The Shadow Warriors novel on sale

Smashwords sale only (no Kindle) until March 15 for The Shadow Warriors.  Use Coupon Code QR73B and the novel only costs $1.49.  The author is Judith Copek.  Smashwords Web site


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The Shadow Warriors is a genre-busting novel of suspense, incorporating international locales (Singapore, Hong Kong, Boston, Brussels and Germany), technology (software agents) and derring-do at a German university. The story is framed by an outbreak of information warfare. Emma Lee Davis, a web security consultant, must dredge up a painful summer in her past to discover a means to end the info-war that has disrupted civilization.

The novel provides insights into the computer hacker culture of old, complete with colorful techspeak and the offbeat humor that always accompanies an information systems project.  All the while Emma’s irreverent, insightful observations and unique voice pepper the cyber-suspense with aspects of cyber-farce. The topic of technology running amok is timely; the characters are unique. The millions of  IT professionals will enjoy a book that features their misunderstood livelihoods.  

The Shadow Warriors and Reading Devices

After a certain amount of pain, having to do with cleaning up and formatting the now ancient (2001) manuscript of The Shadow Warriors, that was still in individual chapters.  I came through the process.  Much of it was ugly, like making sausage.  Smashwords has lots of formatting rules, and my original manuscript broke most of them. 

Nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without work, have you noticed?  Even the roast pork fried rice I'm making from the leftover pork tenderloin  is work:  cook the egg, cook the bacon, cook the rice, cut up the meat, the onion, the ginger, slice the mushrooms, yada yada.   Of course the effort will be delicious, and full of good veggies and flavorings, lean and "nutritionally correct," more or less.  Not that I pay a lot of attention.  So:  work.

I have been slaving over The Shadow Warriors off and on for many years.  Writing and rewriting.  You know what they say.  Writing is rewriting.  So the baby is out there in print, on the Kindle, and now on a wealth of other devices.  Hopefully I will get it into the "premier" catalog.  I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions.  My NCX looks great.  The text version had weird fonts, but here was as way to adjust that was pretty cool.  It's a whole new world out there.  A world where one has to be technical (or rich to hire someone to do the technology ).  I have a love/hate relationship with technology.  Mostly love,  until Smashwords smashes me.  We're friends again.  I guess. 

Buy the book and let me know if you like it.  I think you will.