Hello lovelies! It gives me
great pleasure today to host Archer Miller and his new book, “Evolved”! For other stops on his Goddess Fish
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This book is on SALE for
ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!!! See
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fabulous giveaway!
Evolved
by Archer Miller
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GENRE: Science Fiction
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BLURB:
Humanity
has spread to the far reaches of space with The Golden Door, a planetary
colonization monopoly, selling off every desirable and not so desirable planet
to desperate settlers.
Each
new world comes with new challenges, and to meet that challenge the children
are evolving.
When
Pieter, and other gifted children like him, become the target of government
research they must fight not only for their lives but the future of their kind.
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EXCERPT THREE:
Mary’s
telepathic shout jolted him out of a sound sleep. As his eyes opened flashes of
blue light filled his room. He turned his head to check the common area between
the cells. Arcs of lightening sizzled through the room. Kakogo cherta, he
thought, watching the dancing discharge.
It’s
Mike. He’s having a nightmare. Mary sounded frantic inside his mind.
Can’t
you switch him off?
He
can’t hear me.
Pieter
stood and approached the barrier between his cell and the common room. The
crackling discharge reminded him of a small Tesla coil his teacher brought to
class. The lightning followed any hand or finger that touched the glass sphere.
But this was on a scale he had never seen.
His
eyes focused on the room across from his and caught sight of Joan watching the
lights. They were all watching, too terrified to do anything to stop it.
Pieter
pressed his hand to the clear wall and immediately the blue, static lights
flowed to the spot. He felt no pain. The electrical discharge stopped at the
other side of the wall, just like the Tesla coil in school. The pops and
crackles from the common room made him wary. As he listened he could hear the
electric lock mechanism on his door cycle on and off every few seconds.
Has
he ever done this before? He asked.
Not
like this, Mary replied. Not this bad.
Pieter
listened for his door to open and pushed his hand against the clear panel.
That person was Cherrie
Newman at Epitome Press. Epitome is unlike most of the other publishers out
there in that the people in charge are also writers. That made all the
difference. Now I think I can look forward to a long career as a writer.
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GUEST POST:
Who Inspired Your Love for Books?
That
is a great question. The simple answer is my mother. She was a devout reader
and she had a love for science fiction. As soon as I could put complex
sentences together she started bringing me books beginning with Edgar Rice
burrows Martian series. Needless to say I was hooked.
When
I was nine I got sick enough to stay home for a few weeks. That was when my
mother brought me a book called Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
Along with it she brought me a dictionary and told me, “whatever you don't
understand, look it up.” That propelled my reading skills through the roof. I
began to expand my vocabulary as well.
When
I was in High School I discovered The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I was
totally captivated. When I when to college I joined a Tolkein society. I even learned to read and write in
Dwarvish runes. While I was college I got involved in Radio and Theater, That
was when I began to write scripts for live radio theater.
After
college I continued my radio career with a great creative outlet writing for
several morning shows. But soon I began to want more and I began flirting with
the idea of writing books. As usual I went through several false starts and
aborted attempts.
That
was when I began to chat with other writers in the internet and discovered I
wasn't alone in my funk, and I realized I wasn't alone. It was during a
discussion with one of these friends that I began to work out the kernel of a
new story that would become my first finished novel. No, that book was not
Evolved.
That
took finding an editor I trusted and could work with. I didn't want someone who
would pat me on the head and tell me what a good boy I was. I was looking for
someone who could be brutally honest and willing to push me. That's the kind of
editor it takes to make you a better writer.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Archer Miller emerged
from the East Texas hill country and set his sights on finding the life of
which few of his contemporaries dreamed. In 1974, he migrated to Boulder,
Colorado to enroll at the Naropa Institute – now known as the Naropa
University, a tiny Liberal Arts college founded by the renowned Tibetan
Buddhist scholar and lineage holder, the Ven. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
(1940-1987). Rinpoche was enormously influential in spreading the teachings of
Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
Archer
earned a degree in herbs and creative writing. He was a four-year Letterman on
the Varsity Competitive Meditation Team.
After
graduating in 1978, he took a year off to hike the Jack Kerouac literary trail.
He became a top freelance gun-for-hire with dozens of ad agencies across the south
and southwest. As a way to deal with the proliferation of Disco, he took up Zen
Archery.
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CONNECT WITH
ARCHER:
Website:
http://archermiller.com
Facebook:
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BOOK BUY LINKS
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Archer will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC
to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeletecongrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday! Thanks for sharing the excerpt :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the post, thank you.
ReplyDeletegreat excerpt!
ReplyDeleteI love a good science fiction, sounds great!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the guest post and excerpt, I have enjoyed reading.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like something I'd really enjoy reading, thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI was just wondering what you are working on next?
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how long it took you to write and edit your book?
ReplyDeleteDo you have any book recommendations? Author Recommendations?
ReplyDeleteI would love to read your book.
ReplyDeleteHow did you decide on the title for your book?
ReplyDeleteDo you read just sci fi or all kinds of different genres?
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