Coded Messages

If you like finding and deciphering coded messages, you might enjoy those in The Scinegue Series. I used a fairly simple code (because, Wow! some of those codes can just make your brain hurt ; >).

Can you decipher it? Don't worry, you won't miss out on the story if you don't want to decode the apparently random letters and numbers, but you'll get a little more insight into the story if you do!

The Pledge is in the Top 100 Charts Today!

Very fun!

The Pledge is the second book in The Scinegue Series and takes the fantasy side of the story a little farther.

Thanks for your support and I hope you'll enjoy reading The Pledge. Don't forget, Bradley and Nicole's story is continued in Bradley and Nicole.

Scinegue Sweets

Often after I read a book I want to know more about what happens to certain characters. If you feel the same way about Bradley and Nicole from the Pledge, I have good news for you. They have a Novella of their own, a Scinegue Sweet, Bradley and Nicole. It gives a peek into their developing relationship, unravels a mystery, and above all, is still a Christian story with a focus on making the world a better place.

Bradley and Nicole is being edited now, and I hope to have it published in May. I'll post a link here when it's available online.

It's online and one day early! ; >) Bradley and Nicole

Paperback available now!

Scinegue, the first book in The Scinegue Series, is now available as a paperback at Createspace https://www.createspace.com/4493207

Now I can start preparing The Pledge for paperback!

Don't Give a Release Date Until You're Really Sure...

I was warned early on to never give a release date for a new release until the book and the cover and everything else was finished or very close. Well, I didn't listen. ; >) I set a "Spring" release date for The Forest, the third book in the Scinegue Series, even though I was positive it would be released well in advance of that. I thought a late winter release would be exciting for anyone who didn't expect to see it until Spring. With one delay after another I will be lucky to release this late Spring, and odds are good it won't be ready until summer!

I would, of course, prefer to release the book edited and ready to go ;>) so late Spring early Summer is going to be as good as it gets. When I finished writing it I just would have never dreamed it would take so long to get it ready to go. So, lesson learned, when I read good advice from people who have 'been there' and 'done that' I really should listen to it!

Find out about new releases

There are a couple of ways to keep up with new releases in The Scinegue Series. The 'About the Author' page on Amazon has a simple area to click on the right side of the page under Stay up to Date.

http://www.amazon.com/S.R.-Booth/e/B00EDRQQ5Y/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

You can also email me at scinegue@gmail.com and ask me to send you an email when a new book is released. No spam involved, don't worry. Just a short email letting you know when the next book is available for purchase. I like to release my new books at a discounted price as a thank you to everyone who is reading the series but I only keep the price discounted for a couple of days so using Amazon's service or asking me to email an update is probably the simplest way to catch the book while it is on sale.

Update: The third book in The Scinegue Series is with the editor now. That means a new release should be out within a month! (Edited April 20: See http://srbooth.blogspot.com/2014/03/dont-give-release-date-until-youre.html lol!)

Thank you!

For those of you who bought Scinegue during the sale yesterday you helped boost its ranking substantially! Thank you!

$.99 SALE!

Do you like a good sale? So do I. Scinegue, book 1 of The Scinegue series, will be reduced to $.99 for an entire week (from now through 2/21/14). That's a savings of $3 off the regular price of $3.99. Pick up a copy while it's on sale, and please consider leaving a review.

What is Scinegue?

If you've been wondering what 'Scinegue' is, don't worry, you're not alone!

It's not a foreign language or some high-tech word no one has ever heard of, it's simply the name of the corporation in the novel around which the story revolves.

Now, how and why that name was chosen is a pretty interesting story and is revealed in Chapter 18 of Scinegue. I'll let Uncle Bill explain it to you there.

I think after learning the background of the name, you'll agree that Scinegue is a very fitting name for this book!

A Cover for The Forest

I have been so blessed to find the cover designer I've been using. Laura Gordon at the Book Cover Machine designs amazing covers. I've used her for all three covers in The Scinegue Series now and she is so easy to work with.

Actually there isn't much work involved, at least not for me. I tell her what I envision and she makes it into a cover. As easy as that.

I approved the cover for book three based on her first proof. Tell me that's not a good designer.

I can't wait to share the new cover with everyone. I think it turned out great!

eBook Soda

eBook Soda, a site that matches books to reader's specifications, will be launching tomorrow, Jan. 14th, and Scinegue will be listed on the very first day.

The price of Scinegue (The Secret) will be lowered to $1.99 through Jan. 16th for this listing. If you've been interested in The Scinegue Series this would be a great time to try it out at a discounted price! If you do read it please consider leaving a review!

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The Forest is with Beta-Readers

I let the first copy of The Forest go to two of my beta-readers last night. This is such a fun part in the writing process as I get to hear feedback for the first time on what I've been writing for months. After I get feedback from them I'll incorporate what I think is needed and pass it on to my other beta-readers and then to my editor and then to you! I can't wait to hear your feedback, too! I guess that's what makes reviews so great!

Hope you're having a wonderful new year so far!

Author Alliance's Liz Chadwick reviews SCINEGUE by S R Booth

Scinegue just received a wonderful review from Liz Chadwick on Author Alliance. Check it out!
Author Alliance's Liz Chadwick reviews SCINEGUE by S R Booth

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The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions--Today was such an interesting book!

I'm not saying it will hold the answers to everyones problems but...it might ; >)

Are there GMO's hiding in your pantry?

Sounds a little creepy, right? Do you really know what's in the food you're eating? Anytime you eat a processed food, odds are pretty good there will be something genetically modified in it. Too bad GMOs aren't labeled so WE can make an educated decision to eat them or not.

Excerpt from Scinegue (The Scinegue Series (Book 1))

“Okay, I think we need to slow down. We're jumping to some far-fetched conclusions from the little bit of actual information we have. We can’t really be thinking that plans for worldwide eugenics are being made by the company I just happen to work for, can we?”

“Why not?” Sarah asked quietly with a shrug.

Billy didn’t answer for a few minutes, then said, “Even if that’s the case, what could we do about it?”

“I don’t know. I was thinking about that before you got home. There are a lot of people online making claims that this kind of stuff is really happening, and they're written off as crazy or conspiracy theorists. As far as I can tell, no one is paying much attention to anything they're saying.” 

She considered some of the claims she’d read by these people. If they were right, then Scinegue—or people who believed as they did—had been plotting and scheming for many years, and had already put many of their ideas to reduce the population into motion. She thought of some of the plans she read about utilizing simple things—like tampered medicines or foods—to kill off people considered undesirable.

The few over the counter medicines she and Billy took recently when they’d had the flu popped into her mind, and she wondered if any of them could have been altered by one of those schemes. She thought about the processed foods even now in their pantry.

“We have to throw out all of the processed food!” she cried as she jumped up and rushed to the kitchen pantry. 

Boxes were flung to the floor as she went from shelf to shelf. “We can’t eat anything that's genetically modified. Some of the sites I read said that's one of the tools that could potentially be used to kill people off. All kinds of stuff can be done with genetic engineering. You only hear the good sides of it. Better yields, healthier crops.” Her muted voice came out of the pantry as she pulled items from the very back. “They don’t advertise the bad things that can be done with it.” 

Billy stepped over the packages on the floor and put his hands on her shoulders. “Hey, calm down,” he murmured. “We’ll work this out, okay? We don’t know if any of this is real, and there is no sense making ourselves crazy thinking it is until we have more proof.” Billy spoke soothingly and wrapped his arms around her as Sarah leaned back against him, closed her eyes, and tried to release the stress that had been building from the moment she’d deciphered that paper.

“You’re right. You’re right,” she repeated. “It might be nothing.” She pulled away slightly to loosen his grip and twisted around to look up at him. “But we are not going to eat any genetically modified foods until we have proof that they're healthy. Got it?” she asked with a firm poke to his chest.

“Got it!” He smiled and leaned down to kiss the tip of her nose. “You have such a cute nose,” he said playfully, trying to ease their tension.

Pushing him away with a snort of laughter, Sarah ran both hands through her hair. “This is not the time to be playing around. I think I just had a mini breakdown!” She tilted her head considering. “That’s probably another mark against me. ‘Breaks down easily,’” she said in a deep, announcer style voice.

“Not a breakdown," Billy consoled, "just a reaction to the world possibly being much more sinister than we thought.”

Sarah bent down and started picking up the boxes and bags of food she'd thrown to the floor. Her favorite brownie mix, instant meals, Styrofoam cups of soup. She’d grown up eating these things. Had they really changed so much over the years? Had they changed at all?