Here’s a new trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble!: Flight of the Golden Caterpillar.
Trouble brews and flares and sweeps four lonely kids about 12 years old into someone else’s gnarly mess. Now they must forge an alliance to save themselves and a parent.
Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the power to work together.
Amelia Falls into the Garage with the Packard Caribbean, shoved by the helicopter’s rotor wash, off her feet and into the air… a copyrighted excerpt follows, from Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, Book 1 in the kidlit Rocket McGee Series.
…like having the rug pulled out from under me, she reflected, remotely, as she backstroked through the roiled and scorching, debris-filled air.
She pictured an ugly, scratchy, painful fall, slap-dab in the middle of a flaming thorn bush, charred and torn to shreds and at the mercy of her attackers, who even then rushed towards her, but instead she fell back softly, almost in slow motion, borne by tingling invisible fingers to the concrete floor of a dimly lit room, and she stared up at the back of a green garage door.
Rocket McGee kids tour Faraway Island with Andrew the Antigrav Air Taxi.
In Book One of the Rocket McGee Series, Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, Chad Saenz takes Amelia and the kids for a tour of Faraway Island in Andrew, the Antigrav Air Taxi.
You know, the Aircars protect their passengers with a surrounding forcefield, but Amelia really shouldn’t be standing up, pointing like that! You think? But, she must be excited. She must have just figured out that she’s looking at the omicron Chairman’s offices from the outside, where the windows look out from the Upper Branch of the Outer Shoe onto the Sea of Faraway.
Here’s a new Book Trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, thanks to help of the folks at BooksGoSocial.com. I find it pleasant to watch (and watch – I do…). The score helps a lot. It makes me feel better about the cover, too. Enjoy. Then, go buy the book!
Emma Watson HeForShe Speech at the United Nations | UN Women 2014
We wouldn’t presume to add anything. Beautiful, powerful, human speech!
Rocket McGee: Back in Trouble! or Pirates over Pacifica
You’d think 12-year-old Rocket could catch a break and rest on her laurels a bit, after that trouble with the golden caterpillar, but no. It’s barely Book Two of the Series and Rocket’s secret is revealed before she’s ready – before almost anyone in her whole world is ready – and though her three closest friends are behind her all the way, she’s shunned by the rest of the omicrons, who are shocked and just don’t know how to deal with the sense of betrayal they feel, being kept in the dark for so long by creatures they sort of suspected already. And on the heels of being battered by the broadcast of her secret, Rocket and her friends are engulfed in a whirlwind of perilous plots by enemies new and old, and they have to rise to defend their world and the people they love even as their own world changes around them and omicron fades in favor of even more faraway dreams…
Rocket McGee: Back in Trouble! or Pirates over Pacifica is Book Two of the Rocket McGee Series by Roan Reedling. Check the series out at the Rocket McGee Book Series Page on Amazon.com
How to share your Rocket McGee Experience on Amazon
Our readers tell us they loved the time they spent in Rocket’s world – the stories, the characters – and they just can’t wait for the next installment, or to share their experience by writing a review on Amazon. As soon as they figure out how to do it, that is!
Well, if you’re having trouble sharing, because you just aren’t quite sure how to go about it, watch this short tutorial video by Tutorbot Twelve (a.k.a. John by his closer associates). It’s a quick little tour of the Amazon Reviews Form and the roadmap to get there. It’s not only quick, it’s fast, and some information can fly by you before you know it, while you daydream of Faraway and Pacifica and Affinity Station… Oh! Sorry! Affinity Station’s in Book Three, Rocket McGee: Courting Trouble! – not due out ’til 2016, but you’ll daydream about it soon enough! Anyway, the video’s short enough, you can play it again – and again!
If you like his video, why don’t you leave Tutorbot John a comment here at RocketMcGee.com? And, as for Roan Reedling, author of the Rocket McGee Series, don’t forget the Tinkerbell Effect! A review, to an author, is like applause to a creature of Neverland.
May I have more Plot, please, sir?
“…penny for my thoughts!” drawled Brain, scoffing, “I don’t know whether to tell you what I think of how little you value my thoughts or ask what good any amount of money would do me on Faraway.”
Robbie just glared at him while Chad and Amelia shared a bored smirk. Then she softened.
“You drifted off…”
“I was just thinking about a book I’m reading – one of those old mystery books from the nineteen-twenties or thirties that Chad lends me – a carefully constructed plot that accumulates clues and weaves them into a theory that points to the one and only possible culprit: the butler.”
He went on with more wind in his sails after that. He’d gotten them to laugh.
“I thought, if someone tried to put everything that happened to us in the last month or so – during that trouble with the pirates over Pacifica – tried to fashion it into some kind of story, it couldn’t possibly seem like a carefully crafted plot. More like an episodic series of harrowing events – to borrow Lemony Snicket’s phraseology. I’m not sure what the plot was, other than: pirates obviously had it out for us.”
“It’s a kind of McGuffin!” offered Amelia, “A McGuffin once removed. Some unknown objective the bad guys have, and we’re just caught in their path. In their way. That’s all. And then, we have to survive the oncoming semi-truck full of bad guys that’s taken a bead on us, however we can. That’s the story. Just like the trouble with the golden caterpillar! The plot is unknown, flowing all around us. We’re just stuck in the middle! Clueless, minding our own business, yet in dire peril! Still, […]
I could watch this clip all day – the part where the girls scoot over the crest of the dune to watch the rocket launch, full of sparking wonder – and just let those refreshing kinds of neurotransmitters rush through me; the sense of discovery, aspiration, and joy wash over me! But it’s just too short! I wanna see the whole movie! Guess I’ll have to write it! See if you don’t find a reminiscent scene in some upcoming Rocket McGee adventure!
This snippet snagged me from a longer commercial by OppenheimerFunds. Here’s their full 30-second video on youtube, to give credit where credit is due.
Focused Field Pulse in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble!
Just outside the sealed door to the Golden Caterpillar Train’s boarding platform, frustrated Major Wen fires a focused field pulse at the kidnappers in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! – Book One in the Rocket McGee Series.
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