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From Erin’s journal… A few days ago, Frank Brentford asked me for a favor that changed my life forever. He wanted me to fly him along with unknown cargo halfway around Mars to the middle of nowhere—just like we’d done before. For anyone else, it would’ve been insane. For Frank, it barely registered as … Read more
From Frank’s journal… This morning, I sat in Dome 2’s restaurant court, enjoying coffee. The Mars-grown beans are yielding a better brew nowadays. They’re on the verge of rivaling Earth’s beans. Earth coffee imports are already waning. As the Mars-yearly sandstorm reached its peak outside Mars City, I had the rare opportunity to witness an … Read more
My carefully laid plans to thwart MarsVantage and its independent-minded employees like Chuck O’Donnell, the CEO, lay in shreds at my feet.
I’ve been fascinated for some time with the idea of the government solving a problem by making something illegal, particularly popular items. Black markets emerge when getting goods becomes impossible. A century ago, Prohibition in America led to speakeasies and bootlegging. Many people made a lot of money providing a product the people wanted. Further, … Read more
Unknown to me until recently, chapter titles are controversial–in one of my writing groups, anyway. Opinions fell into a few broad buckets: liking them, doesn’t matter, and takes the reader out of the story. As far as taking the reader out of the story… If a title does that, what does just “Chapter 1” and … Read more
This post is about characters in The Siege of Mars Gretchen learns James Wagoner, a war correspondent for the All News Network, is coming to Mars. Why he’s coming now makes her suspicious. No reporters arrived after she and Frank discovered a buried alien city over the Martian horizon. Even when reporters and inspectors descended … Read more
Since discovering Bvindu technology two years ago, Frank, as part of the Citizens in Freedom Committee, diligently worked to push MarsVantage to self-sufficiency under the radar. For him, that’s the key. He believes the company will achieve it before Washington gets wise and attempts to stop them. The other members of the Committee, including his … Read more
When I decided to write a sequel to The Music of Mars, one of the first decisions I had to make was how much time passed before the new book began. Too little or too much and believability would be strained. For the story I wanted to tell, I needed my MarsVantage main characters (Gretchen, … Read more
Two years have passed since Gretchen Blake and Frank Brentford of MarsVantage discovered an alien city, Bvindu Dome, buried under the Martian plain. Kept secret from everyone except for a select few, Gretchen and Frank plan to leverage the city and its technology to gain self-sufficiency for MarsVantage. Exploring it along with a small group … Read more