“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” -- C.S. Lewis
Let's just say that even though it just started I'm already having a blast!
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While the pandemic years have been a bit of a slog for me and everyone else (let’s just say it can be challenging to stay upbeat and creative when you’re not feeling it), they’ve also been surprisingly productive.
In the past few years, I’ve stayed as busy as I can by pushing through this over-sized rough patch and…
Freelancing scripts for Hello Ninja, a fun, animated pre-school show on Netflix.
Freelancing scripts for two overseas animated series that will probably end up on Netflix.
· Finishing and publishing Elvenking (Amazon 2020), the third, but not final, book in my YA Arthurian Fantasy Leonard the Great series. Not final because I recently came up with a fun idea for a fourth book!
Plans for this year include…
· Completing and publishing Ghost Star 2 (working title), the action-packed second book in my YA Ghost Star Adventures series. I hope to have this one out by the end of April (or May) 2022.
· Finishing and publishing the novel-length
version of Undrastormur, my YA Viking fantasy adventure.
I’m 2/3rds of
the way through with this fun novel and plan on releasing it in July 2022.
· Compiling and publishing the Dragonfriend Omnibus (the first three books of the Leonard the Great series combined) and releasing it in August 2022.
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· Pushing for more animation writing gigs! I’ve been close to a number of good gigs recently, and I’m really close to an awesome high-profile gig that I hope happens. Showbiz can be brutal, so I’ll take any positive vibes you’d care to send my way. UPDATE: The high-profile gig is happening!!! Can’t say much about it right now (NDA), but I’ll share the details when I can.
That’s it for now. I’m grateful my family is healthy, and I’m happy to have a lot of fun and interesting things on my plate.
If any of the above books pique your interest, please swing by my Amazon Author Page and check them out.
Thanks!
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A brief description:
He’d battle an empire to save his family!
When
his father and crewmates are attacked and killed by a ruthless alien
commander, young Galen Bray becomes the new captain of the GHOST STAR, a
notorious smuggling vessel. Barely escaping capture, Galen sets out to
rescue the only other survivor of the vicious attack, his sister Trem.
Along the way, he discovers a mysterious people thought wiped out long
ago, his family’s surprising origins, and a destiny he never imagined . .
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Also available as an audiobook!
Thought I'd share a brief excerpt from Ghost Star. In this scene, our hero Galen discovers his mortal enemy, Lord Mohk, has a little problem with his spacecraft...
GHOST STAR Excerpt
Ghost Star (Ghost Star Adventures Book 1)
by Roger Eschbacher
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Galen squinted at the massive vessel before them. A strange sparkling stream trailed behind it. “That’s weird.”
“What is?” said Eria, glancing up from her weapons display. “Oh, that is weird. Some kind of gas?”
“The vessel is venting fuel from one of its rear engines,” said Lancer Bartrice.
“Why would they do that?” said Galen.
“It is my guess the engine was damaged during the encounter with the gas giant that crushed its sister ship,” said Lancer Bartrice.
Galen shook his head. “They tripped all the way here with a fuel leak? That’s insane!”
“That’s Mohk,” said Eria.
“Magnifying.” Lancer Bartrice zoomed in on the Lingering Death’s gigantic rear engine array. An assortment of repair craft and bots hovered around a sizable rupture in the vessel’s stern. A steady torrent of sparkling fuel poured out of the crack in the ship’s skin. The small army of bots clinging to the Lingering Death’s exterior were attempting a repair with a large armor plate. “They’re trying to fix it,” said Galen, hope rising in his chest. “Using a mag plate.”
“So?” said Eria.
“No vacuum welding, see? No flame.”
“Ohhhh!”
Lancer Bartrice shuddered violently when a missile exploded behind them.
“Snat!” said Eria, bringing up the munitions inventory on her vidscreen. Toward the bottom of the mostly empty list was a single nuke-level explosive device. “Oh, yes. That will do nicely. Get me over there.”
Galen zeroed in on the fuel-venting engine. He brought Lancer Bartrice closer, and the portside batteries of the damaged ship dutifully opened fire. Galen dodged it the best he could, but the defensive fire repeatedly came close to taking out the nimble Lancer Bartrice altogether. The exploding ordnance buffeted them around like a hover kite.
“Something tells me they don’t want to play,” murmured Eria.
Galen grunted. I wonder why?
A direct hit from an Imp boltfire battery temporarily blinded Galen, ghosting his vision with a bright flash that almost knocked Lancer Bartrice out of commission. Every electronic system on the ship briefly flashed off, and the engine cycled down before, thankfully, everything came back online again.
“We can’t take any more hits,” said Lancer Bartrice, who sounded groggy.
“I hear you,” said Galen. “We’re almost there.”
He guided Lancer Bartrice under the massive battle cruiser, hugging the vessel’s hull. The arcs mirrored his flight path and kept up their relentless assault from behind.
Galen pulled up hard, following the curve of the hull as it transitioned from keel to broadside. “Ready, Eria?”
“You have no idea how ready I am.”
Galen broke free of the Lingering Death’s hull and did a barrel roll directly over the venting fuel. “Now!” shouted Galen.
Eria calmly slid her finger over the weapons vidscreen, and a small egglike package, no bigger than a bandyball, shot out from one of the gun ports and made a graceful, tumbling arc toward the Lingering Death.
“Enjoy, my Lord Mohk,” said Eria.
Galen banked violently and leaned on the throttle, knowing he had only a few brief moments to put as much distance as possible between them and the biggest time bomb in the Rex Cloud.
A horrific flash filled the cockpit, and then, for Galen, there was nothing at all.
**
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My mom, Pat, suffers from Alzheimer's/dementia. This horrible disease is aggressive for some sufferers ...
