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ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: THE WROUSSARA TRILOGY AUTHOR Wroussara (pronounced: roo-saw-rah) - We Who Are One
ABOUT the Author:Alien Encounters: The Wroussara Trilogy is the latest scifi ebook by author Timothy M. Thompson. This three volume science fiction epic is the culmination of 20 years of imagining and writing. Tim holds a Bachelor's degree in English (awarded with Honors) and has a Master's degree in Media Communications and Management. In the late 1960's, he received the Belles Letters Society Award for the best short story written by a college student in the City Of New York for his science fiction story, "The 14th Day". Tim has many interests, besides science fiction writing, which he has practiced through the years since he graduated from college. His first "big" work was an on-line ebook (written in HTML) for ClydeSight 2.0! - The Fun and Games Cat Site called: The Idiocy and the Oddity. It is a parody of Homer's epic, "The Iliad and the Odyssey", told entirely from a cat's point of view. It premiered in 1999. While a humorous work, written in story teller fashion and loaded with puns and silly situations, the book has a serious and somewhat prophetic side. In the story (which you can read on-line any time you like) the true villains of the piece are members of a large corporation who set about to bankrupt a kingdom. Ironic, considering the financial meltdown caused by several corporations in 2008! Later Tim met Cathrine Garnell, author of "Basil the Bionic Cat" (a scifi story for animal lovers!) and started an ongoing on-line correspondence. The two became good friends and co-authored Tim's second ebook "Cooking Up Customers for Marketing Success". This ebook takes a unique approach to marketing that focuses on helping readers get into the mental space of their customers, instead of relying on gimmicks and tried-but-not-true marketing techniques. It does this in a very unique way, through the power of food! Each chapter in the book has an unusual food recipe that demonstrates the "out of the box" thinking the chapter is teaching. By cooking up the recipe and experiencing the results, the reader can get a better grasp on how the marketing technique - the marketing recipe - works. In a way one might say that with this book, one can eat his/her way to success! Tim and Catherine furthered their collaboration and wrote "The Cross of Ramplet - The Mystery of Throckmorton Manor". A mystery suspense novel published as an ebook, "The Cross of Ramplet" is about a Regency English family's quest for a lost treasure left by the Knights Templar in the English village of PortSur. In their greedy quest for the treasure, they plot and scheme, people disappear, fights break out, a band of pirates gets into the mix and in the end, they discover that the Cross of Ramplet holds a valuable secret, worth far more than the solid gold and jewels of which it is made! It's rollicking good fun to read. An interesting sideline to Tim's interest in science fiction is his avid interest in vintage tape recorders! Tim grew up with these machines, and naturally advanced to CDs and the other digital media so popular today, but he never lost his love of the vintage magnetic tape technology, both reel-to reel and cassette. It is amazing that what goes around comes around (especially in tape recorders, which literally do "go around"). In 2007, Tim found an old, busted up Wollensak tape recorder offered on E-Bay for a mere $10. It was the model 5750, part of the "designer series" that had a short life span in the late 1960's. Tim got the machine and meticulously restored it, and in the process was so captivated by the engineering and his devotion to the technology that he created an entire Web site which ClydeSight Productions posted as a sub-domain all about this machine, The Wollensak 5750 Restoration Project. But more, on a whim, Tim made a video of the machine and posted it on YouTube, something he'd never tried before. The video was well received and Tim was encouraged to make more tape recorder videos. One year later, Tim had bought and restored 50 vintage tape recorders and chronicled them in video format posted on YouTube. Clydesight sponsored his work, and these videos appear on YouTube under the ClydeSight Channel. So why did Tim write "The Wroussara Trilogy"? Here is his explanation: "The book started life as a dream back in the late 1980's -- the section where Paul first arrives on the Wroussaran's UFO and meets the aliens. I 'lived' that experience in a dream that was so profound, I had to write it down. Of course, in the writing of a dream, many things emerge, and I was amazed that an entire scifi story was growing from the fading memory of my nighttime experience. I shared my early transcriptions with some friends who encouraged me to develop the concept into a science fiction novel about an encounter with aliens with a difference. So I began to work and as I did so, my imagination and creative writing talent took over. The final version that you read here has only a vague semblance to my dream (although I still remember that dream vividly) and incorporates all the elements of good storytelling including complex character development (especially the space aliens) and plot situations. Well, I finished volume 1 of the scifi book in the early 1990's. At the time, I had written it on a Commodore 64 computer, which of course, did not last. I had a printed copy of the story, but the discs were useless (even space aliens could not help me beat the incompatibility issues!) So, I had to transcribe the entire first version of the novel into modern equipment and set it up in ebook format. And as I did so, the scifi ebook and story expanded into an epic adventure with the space aliens, far beyond what I had originally dreamt, a hero's journey of self discovery and relationship with life and nature. That is why it is in three volumes. When you consider that Volume one spans over 500 pages, it only made sense to break the story up into more manageable segments. Thus it became, The Wroussara TRILOGY. otherwise, it might have been called "The BIG book of the Wroussara", which would have been absurd. I had no intention of publishing the work, it was complete unto itself and written for my own personal satisfaction. But I shared it with friends, and they all seemed to have the same opinion, "Please share this with the world; don't lock it away where no one will know." And that is the reason for the publication through ClydeSight Productions. I hope that the reader will get a sense of adventure, one of place and experience as I have. As I wrote the book, I often lost all sense of time and place. My fingers raced over the keyboard, my eyes stared at the computer monitor, but my vision was the worlds and adventures of the characters. In fact, there have been times where I felt like I was a reporter, chronicling events that I saw in my mind's eye as they were taking place. Characters began to speak for themselves and do things that as an author, I would not have asked them to do. This is a great adventure for a creative writer, when the story takes on a life of its own. I hope that for the reader, it will be a similar experience, that the reader can step away from his or her own life for a time, and dwell in the Universe of the Wroussara and their companions, experience their adventure as it unfolded to me and in the process come away with a sense of wonder, amusement and perhaps some wisdom that there is much more to life than we can ever know, and nothing is ever quite what it seems.
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Other ebooks by Timothy M. Thompson:
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The Cross of Ramplet - The Mystery of Throckmorton Manor (Garnell Thompson) Follow the adventures of Darla Throckmorton and her crazy English Regency family as they seek out the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, the fabulous Cross of Ramplet, which holds a treasure more valuable than gold! Ebook format |
Cooking
Up Customers for Marketing Success Learn the basics of marketing by thinking outside the box and developing original ideas ands concepts. Practice new concept by using food recipes that teach you how to think like a customer! Ebook format |
The
Idiocy and the Oddity Corporate
greed tries to bankrupt a kingdom in this parody of Homer's war-torn epic
of heroes, gods and monsters -- all told from a cat's point of view! HTML
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