What genre do you write and why?
The
Enigma Series including The Enigma Dragon – A CATS Tale is considered,
TechnoThriller. It contains a foundation of technology, due to our each having
25+ years in that field, plus it includes romance, travel, intrigue, mystery
and humor to appeal to a wider adult audience. We chose this because it allows
us to take technology in relevant ways then bake into a fictional story. We
enjoying pushing the possibilities to the very edge in a compelling story. We
enjoy people and storytelling.
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We love using what we consider the grittier group
under Julie and Juan, cyber assassin technology services team, to travel all
over hunting the culprits for different problems which needed to be tracked
down and uncovered. This allowed us to further expand on these characters by
pairing them up differently than in prior stories. In doing this and taking the
exploits globally we were amazed to watch the direction that the characters
took us. We have explored the closeness of Julie and Juan previously, but the
creativity we extracted from Summit and Ernesto, specifically of note, was a
depth in these characters we had not anticipated. As authors we enjoy shaping our
characters but we find they sometimes take on a life of their own with a story
they feel compelled to reveal. Jamie was a character we used in a prior story
who seemed to fit well in this story, but we will await the comments from our
readers as to which character was liked the best.
What formats is the book available
in?
The Enigma Dragon – A
CATS Tale is available today in paperback and ebook for purchase at your
favorite places noted on our website. Readers can also buy directly from our
website for a signed version and if inside the US, the shipping is free.
Outside the US the shipping would have to be quoted. As with their first 5
books in The Enigma Series, this one is slotted for audible format in the near
future. Readers can visit our website (enigmaseries.com), sign up for a monthly
email, receive their free coloring book download, and get the first notice on
the release of this story in audio format. We are just completing the audible
on our fifth book The Enigma Stolen so we have a little ways to go before we
can offer The Enigma Dragon in audible.
What advice do you have for other
writers?
Writing for us is so
much fun. If you want to write then start doing it now. Set aside some specific
time and write about what you enjoy. We enjoy this #TechnoThriller genre, but
you may be into children, or romance, or self-help, or something else. Write
about what you enjoy. Talk with other authors and possibly find a local writers
group. You might try your hand at short stories and submit them for publishing.
Mostly keep at it. As with most things the more you do it the better you will
become. Don’t give up and whatever you do, don’t wait! We want the chance to read that next great
story.
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People can certainly
visit our website at enigmaseries.com or enigmabookseries.com for downloadable
samples of each book, book trailers, highlighted reviews, and a calendar of
upcoming events. We would also invite you to visit our tab on Specialize Terms
where you can learn what DRAGON Sequence is and its critical role in The Enigma
Dragon – A CATS Tale. We also have an
active Authors page on Amazon you are invited to follow.
Who designed
the cover?
The graphic artist for The Enigma Dragon – A
CATS Tale cover is the owner of ebg247.com or eBooks Galore where our stories
are also available. Nathan Rimel not only completed the cover, but designed the
water marks for the interior. He has great insights to graphic designs and also
does our banners and bookmarks. He offer resources to authors listed on his
website. He is now building the cover for our 10th book.
How do you
research your books?
The majority of the research for our stories
comes from our work and our travels. Each of us travel all over for work and
pleasure. We use the various locations to learn about the people and elements
we might bring into a story. Breakfield did the travel to Istanbul which was
leveraged as a part of The Enigma Dragon – A CATS Tale. The other locations has
been explored by both of them, with Burkey having the most time in London. The
Texas usage is because they both enjoy Texas and have visited many places in
this state.
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| Roxanne Burkey |
The stories in our series are
relevant for today’s adult readers. In The Enigma Dragon – A CATS Tale it
has descriptions of many different places and as such can take readers on a
mini trip across the world. This world of ours has some fabulous things to see
and people to learn about. We also find that the multiple threads of our
stories holds the interest until the ending climax. We have relationships which
is a part of life after all and allows readers to applaud their favorites or
hope the bad guys get their just rewards. It is no wonder our series tag line
is continually gaining in popularity: Tech·nol·o·gy (tekˈnälÉ™jÄ“) – Today’s weapon of choice…
How long did
it take you to write your book?
Each of our stories take around 6 months to
complete. The Enigma Dragon – A CATS Tale took almost a year as we wanted to do
some additional marketing with this story. For the depth of the stories we
write we like to say 6 – 9 months is a reasonable time. We play literary
ping-pong as we design the framework and then bat portions back and forth as we
shape each and every chapter. Co-authoring is particularly good for us as it
allows us to work our real jobs and enjoy our storytelling.
Where can a
reader purchase your book?
Readers
can purchase our paperback books, signed, directly from our website,
enigmaseries.com. They can be ordered from any brick and mortar store and
usually arrive within a couple of days. Online your readers can purchase the
story from all the popular websites including: Amazon, itunes, ebg237, Texas
Authors, Readers Favorites, Barnes and Nobel, Kirkus Reviews, Kobo, and
Booklife.
What is your
work in progress? Tell us about it.
Our current work in progress is The Enigma
Source. This is a book focused on blockchain technology and crypto-currency. It
covers the values and risks of crypto-currency in its current infancy state. It
offers some different ways that crypto-currency comes to be and folds like a
cheap trick. It has some of our favorite characters returning to continue to
fight which pits cyber good guys against cyber thugs. It will be available in
the summer of 2018 and can be pre-ordered on our website enigmaseries.com.
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