"The SETI Trilogy" Just Published

     Am I excited or what? My three book one volume anthology, "The SETI Trilogy" has just been published, tonight 2-28-2014, on the Apple iBooks store. The book would be 873 pages in print and it runs at 225,000 approx., so it is a hefty read but you get all three books in one book. It is also available on Amazon Kindle and BarnesandNoble Nook.

 

 

Lots more to come with new books in 2014.

 

 

Frederick Fichman

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED. Amazon Kindle. Book III in The SETI Trilogy, "SETI, Conception"
http://www.amazon.com/SETI-Conception-Book-III-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00IFZP9XK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392368519&sr=8-1&keywords=Frederick+Fichman

JUST PUBLISHED. Amazon Kindle. Anthology of all three books in "The SETI Trilogy"
http://www.amazon.com/The-SETI-Trilogy-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B00IG1WSS2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1392370659&sr=8-4&keywords=Frederick+Fichman

Slaughter in Copenhagen Denmark

                Marius, 2 year-old giraffe slaughtered by the Copenhagen Zoo

I have made it a point in my blogs to avoid topical news stories, especially about politics which I find extremely boring. I don't talk about wars, strife, and destruction. You can read that easily on a thousand other blogs on the internet.

But this story about a perfectly healthy young 2-year old giraffe slaughtered by the Copenhagen Zoo has made me just livid. And I am going to comment about what this zoo did over the weekend. I am going to comment on it because as the author of the 12-volume book series, "Visit the Zoo" I have become attached to the animals scattered in zoos around the world. In zoos who protect, nurture and have contributed to saving many species from extinction. But what the Copenhagen Zoo did to this young giraffe and in the public way they did it is just so wrong I cannot understand why the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums finds nothing wrong with what the Copenhagen Zoo did.

Perhaps there is a difference in European sensitivities versus American sensitivities. But this morning I heard famed naturalist Jack Hanna rage on in anger about his disgust with what happened to this giraffe and I totally agree with his anger. He was ready to take this poor animal, so were other zoo and animal welfare organizations. But no, the Danish did not want to let "emotion" cloud their handy work.

This is basically what happened. The Copenhagen Zoo has a breeding program for giraffe. This young giraffe, Marius, was born with a gene set too close to the other giraffe in captivity in that zoo and was therefore "incompatible" for use in their breeding program. This how the murder of this giraffe was described in a London newspaper: "In the chilly dawn of Sunday morning a healthy young giraffe in a Danish zoo was given its favourite meal of rye bread by a keeper – and then shot in the head by a vet."

Petitions to the Copenhagen Zoo did not stop this killing. Calls from other zoos to transport and take the giraffe Marius did not stop the killing.

And to make matters even worse, the dead giraffe was butchered in front of a crowd of average Danish adults and children. Parts were kept for research but major remains were fed to the lions in the zoo.

I am going to list a link from the New York Daily News where you can read about this animal murder: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/danish-zoo-kills-giraffe-in-breeding-concerns-article-1.1607522
You can read the article, consider this blog and decide for yourself whether what has occurred is right or wrong.

I can only say that I guess in some parts of the world this kind of senseless slaughter is condoned and even encouraged without any moral compass to determine or gauge whether that action was right or wrong. I am confident that in this country, the United States, something like this action taken by the Copenhagen Zoo would NEVER happen.

Yes there is slaughter of humans occurring daily around the world by other humans. My blogs subject matter is the fiction and non-fiction books that I write not politics or current news events, get that from someone else.

And finally, if the Copenhagen Zoo does somehow read my obscure blog written here Prescott, Arizona, very far away from Copenhagen, Denmark and they don't like what they have read or disagree with what they have read, what I have written, then they can go straight to hell. I don't care what they think or say. They are barbarians.

Terra Firma

FYI

29% of Earth's surface is covered by land, terra firma.

1% of that 29% is occupied by human habitat; the rest is wilderness, desert, agriculture and desolation.

When you read my soon to be published book three in my SETI Trilogy, “SETI, Conception,” this will be an important fact to keep in mind.

The SETI Anthology Kickstarter Project

The SETI Anthology Kickstarter Project has just been established.
Go To:  http://kck.st/10EBNI

Book number three is well underway and the manuscript should be completed soon. I am going to combine book three with book one and two into one package. The Anthology will be available on Amazon Kindle, BarnesandNoble Nook, KOBO Books and Apple iBookstore. If all goes well with the completion of the manuscript, the copy-edit and the final edit...I am guessing March for release.

The crowdfunding Kickstarter project will raise funds so I can successfully market and tell as many people as possible that The SETI Trilogy is now complete and brought together is one volume.

I hope you have the opportunity to check out my Kickstarter Project page at http://kck.st/10EBNI.

And as always I look forward to your feedback and comments. Thanks

SETI Anthology Teaser-Trailer

Behind The Curtain

This  blog is going to be a wee bit different because I want you to know what 2014 is going to look like for me. Besides the cycle of daily life events such as sleeping, eating...and other things, I want to give you peek into the life of an author and schedule for upcoming projects and manuscripts on the horizon.

First of all, the picture above, you are looking at Writing Central. This is where I write, upload-publish and market my work. I have three monitors in front of me at all times. The monitor on the left is cable TV. I am a news junkie and love to keep up on what is going on in this crazy world of ours. The middle monitor is my Dell PC monitor. It is where Microsoft Word resides and where I am currently working on "SETI III, Conception." This manuscript will be book number three in the SETI Trilogy. And the dark monitor, frame right, is connected to my Mini Mac. It is the computer I edit video, you can find on my Frederick Fichman You Tube Channel, and where I also work on photographs to sweeten them for publishing.


I am deep into writing the manuscript for SETI III. It is consuming my day and nights and most of my waking hours. When I am not actually at the keyboard I am thinking about where I am going in the story and where I have been. And I take notes, so many notes it is sometimes mind boggling. Like "where-did-I-put-that-note" mind boggling. This is what just one stack of notes looks like:

 

 

 

But I am having great fun with it. And I think you will be happy with the results. There are twists and turns in this story and it ties together the entire story line of the SETI Trilogy.  Here is a screen shot of my computer screen for the opening for SETI:

 

 

 

But after I finish this manuscript I have so much more planned for you for 2014. Let me just go down the list:

 

The SETI Anthology

I will put all three SETI books into one Anthology book. I am guessing that the total word count will be somewhere around 250,000 words for all three books. I will price it on Amazon Kindle and BarnesandNoble Nook so that one of the three books in the Anthology will be free. That's three books for the price of two. I am hoping that will be somewhat of an incentive for readers to buy all three books at the same time...that way the story line will flow for you easily and quickly as you read.

 

Grand Canyon Update

A few weeks ago I updated my "Grand Canyon-The South Rim Guide to Lodging, Hiking and Dining" book with the most current contact information. In the next update in 2014 I am going to include the sights and pleasures of  the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. There is a beautiful lodge at the North Rim and some great views that I will show you from almost directly opposite of the South Rim which is the more heavily traveled section of that U.S. National Park.

 

The Feather -A Fantasy Journey of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

This is a novel about the Lewis & Clark Expedition written as a fantasy. It will be fantasy that has never been attempted before, and believe me there are hundreds of Lewis & Clark books out there...mostly non-fiction. Like I said, this will be a fantasy fiction novel. It will spawn other follow-on books as well, more about that later. I am so excited by this project I can hardly wait to get started. I let you know when that happens.

 

The Petrified Forest/The Painted Desert-A Guide

Recently I visited that National Park located in Northern Arizona. It is one of the strangest, eeriest, and most beautiful sights I have ever seen. Its history of creation goes back millions of years. I took extensive 1080p HD video and some breathtaking photography that I am dying to share with you. This is another project I can hardly wait to start.



Megapgtera
This is a novel I started several years ago. I have actually finished about half of the manuscript, a portion of which you can read on my website www.frederickfichman.com. It is a Science Fiction/Fantasy novel about sentient Humpback Whales, on an extraterrestrial planet or maybe distant unknown Earth. I will let you decide which applies.

And somewhere in all of 2014 I plan to actually have a life. Of course, I will communicate with you my loyal blog readers. I will let you know what is released and when. And as plans move forward, there maybe some surprises I will present you as well.

So, let the party begin. Let's get into it all and have a good time. Thanks for staying with me. I wish you all a very successful and prosperous rest of the year. I hope all your dreams come true. Bye for now.

FF