Confirmed: Shears, a “deft touch”; KiTE, a “rollicking sci-fi”"

According to this reviewer. And of course we would tend to agree.

KiTE book blog tour schedule

Haven’t read KiTE yet? What are you waiting for? KiTE is hard sci-fi with heart. Check these sites for reviews, a Shears interview, commenting and at least one giveaway at these book-loving blogs, starting about now and ongoing for a few weeks:

KiTE: Hard Sci-Fi with Heart

3/19 The Book Connection (Interview)
3/21 Designs by DeDe (Scrapbooking site? Hey, why not?)
3/23 The Bec-ster
3/24 Elizabeth Mueller
3/26 Husband and wife tandem reviews. Should be interesting: I Am  A Pistacio and Syncopated Musings
3/26 A Writer’s Eyes
3/26 J. Lloyd Morgan
3/30 The Musings of a Hopeful Writer
3/31 Karen Adair
4/1  Why Not? Because I Said So.
4/2 My Life in a Laptop
4/4  mormonhermitmom’s book habit
4/11 T.J. Types TMI
4/15 A Bookworm’s Tale

Reviews with no schedule, which like Billy Pilgrim, will be unstuck in time:

Azurescape
Critical Mass
Rememorandom
The Atomic Spud

Paranormal Mystery: The Doppelganger Song

The Doppelganger Song: With their long relationship on the verge of collapse, security consultant Frank and psychologist Holly team up as paranormal investigators. A teacher at an old private girls’ school in The Bronx, NY, has been severely injured. Was it a suicide attempt or is the teacher’s double causing trouble? Frank and Holly sort the eerie from the merely strange.

Available in all major ebook formats at Smashwords at a retro paperback price.

The Doppelganger Song by Caitlin Sumer & Bill Shears

The Doppelganger Song

Holly Ambrose, a beautiful and accomplished psychiatrist with a string of degrees as long as her arm, and Frank Zhelikhovsky, a Desert Storm vet and rock solid security consultant have been together for 11 years but lately their relationship has thinned. Professionally their individual consulting practices are flat, and personally they spend more time apart than together. Both possessed of a degree of skepticism they now find themselves cast in the roles of paranormal detectives.

Teacher Emma Ward went out the fourth floor window of the Gracewynne School, a private girls’ academy in the Bronx. Did she attempt suicide or was she pushed? Holly and Frank have been called in to investigate the incident and the situation. In the course of their investigation they encounter what seems to be a shape-shifter or doppelganger.

They find Emma in a hospital bed seriously injured, where she tells them her sad story, about how her desperation for even the shallowest love led to Scott, a city assistant prosecutor. She’s now sure he only dated her to get information on the school, either for a criminal investigation, for an extortion plan, or for both.

Frank and Holly take the case and soon discover that all is not right at the Gracewynne School, but their relationship may not survive long enough for them to root out the truth.

KiTE: Make your own bookmarks

JPG suitable for printing. Right-click and Save Image as…Enough KiTE bookmarks to last you a lifetime. If you live longer then just print another one. KiTE is a novel set in Earth orbit starring Mason Dash, operator of Kite, Janet Dash, his genius AI researcher wife and Sheila, his beautiful virtual assistant. More information here.

Kite bookmark sheet

Polka Dot Banner Featured Author: Bill Shears

Bill Shears, author of Kite, is currently the featured author at Polka Dot Banner, an online  writers’ community . Here’s the interview: Bill Shears Explains Hard Science Fiction.