Welcome to Day 5 of “THE ENIGMA THREAT” Release Blog Tour! @enigmaseries @1rburkey @4WillsPub @4WP11 @RRBC_Org #RRBC
Introduction
It is my pleasure to welcome you to Day 5 of “THE ENIGMA THREAT” Release Blog Tour. “The Enigma Threat” by Breakfield and Burkey is Book 12 in the popular Enigma Series which will be released on January 8, 2021.
Giveaways on this blog tour include: (1) $25 Amazon Gift card & (10) e-book copies of the “shorts” in the Enigma Series
Below is an excerpt of “The Enigma Threat,” biographies of co-authors (Charles Breakfield and Roxanne Burkey), and a discussion on how the Enigma Series further developed the skills of the co-authors Breakfield and Burkey.
Excerpt of The Enigma Threat
The Enigma Threat
by Breakfield and Burkey
In the new digital world, there is no tolerance for privately owned supercomputers. Globally, computers are hunted and destroyed for the greater good, by the new cyber police CESPOOL. The information this group receives is manipulated by subversive hidden machine learning devices, the MAG running on the dark net.
Judith and Xiamara are freebooters who steal machine time for their PaaS, porn as a service business. The machine they chose for delivery is the last untapped supercomputer not in the hands of a sovereign. Their activity is spotted by the MAG, but the renegade R-Group steps in to alter the outcome. Leroy teams up with Zara to help these opportunists escape prosecution. They are drafted as reluctant participants in the fight.
Jacob and Quip are trapped in the Chihuahuan Desert trying to reconstruct the base of ICABOD’s logic core. The stress of their isolation is taking a toll. Their wives and children are safe in Brazil for the time being, but Interpol is prowling for answers.
The R-Group has assembled a way to communicate with orphaned satellites. While the next R-Group plans the ultimate honey pot to trap their nemesis who is driving their corrupted agenda. The odds are against R-Group’s success, but they have creative surprises on their side.
The stakes have never been higher. The R-Group young and old must rise to defeat the MAG.
BIO: Breakfield & Burkey
Breakfield is a 25+ year technology expert in security, networking, voice, and anything digital. He enjoys writing, studying World War II history, travel, and cultural exchanges. He’s also a fan of wine tastings, winemaking, Harley riding, cooking extravaganzas, and woodworking.
Burkey is a 25+ year applied technology professional who excels at optimizing technology and business investments. She works with customers all over the world focusing on optimized customer experiences. She writes white papers and documentation, but found she has a marked preference for writing fiction.
Together they create award-winning stories that resonate with males and females, as well as young and experienced adults. They bring a fresh new view to technology possibilities today.
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We wanted to discuss how the Enigma Series further developed our skills as co-authors Breakfield and Burkey.
Like any other skill, the more you work at it and apply your talents, the more it improves. Though each story is important to us, as children, they are different. We find each subsequent fictional novel is written better than the prior one with more adapted advanced technology. We love being storytellers in writing or when we speak to various groups.
Recognizing we have improved is what is driving our revisions for the earlier books. The writing in the 2nd editions, to date The Enigma Factor, The Enigma Rising, and The Enigma Ignite, are tighter and more succinct. We used additional readers, editors, and reviewer feedback to modify the contents, improving the customer experience.
The different competitions we have entered for short stories, as well as submissions for our novels in other genres, is an eye-opener. We face our most significant challenges in competitions with specific words for a given story. The 1,500-word short stories we find as the most brutal. We appreciate that most of them provide some level of feedback. The short shorts or minis teach us to focus on capturing a compelling vignette with no excess words. The deception is, oh, no problem. I’ll whip this bad boy out before my morning corn flakes.
We know there is always room for improvement. Toward that end, we sit on a short for 3 days after we think it is finished. The reason? Every story should be crafted like it was the last thing you ever get to do. We want to return to it one more time to make sure it is our best at this moment in time.
Producing content for tours like this requires a focused and thoughtful response. We like giving value with interesting, structured content, as well as insights to us as people. It is that old business lesson of people will do business with people. If something is missed and we are willing to make it right or accept their comments, then we have integrity and have honor.
Burkey is the blog driver of this team. She insists upon 600-to-700-word essays on comments on technology we feature in online publications like Medium for professional thought leadership. It all goes back to that first writing lesson we all got when the instructor handed back a C- on our English papers. Then added in big red letters, Show, don’t tell.
Storytelling is a classic art form, but there are several immutable rules that we all must obey to succeed. Once we’ve learned to follow the rules, the rest is style. We do try to bend them at times.
Now we can honestly say that going from full-length novels to short story competitions with word limits ranging from 1,500 to 7,000 words makes us work harder. That is a challenge we are committed to winning. We are working in writing groups and reviewing lessons from other winning authors. We can always improve.
The most significant jump to date is taking a story from prose to a screenplay or One-Act play. We find it like the difference between jumping over a 6-foot cattle guard and jumping the Grand Canyon on a motorcycle, like the fantastic Evel Knievel. Yet this year, we have spent time in both writing forms. We always learn something.
Screenplays are all about dialog, not narrative. The size limitations are roughly 110 pages for a 2-hour film. The required format for these is vastly different from the word documents we generate for a story, long or short. We are learning a specific screenplay application called Final Draft that renders the correct format. The challenges are slowly overcome, but not without a little frustration. We invite you to check out our Kickstarter challenge, where our goal is to get support to begin a screenplay for The Enigma Threat.
We were delighted to learn we won a One-Act Play called Dragon and the Butterfly, in a local competition. Some of the words that made our hearts soar were delightfully different, intriguing, and fun. One comment included would love to see it in production.
We are always learning something and getting better. We dearly appreciate the many awards we have received, yet also recognize grabbing mindshare in today’s world takes the support of a village and colleagues like you.
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