The web is inundated with 2012 doomsday predictions, which cite everything from the bible to the Mayan calendar to Nostradamus as well as everything in between.  There’s even a movie entitled 2012 coming out in September showcasing the devastations predicted.

Supposedly, on that fateful date in 2012, the planets in our solar system will all be in alignment with the sun, and the sun will line up with the center of our galaxy, resulting in a pole shift, solar flares, earthquakes, tsunamis, and everything else imaginable.

But there are those who say December 21, 2012 will be the real beginning of a new age of peace.

Both versions are compelling to me and I’ve decided to include them in my next Matt & Heather thriller, Shaken, a story celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area.

While my stories are aimed at young readers, I’ve wirten them so that they might apeal to an adult audiance as well.  I’ve tried to keep them exciting and entertaining for the child in all of us, to be informative in some way, yet sophistaicated enough to hold an adult’s interest.

My purpose is to not only have the child read but the parent/grandparent as well and then engage in conversation about the plot, characters, backdrop, what might happen next, etc. - in other words, to do what a book club does when a book is selected to be read simultaniously by its members with a disscussion period to follow.

I hope this idea apeals to you.

Enjoy!

This episode contains the Prologue and Chapters 1-3 of The Mariner’s Secret, the first book in the Matt & Heather series of young adult thrillers. In it, you meet the characters…both innocent and sinister.

Music for this podcast is “The Chamber,” composed by Kevin MacLeod and performed by Aidan Keith-Hynes, available at Incompetech.com.

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I just signed an agreement with Bookshare to allow free use of my stories in a special format for the visually impared.  I am in total support of their work and am honored to be among those authors whose works are made available through Bookshares efforts.

I’ve just joined my fellow authors at Smashwords.com in its summer/winter promotion.  During this  period, my e-books will be available to download for free.  Check them out at www.snashwords.com.

Thanks for your interest.

The Mariner’s Secret is now Pod Cast.

Click on the link to Podiobooks and listen free to all ten episodes of my family-friendly story.  Let me know what you think.

I love reading and writing about time travel and would love to visit other times and places – how about you?

Enjoy,

Mary