up with an equally impossible stunt.  And Layla soon finds herself on the wrong side of a mysterious attempted drowning…on her own kitchen floor.

When all is done, Layla will attest that fact is far stranger than fiction.  And nothing in real life is ever as transparent as it seems…Not even water. 

Especially not water.

  

 

About the Author-

M. A. George is part proud mother of two adorable children, part super top secret agent…Oops, probably just lost that job. 

Writing is what keeps her up into the wee hours of the night.  Fortunately, she has a lot of energy (Read: caffeine is her friend).  She has a bit of an obsession with music (It does a fantastic job of tuning out rambunctious children while she attempts to focus). 

She sincerely hopes people out there enjoy reading her work as much as she enjoys writing it.  And if anyone hears of work for a super top secret agent, she’s now available (Discretion guaranteed…).

      

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The Geography of You and Me

by Jennifer E. Smith

The Geography of You and Me
by Jennifer E. Smith
YA Contemporary Romance
April 15th 2014 by Little, Brown for Young Readers

Goodreads: The Geography of You and Me

Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father.

Lucy and Owen's relationship plays out across the globe as they stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and -- finally -- a reunion in the city where they first met.

A carefully charted map of a long-distance relationship, Jennifer E. Smith's new novel shows that the center of the world isn't necessarily a place. It can be a person, too.

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You can go back and read chapter one in its entirety, but here are some snippets:

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The two main characters, Lucy and Owen, from The Geography of You and Me first meet in New York, but then keep in contact from different places around the world before meeting up in New York again.

The author, Jennifer E. Smith, shared some of her favorite places in the world in preparation of Geography's release. We'd like to re-share them with you!

A Backwards Story - Chapter One, Part 1

On the first day of September, the world went dark.

But from where she stood in the blackness, her back pressed against the brassy wall of an elevator, Lucy Patterson had no way of knowing the scope of it yet.

Literary Meanderings - Chapter One, Part 2

When the elevator had wrenched to a stop, their eyes met, and in spite of the situation, she’d found herself wondering—ridiculously—whether he recognized her, too. But then the lights above them had snapped off, and they were both left blinking into the darkness, the floor still quivering beneath them. There were a few metallic sounds from above—two loud clanks followed by a sharp bang—and then something seemed to settle, and except for the faint beat of his music, it was silent.

Book Briefs - Chapter One, Part 3

The boy turned to face her, and though it was still too dark for details, she could see him more clearly with each minute that passed. She was reminded of a science experiment her class did in fifth grade, where the teacher dropped a mint into each of the students’ cupped palms, then switched off the lights and told them to bite down hard, and a series of tiny sparks lit up the room. This was how he seemed to her now: his teeth flashing when he spoke, the whites of his eyes bright against the blackness.

A Life Bound By Books - Chapter One, Part 4

“I think we’ll be fine,” he said, his voice reassuring; then, with a hint of amusement, he added: “Unless, of course, you’re afraid of the dark.”

“I’m okay,” she said, sliding down the wall until she was sitting on the floor, her elbows resting on her knees. She attempted a smile, which emerged a little wobbly. “I’ve heard monsters prefer closets to elevators.”

The Reading Diaries - Chapter One, Part 5

This time she laughed. “What’s up there, anyway?”

“The sky.”

“You’ve got keys to the sky?” she said, and he knitted his fingers together, lifting his arms above his head in a stretch.

“It’s how I impress all the girls I meet in the elevator.”

Colorimetry - Chapter One, Part 6

“I know. Hard to believe school starts tomorrow.”

“Yeah, for me, too,” he said. “Assuming we ever get out of here.”

“Where do you go?”

“Probably not the same place as you.”

“Well, I hope not,” she said with a grin. “Mine’s all girls.”

The Wonderings of One Person - Chapter One, Part 7

He considered this a moment. “Yup,” he said finally. “That pretty much sums up my feelings about New York.”

Lucy nodded. “You would prefer not to,” she said. “But that’s just because it’s new. Once you get to know it more, I have a feeling you’ll like it here.”

“Is this the part where you insist on taking me on a tour of the city, and we laugh and point at all the famous sights, and then I buy an I ♥ NY T-shirt and live happily ever after?”

“The T-shirt is optional,” she told him.

Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf - Chapter One, Part 8

His eyes caught hers through the darkness, and the elevator felt suddenly smaller than it had just minutes before. Lucy thought of all the other times she’d been crammed in here over the years: with women in fur coats and men in expensive suits; with little white dogs on pink leashes and doormen wheeling heavy boxes on luggage carts. She’d once spilled an entire container of orange juice on the carpet right where Owen was sitting, which had made the whole place stink for days, and another time, when she was little, she’d drawn her name in green marker on the wall, much to her mother’s dismay.

I Am A Reader - Chapter One, Part 9

Across the elevator, Owen rested his head against the wall. “It is what it is…” he murmured, letting the words trail off at the end.

“I hate that expression,” Lucy said, a bit more forcefully than intended. “Nothing is what it is. Things are always changing. They can always get better.”

Bookfever - Chapter One, Part 10

“It won’t help anything,” she said. “Worrying.”

“Exactly,” he said. “It is what it is.”

“Nope,” she said. “Nothing is what it is.”

“Fine,” he said. “It’s not what it isn’t.”

Lucy gave him a long look. “I have no idea what you’re saying.”

“Or maybe you’d just prefer not to,” he said, sitting forward, and they both laughed. The darkness between them felt suddenly thin, flimsy as tissue paper and even less substantial. His eyes shone through the blackness as the silence stretched between them, and when he finally broke it, his voice was choked.

You'll have to find out what happens between Lucy and Owen by grabbing a copy.

Jennifer E. Smith is the author of This Is What Happy Looks Like, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Storm Makers, You Are Here, and The Comeback Season. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and currently works as an editor in New York City. Her work has been translated into 27 languages, and her next young adult novel, The Geography of You and Me, will be out in Spring 2014.

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Book Blast {Excerpt & $50 Giveaway} The Epherium Chronicles: Embrace by T.D. Wilson

The Epherium Chronicles: Embrace

Book one of The Epherium Chronicles

Hope. Captain James Hood of the Earth Defense Forces remembers what it felt like. Twenty-five years ago, it surged through him as a young boy watching the colony ships launched by mega-corporation Epherium rocket away. He, like so many others, dreamed of following in the colonists' footsteps. He wanted to help settle a new world—to be something greater.

Then came the war... Hope. During years of vicious conflict with an insectoid alien race, it was nearly lost. Though Earth has slowly rebuilt in the six years since the war, overcrowding and an unstable sun have made life increasingly inhospitable. When mysterious signals from the nearly forgotten colony ships are received, Hood is ordered to embark on a dangerous reconnaissance mission. Could humanity's future sit among the stars?

Hope. Hood needs it now more than ever. As secrets about the original colonists are revealed and the Epherium Corporation's dark agenda is exposed, new adversaries threaten the mission, proving more dangerous to Earth than their already formidable foes…

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From Laura (5 star reviewer on Amazon) "I was shocked about how fast the author sucked me into a new world, a world that I am impatiently awaiting the next in the series. I read from another reviewer that it would make a great television series and I would have to agree with that reviewer."

From Kathryn Svendsen of Kathryn's Shelf Full of Books Blog (4 star review) : "It was a delight to read. Mr. Wilson did an excellent job of introducing each of the many characters involved in this large crew. There were many people to keep track of, and like a movie we found out a bit about the character of each one as we went along."

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Excerpt

“I have an idea about that,” Hood said as he opened a channel to Engineering. “Mr. Whitaker. I need that shield of yours.”

Whitaker responded slightly out of breath. “Sorry, Captain. I can’t give it to you. That second rock that smacked us caused one of the reactors to scram, so we shut it down. Until we get that stable and some more juice in the batteries, I can’t power it up.”

Hood muttered under his breath as he pounded his fist on his chair. He took a deep breath, and let it out slowly as he closed the channel. “Alright, our ace is out of commission,” he told Sanchez, “and even with the best of my contingency plans, we are going to have to do this the hard way.”

“You have multiple contingency plans for this?” Sanchez asked as he pointed to the viewport and the many asteroids floating nearby.

Hood looked at Sanchez and raised a single eyebrow.

“Forget I asked,” Sanchez said.

Author T.D. Wilson:

T.D. Wilson was born in 1968 in Troy, Ohio and has been an avid fan of science fiction and fantasy from a very young age. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and has supported the systems and networks in several of the largest Supercomputing data centers in the world. His early thirst for adventure in reading began as he explored many of the great stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As his reading scope expanded, Mr. Wilson was fascinated by strange new worlds from the magical of Middle Earth and Narnia to the far reaches of space in Star Trek and Babylon 5. As a science fiction author, he strives to integrate a realistic flavor to his worlds by providing his readers a feel for the real science in science fiction. A topic he loves to discuss with his friends and readers. Mr. Wilson still lives in Ohio with his wife and their two sons.

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