Interview with Penelope Steng of John Joseph Doody's The Crimson Witch
We’re thrilled to be talking to Penelope Steng from John
Joseph Doody’s, The Crimson Witch, Book 3
of the Guild Saga. It is a pleasure to have her with us today at Pimp
That Character!
Thank you for your interview, Penelope. How old are you and what do you do for a
living?
Age is important to Earthers, not to Prometheans. Some say I
am an assassin, but if they said it to my face I would kill them.
Can you tell us about one of your most distinguishable
features?
My skin tone is jaundiced, but with make-up I can pass as
human.
What would I love the most about you?
Some say I am sentimental, but if they said it to my face I
would kill them.
What would I hate the most about you?
Ultway loves me and not you.
Where do you go when you are angry?
Far away from Ultway.
Do you think the author portrayed you accurately?
My hair is not wiry, it’s just hard to manage.
Are you a loner or do you prefer to surround yourself with
friends?
Yes.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew
up?
A Luch Chi master, and so I am.
What is your most treasured possession?
Luch Chi.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you
do today?
Kill Alex before sunrise.
About the Author
Happily, I have a wife and four children and live in Florida.
Website Link: www.johndoody.com
Twitter Link: @johnjosephdoody
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/authorjohnjosephdoody/
Inside the Books
Title: THE GUILD
SAGA: THE WONK DECELERATOR (Book 1)
Author: John Joseph Doody
Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC
Pages: 131
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Author: John Joseph Doody
Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC
Pages: 131
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
BOOK BLURB:
For Earthers dwelling in Guild space, it is a one-hundred year journey back
to Earth. An unimaginable voyage, until now.When Guild commander and crack pilot, Thad Cochran boards the shuttle destined for the casinos of Timmerus, finding a way back to Earth is not on his radar. He wants the five-percent finder’s fee the Guild is offering for a black box held by the lizard-like Yazz. Thad has a dream: With the loot he will get for stealing the Wonk Decelerator, he can buy a ranch on Beta Prime.
But things begin to fall apart for him in the dark caverns of Timmerus, and Thad must reconsider his priorities in life. Has he discovered a cause greater than his dream? Are there actually more important things to life than money and his dream? What about the woman who is waiting for him? What about freedom in the galaxy? And what about his discovery, fashioned by the gnarled hands of a brilliant, old Yazz, that could change everything?
Thad Cochran has a choice to make. He can fulfill his quest, escape with his life and be rich. Or he can fly with the Wonks … one more time.
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Book Excerpt:
Thad
opened his eyes, aware of a sense that the murky sun was dropping on the
horizon. He panicked momentarily until he realized he still had a half hour
before the prearranged confab with Maggie.
He headed for the bathroom to change into darker clothes for the journey. The bathroom had Thandimonean stone flooring, golden faucets and a huge commode one nearly needed a ladder to get up on.
Thad rubbed his face and ran his tongue over his teeth. He might as well clean up while he was in here. He stripped, broke out his toothbrush and was busy about his business when he heard a creaking hinge.
He stepped out of the bathroom in his skivvies, toothpaste frothing in his mouth.
"Commander Cochran."
He heard the voice, glanced at the open door, but saw no one.
"Yeph?!" he gurgled, toothpaste spraying everywhere as his voice took on a falsetto tone.
"I’m up here, silly boy."
Thad looked up, and his heart tried to jump out of his gullet. The woman, the one he had seen in the space port and had suspected of being a droid, crawled across the ceiling like a spider chasing after a bug. How she managed to cling, upside down, her head twisted a hundred and eighty degrees and looking directly at him, was a repulsive mystery to him.
Oh, you’re a droid all right!
He had never seen a Mandroid capable of walking on ceilings. This droid’s techno was impressive and scary.
"You should go back to your people, Commander Cochran," she said, as she crawled down the wall, her head twisting again, cracking and popping back to its original position.
He knew there was no sense in trying to get away, or in trying to fight with this droid. She was too fast, too strong. He had no weapon to use against her, and worst of all, he was in his underwear.
Thad swallowed his toothpaste.
Once on the floor, she meandered over to him and, with a critical expression, eyed him from head to toe. She was beautiful, but she smelled of a peculiar blend of perfume and something like burnt rubber.
"There’s only death waiting for you here on Gar Mega. Go back, Commander, before it’s too late."
With that, she walked stiffly from the room, leaving the door open. Thad wasted no time, sprinted to the door, locked it and leaned against the wall, his legs trembling beneath him.
She’s probably got a key that pops out of her finger or something. I know I locked that.
He headed for the bathroom to change into darker clothes for the journey. The bathroom had Thandimonean stone flooring, golden faucets and a huge commode one nearly needed a ladder to get up on.
Thad rubbed his face and ran his tongue over his teeth. He might as well clean up while he was in here. He stripped, broke out his toothbrush and was busy about his business when he heard a creaking hinge.
He stepped out of the bathroom in his skivvies, toothpaste frothing in his mouth.
"Commander Cochran."
He heard the voice, glanced at the open door, but saw no one.
"Yeph?!" he gurgled, toothpaste spraying everywhere as his voice took on a falsetto tone.
"I’m up here, silly boy."
Thad looked up, and his heart tried to jump out of his gullet. The woman, the one he had seen in the space port and had suspected of being a droid, crawled across the ceiling like a spider chasing after a bug. How she managed to cling, upside down, her head twisted a hundred and eighty degrees and looking directly at him, was a repulsive mystery to him.
Oh, you’re a droid all right!
He had never seen a Mandroid capable of walking on ceilings. This droid’s techno was impressive and scary.
"You should go back to your people, Commander Cochran," she said, as she crawled down the wall, her head twisting again, cracking and popping back to its original position.
He knew there was no sense in trying to get away, or in trying to fight with this droid. She was too fast, too strong. He had no weapon to use against her, and worst of all, he was in his underwear.
Thad swallowed his toothpaste.
Once on the floor, she meandered over to him and, with a critical expression, eyed him from head to toe. She was beautiful, but she smelled of a peculiar blend of perfume and something like burnt rubber.
"There’s only death waiting for you here on Gar Mega. Go back, Commander, before it’s too late."
With that, she walked stiffly from the room, leaving the door open. Thad wasted no time, sprinted to the door, locked it and leaned against the wall, his legs trembling beneath him.
She’s probably got a key that pops out of her finger or something. I know I locked that.
Title: THE GUILD
SAGA: THE LATE, GREAT BENJAMIN BALE (Book 2)
Author: John Joseph Doody
Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC
Pages: 370
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Author: John Joseph Doody
Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC
Pages: 370
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
BOOK BLURB:
The destinies of
two men depend on Maggie Thorn. One is dying and the other is dead…or is he?
Captain Maggie
Thorn is on a formal Guild mission, supposedly to kidnap the yazz scientist,
Gravian Endrenicus, and return him to Thandimone. But she also has a personal
score to settle with the lizard-like inhabitants of Timmerus. She intends to
make the yazz pay for what they did to Thad Cochran—the one the yazz call the
Thieves Guild pilot. The man she loves.
Supreme Fleet
Commander, Admiral Geoff Grangore knows of only one man who could get Maggie to
Timmerus and back while traitorous eyes are watching. That man is an old drunk
who lives deep in the Thandimonean wilderness with his pet Eno, Snot. Benjamin
Bale is suicidal and cantankerous, and Maggie can’t stand him—at first.
Bale is a dead
man. At least, that’s what everyone was told. But this dead man has a final
mission to perform. The greatest star pilot in the galaxy has a chance to
redeem himself and make right a great wrong. A wrong which he can never forgive
or forget. A wrong that cost him everything.
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Title: THE GUILD SAGA: RETURN OF THE
CRIMSON WITCH (Book 3)
Author: John Joseph Doody
Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC
Pages: 407
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Author: John Joseph Doody
Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC
Pages: 407
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
BOOK BLURB:
The Bashtier call
Wonk space, Eerindark—The Place of the Dead—and Thad Cochran, the only pilot to
go there and live, will soon find out why. The sacrifice of Benjamin Bale
brings Thad back from the dead. But is he truly free from the death grip of the
Wonks?
A body is
discovered behind an apartment wall in a small town on the planet Daggon. With
the mystery thrust upon him, Admiral Geoff Grangore must pursue a dangerous
quest for the truth—is it somehow connected to The Wonk Decelerator?
Dreams and visions
are dancing in the heads of the yazz. Something bad is coming to the frontier—a
hidden enemy only the Guild traitor, Alexander Hamilton Patho knows.
Patho sends an assassin to Daggon and his conniving gaze is on the M-3 Wonk vessel. It seems civil war is imminent and those who control the power of Wonk travel will rule the known galaxy. Therefore, it must not fall into Patho’s hands.
Patho sends an assassin to Daggon and his conniving gaze is on the M-3 Wonk vessel. It seems civil war is imminent and those who control the power of Wonk travel will rule the known galaxy. Therefore, it must not fall into Patho’s hands.
It is time for
war, and time for Maggie Thorn to learn the truth about who she really is. It
is also time for The Return of the Crimson Witch.
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