Musings of a Mega-Geek

Welcome back to my blog and my newest SFFS excerpt!

ConQuest is just two weeks away. I have received promotional materials from the following people: Lyndi Alexander, Sue Ann Bowling, Pippa Jay, T.K. Toppin, and Shaun C. Wade. Thank you for sending them. They will be proudly displayed and distributed at the con. I hope your sales skyrocket afterwards.

If you have not sent me your promotional materials but still plan to do so, you need to do that pretty quick. Tell me if you are going to send them in the comments below. If you need my mailing address again, let me know.

This week’s snippet will be the last from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you like it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

In this excerpt from Book 3, Anna has just left the colony’s main hall after a meeting with the colony’s minister, feeling a bit dismayed over what took place. Our snippet opens with her casually walking through the main square.

  Her eye caught a reflection in the dirt just ahead. She paused, considering what looked like a silver coin. As she crouched down to pick it up and examine it closer, something shot past her and impacted hard in the ground between her and the main hall’s front steps, kicking up a cloud of dust when it hit. Whipping her head toward the disturbance, she wondered what could have caused it. She turned her head around to look in the direction from which it came, when she spotted a glint of light from the roof of the nearest house, a glint that seemed out of place with the rest of the structure. Did it move?
  Instincts kicked in, and she dropped prone to the ground an instant before something flew past again about where her head was a split second before. Somebody was shooting at her!

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Welcome back to my blog and my newest SFFS excerpt!

ConQuest is just three weeks away. Thanks to those of you who have sent me your promotional materials. If you have not sent me your promotional materials but still plan to do so, you need to do that pretty quick. Tell me if you are going to send them in the comments below. If you need my mailing address again, let me know.

This week’s snippet comes from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you like it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

In this excerpt from Book 3, Anna and the group she guides have found a catwalk hugging along the ceiling of an immense underground cavern that they believe will lead them back to the surface. Along the way, they make a startling discovery over the rail of the catwalk and in the cavern below.

  Several meters below on what looked to be an open-aired balcony, three black-furred triwolves prowled on the patio. They stopped in the light, flinching at the sudden brilliance in their eyes, and looked toward them. Cooper kept the light on them and moved to the edge of the walkway, preparing to fire. Anna shook her head in silence.
  Without warning, the three creatures howled, their ear-splitting chorale echoing off the rock walls and buildings. Tomomi reflexively slapped her hands over her ears, wincing from the shrieks. Cary recoiled away from the edge and almost backed into Tomomi, and Jason flinched, nearly dropping his weapon. Cooper fired, and Anderson quickly joined the assault. Only a handful of shots from the troopers took out the beasts.
  After the sounds of laser fire and howling died down, Anna’s ears perked up with the bays of many more triwolves from deeper in the darkness.

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Welcome back to my blog and my newest SFFS excerpt! Sit back, take a load off, and enjoy.

This week’s snippet comes from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you like it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

ConQuest is just four weeks away. Thanks to those of you who have sent me your promotional materials. If you have not sent me your promotional materials but still plan to do so, you need to do that pretty quick. Tell me if you are going to send them in the comments below. If you need my mailing address again, let me know.

In this excerpt from Book 3, Anna has led the group with whom she is traveling through the caves, when they encountered a mysterious floating metal orb. The orb has already fired an energy beam at and incapacitated Cooper, the soldier of the group.

  A second later, Tomomi kneeled next to Anna and fished through Cooper’s gear, looking for any medical supplies. Anna backed away from the scene and wheeled about to stare hard at the floating sphere, while Cary rushed to help Tomomi. Jason stood still and continued to gaze at the orb.
  “Why?” muttered Anna while shaking her head. “Why did you have to do this?”
  The sphere dropped several centimeters and glowed with a soft, blue light, dim at first but intensified in a matter of seconds. The new light source distracted Cary and Tomomi from their task, and they turned to look at the sphere. Recoiling from the building flash, Jason, Cary, and Anna shielded their eyes with their arms, while Tomomi squeezed her eyes shut.

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Welcome back to my blog and my newest SFFS offering! How’ve you been? Did you get my turkey sandwich?

This week’s snippet comes yet again from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you like it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

ConQuest is just five weeks away. If you are going to send me your promotional materials, you should consider getting them together. If you need my mailing address again, let me know.

In this excerpt from Book 3, Anna is exploring a network of underground caverns and finds a vertical tunnel that may be her way out. Hoping for the best, she climbs upward.

  Sooner than she expected, Anna reached the top, which was solid stone and brought the tunnel to an abrupt stop. She reached up and pushed against it, but it did not budge. The only result she received was droplets of condensation on her fingertips. With a distinct frown, she climbed back down to the intersection.
  Anna dropped to the floor and looked up again as she ran her thumb across her dry fingertips. Noticing an odd feeling, she stopped and gazed at her fingers incredulously. They had no sign of being wet. “That’s odd. The cave isn’t that warm. They should still be wet.”

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Welcome back to everybody’s favorite game show, “Read My Snippet!” And, here’s our host, Patrick Stutzman!

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen! Thank you! It’s a pleasure to be here. (Cary, put the baseball bat away.)

This week’s snippet comes yet again from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you like it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

I have begun receiving the bookmarks and other promotional materials for the upcoming ConQuest that runs during the weekend of 24-26 May. For those of you who have sent me the materials, thank you. If you informed me that you wanted to send yours along to me and haven’t sent them yet, you still have time. But, don’t take too long. I want to make sure I have everybody’s in hand by mid-May.

In this excerpt from Book 3, Anna has just finished showering and talks to Kate about a topic that had not been discussed in a long time.

  After a few seconds, Kate asked, “Have you given any thought to returning to Earth?”
  Anna paused and looked at her holographic companion, a look of uncertainty appearing on her face.
  “I … I’m not sure. The thought had crossed my mind, but I haven’t decided whether I will or not. One thing is for sure. I don’t want to leave you here.”
  “That will not be an easy task to accomplish.”
  “I know.” Anna sighed as she dried her legs. “My wristcomp doesn’t have the memory space to carry your personality matrix, and the colonists don’t have the hardware to download you into their systems.”

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Welcome back to my musings! I hope you enjoy your stay. And, please don’t mind the pterodactyls in the corner. They won’t bite much.

This week’s snippet comes from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you like it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

Special thanks to Laurel Kriegler for stepping in at the last minute to be the book’s editor. Laurel, you are a godsend!

As an added bonus, you get the first look at the cover for Book 3, produced by Tomomi Ink. What do you think?

In this excerpt from Book 3, Anna finally comes to the colony to discover that an old friend of hers is there. While being introduced to another colonist named William, Anna reveals that she has been stranded on the moon by herself for almost 10 years. The opening line belongs to William.

  “That’s a long time to be by yourself. How did you cope with the loneliness?”
  Anna quietly noted his sudden interest. “Kate helped me out.”
  Danica asked with piqued curiosity, “Kate? You didn’t tell me that you had somebody else here. Who is this mysterious woman?”
  Half expecting the response she got, Anna rolled her eyes. “Kate is my ship’s hologram.”
  “You are so disappointing.”

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This week’s snippet comes from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you enjoy it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

In this excerpt from Book 3, Jason negotiates with the woman, whom we have discovered is our old friend Anna, trying to get her to come back to the colony with her by enticing her with bribes and gifts. So far, nothing has worked.

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This week’s snippet comes from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you enjoy it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

Special thanks to those of you who are sending your promotional materials to me for distribution at the upcoming convention ConQuest 44. If you have not contacted me and are interested in promoting your works at the con through me and Aston West author, T. M. Hunter, please send me an e-mail for further instructions.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled snippet.

In this excerpt from Book 3, we follow Jason a little bit later after he got away from being held at gunpoint. After returning to his base of operations, his superiors ordered him to return to the site to negotiate with his captor.

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As promised, I present to you another glimpse into Anna’s life. This time, the snippet comes from my upcoming third book, Alone in the Crowd. I hope you enjoy it! Please remember that these are pre-edited snippets.

Several of you have promised to send your promotional materials to me for distribution at the upcoming convention ConQuest 44. Thank you for your participation. I would love to have promotional materials from all of you to distribute at the con. If you are interested in promoting your works at the con through our tables, please send me an e-mail for further instructions.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled snippet.

In this excerpt from Book 3, a new character named Jason is exploring the moon Anna had called home in Book 2, when he came across the crash site of a ship that had been there for some time. Curiosity grabbed him, and he ventured inside.

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As I prepare my new book for release, I decided to give you another glimpse into Anna’s life during the second book, Alone in Paradise. I hope you enjoy it! And in case you are wondering, I plan to post pre-edited snippets of Book 3 starting next week.

Just reminding you that I am now collecting your promotional materials for distribution at the upcoming convention ConQuest 44. I have heard from a few of you, but more would be better. I would love to have promotional materials from all of you to distribute at the con. If you are interested in promoting your works at the con through our tables, please send me an e-mail for further instructions.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled snippet.

In this excerpt from Book 2, Anna has moved her first kill, a six-legged wolf creature, out of the clearing where her ship crashed, when she receives a call from Kate, the holographic avatar for the ship’s computer.

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