William Kilpack III Review's Jeff Bailey's Not On My Watch

              Interesting story with real-life expertise in nuclear weapons handling and the surrounding security measures, not to mention military training. Those elements give [Not On My Watch] a solid base in reality. Those details take it beyond people dressed in fatigues to people living military life. The flashbacks to Marine training were educational and held my interest. There are no super heroes here; these are real people showing real heroism and pride in service.

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Jeff Bailey Reviews LA Hearn's Clancy Quill and the Onitor Amulet

I just finished L A Hearn’s novel, Clancy Quill and the Onitor Amulet. What a delightful read. A young boy must be initiated into the family – ah, business? tradition? As a fantasy, you know that there is more to it than that. I would say that Clancy Quill and the Onitor Amulet is a mashup of Harry Potter and Encanto, but with some very interesting story twists that I’ve not seen before. I thought that the target reading audience might be the pre-teen/tween age group fantasy fans. Clancy Quill And The Onitor Amulet presents some excellent imagination builders. I’m 75 and I enjoyed it. Kudos to LA Hearn for a charming book. It promises to be quite a series.

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Jeff Bailey Reviews Nellie Neeman's Vengeance

 

Nellie Neeman has done it again, even better, with Vengeance, her latest conspiracy thriller. Jon Steadman is back and falls into an ever-widening conspiracy. Stolen DNA profiles, kidnapping, and who is the legless man in the burning car? As with all her thrillers, Vengeance has multiple story threads all wrapped around one conspiracy. The threads and the characters travel to exotic locals across the globe chasing the leads. Sometimes their paths intersect and sometimes they don’t. The investigation flows perfectly following the search just right, delicious. I have only one thing to say about Jon Steadman,  '….  not since James Bond.’ My highest recommendation for a thrilling read. I literally carried my kindle with me until I finished it. Superb Nellie, Superb.

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My Review of William Kilpack's Pale Face

 

I really enjoy my association with the up-and-coming shakers and movers of the publishing business. William Kilpack III is just such a person. I highly recommend networking with him if you can keep up. Here's my review of his novel Pale Face:
Pale Face by William Kilpack was absolutely fascinating. I can see why it has won so many awards. To start with, the book gives whole new meaning to the Native American phrase ‘pale face.’ The lead character is Hector, a Navaho Indian living on the Navaho Reservation. Hector has an ‘accident’ and is catastrophically injured and should have died instantly. But he doesn’t die!! He is miraculously ‘repaired’ and healed in an incredibly short period of time. Thus, the story unfolds. Pale Face is, in part, sci-fi. But I found it to be so much more. It’s a deep diving character study of Hector that almost borders on mysticism, Navaho mysticism. Kilpack’s writing style was mesmerizing in the depth to which he presented Hector. For me, five stars for both William Kilpack and for Pale Face. Jeff Bailey, author if the conspiracy thriller Not On My Watch.

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The Entertainer Newspaper Review of The Defect by Jeff Bailey.

 

HEADLINE: Nuclear thriller based on terrorist attacks that didn’t make the headlines

The Defect by Jeff Bailey, Deer Hawk Publications

By Laura Kostad

A terrorist group has infiltrated the staff of Desert Canyons Nuclear Power Station (NPS) in Southern California, with the intention of triggering a total, catastrophic meltdown. Little does Operations Shift Supervisor, Brian Sing, know, but it will be up to him to coordinate the entire plant in anti-terrorist efforts as warning lights signal reactor failure.

Recurrent anomalies in the security access reporting system have irked Lenell Spector as Desert Canyons prepares for a routine refueling outage. The system’s reports have been logging personnel without the proper clearance accessing certain doors, some of whom aren’t even assigned to the Desert Canyons facility.

Her concerns are generally dismissed, however, as the reader begins to glimpse the strategic terrorist infiltration at work—their plan already in motion to destabilize the plant. The only person who takes Lenell seriously is Brian, who is attracted to her.

Character histories unfold on the page as Brian, Lenell, and other supporting characters go about their everyday lives as NPS employees. A rare richness in character depth is employed in The Defect that is not often encountered in other suspense thrillers of this genre. Readers will be refreshed in having the opportunity to get to know relatable, everyday characters that manage spectacular feats of heroism when their know-how and ingenuity are put to the ultimate test in preventing certain destruction.

A retired senior member of the science and engineering staff at PNNL, with almost fifty years’ experience in nuclear-related technologies, Murrieta, California author, Jeff Bailey, is well-equipped to take readers deep into the belly of a nuclear power station and a subversive plot to undermine it.

Bailey said that The Defect is based on two real-life events: The Three Mile Island NPS nuclear accident, and the little-known, 2013 Watts Bar NPS attack in Tennessee, which was perpetrated by a lone gunman.

Technical detail isn’t taken for granted in the midst of the plot’s riveting suspense. “My book had to undergo a security clearance with the Department of Energy before publication,” Bailey said. As the story builds momentum, and the Middle Eastern terrorist group rehearses their intricate plot, readers receive an intimate, inside look at the everyday inner workings and operations of the plant, and how one small defect can either be exploited by villains, or alternatively save the day.

Readers will also appreciate Bailey’s treatment of the Middle Eastern terrorist group that’s organizing the attack. All too often, genre fiction writers and screenwriters show the public faceless, single-minded terrorist characters that perpetuate harmful stereotypes of Middle Eastern culture. Bailey departed from this norm and really took the time to flesh out the individual members of the terrorist group, going so far as to paint a detailed picture of their personal background and what led them to their roles in the events of The Defect.

Readers certainly won’t sympathize or empathize with how these characters have chosen to deal with their past, but we can respect them as individuals who have suffered—as fellow people like ourselves—and not just a stigmatized enemy, as contemporary, reductionist political rhetoric often suggests.

The Defect is available in paperback through local bookstores, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. The Kindle E-book is available at through Amazon online.

Mr. Bailey's second book Not On My Watch is also available in paperback through Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. The Kindle E-book is also available through Amazon online. Bailey already has 12 more stories planned for future installments in his nuclear thriller series.

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The Back Story for October 32nd by Larry Rodness

Meeting and talking to people is one of the aspects of writing I like best. So many good great people. So many good stories. I was talking to Larry Rodness a few weeks ago and he told me this back story for October 32nd. I had him write it down for me, 'I’d written “October 32” after visiting the small country village of Elora, Ontario during their annual Halloween festival. It features giant paper monsters coming out of buildings, carnival games, and treats in their town square. I originally wrote it [October 32nd] as a screenplay and several years later turned it into a novel. But I needed a way into the story. Because I had experience in the funeral insurance business I created the main character, Alexander Malefant, who comes to town on a sale- call on Halloween eve and bears witness to all the children in the town going missing while Trick or Treating. The story spun out from there.' Excellent. When you read October 32nd, it's not so much a horror story as one might guess, but a story of redemption. And when you're emersed in the small New England town on All Hollows Eve, imagine that Larry Rodness himself is in the crowd of revelers, right over there next to the old, dilapidated school house. A Hloloween Back Story.

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The Back Story for Not On MY Watch by Jeff Bailey

 

Much of Not On My Watch is fictionalized from my recollection of my Army posting to the Ft. Sill, OK. Special Weapons Depot when I was 20, just a kid. I was a small player on a large crew that maintained and repaired our nation's nuclear weapons arsenal. Lake Lawtonka is real and was a recreational hot spot for the G.I.s.  When I started writing Not On My Watch, I knew the story thread and what I wanted to write but didn’t want to use myself as the lead character as I had in previous books. As would happen, my oldest granddaughter was in the middle of her training to be an Aviation Rescue Firefighter in the Marine Corp., perfect.  Now, to be honest, most of her training took place in Texas rather than Oklahoma, so I exercised a little literary license.  Once I opted to use her for the inspiration of the female protagonist, everything fell into place, the book just sort of wrote itself. All I had to do was ask myself, ‘what would my granddaughter do in this situation?’ By the time I finished Not On My Watch, LCpl Bailey, my muse, was serving in Japan as an Aviation Rescue Firefighter.

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