As you set about this weekend for travel, food, fun and family, please be safe and keep in mind the real reason for Christmas.
Over the last couple of months, today's guest has shared treasures and thoughts with us but today William Burt is giving us a peek into his novel, The Lake Lights. Take it away, William....
What are the mysterious lights flitting above Oswego
Lake on moonlit nights? Marsh gas? Ball lightning? Or holdovers from the dawn
of Creation?
When Jonathan Oliver makes it his homeschool project
to track down the source of the Lake Lights, his search leads him to Iron
Mountain’s abandoned Prosser Mine and its age-old secrets. After his physicist
father goes missing in the wilds of Afghanistan, Jon is left to decode a
cryptic message leading to yet more mysteries and a remarkable, game-changing
invention.
With his grandfather’s help, Jon matches wits with
an unscrupulous scientist who will stop at nothing to steal the device and sell
it to a shadowy criminal organization. Jon’s dual discoveries not only help him
to deliver his city from total annihilation but also ultimately rock the
scientific world to its very foundations.
EXCERPT:
THE LAKE LIGHTS
PROLOGUE
Gliding
silently through the night, the huntress skimmed the lake’s moon-silvered
waters, her own reflection moon-like. Lured by the light, a trout swam to the
surface, where the she-beast scooped it up and devoured it whole. Her offspring
joined in the frenzied fish-fest. Voracious predators, taloned yet toothless,
nameless yet having many names, they ruled the lake.
The
natives who arrived later knew the beasts as the Skookum-kallakala.
No one—especially children—ventured out at night when the Skookum-kallakala
were hunting. Fish were not all they ate.
Out
of the east the creatures had come. Winging upon the prevailing winds, they
skirted the jagged young mountains and reeking volcanoes thrown up during the
Great Flood. Harsh winters drove them across uncharted oceans and seas. In
their quest for warmth, shelter and prey, they traversed wastelands of freshly
laid stone where others of their kind lay entombed in their final agonies.
At
length, the Skookum-kallakala reached the coast of a vast continent teeming
with wildlife. Enjoying the land’s abundant food and mild climate, the
newcomers lacked only a suitable place to breed.
Above
an inland lake valley, alternating flows of basaltic magma and an iron-rich
slurry had invaded a mountain of flood-borne sediment, forming thick beds of a
heavy brown ore. Much of the molten basalt spewed out of the mountain, leaving
behind lava tubes and caverns—a perfect refuge from ice and snow, fire and
flood.
The
Skookum-kallakala had found their ideal home.
“The King of the Trees” subsequently won the 2014 Silver Medal in the category of “Christian Fantasy.”
All seven of Burt’s series titles have been awarded five stars by Readers’ Favorite reviewers. He was also a 2013 finalist in The Authors Show.com "50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading" competition.
Volume I in his new Creation Seekers series, “The Lake Lights” is William Burt’s first foray into the realm of science fiction. The plot deals with the investigation of an unusual lake phenomenon in Oregon as well as the discovery of a world-changing invention that helps prevent a nuclear disaster.
As an Assistant Professor in the Special Education Department at Western Oregon University, Burt served as a successful grant-writer and program coordinator. He holds a B.S. in English from Lewis and Clark College and an M.S. from Western Oregon University in Deaf Education. Burt has been an RID-certified sign-language interpreter with over forty years’ experience. His interests include reading, foreign languages and mycology. He is married with two grown children and two grandchildren.
Find out more about William
and his books at his Website. The Lakelights is
available at Amazon in Print and for Kindle!
Hope you enjoyed today's post, friends and that you'll drop by each week for Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlight.
Until next time, take care and God bless.
PamT
Hope you enjoyed today's post, friends and that you'll drop by each week for Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlight.
Until next time, take care and God bless.
PamT
4 comments:
William,
This sounds like an excellent read. Congrats and happy holidays.
The story sounds very suspenseful. Best of luck, and Merry Christmas!
Definitely suspenseful! Best wishes and Merry Christmas.
Thank you one and all, and I hope you have enjoyed a blessed, Merry Christmas as well! (I'm about a third of the way through writing the second title in the Creation Seekers series, by the way.) Thanks for visiting Pam's blog, and may the Lord richly bless you!
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