Book 2 in the Physics, Lust and Greed Series
Science Fiction
Date Published: October 1, 2020
When time travelers fail test after test to significantly alter the past, most financial backers abandon the Global Research Consortium leaving veteran traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project. She must protect the past from a greedy future, fend off political meddling, and foil a murder plot originating in a parallel universe. She presides over a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friend’s death while coping with a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement involving fellow traveler Marshall Grissom.
Marta, who has by professional necessity always distanced herself from emotional commitment, lapsed by allowing herself the luxury of friendship with Sheila Schuler and a night of wild sex with Marshall. Now, Sheila is probably dead, and—according to a genius physicists’ theory—Marshall soon will be. As she assumes her role as administrator of the time travel program, Marta must choose between the risks of loving someone, or the lonely safety of emotional solitude.
(No cats were harmed in the telling of this story.)
Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want Readers to Grasp?
My Physics, Lust and Greed books are written primarily to entertain.
I hope they contain some basic human truths, but, as Mark Twain wrote in his preface from Huckleberry Finn: "Persons attempting to find a
motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral
in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be
shot." If a reader is entertained, I’m happy.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
Everything in writing is challenging. That’s the fun of it.
The hardest and least pleasant fun of writing these days is trying to find and
audience in a very crowded market.
How many books have you written and which is your favorite?
Wasting Time… Book 2 in the Physics, Lust and Greed series, is the fourth book I’ve
published. I have three more books waiting in the wings: two more Time books,
and my first non-fiction book which is the story of the Chad Mitchell Trio and
the 60’s era of folk music. My favorite is probably my first published
book, Section Roads, a coming-of-age novel based on the little Eastern
New Mexico town where I grew up.
If You had the chance to cast your main character from
D.J.
Qualls as Marshall because he strikes me as being very much like the Marshall
character and, despite the book cover, Marshall is not a particularly attractive
man. Alex-Marshall Brown as Marta because she projects the bad-ass edginess fitting
for Marta. Robert Duvall as Cecil because, well, he’s Robert Duvall.
When did you begin writing?
I’ve been writing in one fashion or
another since junior high school.
How long did it take to complete your first book?
The first book I wrote was Taking Time, probably a four-year
effort. I wrote a really bad version of it, because I had a lot to learn about
the craft of fiction. Then I rewrote it a couple more times with the help of editors
and writers’ conferences.
Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer?
Mark Twain and a New Mexico author named
Richard Bradford.
What is your favorite part of the writing process?
Polishing a first draft.
Describe your latest book in 4 words.
Funny time travel adventure.
Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the
future for your writing?
I’ve just finished the first draft of the fourth book in the Physics,
Lust and Greed series entitled The Outlaw Gillis Kerg. As I mentioned
previously, I’m also preparing We Never Knew Just What it Was… the Story of
the Chad Mitchell Trio for publication.
About the Author
Mike Murphey is a native of New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Following his retirement, he enjoyed a seventeen-year partnership with the late Dave Henderson, all-star Major League outfielder. Their company produced the Oakland A’s and Seattle Mariners adult baseball Fantasy Camps. Wasting Time is his fourth novel. Mike loves fiction, cats, baseball and sailing. He splits his time between Spokane, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona.
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