Drones. FIRE IS
NICE, the book I’m madly editing presently, has plot turns dependent on
drones. Of course I’ve done the research
on drones (you can snap up one for $400, but the big ones used by the police
run about 25 grand) With my feeding
filters open, lazily swimming through my days, I’ve been gathering factoids on
drones, some
1. The National
Parks don’t allow them (usually) because they interfere with the park
experience and upend our rights of privacy as citizens. Drones are legal to use when ‘watching’
non-citizens, but since U.S. folk mix in visitors from other countries, drones
have been a no-no in the Parks.
2. Drones are now
used by lifeguards to locate swimmers in trouble and throw life saving
equipment to them. Saw that in the New
York Times.
3. Homeland
Security has a stable of drones they can’t use (a legal issue). I have my character in FIRE IS NICE, borrow
them. Convenient, huh?
4. My husband is on
the board of our 50-home community council.
In rewriting the covenants, whether or not to allow drones in the
neighborhood, has become an issue. Do
you want drones flying over your house?
5. Drones are flying. All over the place, I guess. Not to be paranoid. But.
They fly 15,000-60,000 feet above us and take pictures, constantly. Where, we aren't sure.
6. Worse? Drones are being used by Mexican cartels to
kill people: https://www.rmus.com/products/rmus-heavy-duty-police-drone?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=27915714241&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6LPv2NP42AIVzol-Ch3m9g-BEAQYAiABEgI1pfD_BwE
I reiterate, authors are filter feeders when it comes to
enriching our stories. What are you learning a lot about
lately because it’s important to your manuscript?
One focus when I wrote BAD LIES was caves on the Amalfi
coast. Want to
fly with me to Italy and see some caves?
You can pretend you’ve got a chance to win a golf tournament helped by
the caddy of your dreams. Here’s BAD
LIES http://a.co/0DuYNPn:
Italy’s haunted
caves spell danger for an American golfer and a NATO geologist
***
Sophie Maxwell is a late-blooming, unorthodox golfer, and mother
of a precocious thirteen year-old. Determined to put divorce, bankruptcy, and a
penchant for gambling in her past, Sophie goes to Italy for a qualifying golf
tournament.
Jack Walker turned his back on a pro golfing career to become a
geologist. As a favor to his ailing father he’ll caddy for Sophie; off hours,
he’ll find caves on the Mediterranean coast, suitable for NATO listening posts
for terrorist activity.
Someone is determined to stop Jack’s underground hunt and ruin
Sophie’s chances to win her tournament.
On a Rome golf course and in the Amalfi coast’s haunted caves, all
the odds are stacked against Sophie and Jack. In their gamble of a
lifetime, who wins?
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