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Marti Ward
The Paradisi Chronicles are written in the classical mode, targeting readers looking for thought provoking space adventures involving emergent AI, intelligent animals (cats) and young people who have to rise to the occasion. Some readers are Star Trek or Star Wars fans (but only realistic near future tech; no weapons were harmed in the making of the Paradisi Lost stories, although other Paradisi stories do involve fight scenes). Some mystery readers have transferred to the series, although the focus is more on discovery and problem solving.
Marti Ward
Hi Cheryl,
Thanks for the question… I’m glad you enjoy my stories. My output has slowed since (long) CoVID but I have things on the burner in relation to all series:
the end of this year should see the next in the Quantum Talents series (School for PsyQ) as well as a collection of short stories (Marsball) relating to Quantum Talents, Klandor Rising, as well as independent (and also considering fan fic inclusions).
Moraturi Star is also well underway (3rd book in Moraturi sequence) but got pushed aside by other projects (best selling book is Time for PsyQ) but I hope it will get to press next year.
For Casindra/Moraturi/Paradisi there is a seven set series planned. For Quantum Talents, this is actually an outgrowth (by popular demand) of a short backstory (Sooty in Out of their Minds) that was written as I work on a more complex multiuniverse Appearance of Magic multiseries.
All books are aimed to be enjoyable for readers from 9 to 99 (although some 8 year olds and 100+ year olds may just have enjoyed them too).
cheers,
Marti
Thanks for the question… I’m glad you enjoy my stories. My output has slowed since (long) CoVID but I have things on the burner in relation to all series:
the end of this year should see the next in the Quantum Talents series (School for PsyQ) as well as a collection of short stories (Marsball) relating to Quantum Talents, Klandor Rising, as well as independent (and also considering fan fic inclusions).
Moraturi Star is also well underway (3rd book in Moraturi sequence) but got pushed aside by other projects (best selling book is Time for PsyQ) but I hope it will get to press next year.
For Casindra/Moraturi/Paradisi there is a seven set series planned. For Quantum Talents, this is actually an outgrowth (by popular demand) of a short backstory (Sooty in Out of their Minds) that was written as I work on a more complex multiuniverse Appearance of Magic multiseries.
All books are aimed to be enjoyable for readers from 9 to 99 (although some 8 year olds and 100+ year olds may just have enjoyed them too).
cheers,
Marti
Marti Ward
Klandor - I'd really like to meet the yolti! Of course, several of the characters ARE me travelling there in spirit... Irene, Don, Lorraine, Lennis, Yuri, Yvonne...
Marti Ward
"Writer's Block" - sorry that was two words not two sentences.
It's more
"Pantser can't figure out what ends can be tied up in this book.
Plotter finds someone else has used this idea before."
It's more
"Pantser can't figure out what ends can be tied up in this book.
Plotter finds someone else has used this idea before."
Marti Ward
You realize it's summer now - half way through. So I've already read a stck including Charlie Holmberg's Numina series and Abigail Manning's Once upon a Rhyme series and Kathleen Bird's steampunk retellings and Adven trilogy and Caren Hahn's Wallkeepr and Hatched series and I also reread Asimov's Caves of Steel and Naked Sun (most of these I have reviewed on Amazon/Goodreads and/or am reviewing for Clean Fiction Magazine).
In terms of plans, I'm planning to reread/review some of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PERN books and the early R.A.Spratt Friday Barnes books (don't like the latest ones). Then I'm looking forward to reading the Train Flight (trilogy) by Elizabeth Newton because she targets the same 8-108 audience I do with my Quantum Talents series (and generally those I've mentioned earlier are suitable too - getting to know the past and future of this demographic).
Basically, things don't stay a plan long as I generally read a novella a day (or longer books over two or three days). So I really like books that have well-defined acts/parts and nice clear stopping points (so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour) - my first three books didn't, but the next three do (in fact the Rising series is also now available as individual novellas).
In terms of plans, I'm planning to reread/review some of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PERN books and the early R.A.Spratt Friday Barnes books (don't like the latest ones). Then I'm looking forward to reading the Train Flight (trilogy) by Elizabeth Newton because she targets the same 8-108 audience I do with my Quantum Talents series (and generally those I've mentioned earlier are suitable too - getting to know the past and future of this demographic).
Basically, things don't stay a plan long as I generally read a novella a day (or longer books over two or three days). So I really like books that have well-defined acts/parts and nice clear stopping points (so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour) - my first three books didn't, but the next three do (in fact the Rising series is also now available as individual novellas).
Marti Ward
Mystery - not to me!! I have written a two part tale of meeting men with blades on a bridge (in different countries - and in one case it was used to kill, and in the other it Taureg who it turned out was trying to sell me the scimitar). There there might be a few skeletons in closets, or bullying episodes (and how I dealt with them), some of which are making thei way in disguised form into my stories. Then of course there's all the different schools and universities I've been too - in a dozen countries...
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