Navigator – Final book – Broken Arrow is published!

Broken Arrow is the fast paced conclusion to our alien invasion and I love how it ended.  There’s a temptation to launch the story five hundred years into the future for an epic space war, but I’m going to put that idea aside for now.  I don’t want to give any plot spoilers, but it comes to an almighty ending, including a sneak peak as to what happens five years later.

I’m part way through writing Battlefront and I’m enjoying that, however I’m also wanting to play with some new ideas I have.  I’ve always been fascinated by human psychology and how we all interact.  What we remember isn’t accurate and what we see certainly isn’t the same as others.  Our version of the world and what we take away is almost as unique as our fingerprint.  Everything we worry about is merely what we imagine might happen and rarely what is.  Being adaptive, once something actually happens, we find a way to live with it.

Which leads me to an odd experience I once had.  For four years I lived in a house that was over a hundred years old.  Being bored one day, I looked up how to make a ouija board and then tried it.  Big mistake!  Now, I’m a fairly pragmatic and logical person, or so I thought, but this house did some weird stuff after that.  Whenever I went away, I would always return to find open side or back doors.  Hundreds of dead flies would be found on a window sill in a completely sealed room.  I won’t go into full details, but when I finally looked up the events on the web, I learned I had all ten signs of a haunting.  I was so busy deciding such things didn’t exist that I completely missed the point!  Oops!  If there really was a ghost or demon, I must have been very annoying.

The idea I’m contemplating is a straight up psychological thriller.  I like stories that don’t quite fit what we believe to be reality.  After living in that house I discovered there’s lots of ways to conclude what was really going on.  The scientific view says I simply don’t have all of the facts.  The spiritual realm says it was a haunting and possibly an attempted possession.  The psyches will tell me I was merely interpreting what happened based on my own psychological position.  Which one is true?

I also want to write a standalone book.  I do love a series as both a reader and a writer, but I’m thinking it might be nice to try a standalone story.  A psyche thriller loosely based around a real life experience could be entertaining and to some extent therapy!

While I mull over some more stories I’ll leave you to hopefully be entertained by Broken Arrow.  I grew quite fond of the team and I’m a little sorry to let them go.  They were an argumentative bunch who squabbled with one another almost as much as they did with the enemy, but I guess that makes sense.  I’ve never been convinced the meek will inherit the earth.  Let’s face it, they’d be the first to be eaten so there’d be none left.  Nom nom! 😀