Wednesday, November 20, 2013
mxxxxxx - Thanks for your fun review, and yes I do have planned sequels with each of the other characters (Mike, Karen and Jo) serving as the protagonist of three separate stories. Time travel is next! You didn't think Grease was just going to disappear to Groom Lake, NV (Area 51) and not reappear did you? In the next planned book The Summer Set are juniors in HS and called to the future!
Karen is front and center in the next book, then Mike and then Jo.
Expect the earth to be much changed in the future for Karen, then Mike in ancient Egypt and finally Jo in faraway Atlantis.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Kindle Countdown Deal: Just 99 cents on Kindle! for one week - November 19 – 25, 2013
Download The Summer Set now and you’ll be laughing and crying this weekend with this nostalgic paranormal YA romp.
The Summer Set – 4.6 stars on 24 thoughtful reviews and 3 Amazon Top 500 Reviews. Regular Kindle Price $3.99
Here’s the set-up: Fourteen year-old Peter Miller and his best friend Mike DeSorcier begin the summer on a mission to capture a baseball championship but soon uncover a group of extra-dimensional beings infiltrating their league. During their breathless escape, the boys discover two things: they are in mountains of trouble and they need help. Assistance (and more trouble) arrives in the form of two daring and mystifying girls - the unusual Karen Croft and the mystifying Jo Munro.
Together, the teens must solve the mystery of the Noqumiut before a fateful August lunar eclipse. Unlikely allies aid their efforts: an Eskimo shaman, a magic stone carving of a lively seal, a ferociously loyal dog, and an opponent from Roswell, New Mexico whose talents (and origins) may literally be out of this world.
The Summer Set is a humorous, intense and action-packed story about friends, enemies and the pursuit of winning it all.
The Story's Origins: I had a dream about a carved Eskimo seal called 'The Seal of Approval'. The dream stayed with me and I integrated the seal with other dreams and musings stimulated by reading parapsychologist John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies.
Over a two year period a nostalgic tale of greed, spirituality and friendship evolved. A raft of mysterious paranormal occurrences gradually provokes the teens to join forces and confront the growing threat of a group of deadly extra-dimensional beings.
The Summer Set: is primarily a coming-of-age tale of friendship and affection between two boys and two girls. The story is set in 1956 Eisenhower America with its backdrop of McCarthyism and corporate conformity.
Though geared to mature young adults ages 11-17, the nostalgic and 'clean' novel is an interesting and fun read for all adults ages 18-68.
Boys love it! Peter and Mike are real boys. Their intense and often comical relationship often produces snickers of fun and laugh-out-loud incredulous hilarity.
Download The Summer Set now and you’ll be laughing and crying this weekend with this nostalgic paranormal YA romp.
The Summer Set – 4.6 stars on 24 thoughtful reviews and 3 Amazon Top 500 Reviews. Regular Kindle Price $3.99
Here’s the set-up: Fourteen year-old Peter Miller and his best friend Mike DeSorcier begin the summer on a mission to capture a baseball championship but soon uncover a group of extra-dimensional beings infiltrating their league. During their breathless escape, the boys discover two things: they are in mountains of trouble and they need help. Assistance (and more trouble) arrives in the form of two daring and mystifying girls - the unusual Karen Croft and the mystifying Jo Munro.
Together, the teens must solve the mystery of the Noqumiut before a fateful August lunar eclipse. Unlikely allies aid their efforts: an Eskimo shaman, a magic stone carving of a lively seal, a ferociously loyal dog, and an opponent from Roswell, New Mexico whose talents (and origins) may literally be out of this world.
The Summer Set is a humorous, intense and action-packed story about friends, enemies and the pursuit of winning it all.
The Story's Origins: I had a dream about a carved Eskimo seal called 'The Seal of Approval'. The dream stayed with me and I integrated the seal with other dreams and musings stimulated by reading parapsychologist John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies.
Over a two year period a nostalgic tale of greed, spirituality and friendship evolved. A raft of mysterious paranormal occurrences gradually provokes the teens to join forces and confront the growing threat of a group of deadly extra-dimensional beings.
The Summer Set: is primarily a coming-of-age tale of friendship and affection between two boys and two girls. The story is set in 1956 Eisenhower America with its backdrop of McCarthyism and corporate conformity.
Though geared to mature young adults ages 11-17, the nostalgic and 'clean' novel is an interesting and fun read for all adults ages 18-68.
Boys love it! Peter and Mike are real boys. Their intense and often comical relationship often produces snickers of fun and laugh-out-loud incredulous hilarity.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Amazon Vine Voice Top 500 Reviews
Two Amazon Vine Voice reviewers, Judy Lesley and Terry Sunday, have posted their reviews on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/The-Summer-Set-ebook/dp/B005R99FGO/ in the last week. Both reviewers were very dubious at the outset and did not feel they would enjoy the young adult genre, but they graciously accepted the challenge. I hope you will take time to read the reviews!
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Summer Set flies to your Kindle free from 2-14 to 2-16
I'm putting The Summer Set up for grabs over the next 72 hours. I hope you're able to get a copy. Kirkus Reviews is currently reviewing the novel, and their look should be available by 2-17. The Summer Set is also being translated into Spanish. I hope to have it ready for sale on the Amazon Spanish site by the end of 2012.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Current Projects
I am currently working on the second book in ‘The Summer Set ’ series. The working title is ‘ The Arrivalist ’. Readers will understand the title’s meaning in the opening chapter. ‘The Arrivalist ’ is a darker story than its predecessor. Mike, Jo, Karen and Chumbucket return as a set – but if ‘The Summer Set ’ was a Song of Innocence, ‘The Arrivalist ’ is a Song of Experience.
The mood, tone and setting will have changed dramatically from the placid 1950′s. The military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against in his farewell speech will have come to fruition in a future not too distant from our present day. An old friend (Grease) propels the intrepid foursome into the 21st century where they must confront their own futures and past, and survive their present to complete their mission.
I am outlining and fleshing in two other projects – a horse racing story set against the desert southwest and the story of a merchant seaman helping the revolutionary cause in colonial America.
Other ideas bouncing around in my head are novellas set in Pompeii’s early Christian era and that of a peculiar female student who enrolls in a seaside town’s high school.
I will post excerpts as the projects near publication or I particularly like a scene and want to share it with my readers.
The mood, tone and setting will have changed dramatically from the placid 1950′s. The military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against in his farewell speech will have come to fruition in a future not too distant from our present day. An old friend (Grease) propels the intrepid foursome into the 21st century where they must confront their own futures and past, and survive their present to complete their mission.
I am outlining and fleshing in two other projects – a horse racing story set against the desert southwest and the story of a merchant seaman helping the revolutionary cause in colonial America.
Other ideas bouncing around in my head are novellas set in Pompeii’s early Christian era and that of a peculiar female student who enrolls in a seaside town’s high school.
I will post excerpts as the projects near publication or I particularly like a scene and want to share it with my readers.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Material Concerns
Recently I pulled out my dream notebooks after several years of neglect. I still get a lot of inspiration from my dreams, but I find that all too often the intrusions of waking life keep me from retrieving the power and wisdom dreams have to offer.
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