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Authors' Curtilage

The Authors' Curtilage spotlight today is on Sarah Baethge (@22niel)
http://www.authorscurtilage.com/2014/...

Radiant Shadows- now on kindle

My new vampire book is up for free on Amazon Prime. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I...

Without Amazon Prime, you can still get it free from this coming Friday until Tuesday.
You can get a Goodreads email reminder of the free days by declaring your attendance of the free day event here: http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/9...

Breakthrough: The Adventures of Chase Manhattan by Stephen Tremp

Breakthrough: The Adventures of Chase Manhattan by Stephen Tremp is a fun, modern day science fiction story. As all described seems to be practically possibly, it left me with the eerie feeling that such events could happen right now, even though many people would quickly dismiss the story as nothing more than fantasy.

Although they run together, the story seems to come in two parts; at first it is described how a small group of sinister scientists at MIT are using stolen technology to manipulate events in their favor and cause crimes, even murders at the highest levels of government. Next, we watch as Professor Chase Manhattan, from southern California, is pulled into the mess by Dr. Nicholas Fischer, who is asking Chase to prove it is not he who is responsible for the misuse of his work.

I enjoyed this book. It has the right mix of what seems real and what seems like fantasy to make me step back and look at the world in a different light. I am somewhat interested in taking a look at this Book’s sequel.

Slacking Off Of NaNoWriMo?

Not exactly...
Ok giving myself less than a month to edit that book I was working on until I'm comfortable with putting it away for awhile wasn't long enough. Close there, looking at what I have left to polish on it, I should be satisfied with my new draft of The Illumination Query in less than 4 days.
And you know, while working on it I came up with the new story to work on for NaNoWriMo. I 'discovered' a good bit of action that occurs in the background of my story that is actually quite important even though I don't directly mention it. You may ask how it can be important if it never even tickled my mind before.
That would be because it doesn't directly involve either one of my story tellers in the book. How I have things written, I don't see any way to squeeze it in. As the story would probably be good to have written down so I can refer to it in the future for Illumination Query/Speed of Darkness sequels I'm going to try putting it together, even if it keeps me writing past November.

My first draft of The Illumination Query is written

When I woke up this morning I was prepared to not get to the ending until tomorrow.
In fact, I didn't even plan to work on the silly book until after I had some lunch- it's just that I suddenly felt like writing. This is my book The Speed of Darkness (part 1): The Illumination Query, a prequel to the story I used to have for sale yet took down because it has a couple of items I'd like to change for the bigger story that it will now be part of book 3 within.

Hmm that last sentence there sounded a bit less complex in my mind than it looks written down...

Well, the ending came at just the perfect time. I think I'll spend the rest of October dividing/combining the separate parts into logical chapters. Then in November I'll write something totally unrelated for NaNoWriMo to clear my head. By December with any luck I should be ready to take a crack at editing it.
:)

Here's an article I wrote that was just posted on Chris, The Story Reading Ape's blog.

http://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/201...#!

Smashwords is having a sale! Now is the time to go check out my books.

If you want a cheap read, now is the time to check out Smashwords.
My short story, Right Now is free with the code SSW75 .
My novel,Panoptemitry is only $1.25 with that same code: SSW75 .

My other two short stories are always free, you can get to them from my Author Page.

Other than that, there are thousands of authors at Smashwords with discounts of their own. The code you need should be right on the page. Go check it out and find the book you love!

Interview of me

http://marielavender.blogspot.com/2013/05/interview-with-author-sarah-baethge.html/
^an interview of Sarah Baethge

A new review of my book, The Speed of Darkness is out there

I just found a nice review of my book that was written by Bhawana Bhomik here: http://tracyriva.com/book-review-the-...

Guest post about The Death of Anyone by DJ Swykert

The underlying theme in my latest book, The Death of Anyone, poses the Machiavellian question: Does the end justify the means? I developed this story around an impulsive homicide detective, Bonnie Benham, who wants to use Familial DNA, a search technique not in common use in the United States. Only two states even have a written policy regarding its use, Colorado and California.
Bonnie is a no nonsense cop who describes herself as a blond with a badge and a gun. She has her own answer to the ethical use of Familial DNA, but the actual legality of its use will be determined in a real life courtroom in the California trial of a serial killer dubbed by the media: The Grim Sleeper.
Lonnie David Franklin, the Grim Sleeper, was caught because his son’s DNA was the closest match to DNA collected at the crime scenes in the database. Investigating Franklin’s son led them to investigate Lonnie Franklin. But there was no direct DNA evidence that linked Lonnie to the crime scene until they obtained a sample from him after his arrest. Lonnie Franklin will be the first person in the U.S. to ever stand trial based on Familial DNA evidence, and its admissibility issues in court will be thoroughly tested by defense attorneys. These are the very same issues that face Detroit Homicide Detective Bonnie Benham and form the plot of my story.
I’m a blue collar person from Detroit. I’ve worked as a truck driver, dispatcher, logistics analyst, operations manager, and ten years as a 911 operator, which was the very best job of them all. I have a pretty straight forward style of telling a story. I write a book like you’d watch a movie and put it down on paper.
Detroit Detective Bonnie Benham has been transferred from narcotics to homicide for using more than arresting and is working the case of a killer of adolescent girls. CSI collects DNA evidence from the scene of the latest victim, which had not been detected on the other victims. But no suspect turns up in the FBI database. Due to the notoriety of the crimes a task force is put together with Bonnie as the lead detective, and she implores the D.A. to use an as yet unapproved type of a DNA Search in an effort to identify the killer. Homicide Detective Neil Jensen, with his own history of drug and alcohol problems understands Bonnie's frailty and the two detectives become inseparable as they track this killer of children.
I first heard about the use of Familial DNA working as a 911 operator in 2006. It came up in a conversation with officers working a case. I thought at the time it would make an interesting premise for a book. I began writing the mystery some three years later after leaving the department. I had just finished editing a first draft of The Death of Anyone in the summer 2010 when news of The Grim Sleeper’s capture in Los Angeles was released. I read with interest all the information pouring out of L.A. regarding the investigation and the problems confronting prosecutors. All of which are explored in The Death of Anyone.
DJ Swykert is a former 911 operator. His work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Detroit News, Monarch Review, Zodiac Review, Scissors& Spackle, Spittoon, Barbaric Yawp and Bull. His books include Children of the Enemy, a novel from Cambridge Books; Alpha Wolves, a novel from Noble Publishing, and The Death of Anyone is his third novel, just released by Melange Books. You can find more about him and how to buy his books on the blogspot: www.magicmasterminds.com, they are also available on Amazon and at select mystery bookstores. He is a wolf expert.