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Monday, December 31, 2018

The Fifth on the Eighth. By Michael E. Gonzales

The Fifth on the Eighth.

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! My new year is starting off with a great finish. On the eighth of January, 2019, the fifth and final story from The Unborn Galaxy…will be born.

The Blue of Antyllus is the sequel to The Vampires of Antyllus, and will answer the question, “will the human settlement of New Roanoke survive on the alien world or will the humans destroy themselves?”

Peace can be defined differently and so what one person may see as peace another may perceive otherwise. This absence of homogony among the humans will likely lead to the death of them all.

In The Blue of Antyllus you’ll find action, mystery, adventure and romance. Unrequited love, love forsaken and love denied. The outcome of the conflict will determine the future of several burgeoning loves. Whose will survive the wild blue?

This was a difficult story for me to write. First, most of the characters are based on people I have actually known, real human beings whose real-life stories ended far too soon.

I have, in my story, breathed life back into these people, so that they and I…and you, might share one last great adventure together. Also, I have put my characters, both good and bad, through hell, and not all of them will get the deserts they so greatly deserve. Very much like real life.

The alien world of Antyllus is moving forward under new rule now that the war has been fought and won. With the native E’meset tribe joining with the emerging rebel Earth forces against Wilmington, the nefarious commander of the corrupt IIEA army of mercenaries, a tenuous peace has been patched together—but the solution for that peace is not workable for some, and whispers of a deadly uprising are in the wind...

Captain Nash Rastaban tries to rebuild his life after being duped into fighting with Wilmington’s iniquitous forces He is recruited by Dave Mitchell to help quell the mercenaries who plan to take over Antyllus—a battle he wants no part of. But when he stands to lose all he holds dear, he realizes that peace is something he is going to have to fight for—this time, on the right side.

Will Antyllus ever be settled? Can the E’meset trust the humans and SUBs to fight alongside them against those corrupt officials who would take over Antyllus for their own gain? Power is a formidable motivator, but Antyllus—and all it stands for—is worth this fight…worth dying for. Nash and the ragtag band of soldiers he leads are determined to protect their homes, their loves, and their lives—even if it means making a last, defiant stand here in THE BLUE OF ANTYLLUS…

Travel with me under the surface of the moon and try to survive. Join me in heated combat inside Earth lunar base. Cross a Sea of Stars with me for the adventure of a lifetime. Journey several light years into space to save an entire race and then return with me to that world in The Blue of Antyllus.

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My next story will move us away from science fiction and into the realm of Fantasy...

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Monday, September 3, 2018

The Unborn Galaxy series by Michael E. Gonzales

Another rousing BLOG post by Mike Gonzales, the American, Spanish, Englishman.

I cannot start to tell you how fortunate I am to have been published buy Fire Star Press.

Who among us can’t wall paper their home

with rejection letters? I was once told, by a literary agent I was courting, that “a rejection is not a reflection on you, personally.”

Of course not. It’s just a rejection of the work I poured my heart and soul into. It’s a comment on the vast amount of emotion, consternation, and yes, at times even tears, that I have invested in the telling of that story. It's a comment on that part of me that I have transferred onto that page.

Not that I'm bitter, you understand!

Despite the pain associated with these rejections - I persevered. I still have pinned to my computer the quote by Richard Bach, “An author is a writer who didn't give up.”

The circumstances that brought me into contact with Prairie Rose Publications, as I look back on it, seem highly unlikely. Perhaps even guided by an unseen, all powerful hand. Anyway, that’s how I like to see it.

So here I am, four books on the open market and I still can’t believe it. So, thank you, everyone at Fire Star Press! (Really, can’t say that enough!)

My first published works are a five-book series called, “The Unborn Galaxy.” Each book is a standalone story but they all take place in the same fictional universe. Their commonalities are that they all origin on JILL, the Joint International Lunar Laboratory, and there are bleed over characters. For Example, in “Across a Sea of Stars” Kathy is a minor character popping in and out of the story but only briefly. However, in “The Vampires of Antyllus” she is the main character.

I hope you’ll follow me on this adventure through The Unborn Galaxy, to the Moon, and beneath is cratered surface.

To a battle ground inside the great Moon base.

Come, be whisked away from the desolation of the lunar surface to a world of beauty and danger.

And take your position aboard the Demeter for a many years long voyage to another world and a fresh start for humanity, that is, if the promise of this new world doesn’t bring about its destruction.

Then in the fifth book…

The Unborn Galaxy; Dark Moon Rising, The Battle of Broken Moon, Across a Sea of Stars, The Vampires of Antyllus - Available through Amazon.com, Kobo, iBooks, Books-a-Million, Walmart.com, and Barnes and Noble.com