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My new Mageverse novel!
I've
been getting a lot of questions from people wondering if I'm going to
continue the Mageverse series. As a matter of fact, I'm currently hard
at work on MASTER OF FIRE, which features the Logan MacRoy, the son of
King Arthur and Guinevere.
I really like this guy. He was
inspired by a real person, Lt. Ashely Harris, forensic chemist with the
Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office. Ashley is a good friend of my
husband, and he's also a really cool human being. Most forensic
chemists for Southern departments just test drugs, but Ashley is also a
member of the bomb squad and an arson investigator. He also helps out
on my husband's hostage negotiation cases by driving the department's
400-pound robot. (Which is operated by remote control.) He uses the
robot to deliver phones to hostage takers or handle bombs.)
At
one hostage case, the hostage taker was threatening to shoot the robot.
Ashley, using the robot's PA system, said, "Man, let me get my robot
out of here! Don't shoot me! I'm just the robot driver!" The guy let
the robot go, and they got him to surrender.
Ashley's birthday
was last week. One of his friends had a banner made with the words,
"I'm just the robot driver!" There was also another sentence: "19
second man." I need to find out what that means.
Anyway, Ashely
let me spend a week following him around on his job. He showed me the
robot and the huge green bomb suit, (designed to be worn while
disabling bombs.) He showed me how to test cocaine and crack and meth
samples, and spent hours helping me design death traps for my hero and
heroine to face. Yesterday we came up with a truly horrible situation
which should have readers on the edge of their seats.
And when
he's not doing all that, he builds Habitat For Humanity houses with his
church youth group. And runs with his wife, who is a marathon runner.
What a cool guy, huh?
Oh,
by the way -- my next book will be coming out on May 5. It's the second
book of the TIME HUNTERS series, and I think you'll really like it.
More about that later.
Best,
Angela Knight
10:43 PM
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