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Now on to the introductions!
And then there was me…and my blog is under the heading thoughts on another page.
I am J. Traveler Pelton, the head of our intrepid crew. I’ve written 75 books in the last few years since I went into semi-retirement, which I realize is a time when you are supposed to be settling down, but somehow my imagination and my reality never seem to quite jive with each other. I’ll tell you more about our farm and company on other pages, but let’s explain the basics here and move on, shall we?
I live on a mini-farm with Dan, 8 alpaca, a flock of chickens, 5 Pomeranians, 5 Siamese cats, an Amazon parrot named Gizmo, 18 canaries, and a flock of button quail. I write fiction and non-fiction; from cozy mysteries to devotionals, from self-help books to science fiction, from kid’s stories to some I just haven’t been able to qualify yet. If you look at our book catalog, something is going to interest you! And it’s always growing.
Would love to win this great promotion. Thanks for the opportunity!
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Just finished For the Love of a Child and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Was sad when it was finished and makes me want to venture out to our local zoo. I could picture myself at Melody’s Zoo through the entire book. What a wonderful place for young and old.
Thank you for your kind words. I enjoyed writing it and (spoiler alert) am working on the next mystery.
Good morning J. Traveler! Your books are awesome! As I have told you.,I love my books! I favor high fantasy.,but recently discovered Tony Hillerman books…about southwest Navajo Tribal Police solving crimes in an arid desert envirement. Very interesting books with the most beautiful descriptions of the Mountainous desert lands
absolutely, just checked my own library and I have 8 of his books-a great author.
Marnie, have you been reading the writer’s tips I’ve been putting under thoughts-this weeks’ sums up the past 4, but you might find them interesting. I’ll be going into marketing, writing-the whole nine yards.
Marnie, the lesson, listed under courses, is now live online here on the website. I hope it can help you and a lot of other people to enjoy and be more successful with their writing; blessings.
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Don’t forget to enter-and share the giveaway for more chances to win. I’ll be giving away four tablets-one for each giveaway, plus tons of books-so enter the ones you are interested in.
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Due to difficulties at Kingsumo, it starts tonight at 10:30, instead of yesterday, and it runs two weeks. I am sorry for those trying to get into it.
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Entered giveaway. Good luck to all.
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I so hope you do! If not there is one more giveaway running right now.
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And this month there are several of them-and just wait til you see what I’m doing next month!
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I just finished The Oberlynn’s Overland. The next book you say is Rebooting the Oberlynn’s, but Amazon says it is book three. Help?
The books in the Oberllyn series are as follows
The Oberllyn Origins
*Oberllyn’s Overland
*Terrorists Traitors and Spies
*Rebooting the Oberllyn’s
*The Infant Conspiracy
*Kai Dante’s Stratagem
*The Obligation of Being Oberllyn
*To Protect One’s Own
The Importance of Family Ties
Kith and Kin, Together Again
Micah’s Quest
Alex’s Honor
The Infinite Frontier
Thank you for reading and hope this helps. Incidentally Rebooting the Oberllyn’s is going on download Special Feb 20-it will cost 99 cents for an Amz download.
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Thank you for entering. Isn’t it a bummer when the gizmos we have break down?
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You are welcome and this is going so well I may need to do another one in June; at any rate, thank you.
Everyone would love to win this including me. Real nice giveaway. Thanks for giving me a chance to win. Good Luck Everyone!
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I received my book. Thank you very much.I usually read through Kindle Unlimited; I can’t afford all the books. Thank you again for the Oberllyn Omnibus collections. Are the last three in a set yet?
yes. I totally put all my books in KU, so download and enjoy!
And the lst three dealing with space, Alex and Micah, will be omnibus form hopefully by the end of the year.
Great news re omnibus of Micah and Alex. I will look for it. I would love to be a beta reader.
Jus read books 1&2 in Piper’s story. Terrific writing and story. Look forward to reading more of your books.
Thank you. I am in process of book three in the hidden America series; so watch for it, Piper’s Peace. In the meantime, starting the 18th, I have a book set on temp free status=my new cozy mystery box set-500+ pages of fun. If you like cozy mysteries, don’t forget to download it! The Fiber Mavens Omnibus: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBQYJ8M1
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Hi Jeanette, missed you at Powwow this year, couldn’t make it. Wanted to get over to this site to show support, you are a wonderful author and I have read a few of your books while recovering. Hope to see you soon!
Thank you for your kind words. Are you feeling better?
I love your books, I am a huge fan of fantasy. I also really love Christmas. Hoping I win a copy of the book you are giving away.
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Dear J. Traveler Pelton,
A Freebooksy promo popped into my email today and your book, The Oscillating Mind was featured. It sounded intriguing so I zipped, like literally zipped over to read a sample. Unfortunately, the entire sample was filled with links, a dedication and you know, other stuff. I couldn’t even read a sample of your writing. Bummer. So, as a gentlewoman author, may I suggest changing up either your front matter, or writing kdp and asking them to start the sample of your book at the first chapter. Anywho, happy writing! -Shelley
Thank you for pointing that out. I’ll see what they can do. IN the meantime: Prologue and Recap
In The Multifaceted Mind, book one of the Many Minds series, we were introduced to Allyson, a young, talented woman who happens to have Disassociative Identity Disorder or DID. DID is the newest name for Multiple Personality Disorder, Split personality, or any one of several psychological labels that simply means her mind was in pieces and each piece was a separate person. She is unable to integrate her minds, so she has learned to use them as a team. Her mental team consists of
• Allyson Greyson is the gatekeeper of the splintered minds including
• AKA Allison(shy accountant),
• Aka Carmen(organized, brilliant, all business, cold as ice)
• AKA Li – a male martial arts expert who liked to practice parkour in his spare time
• AKA Sondra a gardener and survivalist like Allyson’s dad, Hiram
• AKA Sage a most intense detective person
• AKA Sophia; the unknown musician who never speaks
• AKA baby Ally who never stops crying
• AKA Avril the homebody, bakes, cleans, organizes, chooses clothes, and takes care of everyone
In this series, we hope to introduce you to several different “disorders” that in the common view would prevent this person from accomplishing anything besides self-care. The reality of the mind is much different, as we hope you’ll discover. The disorders are real; the people and situations are not, but are the composites of case studies I know about, worked with, or have been acquainted with in my work.
In the last scene of book one, Allyson/Sage visit a small shrine she has built to her parents’ memory; it calms her and she tries to put the clues she has been receiving from an unknown person together. She holds a file as she sits in the rocking chair.
“She labeled the file as Person X; she had no name yet. There was a file for each part of her so she wouldn’t lose anyone else. Allyson, Allison, Avril, Li, Sophia, Carmen, Sage, Baby, Sondra, Ally and now this person. Why was she unnamed? The others had introduced themselves. This one just seemed to be a feeling, not a person. In the file, she slipped three objects, first, a picture of the greenhouse graffiti and the piece of leather from the cat collar. She studied them carefully. Had she planted these useless clues? They had nothing to do with the murder, and yet this morning she had found a third. When she’d gone to care for her hens, someone had taken out the faux glass eggs that were in each next to encourage the hens to lay eggs. They’d removed them and written a letter on each one with a black marker, then put them in order on top the nest. They’d spelled out TRAITOR.
Traitor to what? Did this person do that? Was she trying to tell them something? She slid the picture into the file. She picked up the picture of her parents and sighed. They weren’t that old. She missed them so much. Holding the picture to her, she knelt, folded it in her arms, and began to pray for them, that they would be at peace and that she would be as well. Her voices joined in a murmur in her soul, asking for peace, peace, serenity, unity. After a while, she patted and replaced the picture, put the file in its place locked the cabinet, looked around, and blew out the candles. Leaving the room, locking it, and walking to her bedroom, seemed to take all the energy she had. She changed from her robe into jeans, a tee shirt, and tennis shoes, walked to the garden, and started to work, her energy returning. Someday there would be answers. For now, she had work to do. Work and then supper and then bed. Sondra the gardener slipped into place as she worked.
With the help of Detective Martin, her brother Lykyn, her Aunt Sara and her Uncle Trevor, Allyson solves the murder of her business rival, reconfirms herself as the head of her family’s accounting firm, and overturn a major fraud case. In book two, we will move on to another person and his supposed disability; there is much more to Stirling than the eye beholds.
Chapter 1
Allyson sat at the head of the table, in a pinstriped blue Versace suit; hair in a chignon at the nape of her neck, large round eyeglasses and a frown. She looked at her brother Lykyn and his new wife Ivory as they strolled into the board room, hand in hand.
“This meeting was supposed to occur ten minutes ago.” Tim Malloy, the head of data analysis, grinned at Lykyn. Tim was quietly their underground go-between with Homeland Security.
“Allyson, come on, you need to cut them a break. They just got back from the honeymoon a couple days ago.”
“I am cognizant of the fact. It is disrespectful of the time of our other execs.”
“I’ve got your figures for you,” Lykyn said cheerfully. “I sent over the pages to be included in the report so we can finalize it.”
“Did you find out about our past employees?”
“The old board? Yeah, that’s in there too.”
Ivory, dressed more modestly in a business suit she’d bought at Nordstrom’s, cleared her throat. “I have to admit being surprised at how far they fell and how fast.”
“Greed does that to people. They used to be dad’s friends, some here almost as long as family, but the idea of wealth changed them. So where are they?” asked Aunt Sara. She was knitting what looked to be a baby banket.
“Well, here’s the list: Jason White is still in jail for fraud; he has another year. Hermon Montrol had a two-year sentence, had to pay reparations, and got out on parole. He’s in a small town in Montana with a small private office doing titles and such; the research for them. He lost his law license. Alistair Levi is in France. He had dual citizenship, went through the trial but had requested asylum in his home country and they allowed him to return home.”
“He never went to jail at all after all those hearings?” demanded Allyson.
“Fraid not. Mordred Simmons died during the hearings of a heart attack. Howard managed to plea bargain his way to two years of community service and time served, by portraying himself as the victim of the mob with a murdered son. He sold his primary home, moved he and family to his vacation house in Wisconsin, and is trying a start-up.”
“Where exactly is he?” asked Aunt Sara.
“Tell our uncle he might want to keep tabs on him. He’s an angry loose cannon and he lives less than 300 miles from us. These days, that’s like next door.” Her son shook his head. “Contact info is in the folder; victim’s advocacy office gave me the data.”
“Well, I already checked the role, now that you’re here, we all are,” replied his sister, who shook her head as if listening to something inside and disagreeing.
“Allyson,” Ivory said softly. “This is my first day and I don’t really know the board?”
“Oh, I thought Lykyn would have said something. Well, besides you, me, Aunt Sara, Tim, Millicent who is head of the accounting division, Zanzibar, the head of security, Lykyn and our new office manager Stirling Washington, this is the board of Greyson and family, inc. Now shall we get back to the agenda?”
Ivory looked hesitantly at her husband who smiled at her.
“You know about Allyson’s alters?” he leaned closer and whispered. “This one is Carmen, all business. You met Avril at the wedding, all friendly family person.”
“How many are there?” Her eyebrows nearly touched as she wrinkled her forehead and tried to look as if they were looking at something on her screen.
“We think 7, maybe 8. Uncle has a better idea. Shh.”
Tim spoke up. “Speaking of the agenda, we’ve plugged the holes in the budget with the loss of the board members. Financially I’m pretty certain that our accounting section will give us good news, but I wanted to give a small warning. I’ve gotten a head’s up that there have been several attempts at busting through our firewalls. None successful. However, on analysis, they all seemed to center on one area and we’re checking into it. In addition, the file I’m sending over is Allyson’s eyes only; once you read it, you can choose who you want to see it.”
“Sounds ominous,” replied Aunt Sara. She changed to another color in her knitting. Ivory wondered who the afghan was for and if she ought to prepare a gift for another relative who might be pregnant. Fitting into Lykyn’s family was important to her; she wanted to get along with them all. They did seem to have some vexing issues.
“It is ominous. Homeland is concerned about some of our clients.”
The meeting went on with financial reports, employee issues, needs to be approved. They had a two-hour slot set up; they did not go over. Allyson kept things moving.
Stirling sat in his chair and absorbed what he could, but he was settling in for a down day. He’d been fine this morning, but he’d been holding steady in this job for a couple months now and his brain seemed to clamor it was time to take a sick day and stay in bed and do nothing; he needed his vege out period. He hadn’t been here long enough to get through his ninety-day probation and in the past, he’d only been able to hold the cheerful exterior together for at the most two months. He liked this job; he wanted to stay. His body seemed to sigh; his shoulders slumped as he looked at reports. He just had to get through this meeting; he could go back to his office and work on processing the paperwork office managers had to do. The last few days he had kept his room dark, usually the door was open and the lights bright; he made himself accessible and had boundless energy. He was running out of that energy; he could feel it leech away.
He was eternally grateful to his cousin Ivory for getting him this position. He took his meds, he hoped they kept working. He felt a momentary panic, had he taken them? Yes, he had. His next were due after work and he had them laid out at home. He kept his eyes on the screen in front of him. He took notes on a small tablet of reminders. Would this meeting go forever? He needed his office. Fingering the copper chain bracelet he wore next to his watch, he took slow, even breaths. What if someone asked him a question? He could not answer a question right now. His energy seemed to filter out into the air. He felt brain fog settling in.
“Any other questions?” asked his boss. “No, then let’s get to work. Lykyn, no PDA, if you please.” She marched out of the board room carrying her laptop. Lykyn sighed.
“Ivory, I assure you she likes you just fine. The gatekeeper will help her get over the stress of the first meeting of the new quarter and I suspect switch her by supper.”
“Supper?”
“She usually changes into Sondra the gardener or Avril the homebody at supper. You get used to it.”
“It’s sort of creepy.”
“No, she’s fine.”
“Is it inherited?” Ivory asked softly.
“You mean if we have children, will they split? No. It’s not a genetic thing. Let me show you to your office.”
“Has she had the grand tour?” asked Aunt Sara as she packed up her knitting bag.
“Did it this morning. See you at lunch, Sara?”
“No, it’s my visit day.”
“That’s right. Tell Uncle hi.”
His hand on the small of her back, Ivory was directed out of the board room.
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Dang! I think I already have that book…but the audio book. I like having the kindle books as well! I so enjoyed your Christmas book. I was one who read every chance I had but my eyes don’t let me do that so much anymore. Thank goodness for Audiobooks! I enjoy your books not much but I do with the red with virtual voice, at least all of them. Virtual voice is fine, but it becomes like driving down on a long highway in Nebraska. You loseconcentration after a while. I wish we lived near one another because I think we could be friends.
IT’s fine: just add a correction comment if you feel a need. And I am glad you like my books.
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