Hi, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Bryon
Vaughn and his new book, “Neurogarden”!
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Neurogarden
by Bryon Vaughn
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GENRE: Science Fiction, Techno-Thriller
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BLURB:
Where can you run when there is no place to hide?
Brenna
Patrick is a brilliant technologist specializing in neural-cognitive functions
and AI. She has cracked the code to solve one of the most troublesome problems
in the field, and turned that into the multi-billion dollar NeuralTech
Corporation.
Working
quietly with the U.S. Department of Defense, NeuralTech is poised to leapfrog
the competition with a revolutionary system for tracking people, starting with
the world’s most wanted terrorists. But there are only so many terrorists in
the world, so who’s next?
When
a pair of Columbia graduate students, Jenny and Leo, stumble on the dark secret
of NeuralTech’s success, it kicks off a tense game of cat and mouse. As they
fight to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against them, nothing less than the
fate of humanity hangs in the balance…
NEUROGARDEN
is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering
the nature of memory, and of reality, long after they've read the last page.
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EXCERPT ONE:
Every
morning for Brenna Patrick began with a hot shower and a hotter cup of Jamaican
Blue Mountain coffee in the same oversized mug she had stolen from a cabinet
while studying at Oxford. Some poor British sod probably spent days looking for
his ever so clever black-and-white yin and yang mug, and now, here, it played a
part in the daily rituals of the world's most renowned expert on artificial
intelligence.
Halfway
through her coffee, Brenna's usual routine of morning news about the weather or
the latest political storm was interrupted by a story on the previous day's
event at NeuralTech.
"According
to sources, yesterday, in an impressive display of technical wizardry, the
notorious Ethiopian strongman, Azim Dibaba, was eliminated by the U.S. military
in partnership with NeuralTech. Stay tuned for exclusive video footage from the
NeuralTech facility coming up after the break."
With
a dismissive wave of her hand, the television powered off, and she downed the
last of her coffee. Explicit rules about keeping cameras from the Observation
Deck were put in place to stop this kind of leaked footage, not so much to keep
it a secret, but to control how the message was released. There was no way
NeuralTech would have built such an elaborate display of lights and gadgetry if
the world was never going to see what they were doing. The fanfare was all a
show, a carnival for the masses to distract from the visceral heart of what
they were witnessing. Hell, they used to run the ops from a small conference
room in the basement of NeuralTech HQ with two laptops and an iPad. The
spectacle was created for virality, but she wanted the first glimpses to be
better than some shaky cell phone video from a reporter behind glass.
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GUEST POST:
Finding the Right Balance:
Most
of the authors that I know do not make their living through their words, myself
included. Many of us have jobs that pay the bills, and writing is our escape.
No matter what you do in your non-writing work, it is all too common for work
to take over and push everything else to the edges.
It is
easy to tell you that you need to make time for your writing. Everybody says
that, but as advice goes, that is pretty weak sauce. I’m not sure that I can
offer anything much strong, because there is a ton of truth in that statement,
but I will outline some of the strategies that have worked for me in the
production of my first novel, Neurogarden.
1.) Write every
day. Only have five spare minutes? Write something. Not at a computer? Tap
something out on your phone. (You all know your phone is ALWAYS in arm’s
reach.) Don’t think it is worth it? Just do it and see. Some of my best ideas
came from a paragraph I wrote on my phone.
2.) If you are working
on a novel, though it could apply for other types of work, keep a running list
of scene ideas that you can come to whenever you get stuck. This will help you
to avoid wasting your precious time staring at a screen. Stuck on that scene
that you just don’t know how to resolve? Start another. I have found writing
about some other aspect of the bigger story works wonders for unsticking me.
3.) Treat your
writing like a job, because even if you aren’t making much money yet, that is
exactly what it is. Schedule your writing sessions and stick to it. If you have
to reschedule make sure you do, don’t just say “I’ll skip it today.” Writing is
not like leg day at the gym.
Hopefully,
these three tips can help others trying to make a go of their dreams of being
the next great author. They helped me to get Neurogarden finished, and have me
well on the way to finishing the second book in the series.
Good luck, and please share links to your work when you get to the
other side!
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AUTHOR BIO:
Ever
since reading Douglas Adams back in my formative years, I have had an
interesting relationship with humor, science fiction, and technology. My first
computer was a TI-99/4A, so yeah, I’m old, but only until scientists have
cracked the code on transplanting our brains into shiny new vessels.
My
body may be showing signs of wear, but I’m keeping my brain tight.
When
I am not dreaming of far off worlds and writing, I am living a semi-normal life
working in New York City, and watching movies with my wife and her spastic cat,
Moss.
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Bryon ~ Good morning! Welcome to FAB! It is so great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
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