Privateers for the Crown #1 The Graduation of Ensign Dance Hollydon

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Privateers for the Crown  #1  The Graduation of Ensign Dance Hollydon is the first installment of a new project of mine. It is a serial, science fiction, ebook series that Star Wars devotees will recognize easily.

Ensign Dance Hollydon was a brand new graduate of the Naval Academy of the Crown Commonwealth of Margra. She hadn't, however, accepted her first post-graduation assignment yet. She had greater aspirations than being another anonymous newbie on one of the Crown's massive starships. She wanted something more exciting and challenging than that. Things looked bleak for her to get her way until she was recruited by Navy Intelligence for a dangerous and life-changing assignment. She became the Navy envoy on one of the privateer vessels employed to harass the enemy: The Stella Avalon. She jumped at the chance and was even more excited about her assignment when she found out her Captain was Tok Barmer, the most notorious Crown privateer of them all. 
The story is 10,300 words long and can be easily read in one sitting. 

One other important feature of the story is that it is FREE!
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This book is rate R and is intended for the personal enjoyment of adult science fiction / romance readers sixteen years of age and older. It contains mature adult situations that are sexual in nature. It also contains adult science fiction violence and profanity. All characters depicted in adult situations are written to be at least eighteen years of age and older.

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Any similarities with any persons or entities, living or dead, fictitious or real, is strictly coincidental.

Cover designed by Darrell T. Grob with images that are, to the best of his efforts, determined to be in the public domain.

My Beliefs

No one is as powerful as someone who is motivated beyond reason to succeed.

A Prius is just as fast as a Ferrari in city traffic.

How much power and control you could gain is not as important as what you do with the power and control you already have.

First and foremost, each individual has a responsibility to positively impact their own personal sphere of influence. Only after mastering that does one move on to somebody elses.

Knowledge for its own sake is worthwhile, but application begets wisdom.

Sometimes the best thing to say or do is nothing.

Progress sometimes takes a long, boring time, sometimes quickly but manageable, and sometimes in cataclysmic suddenness; you need to know the difference.

The price of progress is the pain of change. - Hopkins

You don't have to hit me upside the head with a baseball bat too many times for me to figure out I don't like getting hit upside the head with baseball bat.

The biggest disrupters of life are 'more' and 'less', or in other words abundance and scarcity. Static is, by nature, stable but stagnant. More or less of anything: money, time, opportunity, labor, resources, people, ideas, products, anything -- disrupts the status quo and causes upheaval and causation, either negative or positive and sometimes both at the same time.

An apology without genuine repentance (that is with regret, remorse, resolve to change one's behavior) is just a fancy way of asking for a life-mulligan.

The Four Ps: Propose, Plan, Prepare, Produce.

The Three Cs: PersistenCy, ConsistenCy, FrequenCy

Dreams, wishes, and hopes are only lofty ideas, beautiful, desirable clouds. Goals have a numerical significance that can be followed and measured, and they always lead to results.

Rumor mongering, insult slinging, and personal ridicule are tactics of those who do not have a sound understanding of what they believe. They are the last resort of intellectually weak-minded people. And to use them first is a sign of intellectual and emotional immaturity.

The only absolute truth in Earthly human existence is simple arithmetic. 2 + 2 always equals 4. But more complex thought, including advanced mathematics, is open to personal interpretation and opinions. 

Talk is cheap. Accomplishment is priceless.