Preface

A secret baby grows up to wreak havoc on the galaxy trying to reconcile her parents’ marriage, not realizing the terrible sacrifice it will require of her.

TITLE IMAGE

The title image was cropped from ‘Cupid & Psyche’ by Francois Gerard, and is out of focus for metaphoric reasons.  ‘Cupid & Psyche’ is a Public Domain image.

CONTROVERSIAL CONTENT

To borrow from the movie rating system, The Star Captains’ Daughter is Rated PG.  Love scenes are not described, but take place behind closed doors and between committed couples over the age of consent.  There are interracial couples and one lesbian couple among the secondary characters.  Violence is mostly action and very little blood.  The religious beliefs and political interactions contain no authorial comment on real life religion or politics.  Any resemblance to real life or fictional characters is unintentional and coincidental.

GENRE

I consider this novel to be Young Adult Science Fiction.  However, I’ve been told it involves the parents too much to qualify as such for regular publication.  See explanation in the Comment section below, #20.

DEDICATION

This novel is dedicated to my daughter, the desire for whom inspired it, and to my husband, her Dad, who restored my faith in fairytales.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2008 by Kimber An.  All rights reserved.


21 Responses to “Preface”

  1. I planned to begin regular posting of chapters today, October 20, 2008. However, a matter came up in Queryland which must take priority. Regular posting will begin October 27th instead. After that, a new chapter will be added every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday until the novel is complete.

    Unless I chicken out.

    I must receive comments on each new chapter or I will think my blog stats are due to random Google searches and no one is actually reading. I will delete this blog if I receive no comments.

    Thanks for popping in!

    kimberan said this on October 20, 2008 at 3:20 pm

  2. Best of luck with this adventure, and may you have many happy readers!

    Heather said this on October 21, 2008 at 1:50 am

  3. Thanks, Heather! I can only wait and see how it goes.
    ;)
    For those of you unfamiliar with ADHD, particular in girls, and you want to learn more, please read the following articles-

    Junior is a Chatty Cathy/Tomboy girl with ADHD, according to this article-

    http://parentcenter.babycenter.com/0_types-of-adhd-in-girls_67350.pc

    And here’s an article on girls getting the attention they need when ADHD is assumed to be only a boy problem.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071000703

    And here’s a link for girls interested in becoming pilots-
    http://www.girlswithwings.com

    To learn more about real star captains-

    http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html

    kimberan said this on October 21, 2008 at 11:34 am

  4. To support girls who love science-

    http://www.sallyridescience.com/

    kimberan said this on October 21, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  5. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough organizations to support teenagers who love science, especially girls. Here’s one-

    http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/about/index.html

    kimberan said this on October 22, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  6. Here’s an interesting article by an author, published by a real publisher, who gave her book away for free and why-

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rose/why-is-my-book-free_b_136374.html

    kimberan said this on October 22, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  7. Chapter Three has been posted. In retrospect, it could have been broken into two chapters. Think of this as ‘Two for the Price of One’ Day. Oh, wait, this is already a FREE serial novel. Strike that. Okay, here’s the link, as if you didn’t have enough already-

    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/3/

    kimberan said this on October 27, 2008 at 2:07 pm

  8. Chapter Four has been posted.

    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/4/

    kimberan said this on October 29, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  9. Chapter Five has been posted.
    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/5/
    .
    Just in case you haven’t noticed, this novel has not been professionally edited. The Queryland novels take priority with my time. I apologize for any annoying mistakes.
    ;)

    kimberan said this on November 1, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  10. Chapter Six has been posted. http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/6/

    kimberan said this on November 5, 2008 at 2:38 pm

  11. Chapter Seven has been added.
    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/7/#comment-26#comment-26
    .
    You all remember this hasn’t been professionally edited, right?
    ;)

    kimberan said this on November 8, 2008 at 2:43 pm

  12. Chapter Eight is up.

    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/8/#comment-28

    Comments? Questions? I’m tempted to delete this blog. I know people are visiting, but are they reading or surfing on?

    kimberan said this on November 10, 2008 at 2:41 pm

  13. Chapter Nine is up.
    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/9/#comment-31

    kimberan said this on November 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm

  14. Chapter 10 is up.

    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/10/

    Sorry about the out of order links on the sidebar. I haven’t figured out how to make them stay in numeric order.

    Sure would appreciate questions and comments!

    kimberan said this on November 15, 2008 at 3:24 pm

  15. Chapter 11 has been posted.

    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/11/

    I recieve the most visitors Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Monday. So, I’ve decided to post new chapters on Saturday and Monday mornings only.

    kimberan said this on November 22, 2008 at 3:13 pm

  16. Chapter 12 has been posted.
    http://thestarcaptainsdaughter.wordpress.com/12/

    kimberan said this on November 24, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  17. I’d like to tell you that the SNAP popup on your links makes them hard to click, particularly those small chapter links.

    Christine said this on December 5, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  18. Thanks, Christine! This is my first wordpress blog. I’ll see if I can fix it. I hope so. They annoy me too.

    Blogger and WordPress each have their strengths and weaknesses.

    kimberan said this on December 6, 2008 at 12:22 am

  19. Yeah, I figured out how to disable pop-ups!

    kimberan said this on December 6, 2008 at 2:04 pm

  20. GENRE
    If it’s not my grammar which stinks and if my storytelling ability isn’t to blame, I believe THE STAR CAPTAINS’ DAUGHTER never achieved publication because it doesn’t fit in anywhere.

    I consider this novel Young Adult Science Fiction. However, the parents are fully involved in the story and each have their own Point-of-View scenes. They also love each other romantically and it’s not believed teens want to read about parents who actually love each other. Of course, I don’t believe that. For a time, I tried to make this the parents’ story, qualifying it as Science Fiction Romance. But…(sigh)…involving the couple’s teenage daughter in the story was not acceptable either. The Star Captains AND their Daughter must be fully involved characters or there is no story. In the end, I decided to call this Young Adult Science Fiction because it is Junior’s Story, first and foremost. She’s the one who drives it and without her the parents are nothing. Only she knows Ariez’s true nature and only she is capable of concluding the story for everyone.

    kimberan said this on January 12, 2009 at 3:31 pm

  21. Click on this link for an update on the eBook release-

    http://starcaptainsdaughter.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-decide-on-ebook.html

    kimberan said this on January 15, 2009 at 4:10 am

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