Edgy Expeditions

When I finished composing my first novel, Season of the Plant, I felt great satisfaction in completing something that I'd been working on for decades. It was even greater that WindstormCreative, a publishing house in Seattle, Washington, gave me a contract to have it published! I conceived Season of the Plant as a short story many years ago, wrote it as a novella in later years, and even created a movie script out of it and filmed it with a group of teens and adults in my church! However, to develop the story into a full novel was a long-standing dream, able only after I retired. What's exciting is that Jennifer DiMarco, CEO of WindstormCreative, publishers of the book, suggested that I make it the first of a series. Since "PlanetCare" was the sponsoring organization of the adventurous expedition in Season of the Plant the series is called "The PlanetCare Discoveries". The action-adventures are centered on various scientific expeditions to all corners of the earth. Since then I've written The Jewels of Stonehenge, about a mysterious set of tourmaline crystals which, if assembled, can create havoc. Windstorm Creative will be releasing that book next year. The publishers have made this series part of their "Shared Universe" project, where other authors are invited to contribute volumes to the series. I've written a Sourcebook which will help any person who'd like to join the project, and will gladly discuss and help any such person. All the adventures are to be rooted in real scientific investigation, but wild and terrible things may happen, like the horrific Plant creature in Season of the Plant, or the otherworldly destructive gems in The Jewels of Stonehenge. This can be great fun, in writing over-the-edge-adventures, I look forward to having others write these edgy expeditions with me.