Spotlight: EleMental, Level 1 by Steven O'Connor

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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This is Level 1 of the young adult sci-fi thriller
'EleMental: A First-person Shooter' – newly republished as an ebook from the
original 2010 print edition and available exclusively through Amazon.  </span></div>
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you're sitting at your desk, the next, you're battling something that's
half-dinosaur, half-tank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Set in 2050,
three teenagers encounter a deadly new virtual reality game called EleMental.
Deliberately designed to be highly addictive, to control rebellious asteroid
miners, EleMental has a by-product no one was ready for: gameblur - the
confusion of reality and virtuality.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Praise for the original print edition</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">'... a
fantastic and exciting debut novel by Steven O’Connor ... entertaining mix of
futuristic sci-fi, horror, action and angst ... this reads like Philip K Dick
for teenagers. With the narrative sneakily shifting between the real and
virtual worlds, O’Connor explores some fairly complex and sophisticated issues
in a thrilling and accessible way.'</span></i></div>
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June 2010.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> '... the
author does an excellent job of creating Virtualitee, and by the end readers
might feel as if they have had a lucky escape from its clutches, too.'</span></i></div>
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2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>EleMental: Level 1 is FREE October 6 ONLY.</b></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">'EleMental: A
First-person Shooter (Levels 2-4)' is also currently being offered. Readers can collect
the set!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/EleMental-First... style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.com/EleMental-First...
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Amazon UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/EleMental-Fir... style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.co.uk/EleMental-Fir...
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Author
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Originally from Luton,
England, Steven O'Connor now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two
teenage children and Sparks, his ever-attentive, ever-hungry Cavalier King
Charles spaniel (aka a toy dog).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">His initial manuscript for
'EleMental: A First-person Shooter' (or E-FPS) won him a coveted Young Adult
Fiction Writers' Mentorship at the national Varuna Writers' Centre in the Blue
Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The print edition of E-FPS
was first published in Australia as 'EleMental' by Pier 9/Murdoch Books in
2010. The 2012 'makeover edition' is now being offered exclusively through
Amazon in a series of level ebooks (1-4), or as the complete ebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">'MonuMental', the follow
up, will be published soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When Steven O'Connor is
not writing, he's a health education social worker and he's passionate about
health promotion for young people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">You can find out more
about Steven O'Connor from his website <a href="http://stevenoconnorwriting.com/&quot.... If you would
like to be kept up to date with Steven O'Connor's activities and free
promotions, you should subscribe to the ElaMentaList through his website.</span></div>
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