#WeWriWa RESCUING MARA'S FATHER Your Mother Would've Been Proud

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Last weekend, I was so happy about my new release, Rescuing Mara's Father, only to come crashing down when I started rereading the Amazon ebook. Errors! Errors, I thought I corrected. Discovered I'd uploaded the wrong file! Ack. All is well now. Uploaded the right file, and Amazon said they'd send an email to purchasers that a new file is available. Whew. Crisis over. Lesson learned.

I'm sharing snippets from my Middle Grade/YA science fiction adventure, Rescuing Mara's Father. The narrator is Mara, an almost 15-year-old girl who lives in a mining outpost on the Outer Rim. This snippet takes place shortly after last week's. After Mara and her friend Jako win their fight with the Dunpus brothers, her father takes her home to tend her wounds. He holds her for a moment.

Please excuse the creative punctuation, necessary to keep this within the guidelines. It's also edited from the original.

Abruptly, he pushes me away and stands, I want him to come back, to hold me again—to be the warm, loving Father he used to be. He doesn’t. “I concur with your little friend—you did well, however you could have been killed. Those Dunpus boys are mean, the father meaner—stay away from them.”

“But they were beating up Jako, it wasn’t fair.”

Father walks over to the stove and lifts the lid of the large pot, “You have a good heart,” He stirs the stew, “You are very much like your mother. She would have been proud of you.”

He rarely talks about my mother, who died giving me birth. When I used to ask about her, he would get such a pained look in his eyes I always backed off—this time, I can’t let the opportunity pass, “Please, Father, tell me about her.”

Rescuing Mara's Father is available in digital format at:

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Available in Print: Amazon

3 friends, a hidden starship, a quest

Her father is gone! Taken by the Queen of Compara’s agents. Mara has to rescue him before the Queen tortures and kills him.

Instead of the kind, loving father she’s always known, he’s become demanding, critical, with impossible expectations—not just as Father but also as the only teacher in their frontier outpost. Mara would rather scoop zircan poop than listen to another boring lecture about governments on Central Planets. Give her a starship engine to take apart or better yet, fly, and she’s happy. Now, he's gone.

Never mind, they’ve had a rocky road lately. 

Never mind, Father promised she could go off planet to Tech Institute next month when she turns fifteen, where she’ll learn to fly starships.

Never mind, she ran away because she’s furious with him because he reneged on that promise. Father is her only parent. She has to save him.

Along with her best friend, eleven-year-old Jako, and his brother 15-year-old Lukus, Mara sets off to find her father. An old spaceport mechanic and her mentor seems to know why the Queen captured Father. In fact, he seems to know her father well. But, does he tell her everything? Of course not. He dribbles out info like a mush-eating baby. Worse, he indicates he’ll be leaving them soon. And Lukus can’t wait to get off our planet. Mara’s afraid they will all leave her, and she’ll be on her own. Despite her fears, she has to rescue her father.

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