tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53219208304105551332024-03-04T20:35:20.515-08:00Dark Moon RisingMichael E. Gonzales, Fictionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972192356723281709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321920830410555133.post-55889263730464505192017-01-01T17:17:00.001-08:002017-01-01T17:17:19.812-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2016 is in the archives. Frankly, I’m happy to see it go.
Not that it didn’t have its high points.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My first novel was published in March, Dark Moon Rising. My
second novel, The Battle of Broken Moon, was released in December. I can’t
start to describe the rush that accompanies seeing your words in print! This,
of course, is followed by the deep concern that readers will like what they
read.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The series, “The Unborn Galaxy,” is made up of five separate
stories, all taking place within the “Unborn Galaxy.” Two are published, the
publisher has the third, the fourth was edited this past summer and I just got
the fifth back from my editor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Additionally, in the wings, is a separate story, a medieval
adventure filled with mythical creatures, a beauteous young damsel as quick
with her sword as she is with her wit. An elder knight who bears a great
burden, and a malevolence to vile for even the most hated of mythical monsters.
This story I call ― “The Witch of Vindemiatrix.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Another point of celebration; this past December 21<sup>st</sup>
of 2016 saw the one year anniversary of my wife’s survival after her heart
attack. Additionally, her cardiologist has given her a clean bill of health.
Nevertheless, she will remain a heart patient for the rest of her life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The event took place
inside the VA hospital, where my wife took me for an examination. If you’re
going to have a heart attack, have it in a hospital.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a result, my family missed its traditional Christmas
celebration in 2015. We made up for it Christmas of 16, however.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have learned a lot about heart disease in general, and in
women specifically. It is often called the silent killer of women, because,
unlike in men where a sudden pain in the chest, arm and or leg signals the
onset, in women it is far subtler. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And women suffer a disproportional number of heart attacks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ladies, if you’ve not been examined I cannot encourage,
cajole, or warn you enough. There is no typical target for the disease. Young,
old, tall, short, smoker, non-smoker, lite, or heavy. My dear wife was the picture of health. Where
I was taking a bevy of meds supplied by the VA, my wife took none. She had
regular checkups, exercised, ate right, she was the archetype of what our
doctors want us to be. Yet, on 21 December 2015 she was laid low by a near microscopic
tear in the interior lining of a blood vessel on her heart, smaller than a
strand of spaghetti.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This past Thanksgiving, and Christmas, we certainly thanked
God for his blessings, and have been doing so every day since that dark date.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, please, see your doctors, have your risk assessed, and
your ticker scrutinized. <o:p></o:p></div>
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None can cheat death, but you can increase the distance from
him―and it is not difficult at all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, as we enter a new year, let me wish you all a happy,
prosperous, and <i>healthy</i> New Year. A
year that can be made much more adventurous within the pages of <i>Dark Moon Rising</i>, and <i>The Battle of Broken Moon.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Michael E. Gonzales, Fictionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972192356723281709noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.712891000000013-36.4162205 99.052733999999987 90 69.521483999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321920830410555133.post-34984729554570911622016-12-06T18:45:00.001-08:002016-12-06T18:45:11.352-08:00<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26217">
Well, here it is, December, 2016.
This year has flown by. <o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26218"></o:p></div>
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Of course, it is the joyous
Christmas season that lights up hearth and home for my family. Though the
year is coming to an end, in my home Christmas is a time of renewal; with
family, friends, and life in general.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26220"></o:p></div>
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Another reason to be joyful this month is the release of my second
novel, “The Battle of Broken Moon” Released today, 6 December!<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26222"></o:p></div>
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I can’t start to explain how this
feels. I am certainly blessed to have been guided to the great people at Fire
Star. I know a great many writers, through my interactions on social media, who
have been striving, some for decades, to get published. When I stop to consider
all the synchronicity that transpired to get me to this point, I can only stop, and thank Jung!<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26224"></o:p></div>
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In “The Battle of Broken Moon” we
will learn what happen on the lunar surface while <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26226" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Sergeant
Hugh Pacherd and his people struggled to survive beneath the Moon’s crust in
“Dark Moon Rising.”</span></div>
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We’ll start quite some time before
the quake that nearly destroyed humanity’s first off world settlement. We will
follow a group of dedicated young Lunar Civil Defense Detachment volunteers
through their training, and suffer with them the horrifying events that overtook them before deployment to the Moon.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26229"></o:p></div>
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It is during orientation, on the
Moon, at the Joint International Lunar Laboratory, JILL, that the horrific quake
strikes. In the pandemonium that follows the LCDD springs into action to save as
many lives as possible.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26231"></o:p></div>
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But something is amiss. Key
installations, not destroyed in the quake, and necessary to the evacuation, are
suffering catastrophic malfunctions, and being threatened by other calamities,
placing in jeopardy the lives of all the survivors. Post concerning is the fact that there is no rational
explanation for these events . A lot has been destroyed at random, but what’s
happening now defies logic.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26233"></o:p></div>
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In the course of trying to
preserve what is left, and to determine the reason for the enigmatic disasters,
the absolutely unimaginable occurs. JILL is attacked from space, and an invasion
force lands and assaults the facility.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26235"></o:p></div>
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Who are these invaders? What can
they possibly hope to gain from attacking this lone human outpost?<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26237"></o:p></div>
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Who will survive, The battle of
Broken Moon? </div>
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I hope you’ll join me in this
adventure. He who reads closely will find hints to underlying truths that set
future stories into motion, and will, ultimately, reveal an unsavory
reality.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26241"></o:p></div>
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Book II of the Unborn Galaxy
Series, “The Battle of Broken Moon” available now!<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480816252657_26243"></o:p></div>
Michael E. Gonzales, Fictionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972192356723281709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321920830410555133.post-28069040254890998452016-06-06T08:29:00.000-07:002016-06-07T21:30:58.523-07:00Book two of Unborn Galaxy -- The Battle of Broken Moon<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">THE BATTLE OF BROKEN MOON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Book two of The Unborn Galaxy series.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";">First, let me acknowledge this seventy-second anniversary of
the 6th Of June, 1944 — “D-Day”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I have had the good fortune to meet and talk with
Infantrymen, Artillerymen, Paratroopers, and Naval Gunners. I met Coast
Guardsmen who drove the Higgin’s boats ashore that morning, and countless other
heroes of that nightmarish day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I have also met and talked
with German veterans, and gotten a feel for the horrors they experienced. And I
learned of their mindset from before, during, and after they survived the
hellish bombardments and the fierce battle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>War truly is all
hell, as Sherman said, and thus should be avoided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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let us all recall the terrible sacrifice suffered by the Americans, Canadians,
and British on those blood soaked beaches, on this date those long years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfKjr4A2mzkqkYkPrKOTKgiMAXYThv4zUFyQFEOkmnRGn03OGN448UnPmiGO_zyNCreZvVeMNNCZg-n_j-Ku0EAIRAPJcVWCG5_kfX3l-PGW9uZHAtNipBrGCIPXW6TBMNCF_cZBcTffw/s1600/spfol0097-5B2C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfKjr4A2mzkqkYkPrKOTKgiMAXYThv4zUFyQFEOkmnRGn03OGN448UnPmiGO_zyNCreZvVeMNNCZg-n_j-Ku0EAIRAPJcVWCG5_kfX3l-PGW9uZHAtNipBrGCIPXW6TBMNCF_cZBcTffw/s320/spfol0097-5B2C.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">People who know me are quite frankly shocked to learn that
my first published book is a work of Science Fiction. Given my own back story
and my current position as the curator of a military history museum they were,
naturally, perplexed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Mike,” I’m frequently asked. “A love story on the Moon,
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I try to explain that it’s actually an adventure. A story of
the human condition, an examination of prejudice, and bias. A story of our
desire to survive in the face of certain death. It is a story of treachery, and
deceit, of irrational belief, and an irrepressible desire for power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the story of
the human need for something that will complete us, and bring meaning to our
lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It is the ancient story of the struggle between good and
evil. It is a mirror on our past, a vista of the present, and a window to our
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanity has always
been its own yin and yang; struggling against itself. Good gives rise to evil,
and evil feeds off of good. One cannot exist without the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, each thrives
on the contest. Good would never be rewarded without a victory over evil. With
no measure for it — what good is good?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what would evil
be without its eternal foe? Indeed, were there no good in the universe who
would recognize evil for what it is?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Of course this eternal combat is at the root of all stories.
It is conflict we crave! Who among us would read a story of eternal peace and
harmony? Page after endless page of beautiful spring days, birds chirping, and
neighbors helping one another hand in hand. Perhaps as they prepare of the long
awaited wedding between two beautiful young people in an ideal utopian
community?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But — should that
spring day be shattered by the grinding cacophony of the treads of a Division
of Panzers blitzing toward that pastoral hamlet destroying the wedding and
separating the perfect young lovers — well, now we have a story that promises
adventure! A young man’s quest to rescue his beloved from the clutches of the
jack booted monsters who took her, and to ink out revenge for his village and
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cases, the boy gets the girl, or vice versa, the bad guys are defeated — this
time, and our heroes ride off into the setting sun. In most cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pick up where Dark Moon Rising ended. In fact, it begins two years before the
events of Dark Moon. We will follow the unfortunate experience of Sergeant
Mathew Strum, who, after escaping from being cut off and surrounded on a tiny
island in the Battle of Oceania, becomes one of his unit’s few survivors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To escape the pain of
being one of ‘the few’ he volunteers for duty in the most remote of locations,
on the Moon as a member of the LCDD, the Lunar Civil Defense Detachment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while training for this new mission here on Earth, and finish with a tragedy of
Homeric proportions before the culmination of that training.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He returns to the
land of the living an entirely new man, only to find himself on the Moon,
arriving shortly before the great Moon quake that all but destroys the lunar
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the collapsing Moon base, rescuing the survivors, recovering the dead, and
organizing the evacuation would seem to be conflict enough, but his troubles
are only just starting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Don’t miss <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Battle of Broken Moon</i>, soon to be
released by Fire Star Press. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michael E. Gonzales, Fictionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972192356723281709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321920830410555133.post-4020698174899612492016-04-03T22:03:00.000-07:002016-04-03T22:42:34.237-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Welcome to my second
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">As I write these
words the ranking <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Moon Rising</i>
has achieved on Amazon’s “Author Central” page is quite flattering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Among Kindle readers
DMR is ranked six thousand, one hundred and ninety-six, and the book is at
eight thousand, two hundred and ninety-seven ― <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">out of a total of near <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">four
hundred and twenty-five THOUSAND</i> sci-fi books for sale on Amazon.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">I can’t start to tell
you how extraordinary this is, and just how much I appreciate all of you who
have purchased and read my story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">In book two of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unborn Galaxy series</i>, called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Battle of Broken Moon</i>, we will go
back a couple of years before the Moon quake. We will explore the terrestrial
war that rages in Oceania, and we will follow several veterans of that war who
have volunteered for the Lunar Civil Defense Detachment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Their tribulations
start in</span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";">northern Arizona while in
training for their mission on Earth’s satellite, long before they arrive at
JILL and before the Moon quake that nearly destroyed the Lunar base.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">In the midst of the
LCDDs herculean efforts to stabilize the base and evacuate its inhabitants the
unimaginable happens ― JILL is attacked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">What follows is a battle
inside the ruins of the base between the survivors who want desperately to
live, and an enemy determined to die a martyr’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Friendships will be
formed and tested. Lovers will be ripped apart. Enemies and allies will turn,
triumph will see the death of hope, and one man with learn the true meaning of
a Pyrrhic victory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">What is it all for?
And who will be the last standing in the airless ruins after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Battle of Broken Moon</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">As the reader
progresses through The Unborn Galaxy what will be obvious is that you are not
following one key character. Each story has its own individual who is central
to the story. In each there are characters that overlap from one or more
stories to another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">The cast of
characters may grow and change, and the locations might alter, but it all
transpires within <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unborn Galaxy</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";">The story, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Battle of Broken Moon,</i> morphed a lot
as I wrote it, as did DMR, however the changes that came into being as I wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broken Moon</i> greatly influenced the
fourth story and so the fifth as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Ultimately I am much
happier with the final product than the original draft of the five stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">I find that once
sketched out on paper it is very difficult to follow the blue print I’ve laid
out for myself as I sit down and start to “flesh out” the story itself. This is
not always a good thing as flights of wild imaginings can lead you off into
strange new places you had not intended. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">On the other hand,
these derivations can be a very good thing as flights of wild imaginings can
lead you off into strange new places you had not intended. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">I hope you who have
read Dark Moon Rising will take a few minutes to review it on the site where
you bought it, and on other sites like “Goodreads.Com” and if you’ll post your
comments to </span><a href="mailto:Gonzales-scribbler@cox.net"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="color: #0563c1;">Gonzales-scribbler@cox.net</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> I will insure they get posted to my web site
</span><a href="http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com/"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Post a note or
comment to this blog and I promise to respond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Again, thanks to all
of you who have brought my rating up so high. And rest assured, book II will be
out before you know it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Be sure to follow me
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">―Mike Gonzales</span></div>
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Michael E. Gonzales, Fictionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972192356723281709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321920830410555133.post-28046648957682699942016-03-07T22:00:00.000-08:002016-03-07T22:38:25.026-08:00My debut novel, "Dark Moon Rising" the first book of the "Unborn Galaxy Series".<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">My first published book,
"Dark Moon Rising" began life decades ago when as a
child I watched with the eagerness of Christmas as men journeyed to the Moon
during the Apollo missions. I sat mesmerized as Neil Armstrong took that
"giant leap for mankind."<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My fascination with space and space
travel never abated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;"> However, I had to put my
wild imaginings on hold during the twenty very serious years I spent
in the Army.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was 1998 when I read Asimov's
"I Robot" that the thought pierced my mind,
"perhaps I could write a fiction story." <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, don't misunderstand me, I never
thought I could be an Isaac Asimov, and
in truth I would not want to be. I want to establish my own niche.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless, the story started off,
believe it or not, as a World War Two
adventure. However, when a friend of mine, also a veteran, read my first<br />
few chapters he made an interesting observation; “People with a military
background will understand you,” he said, “others will be lost.” I reread the
thing and
discovered I had written for a rather small audience.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I started over. That original
story still exists. But it's saved on a
floppy disk!<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A short time later I was having a
discussion with a California visitor to
the museum where I'm employed, and he mentioned the Earthquakes they have
on the west coast. Somehow that got my imagination creaking forward. The dust and cob
webs fell away and before long I started to write.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My wife asked me: why? Did I write
in the hope of publication or was I
writing for my own amusement? The truth was I had no idea. I did enjoy the
writing process and I was relearning a lot of what I been taught in school.</span></span></div>
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Doing the research was time consuming, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately
rewarding and always enlightening.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire story is not about a
single person, or a single place. It is
rather the story of a time, a time in the not so distant future.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our science is, today, close to
creating a true quantum computer. Once on
line it will be capable of simulated intelligence. It could, through
existing networks, take control of all aspects of human life. The worldwide
power grid, food distribution, water purification and distribution,
communications, everything.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will have the power to create its
next generation of computers, smarter, faster, and build it.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">
This new computer will build its own next generation machine. This process
will continue and the machines will reproduce in greater numbers, each<br />
smarter than the last. In thirty days’ humans could become ... obsolete.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only alternative is to insure
those computers are … human, with a human
since of morality, with human compassion, with human comprehension. And of
course, human emotion. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The self-aware thinking machine of
the future must be us.<br />
As I outlined the entire story I realized that it was longer than just one
book. So I divided it into five sections.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I wrote I was amazed how the
story and the characters developed, morphed,<br />
and grew. This happened with each book as I wrote. So the overall story changed
as
well.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the process I kept everything
on a thumb drive; the story itself, all
my notes and research, everything!<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then it happened, as we all knew it
would. I left the little drive in the
pocket of my shirt and it went into the wash!<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My heart stopped as I pulled the
dripping little instrument from the pocket
of the shirt. There, utterly soaked, was the icon of countless hours
of writing and research. Years of my life reduced to a soggy piece of
plastic hardware.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shook it with sufficient "G" force
to drive it into the floor like a<br />
javelin - then plunged it into a bowl of rice.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lit a candle, fell on my knees,
and prayed for my small piece of<br />
technology.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My prayers were answered, and the
data remained intact. I then transferred
everything to a new thumb drive and learned to back up my precious data on
multiple devices.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day came when I thought I was
ready to send my manuscript out to various
publishers in both the US and the UK. The result is a collection of
rejections from two continents.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then synchronicity reared its head.
Carl Jung defined synchronicity as the
simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related - but
have no discernible causal connection.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mother of the assistant of the
wife of a departed friend of mine was
identified to me as an editor. I asked her to read my story and she did. Her
suggestion was that I have it professionally edited and suggested Julie
Wilcox.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought editing would be an exercise
in futility, after all I had already
self-edited the story dozens of times over the span of several years.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless I swallowed my pride
and sent the manuscript to Julie.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon completion of her work, and the
return of the manuscript, I was shocked
and amazed at all I had missed, the many errors I had made, the embarrassing<br />
misspellings, the not uncommon appearance of poorly constructed
sentences. <br />
I cannot overstate the importance of a proper editor, it is an absolutely
necessity.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Julie emailed my story back to
me she also informed Cheryl Pierson, the<br />
editor-in-chief and Co-owner of Prairie Rose Publications. Cheryl is the
mother of the assistant of the wife of a departed friend of mine I spoke of
earlier. She read the story again and to my great shock offered me a
contract!<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the few compromises I had to
make was the book's title, originally I
called it, “Under Mare Insularum.” It was pointed out to me that for a large
portion of the population that title means nothing. It might as well read,
"Ελληνικά για μένα!" She explained that the title had to hint at the
story
line and entice a fan of science fiction to read the book. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cheryl has been in the business of
publishing far longer than I have been
published. As my dad used to say, "Always go with the advice of a
professional." <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, here I am. I am about to be a
published author. My next goal is to
become a successful published author.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To that end I hope all of you
will read my story, and then place a review
of it on my website, </span><a href="http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">,
on Amazon,
and all the other various outlets.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I of course hope you will enjoy my
story and so sing its praises, this will
ensure the publication of the four remaining stories in the "Unborn
Galaxy",
and open the door for the release of my fantasies and other SF stories. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can now answer my wife's question,
“why?” <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope to bring people along on the
journeys that I have created. I hope,
like me, they can escape the surly bonds of Earth and venture away with me
to places yet unborn and to lost worlds beckoning to be discovered.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will have to face the great
unknown, there will be danger, new and
vicious creatures, evil in many forms. There will also be people of supreme
dedication and loyalty among the ranks of the good who stand against evil that
it does not thrive.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will also be love. For
wherever humanity goes love always go with it,
and that dear reader is the key to our success.</span></span></div>
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