Another Year, Another Christmas Artisan Market

Thanks to everyone who stopped by my table at the Hagerstown PAL Christmas Artisan Market today! It was nice to meet everyone, and I enjoyed talking with all of you. To those who picked up copies of my books, I hope you -- or the ultimate recipient of them -- loves reading them as much as I loved writing them.

Stay warm out there, folks. Winter showed up a few days early this year!

Breaking Orbit: vol1 of the Titan Run Trilogy

Breaking Orbit
vol1 of the Titan Run Trilogy

Science Fiction

October 21, 2016

ASIN: B01M8LQ41J
ISBN: 1539561364

Sign on for the deadliest job in the Solar System.

200 years in the future humanity is no longer a victim of gravity and circumstance. Earth's children have realized their birthright and colonized the Solar System. Mars, the moons of Jupiter, the asteroids ... but none of those fantastic worlds is as welcoming as Earth. To warm the frozen surface of Mars humans look into their past and employ internal combustion technology to blanket the red planet in heat-trapping greenhouse gasses. In this future where Earth has become an ecological utopia there is only one place in the Solar System that has the hydrocarbons Mars desperately needs: the moon Titan.

Join the crew of the mining ship Krakken as she embarks on her three-year journey into the depths of Solar space -- far from other people, far from other ships, far from help.

An excerpt:

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What follows is an excerpt from the opening chapters of my upcoming Sci Fi Novel, "Breaking Orbit, vol1 of the Titan Run Trilogy" 

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Breaking Orbit

Excerpt from vol1 of the Titan Run Trilogy

One

She gasped for oxygen but drew only hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide into her lungs, the cold and toxic mixture preserving her flesh while taking her life. She could not hear her team leader shouting at her over the alert channel.

"Hit your Panic Button! Marcie, your Panic Button!" Hugh sucked down his own precious oxygen as he yelled and stumbled over the uneven Martian mountainside, desperate to reach Marcie before it was too late. He fumbled with the flap on the pocket that held his repair kit for the roll of tape that might save her life, fighting back the voice in his head that told him it did not matter how fast he moved; he was already too late.

"The Titan Run volume 1: Breaking Orbit" Free Preview

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What follows is an excerpt from the opening chapters of my upcoming Sci Fi Novel, "The Titan Run vol. 1, Breaking Orbit." 

Please read, share, and keep an eye on this site and my social media for when the book becomes available -- later this Fall, in both eBook and Paperback!

The Titan Run vol. 1

Breaking Orbit

Excerpt

One

She gasped for oxygen but drew only hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide into her lungs, the cold and toxic mixture preserving her flesh while taking her life. She could not hear her team leader shouting at her over the alert channel.

"Hit your Panic Button! Marcie, your Panic Button!" Hugh sucked down his own precious oxygen as he yelled and stumbled over the uneven Martian mountainside, desperate to reach Marcie before it was too late. He fumbled with the flap on the pocket that held his repair kit for the roll of tape that might save her life, fighting back the voice in his head that told him it did not matter how fast he moved; he was already too late.

Book Signing and Release Party: Regret and Opportunity

As you may have seen on my social media outlets, I am releasing a new book of poetry later this month. The early reviews are promising, and that's not just my mom saying so -- though she is on record as loving it.
To celebrate the release of the book, I am having a book signing / release party at the Washington County Arts Council Gallery Shop in historic downtown Hagerstown:

I'll definitely be there to sign the books and chat, and if there are enough people in the room at a given moment, I may choose to do a reading of a poem or two. That's the sort of thing people do at these sorts of things, right?

Also, as a plug, The WCAC Gallery Shop also has my other books -- both poetry and narrative fiction -- for sale right there in the shop, so what better time to stock up on my catalog?

Hope to see you there!

Finally, Rupert?

If you're a Douglas Adams fan, then you know of his oft-maligned fifth entry in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, "Mostly Harmless." In that book, a fictional 10th (which would be 9th, had Mr. Adams been writing after 2006, which wouldn't that have been wonderful?) planet lurks in the dark outer reaches of our solar system. From the icy surface of that dim world aliens observe Earth's radio and television broadcasts that have leaked out into space. To find out what happens next, you'll have to read the book (sometimes I can be a wee bit the sadist).
According to astronomers with much better math skills and much faster computers than I, the math seems to be working out again that there's another planet out there in the far reaches of ol' Sol's gravitational influence. Reading this made me think some things: