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Who Owns You?,  Book One

 

Science Fiction

Date to be Published: October 11th

 

 

Set in the early 23rd century, THE STARS RAIN DOWN follows an android woman pursuing a renegade human. At the same time, he searches for his missing wife and child, abducted by alien pirates, and sold into slavery. Special Agent Catherine Mercer, an artificial intelligence and agent of Interplanetary Security (think FBI in space), is given the assignment to pursue and apprehend Rick McCabe, a freighter pilot suspected of illegally smuggling passengers to the free colony of Aranae, some 1300 light years from Earth. Rick, on the other hand, on route to Aranae, was attacked by pirates and separated from his pregnant wife, Sarah, who was captured. But, having come under the suspicion of IPS of illegally transporting passengers, Rick goes rogue and sets off to find Sarah while evading Catherine trying to capture him. Rick and his tech-savvy partner QR follow a trail of clues and tips that lead from one planet to another, from one hostile slave owner and alien race to more pirates and unsavory characters. Along the journey, Catherine learns that being human is more than possessing a flesh and blood body. The transitory body holds an eternal spirit that yearns to be free.

Interview

What is the hardest part of writing your books?

Thomas: Coming to a dead end in the plot and not knowing where to go from there. I usually outline the plot ahead of time, but sometimes, I leave holes that I hope to fill when I get there. And, as expected, the hole doesn’t get filled, and I sit and stare at the screen, thinking, “Where do we go from here?” Eventually, it gets worked out, and progress continues.

What are your most played songs?

T: I assume this is music playing in the background while I write, yes? Most of the time, I find ambient music on YouTube, maybe some classical or Philip Glass. But I gotta have something playing; I can’t write in total silence like I’m writing in a mausoleum or something.

Do you have critique partners or beta readers?

T: I have some beta readers on Fiverr that have given some good notes, mostly. I like them ‘cause they don’t know me, and I don’t know them, just like the reader who buys my book. I get good notes from them, in general, and make changes based on their notes if I agree with the change. I don’t have critique partners except maybe a writer friend I used to work with at an old job years ago. We’d exchange each other’s works and talk shop.

What book are you reading now?

T: Several. Right now, I’m reading “The Days Are Long But the Years Are Shorter” by a friend of mine, Angel Balestier. He was a recording engineer for many highly recognized musical artists from the 60s. He recorded and was friends with Jimi Hendrix, among many others. I’m also reading “Unknown Waters,” a novella by my sister, D. Thomas Treadwell, a character-driven pirate story—not the kind of pirates you’d expect. Very well executed and paced and worth looking into. In science fiction, I’m reading “The Second Life of Jonathan Sendel” by Jeffrey Ashkin. Now you see how my reading habits are: bouncing from one book to the other.

How did you start your writing career?

T: Not sure if it’s even started yet. Whether it’s a career or not, I just keep writing.

Tell us about your next release.

T: I’m well into Book 2 of “The Stars Rain Down” series. But I can’t tell you when it will launch; we’re too far out from a date. Also, can’t tell you what happens, as you might expect. No spoilers. I can only say that Catherine’s adventures in pursuing Rick continue with lots of surprises, twists, and turns.

About the Author

Glenn Thomas’s life path has been a meandering one, setting new life goals at various points along the way, gaining skills in art, photography, film-making, driving, and ultimately, writing in screenplays and prose.  As a self-described “high-functioning daydreamer,” Glenn often finds contentment in self-imposed isolation, in conversation with characters only he sees and hears, in universes of his own creation.  Once in a while, he writes them down into scripts and novels to share with the world.

Glenn lives in the Los Angeles area and works as a driver for a major motion picture studio.  His first self-published work was a series of short Science Fiction stories called The Spiderboys of Aranae, which appeared in 2015.

In 1986, when Glenn was convinced he was at the start of a long and prosperous career as a visual artist, an idea for a sci-fi story came to him.  A guy loses his wife to space aliens, and he searches the galaxy to find her.  As a fan of the genre, Glenn sat down with paper and pencil to write the story, and two years later, No Longer Mourn for Me was finished.  It then sat on the shelf, unpublished, for nearly 35 years.  Glenn thought about that crudely executed early work, got ideas to improve it, and sat down at the computer for a rewrite.  The original story was completely gutted, retooled, and reborn with a new title: The Stars Rain Down.

 

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