Silver City New Mexico Author ePublishes Debut Science Fiction Novel "Glitch"

From Spaceport America into the solar system and beyond; new Sci Fi e-book comes to readers via surging trend in independent publishing
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SILVER CITY, N.M. - June 26, 2013 - PRLog -- Silver City, New Mexico.  Grant County author and resident Kate Rauner today published Glitch, a science fiction novel that begins at Spaceport America in neighboring Doña Ana County.  Kate tells a story of discovery and the unexpected.  Rob Shay is a controller for Xplore, the world's premiere space exploration company. On a mission for an international consortium of universities, routine calibrations on the spacecraft's imagers lead Rob and his mission control crew to an incredible discovery. They find a glitch in space that opens an impossible path to an unknown star, which they dub Helios, and its planetary system.

Serendipity led to the discovery and serendipity may stop its exploration. All Rob wants to do is be part of exploring the Helios system, but unexpected problems keep getting in his way. The Board of Directors for the consortium that owns the mission believes Rob found a glitch in the spacecraft's instruments rather than a glitch in space. The control crew must convince them the glitch in space is real, and that they must divert one of their spacecraft to a new mission to create a sentry at the glitch, before hopelessly losing track of it somewhere out among uncataloged asteroids. Only then international spacecraft begin to explore the Helios system.

Support and opposition come from unexpected sources. Although the Helios mission is sustained by subscribers to the universities' missions, not everyone in the world wants to see humanity travel beyond Earth. Space exploration is a private industry, but governments try to claim control. Xplore is in the business of exploration and business concerns come first. Rob struggles in a world he can't control, trying to stay employed at Xplore while even bigger problems rock the nation. At least Rob can find some sympathy from his once-girlfriend who runs a telescope-for-hire business in Australia.

Glitch is a hard science fiction story of the near-future, rooted in today's trends and technologies.  The story is set in a world authentic enough, and messy enough, to be real. A fun read for the summer.

Available for Kindle, Nook, iPad, and in all major electronic formats.

Available at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/katerauner and major online retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Baker & Taylor Blio, Page Foundry and the Diesel eBook Store.

For a limited time (Wednesday June 26 through Wednesday July 31) an electronic book version of Glitch, normally priced at $2.99, is available at half price.  Use coupon code YS46M.

Also available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DLIE982 (http://www.amazon.com/) to purchase for the Kindle.

Read a FREE excerpt of Glitch at Smashwords.com or at Amazon.

Kate has published her novel as an ebook, which takes advantage of an important trend in publishing. According to the Association of American Publishers, ebook sales have skyrocketed from 1% of all book sales in 2008 to 30% in 2012, the first year ever that there were more ebooks sold than hardcover books. eBooks will soon overtake paperbacks as the highest volume product for publishers in America. eBooks are also opening up publishing to independent authors. Best-selling indie authors at Smashwords are selling over 1000 ebooks for every print book.

About Kate Rauner

Kate worked for over two decades in the nation's nuclear weapons complex at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. After the Cold War fizzled out, she helped demolish the weapons plant, and then moved to southwest New Mexico and worked in the copper mines around Silver City. Today she is retired and lives at the edge of the Gila National Forest with her husband, dog, three cats, and four llamas. She enjoys hiking and bird-watching, and, as a volunteer firefighter, has fought wildland and home fires. She has always loved science and plans to keep learning.

To contact Kate via email:  (Help fight spam!  Humans can un-obfuscate this email address) firstnamelastname at gmail.com

About Smashwords

Founded in 2008, Smashwords is the leading distributor of self-published ebooks. More than 60,000 authors, small presses and literary agents around the world publish over 200,000 ebooks through Smashwords. Smashwords makes ebook publishing fast, free and easy. Smashwords distributes to major online retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Baker & Taylor Blio, Page Foundry and the Diesel eBook Store. Smashwords is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at smashwords.com.

Contact the Author: Help fight spam! Humans can un-obfuscate this email address:  firstnamelastname at gmail.com

Glitch by Kate Rauner

List Price: $2.99

Kindle, Nook, iPad, and all major e-formats

81,370 words approximate

ISBN 9781301511525

BISAC: FIC028020 FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
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