Today, I’m thrilled to offer this blog to the awesome #RRBC_Community authors, Breakfield and Burkey, who are showcasing their latest chapter in the Enigma Series. As well, they are offering the following incentives:

(1) $25 Amazon Gift card & (10) e-book copies of the “shorts” in the Enigma Series

In the new digital world, there is no tolerance for privately owned supercomputers. Globally, computers are hunted and destroyed for the greater good, by the new cyber police CESPOOL. The information this group receives is manipulated by subversive hidden machine learning devices, the MAG running on the dark net.

Judith and Xiamara are freebooters who steal machine time for their PaaS, porn as a service business. The machine they chose for delivery is the last untapped supercomputer not in the hands of a sovereign. Their activity is spotted by the MAG, but the renegade R-Group steps in to alter the outcome. Leroy teams up with Zara to help these opportunists escape prosecution. They are drafted as reluctant participants in the fight.

Jacob and Quip are trapped in the Chihuahuan Desert trying to reconstruct the base of ICABOD’s logic core. The stress of their isolation is taking a toll. Their wives and children are safe in Brazil for the time being, but Interpol is prowling for answers.

The R-Group has assembled a way to communicate with orphaned satellites. While the next R-Group plans the ultimate honey pot to trap their nemesis who is driving their corrupted agenda. The odds are against R-Group’s success, but they have creative surprises on their side.

The stakes have never been higher. The R-Group young and old must rise to defeat the MAG.

BIO:

Breakfield is a 25+ year technology expert in security, networking, voice, and anything digital. He enjoys writing, studying World War II history, travel, and cultural exchanges. He’s also a fan of wine tastings, winemaking, Harley riding, cooking extravaganzas, and woodworking.

Burkey is a 25+ year applied technology professional who excels at optimizing technology and business investments. She works with customers all over the world focusing on optimized customer experiences. She writes white papers and documentation, but found she has a marked preference for writing fiction.

Together they create award-winning stories that resonate with males and females, as well as young and experienced adults. They bring a fresh new view to technology possibilities today.

Email:                        Authors@EnigmaSeries.com

Website:      www.EnigmaBookSeries.com

Blog:              https://EnigmaBookSeries.com/the-enigma-chronicles/category/blog-statement/

Connect and follow on Social Media: 

LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesbreakfield  and

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxanneburkey

Twitter:        https://twitter.com/EnigmaSeries  

and https://twitter.com/1RBurkey

Facebook:    https://www.facebook.com/TheEnigmaSeries/

YouTube:      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Vz4x5ctTnx3yUhZk1OJkw

Pinterest:    https://www.pinterest.com/enigmseries/

Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/enigmabookseries/

Bublish:        https://bublish.com/author/breakfieldandburkey

RRBC:           https://ravereviewsbookclub.wordpress.com/about-breakfield-burkey-enigmaseries-rrbc-rrbc_community/

We wanted to share the future plans for Breakfield & Burkey’s writing endeavors near term and long term.

Breakfield and Burkey will keep writing the Enigma Series. We offer each story in ebook, paperback, and audible formats. The audibles are available on Amazon and iTunes. Derek Shoales, our award-winning narrator and voice actor, is the voice of the series. Book 1 was narrated by another great professional, Steven Jay Cohen.

Book 12, The Enigma Threat, is the focal point of this tour.  It is ready for release in all formats on January 8th, 2021. The central theme, the next generation of our heroes in the R-Group against the rogue artificially intelligent supercomputers. The Enigma Beyond, book #11, is where we brought in the talents of the younger R-Group members.

Short stories as individual eBooks are an ongoing focus for us. We entered a few into contests and was awarded a spot in those collective anthologies. For lack of a better term, these are backstories of characters within the series. We have a couple of more planned for 2021. We were delighted to also be asked to contribute to another anthology for a new group. Proceeds for this are going toward an agreed charity.  Our 4 new short stories offered in 2020 are listed in differing genres, specifically young adult, women’s contemporary, and family. Having completed work on book 12 of the series, The Enigma Threat, which will release January 8^th, 2021, we hit on the idea of crowdfunding to help drive the next phase.

We decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign for support for a screenplay for The Enigma Threat. This is gaining some additional exposure to new areas. Our goal is to continue to expand our brand into multiple global markets and to raise awareness of our stories.

For the last few books, we have done contests to gain support from readers and followers who want to become immortalized as characters in a story. For Books 13 through 18, currently in the planning stages, new characters are needed. The Kickstarter campaign is a unique way to earn that spot in our award-winning series.

We wanted some practice in screenplay writing mechanics. Breakfield is out shopping the screenplay for Out of Poland. It is currently registered and being shopped. This learning will help us collaborate on the script for The Enigma Threat. 

For the ladies who want a book role, it is a toss-up between being an evil genius, femme fatale, or a geeky girl. Dr. Judith Briles earned the spot of a geeky girl in The Enigma Threat. On one of our Channel 8 Good Morning Texas interviews, we were asked how we came up with great characters. We did a short explanation, then Breakfield asked the hostess if she would be interested in the evil femme fatale role in our next book. After he petitioned her for a resume to get the part, one of the camera technicians actually chuckled loud enough to hear, for which Breakfield was awarded her blush.

But as a rule, we love telling stories and creating new ideas from the technology we know exists. We will continue to deliver our works in multiple formats. Next year we are revising a couple of the earlier books in the series, The Enigma Wraith and The Enigma Stolen, to make them tighter.

Also, we are working on some special RWISA training to elevate our skills. For us and our full-time work, 2020 has been a hectic year. We had hoped to complete the lessons but may require an extension.

To follow along with the rest of the tour, please visit the authors’ tour page on the 4WillsPublishing site.  If you’d like to book your own blog tour and have your book promoted in similar grand fashion, please click HERE. Thanks for supporting these authors and their work!

GIVEAWAYS:   During this tour, the author is giving away (1) $10 Amazon Gift Card, (2) $5 Amazon Gift Cards, (2) e-book copies of EMPTY SEATS & (1) copy of the author’s acclaimed “SINGING ALONG WITH THE RADIO” CD which features many prominent folk music singers (a $15 value)! For your chance to win, all you have to do is leave a comment below as well as leaving a comment on the author’s 4WillsPub tour page.  GOOD LUCK!

I haven’t explained my other passion, nor how it led me to be the public address announcer at Fenway Park for one day.

I’ve been a singer/songwriter most of my life and the folk music DJ at the Albany, New York-based National Public Radio affiliate since 1982. Prior to that, I was a folk DJ at a small station in Worcester, Massachusetts. My father introduced me to folk and country music practically right after I was born, and I’ve loved and sung it ever since. I made a CD called “Singing Along with the Radio,” on which I sang with some of the musicians I’ve always wanted to play and sing with over the years.

In 2011, I had the privilege of meeting and spending a couple of innings with Red Sox Public Address Announcer Carl Beane. He was a kind man, welcoming me into the booth with him to see what happens during a game as he told everyone in the stands what was happening. His booming voice filled the stadium with information such as who would sing the National Anthem, the line-up for both teams, the umpires’ names, and players as they came to bat. As someone who’d been in radio for more than 30 years, I found the whole set-up to be interesting and took notes in my head of what went on.

Carl let me try on his World Series rings from 2004 and 2007. He was a small man, and those rings both fit me perfectly.

“Carl,” I said, “you’d better take these back right after I take a picture of them.”

“You can wear them for a while,” he replied.

“No, you’d better take them back. They fit me all too well, and I might forget I’m wearing them!”

“Oh, okay.”

As he took them back, I asked him if he liked one better than the other.

“I think the one from 2004 is the most special. It’s because that’s the year when the Sox ‘broke the curse,’ and they hadn’t won a World Series in 86 years. But I love the 2007 one, too. Any World Series win is special.”

Carl also told me that day that being the Red Sox’s public address announcer was “the best job in the world.”

Fast forward to May 2012.

Carl was killed in a car accident. The Red Sox and their fans were stunned. Who would be their PA announcer?

What to do? What to do?

The Red Sox decided to have what they dubbed the “guest in the chair” approach, in which they would invite local media personalities to do the PA announcing, with a different one for each game. For example, they had someone from the Bruins’ announcing team do a game, someone from the local public radio station, etc.

I wanted to do this. Badly.

I called the Red Sox and told them that I’d been in radio for many decades and would like to be considered. Should I send a tape?

“Yeah, yeah, okay,” the response came.  Sign up in the fall when you can try out and we’re trying to replace Cal on a permanent basis.

“You don’t understand,” I protested. “I’m a professional broadcaster. My station goes to seven states terrestrially, including three in New England. I want to do this.”

They took my name and phone number. I thought it was the end of my chance to be the PA announcer—even for a day.

About a week later, I was at a doctor’s appointment when my phone rang. I looked down and told the doctor, “Err—I have to take this call.”

Caller ID indicated that it was the Boston Red Sox calling. I couldn’t let that one go to voice mail.

“Hi, Wanda, yeah, this is the Red Sox. Say, we Googled you and found out that you really are a professional broadcaster. We’d like to have you come down and do a game. How about this date?”

They offered me a Tuesday night—the week before my daughter’s wedding!

“I can’t do that date,” I replied, and told them why.

“Okay, you give US a date, and we’ll take it from there.”

I already had tickets for the August 5, 2012 game. Since I worked for New York State in a managerial position, I wouldn’t have been able to take free tickets for my family, anyway. “How about August 5?”

“You got it. We’ll confirm in a couple of weeks. Thanks.”

I put down my phone and explained it to my physician. She was ecstatic, because she knows how much broadcasting and baseball mean to me.

We got through the wedding, and, as August 5 approached, I began to wonder if I’d done something stupid, thinking I could handle a major-league game. The last game I’d announced was for Schenectady (New York) Babe Ruth when my son was 13 (he was then married with a child). Could I actually do this? Had I bitten off more than I could chew?

I pulled into the players’ parking lot (that’s right, THE PLAYERS’ PARKING LOT) with my little Subaru, which was dwarfed even more by huge SUVs and shiny sports cars. The valet took my keys, and off I went, up to the third floor, where I’d be for the next several hours.

The whole operation was incredible. They had a script prepared, which I had plenty of time to study. I checked out the rosters for both teams (although I knew the Red Sox roster by heart). The Minnesota Twins were their opponent that day, and the only player whose name I couldn’t pronounce was a new reliever from Japan who’d just joined the team the day before. I said a little prayer, pleading that he wouldn’t be brought into the game.

I met with the team—the producer, Jack, the music man (TJ the DJ), and everyone else in the booth, did sound check and looked out over the field. Fenway never looked so good. I felt as if I were in baseball heaven. Then I looked out at the scoreboard: My name was emblazoned all over it: Today’s Guest-in-the-Chair: Wanda Fischer, WAMC, Albany, New York. Wow. Just wow. That’s all I could say.

Many years before, when I was about 16 or 17, my mother had seen me, under an umbrella, on TV, in the bleachers, as we fans waited to hear whether a rain delay would turn into a rain washout.  I wished my mother could have seen me that day, with my name on that huge electronic sign—the one that didn’t even exist on umbrella day so long ago.

Jack, the producer, guided me along, pointing on the script to my lines, as the game progressed. I told him it was unlike working on public radio, where I have to do everything myself to get my show together and get it on the air. “No, we try to make it as easy as possible,” he said.

Thanks to a terrific team, I only made one mistake during nine innings. The Red Sox, who were terrible that year, actually won that game.

When it was over, my grandson, who was then three years old, came up to me and said, “Grandma! Grandma! Where were you? I could hear you, but I couldn’t see you!”

Book Blurb

What Little Leaguer doesn’t dream of walking from the dugout onto a Major League baseball field, facing his long-time idol and striking his out? Empty Seats follows three different minor-league baseball pitchers as they follow their dreams to climb the ladder from minor- to major-league ball, while facing challenges along the way—not always on the baseball diamond. This coming-of-age novel takes on success and failure in unexpected ways. One reviewer calls this book “a tragic version of ‘The Sandlot.’”

(Winner of the 2019 New Apple Award and 2019 Independent Publishing Award)

Author Bio

Following a successful 40-year career in public relations/marketing/media relations, Wanda Adams Fischer parlayed her love for baseball into her first novel, Empty Seats. She began writing poetry and short stories when she was in the second grade in her hometown of Weymouth, Massachusetts and has continued to write for more than six decades. In addition to her “day” job, she has been a folk music DJ on public radio for more than 40 years, including more than 37 at WAMC-FM, the Albany, New York-based National Public Radio affiliate. In 2019, Folk Alliance International inducted her into their Folk D-J Hall of Fame. A singer/songwriter in her own right, she’s produced one CD, “Singing Along with the Radio.” She’s also a competitive tennis player and has captained several United States Tennis Association senior teams that have secured berths at sectional and national events. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Northeastern University in Boston. She lives in Schenectady, NY, with her husband of 47 years, Bill, a retired family physician, whom she met at a coffeehouse in Boston in 1966; they have two grown children and six grandchildren.

Social Media Links

@emptyseatsnovel

https://www.wandafischer.com

Amazon and Other Purchase Links

Book: http://amzn.to/2KzWPQf

Audio book: http://bit.ly/2TKo3UC

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/empty-seats-wanda-adams-fischer/1127282887?ean=9780999504901

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