Happy Book Release for ABANDON STATION!

It's finally here! ABANDON STATION is now available.

Link: https://amzn.to/3SCcvn5

Price: $10.00

Blurb: A thunderous explosion echoes through the vastness of space. The Bridgeway Space Station is rocked by a catastrophic blast, sending Chief Engineer Meridia Vail and her international crew spiraling into an alternate dimension. They awake to find themselves stranded on an Earth trapped technologically in the past.

As the gravitational forces of this backwards planet wreak havoc on their metabolisms, Meridia races against time to locate her missing crew members before they meet an ominous fate at the hands of this archaic world order’s military forces. Piecing together clues, she discovers that the Bridgeway somehow survived the interdimensional jump too, but is trapped in a rapidly decaying orbit that threatens to demolish this entire parallel Earth.

In a nail-biting showdown, Meridia must leverage the unmatched technological power of the Bridgeway to bargain for her crew's release from detainment before all-out war erupts between the planet's primitive defenses and the unimaginable alien spacecraft looming above.

With millions of innocent lives hanging in the balance, she gambles on an audacious attempt to escape her captors.

What I've Been Up To

It's been a while since I've last written in this blog, so I thought I'd touch base. In all honesty, I mostly read blogs when I'm looking for information that has to do with fixing a problem.

But for the sake of doing my marketing duty, here it goes...

For the most part, I've been working on material for my other pen name. I've gotten rights reverted back to me for one book, so I just finished doing updates to that. Also, I've gotten some serious inspiration for my YA series that I need to get out of my head and down on my laptop screen.

As for what I'm doing as VG Harrison, I'm almost done writing my next trilogy. I've changed the name of the first book to something that's closer to home. Also, I'm working through a few ideas for an upcoming anthology that will be released by Mocha Memoirs Press. It's going to be about robots, so you know that's right down my alley. Fingers crossed, I make the cut, too. I've already played around with one idea, but when I reread the theme, I realized it might not work because my protagonist isn't the robot. "Some-bodies" else are. I still might finish it anyway. If nothing else, it might drum up another robot idea in my head. That's usually how it works with me.

Oh, and let me not forget that I'm thinking about another story that takes place at sea. That will most certainly be under the V.G. Harrison pen name.

Engine in the Sky - SOLD!

Engine in the Sky, my newest sci-fi novel, will be published by Mocha Memoirs Press! I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see this story told. This was one of those stories I wrote for the fun of it because I wanted to "retell" history, so to speak.

This story came about when I was watching the movie Hidden Figures--IMHO one of the best space movies, ever--and couldn't remember how the space program started. I had read somewhere that when JFK started the program, he had two options: either push to be the first man on the moon or build a space station. In our case, he wanted the us to have the first man on the moon. But...what if he had chosen the latter? How would that have affected our program today? That's where my idea grew into this beast of an idea.

Check out the synopsis below.

Engine in the Sky takes place a few years into the future, in an alternate universe, where the Gateway station is getting ready to venture out into the solar system to perform a terraforming experiment on one of Jupiter's moons. Before it can leave the Earth's orbit, a malfunction onboard makes it impossible for the Gateway to maneuver behind the moon to avoid a massive solar storm. When the storm hits, an explosion sends the station hurling not only out of time, but into another alternate dimension where Earth is not the same one they left behind.

Half of the crew survives and Prof. Meridia Vail is the last of the American crew to awaken from a five-year, "stasis-type" coma. All of her friends from the U.S., Canada, West Canada (yes, there is a West), India, Australia, Korea (no North or South), Russia, Venezuela, England, Scotland, Japan, Hungary, China, etc. have all been sent back to respective countries. That alone has Meridia and her crew on edge with regards to their newfound surroundings. These "New Earthers" are nowhere near the technological advances that the Gateway crew is used to, so that means one thing. They want to steal their technology. Using the excuse that the Gateway is in a decaying orbit doesn't inspire confidence when it's to the benefit of these people to figure out how it works so they can stop it.

When Meridia gets a chance to break out of her "guest" confinement, she goes into this New Earth to find answers to why her crew is where they are and what happened on the Gateway? More important, is there a way for them to return to their own space-time dimension? Can anyone outside the government be trusted to help? One thing is certain. If Meridia and the rest of the Gateway crew can't convince the New Earthers' that it's in their best interest for all of them to work together, the dinosaurs won't be the only things that are extinct.

At this point, the release date is sometime in 2022. As soon as I know more, so will you. In the meantime, continue to watch this space because you know a blurb will be coming at some point. ;-)