Welcome to my second
blog post, and thanks for dropping by.
As I write these
words the ranking Dark Moon Rising
has achieved on Amazon’s “Author Central” page is quite flattering.
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 ― out of a total of near four
hundred and twenty-five THOUSAND sci-fi books for sale on Amazon.
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.
In book two of The Unborn Galaxy series, called The Battle of Broken Moon, 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.
Their tribulations
start in
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.
In the midst of the
LCDDs herculean efforts to stabilize the base and evacuate its inhabitants the
unimaginable happens ― JILL is attacked.
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.
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.
What is it all for?
And who will be the last standing in the airless ruins after The Battle of Broken Moon?
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.
The cast of
characters may grow and change, and the locations might alter, but it all
transpires within The Unborn Galaxy.
Ultimately I am much
happier with the final product than the original draft of the five stories.
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.
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.
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 Gonzales-scribbler@cox.net I will insure they get posted to my web site
http://www.mikegonzalesauthor.com .
Post a note or
comment to this blog and I promise to respond.
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.
―Mike Gonzales
