Child within me

I have heard it said that some people never grow up, I guess that I am one of them. I still recall my secret dreams of going into space but life's events and choices I made eliminated me from ever doing so. So I do so in my imagination just like I used to travel to the worlds the writers I grew up reading. That was the premise writing Chronicles of the Marauder. Since I am not a child anymore, I let this world being Neil of the Marauder. Being an adult, I created action and adventure on a more grown up scale including events and relationships that are for Adults. There is no explicit sex or anything like that. Just normal adult involvement and complex relationships. Neil's failed marriage makes it difficult for him to commit to anyone but he could only have close relationships with one female at a time, just the way he was brought up and how he felt. The same as me! LOL never one to play the field and have several woman dangling in my heart at he same time.
Janice, the one eyed Commander attempts to get along with Neil letting him know that she is the one actually in command of the Marauder's crew, he only has command of when and where they go. Her  glass eye is unknown to the crew but she reveals it to Neil having lost the one eye in a fighter plane crash and it was replaced by a glass eye that matched her other so close that most never suspected it was fake. She was a tough disciplinarian that the ship needed to establish procedures and protocols while traveling in space. She knew that the only reason she was selected as the commander was because the Chief Engineer, Boris was denied command and he didn't want Neil to exert authority over him. He felt he could manipulate Janice and be de facto commander but he as wrong, She allied himself with Neil totally pissing Boris off, Janice felt the ship could not be made to run smoothly if she didn't ally herself with Neil. Talk back, I'm listening.
My books can be found on Sherfari, Good reads book shelf and at my author page at http://www.amazon.com/author/agmoye  Have a great day!

Confused

Being a writer can some times be very confusing and difficult Not writing the book but when you find out that you are the only one that can market your book whether traditionally published or as a Indie author. No one is going to help you but yourself. Sure there is sites out there for a fee that will help market your book and all claim success but no one has a guaranteed  magic wand that works for all! I myself try to find all the free sites that will help get the word out living on a fixed income (retired) and can only hope in the long run that word about my books gets to the readers. After all, that is who we every writer is trying to reach. How do you do it? Is there a better way without spending loads of money that still won't do the job?
As the writing world changes everyday, tried and proven methods of the past no longer work so everyone is trying to find what does work. Including me!  It is a slow and frustrating process even though they say it will take three to five years before a writer gets known out in this world. I think it will take even longer now!
Trying to get my books into the most big name places, I have published all my books that I am not under any contract with on Smashwords trying to reach the largest possible groups of readers. In another few weeks my books should appear on Barnes and Noble, Kobo and in the Apple store among other places. They are all still on Amazon just not KDP select except one.    Talk back to me, I'm listening!

Goodreads

Some of my friends on Goodreads have written hundreds and a few even thousands of books. I can't see that many books in me. I have fifteen books published and another five in the works, what will I write about after that. Maybe I will write my first non-fiction or something. I guess I will do like they do and keep stories rolling because I'm sure that new story ideas will continue to flow into my head? How about you? Do you have enough stories floating around to write hundreds of books? 
A writer has to come up with a fresh new approach to each book unless they are writing a series then it is somewhat easier already having the main characters to use and build upon in each book. My Dystopia series called Lightning in the Tunnel was easy to write carrying my characters through the initial bombing and the events that transpired after the USA fell apart which occurred very rapidly in the story. It was easy to write the story through ten books and will end when I publish Lightning Rages next year. My mystery book, Brandi's Nightmare, I have no plans for ever writing a sequel. A Stranger Comes Crawling will have a sequel, I have written the first few pages but no more. T.T. Gristman my time travel book will not have a sequel unless readers request one. Chronicles of the Marauder will be a three book series. I have written the first two of the series already and started on the final book. After it is written, I plan to go back and write the sequel to A Stranger Comes Calling named  Voyage back to Earth that will end that.
Even though my stories are told in the third person point of view with occasional point of views from different characters, I have to make the main character as me to get the feelings and problems feel real to me. Just like if I was reading another writer's books. I have to place myself in that situation in my mind. I hope my readers can relate to the characters especially in the later books where I think I became a better writer. The hope of every writer is their latest book is even better than the last one. I feel the Chronicles of the Marauder is my best work yet and book two is even better than book one. Book three hopefully is going to be the best book of the series, at least I think so! Talk back, I'm listening! 

Imaginations!

Imaginations are what fuels a fiction writer along. The better the imagination, the better the story in my opinion. In A Stranger Comes Crawling, I needed to come up with a reason for events occurring that way and ended up with a great ending that will shock the readers. They will be more surprise in the sequel to A Stranger Comes Crawling called "Voyage back to Earth" due out in early 2014. They will learn what caused some of the deaths that occur. I can not tell you much more or I will give away the story.
In my other science fiction called the Chronicles of the Marauder,Book One. I again let my imagination soar coming up with various Aliens and their strange quirks along their appearances. Some become like family to the humans as members of the crew. Other Aliens seek to dominate them and use them as slaves or food. In book two of the Chronicles of the Marauder, Book Two. I had to come up with even more Aliens during the Marauder's ten year voyage. I have started on book three while Book two is in editing and awaiting a cover for it. I'm about twenty or thirty pages into it. Mainly writing it in my head before I put it on the computer. I won't finish it before I go and finish Voyage back to Earth and get it published so the readers can read what happens on Rip's way back to earth.
As a let my imagination soar, I think the stories get even better and better especially with the inner action of the characters aboard each of the crafts. Since both series are written for adults, I have included adult relationship problems between characters not just writing about their adventures and action scenes. Is this how most of you do it? I know this is my style of writing that I feel is getting better and better each book I write. Talk back to me, I'm Listening!

Finding an old friend!

It did my heart good when I was contacted by a wife of an old friend that I lost contact with when I moved from California to North Carolina over thirteen years ago. I guess she was browsing the Internet and happened to see a picture of me. We had been very close for so many years and then events made us go our separate ways. I lost his phone number and then my computer at that time crashed so I even lost his email account. I searched the web and still didn't find him. So many by the same name that I knew him by on the net. I tried email along with other social media sites trying to find him, then out of the blue she contacted me. I guess she got my email address from my blog site.Now that we have found each other. There is a lot of catching up to do, She and he was shocked to find me in Arkansas but like I explained to them, I came here to retire. He never knew I wrote SiFi and I never knew he was a SiFi fan. We both had been members of a Spade League back in California for many years. The league was called the National Spade League with a lot of members. I included that on my first book that has now been pulled from the market because of it having too much explicit sex in it.I wasn't out to write an erotica book. Anyway, our emails right now look like books instead of emails with so much being said. Yet, when I send one, I think of something else I didn't say and have the urge to send another but he is not computer savvy so it is hard for him to reply back. His wife is the one that uses the computer most of the time. He just plays games on his terminal. Nothing can bring a smile to your face than hearing from an old friend. I'm sure there is many out there that sit and wonder what happened to such and such as time goes on. Most of you are unlike me, moving around the country a lot and events cause you to lose contact. You might not think that it is unimportant at the time but the day will come when you wish you had maintained contact. Now, I just wished that a few others that I was close to back in California would accidentally run across me. Even though you make new friends and new close friends, part of you is missing those old friends the older you get. Talk back to me, I'm listening!

A little under the weather?

I had a problem that kept me from posting last week on this site. I'm okay now or getting there. My wife took over and posted about the wild horses, she is a horse fanatic and I didn't mind her using my site to vent on. That was the reason she signed it as Sammi Jo so everyone would know it really didn't come from me. What is a husband to do anyway, let her vent!
It is not easy to come up with a new subject three or four times a week anyway. Today I want to speak with you about commenting on blogs or other threads. I know more read them than they ever comment on. I was reading like normal the comments on Goodreads and noticed the same people by genre love commenting on the there. I switched to LinkedIn and found that even though I follow a lot of different threads and comment very infrequently, most of the comments are the same. You have those that are trying to sell something to you   by telling you what is wrong with the other guy's product while trying to be casual about mentioning their product. Reading it, sounds a lot like politics where everyone is bashing the other guys then claiming they weren't. Don't worry, you use their system and you will succeed in whatever your endeavor is. If these people had the answer, they wouldn't on the internet, they would be too rich to bother with it!
Maybe because I am not feeling one hundred percent, all this stuff struck me wrong, today. I even made a few comments on different threads today, that is unlike me but still being on probation, I doubt if they will ever post the comments. Even though I did no self promoting. That is one of the dangers you have when the moderator has to approve everything you post. Enough said, Talk back to me, I'm Listening!
Speaking of Self promotion, if you are looking for some interesting reading check me out at http://www.amazon.com/author/agmoye

Save the wild Mustangs

It has come to my attention that the goverment and local authorties are tryin to decide if they should kill the wild mustangs down to a "Managable" size of 850 from 1,450 in Wyoming! Excuse me but these horses are the very last of their kind and need to be protected! A ranch called the BLM is the one doing the most crabbing cause these horses are starving and thirsty due to a 2 year drought.My answer to this is feed them, water them and when the drought is over they will go back into the wild AND LEAVE THE STUPID BLM ALONE!!!! Why on this earth would you slaughter these beautiful creatures, WOULD YOU SLAUGHTER YOUR CHILDREN CAUSE YOU HAD TOO MANY? I am sorry to put it so bluntly but you leave me no choice. I became so upst when I heard this that I had to voice my opinion, If I had the money and the means I would go and rescue everyone of those mustangs and bring them to Arkansas where they could live without prosecution of the government and the BLM! E mail or Twitter the President and Congress if you agree! hank you for your time Sammi Jo Moye  Talkback, im listening!