Reality vs Fiction. Settler, Home of The Rifters! The Reader, Rifters Book 3 is HERE! #SciFi #Fantasy

In the Rifters series, I based the little, wilderness town of Settler on an actual town in Oregon. Settler is roughly based on Fossil, Oregon.

Fossil has a population of about 500. Settler is 2x that at 1000. So that I fictionalized.

Fossil is located in a county which houses the Painted Hills and the Ochoco Mountains.

I wanted it closer to where I live, so moved this lovely town to the Newberry Caldera. Here we overlook the two lakes and the obsidian flow. Between the two lakes is the pumice cone. All of this is inside a big volcano. I stuck the town in the middle of all this.

In Fossil, the library is attached to the fire house and city hall. In Settler, the fire house is on the other side of the library and city hall is elsewhere.

Fossil is very quiet. You can stand on a street corner and not see another soul or another car for hours. The same is true in Settler.

Here's the Paleo Institute I base the one in my books on, complete with dinosaur fossil.

This park is also included in my books, but I changed the mural and in the books this is behind the library:

Here is the county courthouse that inspired the Caslow County office building in Settler. In Settler, it's closer to the library. In Fossil, it's next to the Paleo Institute.

The people in Fossil are awesome. So if you ever go out that way, pop in and visit them. I'll for sure go back. Wheeler County is one of my favorite places in Oregon.

With views like this, I'm always eager to return:

The Reader, Rifters Book 3 is here!

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With the rift closed for the season and no more monsters to fight, Daelin Long gets bored as librarian in the podunk town of Settler, Oregon. A job interview and her brother's arrival present a tempting opportunity to escape, until her brother and her best friend, a ghost, disappear.

While Daelin searches for them, more mysteries pile up: dead people coming back to life, portraits of the town founders replaced with strange white trees, and people on the other side of the rift returning. It’s impossible. The portal that allows monsters from other universes to come to Earth is sealed until next summer.

The Rifters, a secret group protecting our world, believe the troubles are nothing more than the tantrums of an offended ghost. Daelin disagrees. If she’s right, the evil hell-bent on destroying Earth has new technology making the rift more deadly. Before the monster summons the next apocalypse, Daelin must find it and destroy it.

Book 3 in the Rifter series.

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Interstellar Dad by Jeff Beesler: Speculative Fiction Worth Reading #SciFi

Isn't it great to be surprised by a book? That's how I feel about Interstellar Dad by Jeff Beesler.

This book sucked me in from paragraph one and held my attention throughout. The main character is someone easy to identify with and root for. 

He's going through a rough patch. Went through a divorce. His job isn't going so great. He's falling apart and his life is going with it.

Bad goes to worse when he winds up in the desert in need of a tow truck. Then things get weird with an encounter often attributed to the American southwest.

What follows is folly and laughter and fun. Beesler definitely takes the reader on a ride of emotion throughout the story.

I liked it so much, I was excited to see the second one is now out. Yup, I for sure bought it.

Without hesitation, I give Interstellar Dad 5 stars. It's available on Amazon.

Have you read any good books lately?

A to Z Challenge - G is for Gangsta Ghost.

The A to Z Blogging Challenge is underway!

If you haven't heard of it, check out the A to Z blog and join in the fun.

Here at Untethered Realms, we're taking on the Challenge as a group. Each day, one of us will be sharing with you a teaser from one of our books.

George "Haw Shot" Hawley is a ghost with a lot of attitude.

The Rifters by M. Pax

5 Star Review from CHOOSE YOUR OWN END: "The Wild West meets Ghostbusters with some Stargate and a bit of Steampunk thrown in. Even though everything seems a bit familiar, it’s not, which is what makes The Rifters compelling"

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