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As you might know, I like to read the Killzoneblog everyday. Today, Author Debbie Burke, describes a real life event that impact the small town she lives in.
Thankfully, Debbie is fine. However, to read more about this unfortunate event please go to her entry for September 23, 2021. At the https://killzoneblog.com/
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Received my upcoming book, The Smoke Eater, from a Beta Reader.
The Good News
Looks like I have a greenlight to proceed with additional edits. The comments weren’t as bad as I thought. Actually, I have a renewed sense of accomplishment with my project and I’m feeling confident that my readers are going to like ti.
Nearing the Finish Line
I hope to get my book to market sometime after Halloween. Stay tuned.
9/11 has affected everyone in the world. The biggest impact it had on me was
insight into our world.
When I was working the UAE I showed up on site one day and was kindly welcomed
as a new employee. This was in 2005 and my first overseas job in Oil and Gas.
The HR lead, an older Arab gentlemen, (great guy too), profusely apologized to
me for five minutes on how horrible 9/11 was.
This made me really uncomfortable, but others over there shared the
sentiment. I went to the Middle East thinking that there might be a grudge between my race
and theirs. What I found was a sense that so many people who were foreign to me
wanted unity.
Check out this link here for an excellent post on the Killzone Blog today by
Steve Hooley.
Hello, SEers! It’s Labor Day in the US. From all of us here at Story Empire, we’d like to wish all of our hard working friends a happy and restful day.
And now, we leave you with a few inspirational quotes about work:
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
“A man is not paid for having a head and hands,but for using them.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle
“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” —Maya Angelou
“Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything…
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I’m having second thoughts about publishing my book independently. Was thinking about trying to go traditional publishing.
What would you do? And why?
The book I have in mind is The Smoke Eater which is about 88,000 words – getting ready for the final polish.
Synopsis
Reid Harris is a firefighter who has seen better times. Still healing from his last act of heroism, the marks of third-degree burn have impacted his emotional and physical wellbeing. With a crippling injury on his right leg, and living with post-traumatic stress, Reid is still desperate to keep working in the only career he ever knew. To keep his life on track, Reid travels to Azurbar, in the Middle East, where he doesn’t have to pass any physical or mental tests.
But on the day Reid travel to the desert, all hell breaks loose. Reid witnesses a shocking event that provides a common taste of what life is going to be like. Threats of violence unleash in a ruthless tirade never seen before in this once peaceful country raising the tensions to their highest levels ever. The terrorists, from the Persian State, don’t see eye to eye with the royal family. Reid’s path will intersect that unknown adversary who is bent on disrupting the Azurbar way of life.
Even though Reid knew he would endure tough times, the mental trauma inside him spikes. He struggles with an Azurbaree national who threatens Reid’s safety, while his alcoholic mentor isn’t coping well with the steady rise terrorism. Reid is stationed in a facility that the terrorist continuously target—BuHasa—one of the biggest oil and gas facilities in the world.
The Smoke Eater is a thrilling novel about adventure, survival and redemption; while exploring foreign Oil and Gas industries that few people know.
Even got a cover
This is suck a great post today on Story Empire.
Ciao, SEers! Last time, we talked about clichés in horror and how to fix them. This time, we’re going to look at stereotypes in two more genres and ways to turn them around.
Mystery
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