Friday, February 18, 2022

Blog Tour: Expedition Borneo by Daniel Side #blogtour #interview #giveaway #adventure #rabtbooktours @danside2 @daniel_side @RABTBookTours

 


Adult Romantic Adventure

Date Published: February 2022

 

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AN ADVENTURE LIKE NO OTHER.


One part, exotic, jungle setting, one part romance, two parts gripping, heart-pounding suspense

Jake Bennett knew a couple of things for sure: he needed a job, he didn’t want to die in the jungle… but he’d never met anyone like nurse Brockman.

The two clash when Jake discovers that Katherine Brockman’s mission has nothing to do with checking the condition of malaria in native villages.

The possibility of saving tens of thousands of lives unites them as they venture into the steaming jungle to discover if the “Legend of the Riverman” is true.

Soon, the dangers of the jungle wrapped in the unforgiving heat, threatens to end, not only their mission, but their lives.

But nothing can prepare them for what they discover, hidden deep in an unexplored jungle basin.

 

A new, action-packed, adult adventure




Interview

Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?

That first time that I sit down to begin chapter one, page one is the toughest. I’ve already roughed out the story and the characters over the past year, so it’s not that I don’t know who or what it’s about, but rather it’s this overwhelming act of commitment at that moment, to this huge project that is going to take over a good chunk of my life for the next many months or years.

 

 How many books have you written and which is your favorite?

 

Expedition Borneo is my sixth novel: the most challenging, the longest and hopefully the best of what I have written. As far as a favorite, I think, perhaps like many, my first one, The Reedsmith of Zendar, will always hold a soft spot for me. Like most first novels, there is a lot of me in there: the main character, family, influences of other authors from my early reading. There’s also lots of feelings and emotions of that period of my life injected into the writing.

 

 If you had the chance to cast your main character from Hollywood today, who would you pick and why?

 

Well if we’re talking about Expedition Borneo, as I wrote it I envisioned Ryan Reynolds as the main character, Jake Bennett. He could bring the right mix of physicality, sense of humor and swagger to the role.

 

 When did you begin writing?

 

I guess I lied because I actually wrote my first book with my cousin at age eighteen, one of many schemes to make a lot of money. Before the age of computers, it was written on typewriters using carbon paper. He wrote one chapter and I wrote the next. An English murder mystery, strangely enough, it was ignored by the writing world. Can’t imagine why.

 

 How long did it take to complete your first book?

 

Well, if we don’t count that first teenage attempt and consider The Reedsmith of Zendar as my first, it took me four years. At the time I was still teaching full time, finishing the interior of the log house I had built and raising three boys with my wife. There are four parts to the journey quest novel and I wrote one part each year.

 

 Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer?

 

I think you would have to single out Edgar Rice Burroughs as my first inspiration: not necessarily to start writing, but to fall in love with characters and story – all of them very adventurous for a young teenage boy. Tolkien and Terry Brooks continued my adventures, as well as Michael Crichton, and Robert B Parker.

 

What is your favorite part of the writing process?

 

When I’ve finished the first draft I actually love the first edit. I like seeing what I have done, how I can improve it. Just like when finishing the first draft, finishing the first edit gives me a great sense of achievement.

 

 Describe your latest book in 4 words.

 

A classic, romantic, adventure.

 

 Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the future for your writing?

 

My latest goal with Expedition Borneo was to write a classic adventure story, along the lines of The African Queen, King Solomon’s Mines, Treasure Island or Raiders of the Lost Ark: a story with regular characters, facing incredible odds on a mission not of their choosing.

 

It’s 1941 on the island of Borneo in the South Pacific, two weeks after the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. She’s on a mission and needs him. He doesn’t realize it, but he needs her. They are characters in trouble that you will care about and root for. He’s not perfect and neither is she, but the attraction is inevitable as they learn about each other and find an unbelievable discovery deep in one of the world’s last unexplored jungles .

 

One part, exotic, jungle setting, one part romance, and two parts gripping, heart-pounding suspense.

 

 About the Author

An avid reader as a youngster, Daniel began a teaching career at twenty, peppering his life with trail rides on his horse Kelly, scuba diving in the murky Great Lakes of Ontario and taking fencing lessons.

He married Lynda, five months after they met in a bar on a Thursday night. With her, he raised a family, wrote and produced school plays, built their log home, restored a classic Mustang, a '69 Mach 1 for enthusiasts, and took their three boys on many canoe trips in northern Canada.

Twenty years later, unable to find a science fantasy adventure he liked, with encouragement from Lynda, he wrote The Reedsmith of Zendar. Expedition Borneo is his sixth novel.

His books are varied, but whether suspense, a thriller, or an adventure story, all contain characters in trouble that you will care about and root for. He's never perfect and neither is she, but the attraction is inevitable as they learn about each other on an adventure seldom of their choosing.

 

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