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The Clometheons follows a solitary seamtress living in a remote valley facing past trauma while finding herself and her friends pulled into a strange interdimensional conflict. Where did the idea behind this novel come from?
My ideas stemmed from viewing a high mountain plain during a motorcycle trip in Wyoming and wanting a woman to be the main character and heroine of an epic tale, simply because I do not feel that women are chosen for such roles as often as they could be, and mountains are majestically inspirational. The rest of the “active ingredients” came from bits and pieces I gathered from friends and family that I considered amazing elements for “some story, somewhere.” From there, I began formulating a storyline. As I progressed, I often found myself in a state of wonder, thinking not only about where I wanted the story to go, but how to get there in the least expected, least predictable way I could conjure.
The science inserted in the fiction, I felt, was well-balanced. How did you manage to keep it grounded while still providing the fantastic edge science fiction stories usually provide?
Because I wanted to write a story that would reach across genres and demographics, to write something almost anyone could enjoy, I intentionally steered away from things becoming too complex for younger readers or too simple for older readers. I also felt that the genre has a stereotypical public perception of being deeply intricate, “nerdy,” and over-the-top detailed with the inner workings of things involved. While the mainstream sci-fi releases are still great books and wonderful stories, they mostly cater to a niche audience. Therefore, having a desire to reach as many readers as possible, I chose to ignore the common molds and branch out in new ways, creating a uniquely suspenseful, unpredictable journey. Maintaining suspense was one way to turn the scientific details over to the readers, allowing their own minds to visualize the moment instead of dissecting it. Instead of me explaining how things work or why such things are possible, I simply let the science happen. We all use things in our daily lives without knowing the science of how they operate or why they work the way they do. This story resembles that commonplace presence, where the knowledge isn’t as critical as its application.
What were some themes that were important for you to explore in this book?
Women’s empowerment by creating a female role model, who seeks kindness, fairness, and generous goodwill towards humanity, but also comes to realize that sometimes there is no avoiding the need to draw a line and stand behind that decision for the greater good. Men have traditionally held this role, and many have been very good at it; I simply wanted to do something for the girls that might give them courage and strength to be whatever they desire, and the confidence to believe that they can do whatever they must when tough circumstances and choices confront them.
Outside of that intention, I’ve noticed that today’s culture has strongly abandoned the value of “escape” entertainment. Instead of deliberately platforming throughout the content of a story and forcing anyone to swallow the author’s perceptions about anything, I chose to write an old-fashioned good vs evil tale, where the readers can immerse themselves in the characters and storyline, and enjoy the story for what it was intended to be, a momentary escape from all the pressures of the world. From there, I chose the common desires across all cultures, where peace, love, loyalty, honor, accountability, responsibility, integrity (and many more), all have a valued presence and core existence between the members of their society and communities.
Can we look forward to more work from you soon? What are you currently working on?
Yes! I am hard at work wrapping up the sequel, The Clometheons: Return of the Bringer, and beginning the third installment, The Clometheons: The Power of Seven. I do have some other genres, both fiction and nonfiction, that are already in the mix. If The Clometheons doesn’t get too crazy, you can also expect a detective/crime/sci-fi trilogy in the near future that contains an original plot twist! As far as I have been able to find, I have something that has NEVER been done before! While I’ve seen things that come close, I must believe that if other authors had thought of my twist, they would have chosen it to prevent paralleling any other authors at the very least.
Don’t nobody go nowhere… I have some incredible works lined up for the next two to three decades!
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Through an unforeseeable, unimaginable encounter, she lives her life subjected to five unbreakable, unbendable, unforgivable rules called the Absolutes. However, in exchange for her subjugation, she has been granted an empowered, immortal existence.
She will live forever.
She will be eternal.
But what dreams and aspirations will this cost her? Even in a state of immortality, how can she know the future? How can she guarantee herself anything? How can she control the uncontrollable? Can her immortality provide her with anything more than a state of permanence? Only the future knows.
And the future begins here, right now, in this wildly imaginative first release that entangles the intergalactic with the interdimensional and places the future of planet Earth in its crosshairs. Everything hinges on a simple girl who needs to figure out what she has gotten herself into, how she will overcome it, and how she will permanently resolve the threat hovering over her life, her loved ones, and planet Earth itself.
Of all the tales that have come to exist in the traditional lore of good and evil, there has never been a story quite like this. Welcome to a fresh new adventure that is sure to edge readers everywhere, both young and old, where the impossible becomes possible and the unexpected can be expected.
The Clometheons
In The Clometheons, a science fiction novel with a strong spiritual and emotional core, we follow Jenelle, a solitary seamstress living in a remote valley whose life has been shaped by a past lightning strike that nearly burned her world down. When a storm rolls in with lightning that sometimes has no thunder, time that seems to freeze, and a comet-like streak of light that falls into the woods, her private battle with trauma suddenly collides with a much bigger one: an interdimensional conflict between TUPO and the Deugeotvites, watched over by mysterious beings and embodied in things like a glowing orb named Dot and a living doll called Stitch. As Jenelle, her sister Linda, her niece Melissa, and their friends get pulled into this strange war, the book shifts from small, weather-beaten cottage life to questions about peace, restoration, and what it actually means to trust.
The writing leans into vivid, sometimes almost playful description: thunder sounds like trucks in tunnels, storms feel like cauldrons whipped by a cranky wizard, and anxiety is this stomping thing in your gut that will not sit still. I enjoyed that a lot. It gave the science fiction a grounded, sensory feel, like the cosmic story had mud on its boots. I never doubted that the author cared about these characters. Jenelle’s fear of lightning, her stubborn attempts to pull up her big girl pants, and Linda’s protective streak all felt human and messy in a way that suited a character-driven sci-fi story more interested in hearts than hardware.
What surprised me most was how the book handles the big ideas under all the strange terms and factions. On the surface, you have TUPO, Deugeotvites, triglets, and travelers, but underneath that, I heard very familiar questions: What do you do with trauma that never really leaves? Is peace something you fight for or something you receive? How far do you go to keep others safe, even when you are terrified yourself? There is a clear spiritual layer here, not preachy, but present, especially in the way storms, second chances, and “miraculous” timing show up in Jenelle’s life. The science fiction framework lets the author talk about good and evil, loyalty, betrayal, and restoration in a way that feels like a parable in motion. I did feel the book’s length, and sometimes the pacing wandered when I wanted the main conflict to stay sharper.
I felt like I had spent time in a very particular corner of science fiction: one that cares as much about emotional scars as it does about cosmic battles. If you enjoy character-focused, spiritually flavored science fiction that mixes small-town living with interdimensional stakes, and you are okay with some extra flourishes in the prose along the way, The Clometheons will hit that sweet spot. Readers who like their genre stories thoughtful, hopeful, and a bit talky will get the most out of it, especially if they are willing to sit with storms, both in the sky and inside a person’s chest.
Pages: 658 | ASIN : B0FNYK44LJ
