A new and exciting novel from the author of
The Prison of Power: A Man-Made Tale
A Kestel Circles is a story about a detective as opposed to a detective story. The protagonist, Mathew Brown AKA Augustus De Marco Cervantes,
is a detective that claims he can find anything. This is an odd statement from an odd character but seems to be true. He has a penchant for staring
off into space. What he is staring at is very complex and very simple at the same time. He calls it “the canvas”. The canvas is not definable.
It is something that he can tap into that is filled with sensory delights. At first, the canvas is just a place that Mathew explores for entertainment
but he discovers that it is much more than that. The canvas tells him things, like where his lost phone charger was located. This discovery is the
beginning of his career as a detective. His successes at finding lost objects result in many clients wanting his skills. He is much in demand.
This novel contains limited violence and is aimed at an adult audience.
The Prison of Power - A Man-Made Tale follows
6 characters in an "alternate universe" where women have taken political control of the world to
such an extreme that men no longer hold important positions at any level of society. The males of
the species have been subjugated primarily for their penchant for violence; at least that is the public spin. They no longer have the right to vote. It is pretty much a reversal of where women were only a hundred and twenty or so years ago. It begins with a series of horrific events that are the impetus for these changes.
Six characters wend their way through a society that has changed dramatically and yet has not changed at
all. The males of the species have been subjugated primarily due to their penchant for violence; at least
that is the public spin. Other less ethical reasons for the new laws begin to seep out as we follow the characters
in their various quests.
This novel contains non-gratuitous violent and sexual scenes. It is aimed at an adult audience.
Jayne Wu is a brilliant and inexplicably-lucky 13-year-old girl
in a future earth obsessed with its survival. A massive meteor storm is sweeping in from intergalactic space and
will destroy the entire solar system a hundred years in the future. The world government builds massive asteroid
ships with plans to send the best of humankind out to colonize new worlds.
Jayne wants to leave the Nursery and become a Technical Electrical Mechanical Fixer and be part of the great adventure.
Jayne has an extraordinary mind and she comes to the attention of a cabal of ultra-rich politicians and scientists.
They have their own survival plans. They want Jayne and those like her so that they may extend their lives indefinitely.
The novel series is suitable for teens and adults. There is no overt sexual content. Violence is limited.
Now 16 years old, Jayne Wu is working as a fixer on Biome 3,
a thoroughly inhospitable environment. Despite being alone in a cold society that is preoccupied with developing
tech to escape the approaching Swarm meteor field, she is just starting to feel she can serve her world by advancing
her own profession. But her mysterious protector, Professor Greenway, is nowhere to be found and the Consortium
crime syndicate is plotting to abduct her. Danger seems to find her, and death is no stranger to those around her.
How long can she evade the Forevers and prevent anyone else from being harmed in the process?
The novel series is suitable for teens and adults. There is no overt sexual content. Violence is limited.
Seventeen-year-old Jayne Wu is literally battling inside her
own mind against Dr. Winter Bancroft, the evil neuroscientist of The Forevers. Jayne has Poppy Greenway and
the Sentinels on her side—but can they really counter the Consortium and the Forevers?
Spike and Rafferty are both vying for Jane's romantic attention, but who has time for men when the future of humankind
is on the line? Jayne becomes the ultimate impostor, driving ever deeper into the danger, trying to destroy
the Forevers and lure the sociopathic Ur. ~William Thurston into the open to capture him. If she fails, it could
jeopardize mankind's plan for survival and certainly her own.
Closer than ever to succumbing to the voices within, a, how long can Jayne hold out?
The novel series is suitable for teens and adults. There is no overt sexual content. Violence is limited.
Pandora Rao is a seventeen-year-old girl with a very special mind.
She is living on one of the orbiting asteroid biome ships preparing to travel to the stars to save mankind from extinction.
She is happy and plans to become a scientist studying the flora and fauna of her home asteroid until her father surprises
her on her seventeenth birthday. The surprise horrifies Pandora.
So begins an adventure that takes her from her orbiting asteroid home to the planet below and back again. Pandora discovers
that both she and her little brother are the target of the most insidious and evil of The Forevers who want to destroy their
minds and take over their bodies.
Can Pandora survive? Can she thwart the Forevers’ diabolical plans?
The novel series is suitable for teens and adults. There is no overt sexual content. Violence is limited.
While working for his father at the Old Cooper Place, Billy
discovers there is more to the property than just a rundown house, dilapidated garden shed, creepy cellar and overgrown
backyard. While rolling his rock filled wheelbarrow over a small hole in the ground a cave-in leads to a macabre discovery
that leads to an ancient mystery and possible treasure. He wants to solve the puzzle on his own and encounters a number of
obstacles as he strives to keep his newfound discoveries from his dad and nosy best friend, Jackie.
The difficulties mount when Billy’s band of friends decide to build a fort near the Old Cooper Place in a large tree
overlooking the freeway. The treehouse gives them front row seats to a sinister caper putting Billy in even greater danger
than he or his friends ever imagined.
This mid-grade novel is suitable for good readers age 8 and up. There is no sexual content. Violence is very limited.
After his adventures in the tunnel at the Old Cooper place,
Billy Brathwaite settles into Middle School, and his friends. His science teacher asks the class to find
three different kinds of rocks for the next class. Billy sleeps in, misses the bus, and decides he will have
to take the tunnel under the freeway as a shortcut to school. As he is walking up the median between the north
and southbound lanes he remembers that he needs to get some rocks for geology class. He picks up three common
rocks and searches for the fourth when he spies a smooth green rock shaped like a gigantic tooth.
That is the beginning of an adventure that stretches a hundred years into the past. Billy discovers that there is
more to the green tooth than he first thought. Keeping that discovery a secret will put Billy in mortal danger.
This mid-grade novel is suitable for good readers age 8 and up. There is no sexual content. Violence is very limited.
One day Lily told a lie. It wasn't a big lie. It didn't hurt anyone.
She thought lies that didn't hurt anyone were okay, especially if the lies helped you a little. And they did help her ..... at first.
The little lies turned into medium lies.
The medium lies turned into big lies.
Big lies turned into MONSTER lies .....
But Lily’s lies turn into real monsters with buggy eyes and big slimy teeth.
They appear everywhere and taunt her. Lily cannot escape until she discovers
the one thing that can destroy a LIE MONSTER, especially an ELEVENTY-HEADED one.
This chapter book series is suitable for ages 6 to 12. It is a 'Read to Me' book for the younger audience.
Tina was little. Being little was a good thing.
She used that to get her own way. And everyone had always treated her like she was special.
But things were changing and Tina needed a plan. A plan she didn’t have, that is until she met
Little Trouble – a monster who helped her devise a way to become special again. But when things
did not go as planned …. Little Trouble invited Big Trouble. And when that did not work.
Big Trouble invited TERRIBLE TROUBLE.
And that is when things went horribly wrong.
This chapter book series is suitable for ages 6 to 12. It is a 'Read to Me' book for the younger audience.
Bernie the Banana Slug woke up one spring morning
to the sound of wood bugs squabbling about the weather. Bernie lives under the strawberry patch.
He decides to slither up and check it out. It is a warm spring day. He was hungry but knew the strawberries
would not be ready yet. Bernie was smelling the air with his antennae when he heard a loud screech.
Mrs McIntyre had spotted him. And that’s when everything changed for Bernie found himself flying
through the air.
This chapter book is suitable for ages 3 to 8. It is a 'Read to Me' book for the younger audience.
Sally the mouse settles her grandchildren down for a bedtime story. They have all heard
about the owl who thought he was a mouse many times but it never failed to excite them in
the telling. It all started one stormy night. Their grandfather, Rodney was on his way home
when lighting hit the old oak tree. The falling branch tossed a tiny owlet from his nest.
As luck would have it, an old ribbon left behind by a crow, tangled in the owlet’s leg and
saved him from the fall. Rodney was not sure what was swaying from a ribbon in the wind until
he heard a ‘cheep’. He called upon his friend Paulie to help him rescue the bird.
That was the beginning of how the owl grew up thinking he was a mouse.
This chapter book series is suitable for ages 3 to 8. It is a 'Read to Me' book for the younger audience.
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G Michael Smith is a poet, novelist, and children’s book author. He has a BA in Psychology, English, and Creative Writing and a professional teaching degree from the University of British Columbia. He has a Master of Arts degree from San Diego State University. He has written four science fiction novels in The Forevers series all featuring a young female protagonist titled “Mind Storms”, “The Traveler”, “Master WU” and “Omie – The Mind Mage”; a mid-grade novel titled “Hijacked - A Beechwood Adventure”; written and illustrated three children's books titled “The Accidental Adventures of Bernie the Banana Slug”, "Lily Liar and the Eleventy Headed Monster" and “Tiny Tina and the Terrible Trouble”. His poem - "Hummingbird" was recently published by Deep Overstock in their ‘Animals’ edition. A recent micro-story titled "Jimmy" has been accepted for publication by Coastal Shelf. He has since published “The Prison of Power: A Man-Made Tale”. His new novel is a detective story with a difference titled “A Kestrel Circles”. His books are available on Amazon and other online sellers.
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