Love’s Garden — Nearly There!

Love’s Garden — Nearly There!

My Little Creative Interview, Courtesy of Scott Coon, Author of Lost Helix (2020)

Mesdames et Messieurs! It is good to have good friends Please use the link below to see the little creative interview Scott took of me http://www.scottcoonscifi.com/LCI.html I try to share in it my few ideas and insights about the writing life and the marketing of your writing life. It is important for today’s writers, in this changing and sometimes bewildering publishing world, to think savvy about the writing after it’s done. I hope some of my ideas will be useful. And don’t forget to check out Lost Helix, available at http://www.LostHelix.com Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Helix-Scott-Coon/dp/1939844681 Barnes & Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-helix-scott-coon/1135144023?ean=9781939844682 Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lost-helix iTunes…

Scott Coon reading from Lost Helix

Hey! Don’t miss this, readers! How lucky is it that we can watch the very talented Scott Coon reading from his amazing debut novel, Lost Helix!!! Leave comments and Scott will see them. Buy the book itself from Amazon, Kobo, Powell’s and other sites…. Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Helix-Scott-Coon/dp/1939844681 Barnes & Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-helix-scott-coon/1135144023?ean=9781939844682 Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lost-helix iTunes – https://books.apple.com/ca/book/lost-helix/id1490128516 Smashwords – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/993588 Bookshop.org – https://bookshop.org/books/lost-helix/9781939844682 Powell’s – https://www.powells.com/book/-9781939844682 Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50386208-lost-helix Dancing Lemur – http://www.dancinglemurpressllc.com/sciencefictionfantasy

HINDSIGHT 2020? Is this how 2020 — ANNUS MIRABILIS of COVID-19, global CLIMATE catastrophe, and Galloping toward THE SINGULARITY, the three slathering horsemen of the Apocalypse called POSTHUMANISM — will be remembered? In the indomitable true spirit of Sci-fi, Scott Coon’s debut venture Lost Helix reminds us that we should be looking back too as we move forward into an unknown future…..

Lost Helix
By Scott Coon

Excerpt

After the system kids finished their celebration, DJ waited while Paul changed. Then they headed to DJ’s empty apartment for an unsupervised night of violent video games. As the elevator whooshed them toward residential level nine, Paul made an announcement. “I’ve decided not to wait. I have the money, and I don’t need their worthless diploma in the mining arts. After the championship, I’m bouncing out of this human habit trail.”
For the first time in their lives, Paul’s pipedream felt real. He could feel it already.
Alone.
He tightened his jaw. “Have you even figured out how you’re going to get off the station? They bring our food in by drones, and the shuttles are locked down. Did you come up with something else?”
Paul grinned from ear to ear. “Oh, don’t you worry about that. Unlike school, I’ve been studying for this. There are more ways off this station than you think. It’s more a matter of choice at this point. I’ll be sending you a holo from New Greene.”
New Greene. DJ couldn’t imagine a place like New Greene, where you could go outside without a pressure suit and walk around under a sky. It would be strange. It would also be strange to be here without Paul. Paul was right. His dad was right. DJ needed to figure something out before Black Mountain figured it out for him. He didn’t want to be a miner, but he didn’t want to be a farmer, either. But how could he become anything else?
He didn’t know.
DJ managed a meager smile. “I hope I get that message, but I don’t want to see your body floating outside my window.”
Paul snorted. “You’ll never see my body floating outside your window. I’d aim my body at the corporate center and try to smash in an executive’s window, all big and flashy the way I like it. You should come with me.”
DJ jerked his head back. “What? Smashing through a window?”
Paul smacked DJ’s shoulder. “No, jack-knob, to New Greene! What do you have keeping you here? Not like you have any plans or a girlfriend or money or friends, besides me, really, or…”

How to write a science fiction novel and even get wonderfully published!

Hi people, I want to introduce you to my friend Scott Coon, whose excellent sci-fi/futuristic novel Lost Helix is going to be available for purchase on May 18, 2020. Here’s the story: Stuck on an asteroid mining facility, DJ dreams of writing music. His dad is a corporate hacker and his best friend Paul prepares to escape to become a settler in a planet-wide land rush, but neither interests DJ. When his dad goes missing, DJ finds a file containing evidence of a secret war of industrial sabotage, a file encrypted by his dad using DJ’s song Lost Helix. Caught in…