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Book Details
GENRE: SciFi
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BLURB:
A PSYCHO-CRIMINAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL ON A SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC
A FAMILY ON THE BRINK OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING INSOLVENCY
A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD UBER-GENIUS DAUGHTER IN THE LINE OF FIRE
CAN SHE SAVE THE FAMILY, NOT TO MENTION THE PLANET?
An extraterrestrial crashes into a suburban cul-de-sac Colonial, absorbs every binary bit of
information ever chronicled in all of human history, rearranges its molecules and presents itself
as a couple of late and legendary film noir superstars, then immediately displays an appetite for
debauchery, depravity, decadence, and destruction, seducing the family into its psychopathic
criminal orbit with irresistible Hollywood panache, alluring sexual charisma, and inconceivable
intergalactic powers.…all in the name of saving the family from their emotional, marital, and
financial ruin.
But uber-genius-daughter Mike Devine figures out fast that the extraterrestrial’s principal plan is
to employ its unfathomable interplanetary muscle and implode the planet. Which leaves the fate
of her family, not to mention the world, in her twelve-year-old hands.
Excerpt One:
“That’s almost six trillion miles per year—a single light-year,” Mike said.
“So, if they travel at light speed, they should be here pretty soon,” Maggie said.
“Better make extra pancakes,” Connie said.
“That’s lame, Dad,” Danny said.
“It’s witty, son,” Connie said. “You’ll understand when you get older.”
“I hope not,” Danny said.
“Not too soon,” Mike said. “The distance from Earth to the edge of the universe in any direction
takes forty-six point five gigalight-years.”
“How many light years in a gigalight-year?” Connie said.
“A billion,” Mike said.
“What does that mean in Earth years?” Maggie said.
“Voyager 1, our most distant space probe, traveled fourteen light-hours, not even one light-day,
and that took thirty Earth years. So, it would take about twenty-two thousand Earth years to
travel the same distance light travels in one light-year. About one quadrillion and one hundred
two trillion Earth years to reach the edge of the universe.”
If that’s a question on the genius test, I wonder which part of the light-speed equation Mike will
only get ninety-two percent right, Maggie thought.
“What if they were coming from the closest galaxy?” Maggie said.
“Andromeda,” Mike said. “Twenty-five hundred Earth years.”
“Long time,” Maggie said, and she turned off her flashlight.
“The meteors should have been here by now,” Connie said.
“I saw something up there,” Maggie said.
But something up there had seen her and made a sharp turn toward Earth.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than three decades. His credits include eight
novels for Laugh Riot Press and 19 produced movies—television films for CBS, Lifetime, and
Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge
Productions, and Left Bank Films.
He’s been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie
film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding consultant (it’s
true), a PTA board member, a HOA president, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting
artist for the UNCW Film Studies Department, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.
WEBSITE: https://www.richleder.com
BUY LINKS
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Guest Post – How to handle negative criticism (434 words)
There’s negative criticism and then there’s negative criticism.
You suck at writing, dude lands a lot different in your brain pan than Sometimes you
have to kill your darlings, my darling. But does it really? Land differently? Depends on
the delivery, you say?
Well, let’s see about that. Can we agree that negative criticism is someone telling you
that whatever your wrote is not good enough or not good at all? I think we can. And
whether that moment of negative business is sugar-coated or delivered like a sucker
punch, it hurts in a way that is visceral. Meaning, either way, after your mind translates
the words into feelings, it physically hurts to be told your heartfelt work is subpar.
Because sweetly delivered or laden with snark, being told you are not worthy of the
“writer” sobriquet is painful when all you wanted to do was tell a dang story the best you
could.
So how do you deal with that, the negative criticism and the pain it causes. No one
really knows the answer to this age-old writers’ ache and agony.
Oh, wait. I do.
Ignore that BS. Just ignore it. If it’s negative, it’s coming from a dark place even if it’s
said with a smile, and you have no obligation to acknowledge it. None at all. Zero
obligations. Ignore it.
If it’s constructive criticism, however, coming from a positive place, from a place that
wants to build you up and not tear you down, then, yeah, acknowledge that stuff.
Except don’t just acknowledge, internalize it. Feel it in your guts. Drive it around the
block. Try it in your work.
There are so, so many smart people out there who truly mean well. Really want you and
your story to succeed. Have your best interests at heart when it comes to your current
piece of work, and to your Writing writ large, as they say. And those smart folks very
often say something that will make you a better writer if you can find your way to
incorporating their constructive note or notes into your story, into your writing practice.
I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me. Countless times. Notes from
producers and directors and actors and executives and agents and managers and beta
readers and best friends. For everything I’ve ever written, I’ve received constructive
notes that have improved my piece and also made me a better writer.
And you know what? I’ve ignored the negative nonsense more times than that. Maybe
that’s why I’m still standing after all this writing.
Ignore it, my darlings.
Giveaway
One randomly chosen winner via rafflecopter will win a $25 Amazon/BN.com gift card.
Tour Schedule
October 20: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
October 20: The Story Review Blog
October 21: Always Reading
October 22: Author C.A.Milson
October 22: Country Mamas With Kids
October 23: Beyond Romance
October 24: The Faerie Review
October 24: Author Deborah A. Bailey Blog
October 27: Fabulous and Brunette
October 28: Gina Rae Mitchell
October 28: It’s Raining Books
October 29: A Wonderful World of Words
October 30: Author Sahara Foley
October 30: Karen J. Mossman – World of Stories
October 31: FUONLYKNEW
November 3: Sandra’s Book Club
November 3: Long and Short Reviews
November 4: Sarandipity’s
November 5: https://www.danscifi.com
November 5: Welcome to My World of Dreams
November 6: Wake Up Your Wild Side
November 7: The Key of Love
November 7: Wendi Zwaduk – Romance to Make Your Heart Race
November 10: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’
November 11: Sapphyria’s Books
November 11: Sea’s Nod
November 12: travel the ages
November 13: The Avid Reader
November 13: Books1987
November 14: Dawn’s Reading Nook
