Cold Blooded
A fast paced action adventure with mech marines, heart and space pirates.
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: 6th of January, 2025
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From the Blurb:
“Don’t mistake my silence for weakness. No one plans a murder out loud.”
Veteran Marine Mint only worries about one thing—herself. But after being ordered back to the front lines, she has a decision to make—stand up and do the right thing, or finally get what she always wanted.
Fifteen-year-old Frida lives in deep space on a pirate vessel. Her father is a dissident warrior who fights the corporations running the system. When a corporation battle cruiser catches up to the ageing pirate vessel, death appears to be the only escape.
Rohan O'Duill is an Irish Scifi author descended from the storytellers of both the ancient Celts and the Vikings. He has no proof of this assertion, but it sounds cool. He looks like what would happen if Dave Grohl and Commander Riker had a baby. He is a chef, archer and Dad.
More About Rohan O'Duill:
How long does it take you to write a book? How long does each stage of the process usually take?
I'd be better able to explain quantum mechanics than answer this question, and I have no idea how that works. Well, let me start from the start, I wrote the first draft of 3 Cold Rush novellas in 6 months. Then we had a baby, said baby decided sleep was not their thing. I have no recollection of how much time has passed since, but I am just releasing the second novella. Cold Blooded and the child are both just about to turn three.
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What is your favourite type of character to write?
I love to write characters that have a bit of wit and snark about them. Tough on the outside but with heart when you crack through that icy exterior. I also really enjoy bad guys doing good things and good guys doing bad things, just to mix it up.
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Do you mine your own life for ideas, settings and/or characters?
Oh, I think there is a part of me and my life in every character. The MC in my current book, Mint, is a middle aged marine, once famous and promising but now forgotten and holding down a steady tutor's job and wants nothing more than to live a quiet life and have a few beers down the pub on her days off. Rohan- Looks in mirror at bags under eyes.
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What is something you wish you had known earlier on in your writing career?
That I was dyslexic. That would have saved me a whole load of hassle if I had understood that.
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What do you do when you find yourself in a bit of a writing rut? Is there any strategy you find works for you to help the words start flowing again?
I tend not to get into writing ruts. I either have time and energy to write, or I don't and I try not to make anything more of it than that.
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What is your favourite writing resource?
My writing groups. Big shoutout to the Nightbeats Collective and Ceres station Consortium.
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What authors or books inspire you the most?
Again the ones in my writing groups. Such amazingly talented and beautifully artistic people.
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What's next for your writing?
I'm currently working on a short for the Ceres Station Anthology. Also a cookbook is in the works. A spin off from the wildly successful Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Eat So You Don't Die. I am going to be taking lead on the kids book spinoff, Baby Can't Cook: The Sad Bastard Cookbook for Burnt Out Parents.
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