Author Guest Post with Benjamin X. Wretlind: All We Leave Behind

Miriam Page is guided by hope.

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Author Guest Post

I Guess I’m Not Too Old for Some Things

Oddly, this blog stop falls on my birthday. And here I am, a “newborn” at something others have long mastered.

I’ve never been good at social media. I can create content, sure, but the “social” part has not been in my wheelhouse.

Ever. Twitter is hard (with unique problems). How do people constantly come up with content that encourages engagement? Asking questions is passe, marketing books is like shouting into a screaming crowd, and sometimes there’s just nothing to say. Facebook (Meta) is a beast that I won’t get into with more and more problems that crop up daily. Pinterest is great, but I use it like a clipbook for writing, art, you name it. There is not interaction. And Instagram is just a more visual Facebook.

There are many other social media platforms out there, some I’ve tried and some I’ll avoid for life.

And then there’s TikTok.

When I first saw it, I was confused. Why would you want to watch 10-second video clips of, um, dancing and stuff? And that stuff didn’t seem at all interesting. Maybe I’m too old?

Still, those older than me have tried it out and been successful. So, I thought I would do so as well. Let me tell you, I’ve never had so much fun with social media before. I get to create (my thing), and I get to say something (another thing I like to do even if people say I shouldn’t), and I can interact if I want to, but not with every post.

I’ve started very recently (beginning of April), and I’m trying to put up at least one clip a day. Right now, it’s mostly Weather and Writing Prompts (one a day) which go with my nonfiction book on using weather as a literary device. But I have plans to tie in this book, All We Leave Behind, and the other books in the Transit series to small, relatable clips, especially as traction has grown.

I didn’t think it would be so fun, but I’ve been wrong before. So join me! I promise not to dance.

Happy birthday, Benjamin! I’m honoured to host you on your birthday.

About the Book

All We Leave Behind
Transit Book Three
by Benjamin X. Wretlind

Published 20 December 2022

Genre: Science Fiction
Page Count: 509
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Following the exodus from rising floodwaters, the surviving descendants of those who came to create a society on a planet far from Earth have struggled to rebuild within the remains of an ancient temple. Now, as disease and an unfamiliar environment threaten to destroy them yet again, everyone seems to have an opinion about what to do next.

Miriam and Tobias Page, newly married, believe there may be a possible home beyond a distant canyon. Their journey with a quarter of the population doesn’t start well and soon nature and their own humanity will conspire to end it all. Meanwhile, Miriam’s two cousins, Joel and Micah, have different ideas. Joel is convinced the best course of action is to return to the mountains they left to mine for the ore that would make a great return to Earth possible. Micah hopes to stay, learn all he can about the temple’s previous occupants, and prove both of them wrong. But soon, he and his new partner Patience realize that no option is truly safe.

As the transits of three different groups get underway, new dangers and surprises emerge from within the rainforests, mountains, and deserts of the planet…and one of those may have followed them from Earth. While a final home is a dream away, present nightmares must be dealt with first if any of them are going to survive.

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Excerpt

Patience tried to count the number of people left in the temple at Manoach. Three hundred, three hundred fifty? Many of those had already revealed their desire to follow Joel when he returned from the Barrier Mountains. There might be a few more or less, but her calculations sounded right given the number of people who followed Miriam to the west. Of those not going with Joel, maybe a handful would be willing to pack up and leave Manoach.

Would Micah be one of them?

A cry of alarm rose from a scout to Patience’s right. She looked over and saw Theresa Atkins, a woman slightly older than Patience, wave a lit torch indicating a potential threat. Patience looked out beyond the wall and tried to focus her eyes on several shapes she saw moving out of the tree line. At first, there were three. Then four.

Now seven.

“Lord, help us,” she whispered.

Another alarm rose to her left. Levi Barrett, one of the newest scouts Patience had been training and still only fifteen, waved his torch back and forth. Fearing the worst, Patience looked out toward the tree line in front of his part of the wall.

Nine.

Fifteen.

Fifteen rychat, approaching from two directions, silhouettes in the dark creeping through the brush.

About the Author

Benjamin, a speculative fiction author, ran with scissors when he was five. He now writes, paints, uses sharp woodworking tools and plays with glue. Sometimes he does these things at the same time.

Benjamin lives with his wife Jesse in Colorado.

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