Meet My Character Blog Tour
Ben Starling. What a truly amazing person, Oxford educated, boxing champion, marine life advocate, author, and now I find out that he’s a photographer and artist, too! Seriously? Yeah, I’m afraid so. He’s making the rest of us look bad, very bad. Check him out here http://www.ben-starling.com and here https://www.facebook.com/ben.starling and here tonyriches.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/gue...
Ben passed me the torch for Meet My Character Blog Tour. Thanks Ben.
On with the show.
1. What is the name of your character? Is he/she fictional or a historic person?
Jack Michaels is a fictional journalist working for CBS news, but his backstory is painted on the canvas of real history. The plot about the discovery of an alien technology circa 1625 is fictional. I hope.
2. When and where is the story set?
The major part of the story setting is contemporary, but the first chapter is circa 1625. Jack also details his own story with significant time spent in 1970.
3. What should we know about him?
Jack was at a journalist convention in Las Vegas when he was contacted by a stranger who claimed to be on the run from assassins. There was a four-hundred year old secret he had to give the world.
Jack has the secret. He must get it to the world, but he no longer knows who he can trust.
4. What is the main conflict? What is it that messed up his life?
Jack has discovered a four hundred year old secret. They already killed his source and thought they killed him. He’s missing from a murder scene and a detective with LVPD is looking for him. They want to arrest him. The assassin just wants to kill him.
5. What is the personal goal of the character?
Jack Michaels is sitting on the biggest story in the history of humanity and needs to get it to the world. The secret society that has been hiding the alien technology for nearly four hundred years will do anything to stop their secret from being exposed. Jack is staying one step ahead of the Las Vegas cops and the assassins. He clearly understands that he no longer knows who he can trust.
6. Is there a working title for this novel, and can we read more about it?
I was forced to invoke the new word clause in my Poetic License. I coined a new word for the title, Reincarnology.
This blog tour is an introduction to Jack Michaels, CBS journalist, retired. Within that introduction readers will get some insight into Jack through his own words.
7. When can we expect the book to be published?
Before throwing a Frisbee it’s prudent to avoid predicting its flight. It’s best to lead with watch this! My goal is to have the story finished by the end of the year. After that it’s only a matter of getting it formatted and added to the ScaryBob catalog.
Meet Jack Michaels, journalist, retired from CBS. Somebody just tried to kill him and they will continue because he has discovered their four hundred year old secret.
It’s difficult for me to know where to begin this story. I could start with the visit from a stranger, the man who told me he was over four hundred years old, the one who had a secret that had to be told. I could begin with the conversation I had with that haggard man dressed in tattered clothing, the one who described himself as a walking dead man. I could begin with the story of the last two hours of his life as we sat at the table in my Vegas hotel room, the room where my life almost ended as the last breath escaped from his lungs.
I could start with Las Vegas, but I might be perceived as a crackpot telling an unbelievable story. I cannot let that happen. The truth cannot be perceived as fiction, lost in the vastness of the written word and so I begin with my own story, because I am not so much different from any of you.
I was a typical baby-boomer kid. I grew up watching Howdy Doody, Mighty Mouse and Heckel & Jeckel. I remember the joy of my first Saturday Christmas. Cartoons and Christmas in one day was almost more fun than I could handle. Tearing the wrapping paper from a Christmas present while I watched Mighty Mouse defend his rodent brothers against cat thugs was the best life had to offer a four year old. I waited patiently for the next Saturday Christmas. I was seven when I learned the horror of leap year and its effect on the annual progression of established holidays. The next time my magic Saturday came around I was more interested in loosing my virginity.
That's the beginning of Jack's story.
As a journalist he has an obligation to the rest of the world to expose the secret.
They know he has their secret and he's a dead man when they find him.
Reincarnology coming soon.
The next author in the chain is my friend K. P. Merriweather. She loves writing fantasy, science fiction, psychological thrillers and her answers to writer’s block are trashy novels and video games. Kim will be posting her Meet My Character piece to her blog on Monday, August 4th at http://www.majestikmultimedia.com
If you’re late grabbing this chain forged by gifted writers go back and check out
Eva Vanrell at http://evavanrell.com/2014/07/14/meet... Oh, what a master storyteller she is, but don’t take my word for it.
ScaryBob
Ben passed me the torch for Meet My Character Blog Tour. Thanks Ben.
On with the show.
1. What is the name of your character? Is he/she fictional or a historic person?
Jack Michaels is a fictional journalist working for CBS news, but his backstory is painted on the canvas of real history. The plot about the discovery of an alien technology circa 1625 is fictional. I hope.
2. When and where is the story set?
The major part of the story setting is contemporary, but the first chapter is circa 1625. Jack also details his own story with significant time spent in 1970.
3. What should we know about him?
Jack was at a journalist convention in Las Vegas when he was contacted by a stranger who claimed to be on the run from assassins. There was a four-hundred year old secret he had to give the world.
Jack has the secret. He must get it to the world, but he no longer knows who he can trust.
4. What is the main conflict? What is it that messed up his life?
Jack has discovered a four hundred year old secret. They already killed his source and thought they killed him. He’s missing from a murder scene and a detective with LVPD is looking for him. They want to arrest him. The assassin just wants to kill him.
5. What is the personal goal of the character?
Jack Michaels is sitting on the biggest story in the history of humanity and needs to get it to the world. The secret society that has been hiding the alien technology for nearly four hundred years will do anything to stop their secret from being exposed. Jack is staying one step ahead of the Las Vegas cops and the assassins. He clearly understands that he no longer knows who he can trust.
6. Is there a working title for this novel, and can we read more about it?
I was forced to invoke the new word clause in my Poetic License. I coined a new word for the title, Reincarnology.
This blog tour is an introduction to Jack Michaels, CBS journalist, retired. Within that introduction readers will get some insight into Jack through his own words.
7. When can we expect the book to be published?
Before throwing a Frisbee it’s prudent to avoid predicting its flight. It’s best to lead with watch this! My goal is to have the story finished by the end of the year. After that it’s only a matter of getting it formatted and added to the ScaryBob catalog.
Meet Jack Michaels, journalist, retired from CBS. Somebody just tried to kill him and they will continue because he has discovered their four hundred year old secret.
It’s difficult for me to know where to begin this story. I could start with the visit from a stranger, the man who told me he was over four hundred years old, the one who had a secret that had to be told. I could begin with the conversation I had with that haggard man dressed in tattered clothing, the one who described himself as a walking dead man. I could begin with the story of the last two hours of his life as we sat at the table in my Vegas hotel room, the room where my life almost ended as the last breath escaped from his lungs.
I could start with Las Vegas, but I might be perceived as a crackpot telling an unbelievable story. I cannot let that happen. The truth cannot be perceived as fiction, lost in the vastness of the written word and so I begin with my own story, because I am not so much different from any of you.
I was a typical baby-boomer kid. I grew up watching Howdy Doody, Mighty Mouse and Heckel & Jeckel. I remember the joy of my first Saturday Christmas. Cartoons and Christmas in one day was almost more fun than I could handle. Tearing the wrapping paper from a Christmas present while I watched Mighty Mouse defend his rodent brothers against cat thugs was the best life had to offer a four year old. I waited patiently for the next Saturday Christmas. I was seven when I learned the horror of leap year and its effect on the annual progression of established holidays. The next time my magic Saturday came around I was more interested in loosing my virginity.
That's the beginning of Jack's story.
As a journalist he has an obligation to the rest of the world to expose the secret.
They know he has their secret and he's a dead man when they find him.
Reincarnology coming soon.
The next author in the chain is my friend K. P. Merriweather. She loves writing fantasy, science fiction, psychological thrillers and her answers to writer’s block are trashy novels and video games. Kim will be posting her Meet My Character piece to her blog on Monday, August 4th at http://www.majestikmultimedia.com
If you’re late grabbing this chain forged by gifted writers go back and check out
Eva Vanrell at http://evavanrell.com/2014/07/14/meet... Oh, what a master storyteller she is, but don’t take my word for it.
ScaryBob
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