Who recommended you to Book Town? What do you hope to get out of Book Town?
Yvonne Mason
What is your trade? Author? Publicist? Book Blogger?
Yes
What genre of books have you written?
Science Fiction/Mystery, Popular Science, Fantasy, Paranormal Horror
Title of your novels
Burnout: The Mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281
The Fetish
The Y Factor
The Cresperian Alliance
Dreams of Steam
How I Wrote My First Book
Extraction Point!
The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
The Case of the Displaced Detective: At Speed
The Case of the Cosmological Killer: The Rendlesham Incident
The Case of the Cosmological Killer: Endings and Beginnings
The Case of the Displaced Detective Omnibus
A Case of Spontaneous Combustion
Sherlock, Sheilas, and the Seven-Percent Solution
A New American Space Plan
The Weather Out There Is Frightful
Stolen Moments
The More Things Change
The Bunker
El Vengador
StarSong
Short Description of Your Novel
Burnout (my first novel) is a science fiction mystery about a Space Shuttle disaster that turns out to be no accident. As the true scope of the disaster is gradually uncovered by the principal investigators, "Crash" Murphy and Dr. Mike Anders, they find themselves running for their lives, as lovers, friends and coworkers involved in the investigation perish around them. What happened to the Shuttle? Who is responsible and why? Why is the government calling it an accident? Why is someone willing to kill to keep it a secret? And how big is the conspiracy?
The Displaced Detective Series is a science fiction mystery in which the brilliant hyperspatial physicist, Dr. Skye Chadwick, discovers that there are alternate realities, and said alternates are often populated by those we consider only literary characters. Her pet research, Project:
Tesseract, hidden deep under Schriever AFB, is her means of looking in on these continua. In one particular reality, continuum 114, a certain Victorian detective (who, in fact, exists in several continua) was to have died along with his arch-nemesis at the Reichenbach Falls. Knee-jerking,
Skye intervenes, rescuing her hero, who inadvertently flies through the tesseract wormhole connecting his universe with ours, while his enemy plunges to his death. Unable to send Holmes back without causing devastating continuum collapse due to non-uniqueness, he must stay in our world and learn to adapt to the 21st century. It has been described as "Sherlock Holmes meets the X-Files."
Please give a short Author's Bio (please limit to 250 words)
Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran ofover twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs. She has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Of those astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, a member of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster.
She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences:Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is “fluent” in several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily “passes it forward, ” teaching math and science via numerous media including radio, podcasting, and public speaking, as well as working with SIGMA, the science fiction think tank, while writing science fiction mysteries
based on her knowledge, experience, and travels.
Type of Books you like to read
Mystery, Sci fi, Non fiction, Fantasy
