A Weapon's Journey by Frank Martin Book Tour and Giveaway :)
A
Weapon's Journey
by
Frank Martin
Genre:
SciFi
Living
in poverty with his abusive father, Adam Judson never considered
himself special. Not even when the authoritative American government
abducted him to be part of its secretive weapons program. But
becoming a highly-trained child soldier was just the start of Adam's
journey. After being condemned to undergo the program's most brutal
procedure, Adam became a super human of unimaginable power. Now he
faces the burden of deciding if his newfound abilities make him a god
or just another weapon.
“Just for you,” she replied, her weapon trained directly at his head.
The other two soldiers followed her into the room and Colt smiled as he squeezed the trigger. “Too easy.”
Diving over a hail of green gunfire from Colt’s weapon, Adam sprung up and kicked Colt straight back into the wall. The injured super-soldier then raced around the room as Wolf opened fire, her shots trailing just a split second behind his movements.
Aiming at a spot ahead of Adam’s path, Raptor timed his shot and fired his launcher as Adam passed him by. The grenade round connected directly with the super-soldier and exploded in a green burst, blasting him straight through the wall and down to the street below.
Impressed, Raptor held up the lightweight weapon with a smile on his face. “Damn. Can I use this thing all the time?”
Barely paying attention to the question, Wolf answered him while helping Colt up to his feet. “Stay focused. We still have to finish the job.”
Frank is a comic writer and author that is not as crazy as his work makes him out to be...seriously.
Since his writing
career began he's had multiple short stories published in horror
anthologies by both Burning Willow Press and Stitched Smile
Publications. Frank has also had comic shorts appear in the
"fluff noir" anthology series Torsobear and the
all-ages horror anthology Cthulhu is Hard to Spell.
Frank also wrote and
produced the comic anthology series Modern Testament, which featured
a wide ensemble of artists throughout its four volumes. Frank's
novels include the YA sci-fi thriller Predestiny published by
Crossroads Press and the zombie horror Mountain Sickness published by
Severed Press.
Frank currently
lives in New York with his wife and three kids.
I've
been thinking lately about what makes a person a writer. What are the
inner qualities that drive someone to sit down and flesh out their
imagination into words? It’s obviously not for everyone. I've met
people that were astonished that I'm able to craft a story with
characters and worlds from nothing. Like it was impossible for them
to just make stuff up. But I'm from the belief that everyone at some
point in their life had this ability. I mean, that's all kids playing
make believe are doing. Making stuff up. And what are writers if not
grown ups who never stopped playing make believe?
I
also believe that fan fiction is the next evolution on this journey.
Obviously, every writer's path is different, but for a kid playing
make believe it's a relatively simple step to take those imaginary
adventures you're having with your favorite TV/comic/movie/video game
characters and start writing them down on paper. I used to do that
all the time and still have a pretty wide collection of fan fiction
stories sitting on my computer.
Unfortunately,
you can't actually publish these stories because you don't own the
characters in them. There are places to share them online. Forums and
online communities of fans looking for unofficial tales that expand
the adventures of their favorite characters. But fan fiction doesn’t
have to stop there. You'd be surprised by how interchangeable plots
and characters can be. A few story details tweaked here and a few
names changed there and I have myself an original work ready to be
submitted to publishers. In fact, I've successfully done this with a
few of my titles. (Shhh. I'll never tell which.)
But
once again, that's not where a writer's relationship with fandom
ends. Every writer, all throughout their career, is continually
inspired by the stories that came before them. Everywhere you look
you can spot little bits and pieces of past characters and plots
sprinkled throughout today's popular tales. Some are blatantly
obvious in the form of homages and references. Others are more subtle
Easter eggs, only picked up on by the most hardened of fans.
For
my latest novel, A
Weapon's Journey,
the influences are front and center. I wrote the first draft of this
story when I was thirteen and neck deep in teenage geek culture.
Without holding back, I jammed as many parts of all my favorite
titles as I could into one story. Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Dragonball
Z, Final Fantasy, Captain America, Ultimate Spider-Man…The list
goes on and on. The book is one hundred percent new and original, but
any geek can read it and see where the inspiration came from. It’s
been re-written and edited a million times since then, honed into
something I was proud of publishing today. But needless to say, I
think my thirteen-year-old self would be proud.
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