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Like her protagonist Shannon Kendricks, Cathy Parker is an attorney. She volunteered as a zoo keeper's aide for eight years and did have a very special beluga buddy, Mauyak, just as Shannon Kendricks has. As to encounters with alien children, as in the trilogy, she is not saying. She was also a radio and print journalist and once was the 'Jill of all trades' for a small satellite paper in Wyoming. She did everything from taking to the photos to writing the articles and op-ed pieces to helping with layout and hauling the newspapers through blizzards once a week. As a result, she saw lambs being born and went on a cattle drive and ate her first (and last) Rocky Mountain Oyster. She has seen mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in Borneo and even rocked an orphaned baby orangutan to sleep on her chest. She has volunteered with a chimpanzee sanctuary for former research subjects. So you can see where her heart lies. Currently she lives in Costa Rica with her black cat. All similarities between her cat and the trilogy's Narcissus are purely and probably coincidental.

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Author Insight

Editing, editing, editing

I thought I'd spend a moment showing you how different the final product of an author might be from where she started. In the excerpt, the first paragraph is from an earlier [not even the earliest] draft of the third book in my trilogy. Below the line is the current opening. Quite a change! Shannon does still fall out onto FireWorld later on, but hopefully the book now starts a bit more urgently. Will this be the last version? Maybe, maybe not. I've beaten it to death, my developmental editor has had her whack, but it's now headed for its copy edit and proofreader. I will confess I have skimped on editing in the past, but decided to put this one through the entire process to evaluate any improvement, given my thin editorial budget. But the change here didn't come from the editor. Beginnings are difficult in stories and authors usually try different approaches on. What do you think? Have I made an improvement?

Book Excerpt

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SHANNON KENDRICKS FELL with a thud and an “oof” from the wormhole onto smooth, hard, pink-gold rock. She rolled, jumped up, and checked in every direction for unfriendly dragonpanthers, as she rubbed the shin she banged when she landed. Since dragonpanthers grew as big as houses, sported brightly-colored metallic fur, and possessed wings longer than oak trees, she wouldn't miss one.

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THE DRAGONPANTHER ROEBOR NEEDED SHANNON’S HELP, but exactly what help for what trouble, Shannon had yet to learn, and she must find out now.

She’d just left Earth through a portal to Riverworld with her cat Narcissus in her arms and the hummingbird-sized alien, Salesti, by her side. They tumbled into the cave of portals.

“Okay, Salesti, time to tell us what’s happened to Roebor. Is he—”

Before Shannon finished her question, Salesti dived into another portal: the one to Roebor’s home on FireWorld. “Wait—”

But Salesti disappeared in a blazing flash of white flame. Shannon cursed under her breath and followed.

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Cathy Parker

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Editing, editing, editing

Book Excerpt

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