The Mars InSight probe, launching May 2018, will land on Mars in November 2018. You can submit your name at NASA.I thought it would be fun to submit the name of my novel’s main character. She goes to Mars early on in my novel, The Music of Mars.
Here’s her boarding pass:
I’m working hard to finish the novel edits. I hope to have it out by Thanksgiving 2018.
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I’m an author living in northern Virginia with a wife and a cat. In the late ’80s, I worked on the International Space Station project. I recently retired from managing a group of software engineers to focus on writing science fiction and speculative fiction. Learn more.