Karen Four

 "Friendly 246, we're across from the Wendy's and Aldi's." Crew member of Southern Airways Express flight after performing an emergency landing on a Virginia highway.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit." Pilot in Command Karen Sorenson. An Intrusion of Trifles, release date March 2024.

I'm sure you have some questions. Many of them might be related to the eternal 5W's and an H. You know - who, what, where, and all of that. It is akin to the Miracle on the Hudson, only the captain was not Sully and they didn't land in the Hudson.

Instead, two pilots managed to turn the failure of their single engine just after takeoff, which even this non-pilot knows is a critical phase of a flight, into an upright landing in a snowstorm on a public roadway. They had five passengers aboard, who deplaned with a story to tell but not a scratch on them.

Ultimately, the FAA will decide why this crew had to choose a busy freeway rather than the intended runway in Lancaster (Lank-ister), PA. The fact that they did so successfully, while in the process avoiding traffic, power lines and towers, roadway signs and signals... It's a testament to how well trained the average commercial pilot is, because they are flying for a small operation that doesn't pay a substantial amount of money. Neither of them are Chuck Yeager - especially the woman pilot coolly handling the radio exchanges with ATC.

An Intrusion of Trifles begins with just such a dilemma dropped in the lap of Karen Sorenson, former detective and now new Cessna 208 Bravo pilot, working for a small charter outfit. How does she do?

You'll have that, and many other questions answered this March. 

Back To Work

 Me: "Alexa, play new notifications."

Alexa: "From Amazon shopping, you bought the book Amache. How many stars would you rate it?"

Amazon ratings. Someone, somewhere wrote recently that they won't even consider a book without dozens of ratings listed on Amazon. While I think that is unnecessarily restrictive - why wouldn't I - there are a number of realities that a writer works with. That is only one.

To recap - we had a pretty good year in 2023. 2,289 units of the seven works available to you were ordered. At least one of each work was downloaded, with the overwhelming winner being A Guardian's Promise. My most productive year.

Before anyone comments "Don't spend it all at once," the bulk of the orders came during a free book promotion I ran through Written Word Media. While I did not make a lot of money during the promo, it put two thousand copies of Guardian in readers' hands. It rose, however briefly, to number 2 within it's genre on Amazon. That's not nothing.

What has resulted is a burst of 5 Star ratings for Guardian. It would be awesome if those readers would post something to let others know that their rating is because of how fabulous the writing is, how compelling the plot, how they fell in love with Amy... Okay, try decaf, right?

I truly appreciate everyone who downloaded and read the book. It led (probably) to someone (on Kindle Unlimited, where I get paid by how many pages are read) starting A Miracle of Zeroes and Ones. Okay, so they didn't get far, but I'm going to give grace - maybe they'll get back to it now that the holiday season is behind us. Maybe they'll take that trip to the beach, fire up their Kindle and keep going.

It's a new year, time to get back to work.

You know I'm an author, right? You can buy my books on Amazon...right?