Beat the Heat Summer Giveaway

Hey everyone, it is here, Beat the Heat Summer Giveaway. Find your new favorite authors with some sizzling summer reads!!!!!! Follow this link to learn more http://www.alterranlegacy.com/blog-tour.html

Congrats to A.G Riddle

I want to extend a big congratulations to a fellow indie author, A.G. Riddle, for his hard work and dedication and acquiring an awesome movie deal for his trilogy "Atlantis". This is especially awesome being that this trilogy is self-published. Fellow authors this can happen to us at anytime. Work hard and stay dedicated. Again congrats and you can scroll down and read the interview that I conducted of A.G. Riddle a few weeks ago.

Awesome Review for Resurrection

It’s difficult to write a detailed review of Resurrection, the newest installment of Regina Joseph’s Alterran Legacy series: the book is so packed with plot twists that I feel sure pointing to any specific parts will spoil the surprises for future readers! Suffice it to say, then, that Resurrection is a real page-turner and that the main characters continue to evolve, becoming even more interesting and complex. Resurrection makes the reader eager to get his or her hands on the final chapter of this engrossing saga.

Awesome Review for Resurrection

This installment in the series offers readers a deeper look into characters that were not previously highlighted. In addition to the deeper understanding of their motivations, the family subterfuge becomes a classic power struggle that hints of more challenges to come. As some return to the planet Alterra, others on Earth develop their own free-thinking and find they value it. Earth and Alterrian societies mirror each other in their common struggles toward freedom through civil unrest and plotting galore! Just when you think you know who has the power, revelations have you questioning what will happen next.

Blog Hop

The amazing author Jalpa Williby tagged me to talk about the writing process. http://jalpawilliby.com/2014/06/09/the-writing-process-blog-hop/ Please check out Jalpa's books.

I'm honored to provide the information below about The Alterran Legacy Series( www.alterranlegacy.com) , COLONY EARTH, KHAMLOK, and RESURRECTION.  REDEMPTION is in progress. Colony Earth http:// http://amzn.com/B009XI5B54 Khamlok http://amzn.com/B00BX53NC8 Resurrection http://amzn.com/B00K1TVW3Y 

What am I working on?

Book 4, Redemption, the concluding book of The Alterran Legacy Series.

We may discover a habitable planet soon. What will we do if there are early hominids? 

This Series brings to life the mythological gods of Sumeria (in ancient terminology, “those who came from the stars”) to tell why they came, why they stayed, why they decided to nurture humankind, and what affects all of this had on their home planet.

I wrote this Series in a “Game of Thrones” format―I began writing before George R.R. Martin got the HBO contract. So, there are multiple story lines, various actors competing for power, and powerful story twists.  Add to that, weaving in mythology. The end of Book 3, Resurrection, is based on one of the most highly repeated Sumerian stories.

It’s actually challenging to end this in Book 4, there is so much material. However, I don’t want potential readers to be put off, thinking that they have to read three books before picking up later installments.

How does my work differ from others of its genre?

Because of my considerable research, I weave in ancient mythology and philosophy, as well as history and geological findings. 

Why do I write what I do?

I'm fascinated by how civilization began. Archaeologists trace human roots back hundreds of thousands of years, yet we only know much about the last ten thousand years or so. What did those people do and how did they live? Were there flourishing civilizations that perished? And what made civilization blossom with agriculture across the ancient world at about 12,000 b.c.e.? Little is known about our ancestors outside of tales labeled as mere mythology. Those tales from around the globe have amazing similarities. And then of course there are those pesky pyramids that defy explanation. One of the oldest documented civilizations is that of Sumeria, located near present day Iraq. Recently translated Sumerian tablets report that each city was nurtured by the "ones who came from the stars." Yes, ancient aliens. With them, civilization flourished in the sophisticated cities. Although the starmen's technology was highly advanced, politically they seem backward--they were ruled by a father and his two sons. En.Lil, the primary son governing Earth, was in appearance an adolescent. If this story has any truth, how could that be? My answer is through rejuvenation. Many of our current social, political, and technological trends might conceivably lead to a global rule by a single family. And humans are always yearning to explore the universe. If we find a planet with primitive hominid life, what will we do? Like a forensic investigator, I interpreted their world from the morality they taught to shape the Mesopotamian civilizations. And so, I constructed the world of The Alterran Legacy Series.

How does my writing process work?

I wrote the story line for Books 1 and 2 between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July in 2009.  Then I spent until October 2012 reworking it.  I also wrote most of Book 3 while awaiting editing comments.  I held off publishing Book 3 until May 2014 to assess comments.  In the past year, I've written about half of Book 4, which I intend as the final volume. Because I want to wrap up the story lines, I’m finding it the most difficult one to write. 

I like to read science magazines and wonder about where technology is taking us as a people. As far as writing is concerned, I like to write beside my fountain in my home’s courtyard. The tinkling water helps promote my imagination. 

I tag  Ginger Gelsheimer

Ginger Gelsheimer (1973-) became part of the surf & ski writing team in 2009, when the Aurora Conspiracy franchise came to life over a great bottle of vino. What if he lived? We wondered about the alien that crashed into a windmill in 1897... and that's how Aurelius was born.

Here is a fun "journal" of things that are interesting to me that will shed some light on what I'm like. http://gingergelsheimer.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-write-place-author-showcase-ginger.html  www.auroraconspiracy.com. 

I tag: K T Bowles

Biography

I can’t remember ever not writing. My mother taught me to read long before I started primary school and I rocked up there, aged four, already writing full sentences and decorating my stories. I was a nightmare for my very first teacher, who had to put up with my refusal to use ‘baby talk’ which was actually phonetics and copy out single letters endlessly when I would much rather write my stories.

I only began publishing early in 2013, when my first three novels in The Hana Mystery Series were sitting on my hard drive and I realised that if anything actually happened to me, my family wouldn’t have a clue what to do with them. Ten books later and I am onto my eleventh, which is a teen book. All but two of my novels are set in the area of New Zealand where I live, but Demons On Her Shoulder is set in my old home town of Lincoln. Demons began as a simple mystery, set in an ordinary parish church. I absolutely love this ornate and ancient city, with its period houses and vast, chequered history and it was a perfect place in which to stage a novel such as this. I truly hope that I have done its beauty justice. But my story evolved into something far deeper than a mystery, revolving around the character of the guidance counsellor, Jayden, who is as complicated as she is beautiful. She has wrapped the city around herself like a shroud, hiding within its folds and believing that she is safe from an appalling secret in her past. The demons in the story are the destructive emotions which are also present and which I myself have been painfully acquainted with in my own past. It was a cathartic novel to write, even though I hadn’t ever intended it to be.

My own story is as a mother of four children, now almost grown and I have been married to the same lovely man for more than twenty three years. We were engaged and married within five months and of all the impulsive decisions I have made in my life, it was infinitely the best. I have done some stupid things in my forty four years, jumping out of an aeroplane attached to a silly piece of silk and falling off two horses within eighteen months of each other and breaking bones. One of the daftest things I agreed to, was emigrating to New Zealand with four small children, a one way ticket and a suitcase each, but after a few hiccoughs and eight years, it has worked out ok. I am a Christian but my novels deal with the real world and the impact that life can have on believers and non-believers alike. I don’t believe that being preachy in my novels will have any effect other than to turn people off and so I work hard to make sure that I don’t ram my beliefs down other people’s throats. My characters are as real as I can possibly make them, meaning that readers either love, or detest them.

I love writing. It makes me feel satisfied and whole. When I am writing, all is completely well with my world.

Links.

My Amazon Author page: amazon.com/author/ktboweshanadurose

Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7212024.K_T_Bowes/blog?format=rss

My blog page: http://ktbowes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Cave System

What many have suspected for a long time, there is a cave system underneath the Giza pyramid.

http://humansarefree.com/2011/02/something-extremely-strange-is.html#sthash.SrdCxNAA.dpuf

ForeWord Review for Resurrection

Joseph masterfully navigates the complexities of her world’s political landscape with a
balance between character development and dramatic action.
In Resurrection, the exciting next volume in the Alterran Legacy series, Regina M.
Joseph explores how a colony’s relationship to its home planet changes when its lifeline is
severed. Stretched between two worlds, this is a battle between progress and tradition,
adaptation and stagnation, and the power struggle to control the emergence of a new way of life.
After an interstellar catastrophe reduces the surface of Alterran to a barren wasteland and
destroys much of its colony on Earth, including the portal between the planets, the colonists are
forced to make difficult decisions that threaten centuries of tradition. A hybrid clan emerges, led
by En.Lil, who realizes the old ways will lead to the colonists’ demise. When the portal is later
repaired and travel between the worlds renewed, the things the colonists did to survive come
back to haunt them as Alterran’s powerful elite questions their loyalty. The ruling En family is
eager to bring the Earth colony back in line. But those who tasted freedom on Earth are no
longer content with the prescribed society engineered by Supreme Leader Ama, and a power
vacuum on Alterran spreads cracks in the foundation of their perfect world.
When a message from the ancient Anunnaki is discovered deep underground, Ama’s son
and successor, Anu, takes it as a sign that his ascension as supreme leader is blessed. Will the
changes he seeks bring a new age of peace to his people, or will his departure from tradition
cause his downfall?
The story is wonderfully complex and rich in both interpersonal relationships and larger
political strategies. This is particularly true among Ama, Anu, and Anu’s son, En.Lil, as they
each try to gain power without upsetting the family dynasty. This generational tension is
handled with subtlety and realism through their conflicting goals and allegiances. Seemingly
every character has a plan to achieve power, which gives each action and speech a deeper dimension. This complexity, though, is also a drawback. With everyone scheming, it can be
difficult to keep track of alliances, motivations, and histories. However, Joseph masterfully
moves through the complexities with a solid balance between establishing scenes and dramatic
action.
An emphasis on dialogue and personality creates realistic characters, but they come at
the cost of rich descriptions of settings. This causes some scene changes to be confusing and
sudden. It’s not always immediately clear where events are taking place, particularly when the
portal between Alterran and Earth reopens and characters begin moving between worlds. This
would be helped by additional reminders about settings and past events from the previous books
in the series. Even so, the story quickly pulls through with engaging political intrigue, dramatic
betrayals, and fascinating links between Sumerian myth and interstellar civilization.
Resurrection is a beautifully crafted addition to a series that will leave readers eager for
more. With her talent for balancing complex concurrent plotlines and realistic characters, it’s
clear that Joseph continues to be an author to watch.
Eric Anderson