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Well this year has come to an end and I have been asked by many of you about Book Two of Mission to the Stars.  Honestly I was hoping to be further along than I am, but it is coming along!

Book Two has a working Title of ‘Hostile Takeover’.  As promised I am previewing it today! In order to give you a good look at it I am releasing the prologue and first three chapters! A new chapter will come out every month and a half. I will stop at seven or eight chapters or until Book two is completed.

For those who have read Book One: The Search for FTL, you’ll notice that this second novel in the series picks up right where Book one left off. For those who haven’t read Book One, I am sure you’ll have no problem enjoying Book Two. You’ll find Book Two’s preview in the Preview of  Book 2: Hostile Takeover  section on the side bar menu! Please give me your feed back as I would love to know what everyone thinks.

I have no events coming up as I am putting every effort into Hostile Takeover. If something comes up I will be sure to inform you all!

One last note: I also have posted a new short story in the short story section: LunaTics Please enjoy and again I really would like your input!

Happy reading!!

Mission to the Stars went live on 04-24-09 on several online stores. Feed back in this short time has been really positve and I’d like to thank you all for that. With that being said, June promises to be very exciting. We will be making a large publicity push in the midwest. The press release will be going out to Minneapolis MN, Milwaukee, WI, and St. Loius, MO. Also I will be making old fashioned grass roots effort to publicize the book in Rockford IL, Madison, WI, and Des Moines, IA! And with any luck, by the end of June, mid July you all will be seeing the book arrive in books stores in Northern IL. and Southern WI. After that we’ll shoot for IA. and MN. Thanks again for everyones support. With any luck I’ll be signing your book shortly! Ted

In 2005 I ran into an old friend, Dennis, from grade school. We had run into each other occasionally before that but really decided to keep in touch with each other at that time. It was also about the time Revenge of the Sith was about to be released. Some friends and I came up with the idea to do a Star Wars marathon. We were sure that as geeky as that sounded, we probably weren’t the only ones to do it. So I called Dennis and he gladly accepted the invitation to attend. We started early on the Friday of its release, watched Episodes I & 2, catching the matinee of Sith and heading back to view the original 3 movies. As Dennis and I rode to the theater we talked about how, since fourth grade, we’d always wanted to write a book together. Mission to the Stars was born. We talked about a really vague story line, trading ideas back and forth. In the following weeks I started on the story.
Within those first few months the story was taking shape nicely. Unfortunately Dennis’ work was taking up much of his time and the project was put on hold. I kept getting back to it, on and off for almost a year, adding bits and pieces to it. In November of 2007 Dennis and I agreed that I should go forth with the book on my own, as I was able to free up some of my time. So I began writing in earnest, squeezing it in whenever I could- Before work, during lunch, after work and even on vacation. There were many nights that I burned the midnight oil as they say. My family was very supportive during the whole process. There were times I wondered if it would ever end. I learned a whole new respect for writers. One would think that it’s, think of a story, write the story and publish. Wrong! The hours of research on the subject and genre alone were staggering. I wanted to strive to make this book believable. Not being a real science geek I was forced into checking out books from my local library which were imported from colleges around the country just for me. The mathematical formulas and theories were crazy! I still wonder how anyone can read them, let alone understand them. But I got enough out of them to bring my propulsion system and other theories alive. The internet is a very good source also, thank goodness most of those sites were in layman terms!
Finally in December of 2008 Mission to the Stars was completed (my wife, who helped me with editing, probably has the book memorized!) and the manuscript submitted. Now the next process, publishing, had begun. There were many steps involved during this process but I won’t bore you with those details. I hope that you enjoy reading the book as much as I did writing it. I am currently working on Book II of Mission to the Stars and if all goes as planned the Bindls may return in print for many years to come!
One last item- Dennis and I are still hoping to collaborate on future projects and, I for one am looking forward to that day!