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Title: The Bone
Room
Series: None
Genre: Young
Adult, Fiction
Publisher: Limitless
Publishing LLC
Publication Date: September
18, 2013
Author: Shane
Scollins
Synopsis:
Roman Stone is a cop
who has spent the last few years of his life trying to rebuild the career he
nearly destroyed.
He gets called to Alexandria Bay, NY to help the small town
police force find a popular missing teenager. While investigating the case, random
human bones start washing up on the shores of the St. Lawrence River and two
major cases collide.
Looking for help on the case, Roman asks local historian
Becca Quinn to show him around one of the local castles in the area. Becca
works for the Thousand Island Preservation Society and spends her days working
to restore some of the old abandoned mansions in the area for a new tourism
initiative.
But what they find is more than anyone expects…
Something strange is lurking under the surface of the murky
waters of the river.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Shane Scollins is a freelance writer and Amazon best selling
author. Originally from New Jersey, he now resides in Upstate New York with his
wife, Heather. He has a degree in computer science and has worked as an
automotive service manager, a website developer and a computer network
engineer. In his spare time he enjoys playing ice hockey, riding his mountain
bike, and strumming on his guitar. Primarily a SciFi and paranormal novelist,
Shane enjoys taking readers on surprising and unexpected journeys that twist
reality. He is currently working on his next book
Website: http://www.shanescollins.com
Blog Tour Questionnaire
1.
Do you
see writing as a career? – I do see writing as a career. I’ve always been a
creative person, and for some reason I’ve never quite fit into the regular 9-to-5
life. I’ve had a lot of different jobs over the years, but I’ve never been able
to put together a sustained career. I got a degree in computer and worked as a
network engineer but for various reasons that didn’t work out either. I always
end up coming back to writing. It’s always been there for me whether writing
books or articles, writing has always been what I go back to when nothing else
seems to work. I take it serious and it is my focus right now. I love getting into my stories and
developing my characters. Sure, I
could make more money doing something else, but at this stage in my life, money
is not the most important thing. I’ve never had a lot of money growing up so
I’m kind of used to it anyway. I learned the hard way that if you don’t have
your health and mental wellness you don’t have anything. We are a very reward-driven
society but sometimes we forget what the real rewards in life are. I’m grateful
to be in the position to do what I love doing. The rewards come from my fans
enjoying my stories. When I get a good review or a special message from a fan
saying how much they enjoyed reading my work, that’s a payment that no amount
of money can buy. That’s what a career should be about, it should be about
doing what you love. I know it’s hard because people need to put a roof over their
heads and sometimes that means holding a job or career you don’t necessarily
like doing. My wish is for everyone to be able to do something they love doing.
The world would be a much happier and healthier place. But if you asked people
if they would give up a substantial amount of income in their careers to do
what they loved doing, very few would give up the money even if they could. I
saw a woman on television who burned out in her high octane corporate career.
She threw it all away and started baking cupcakes. Her friends and family
thought she was nuts but she was so happy to be doing what she loved she no
longer needed to take her anxiety medication or high blood pressure medication.
It made me wonder how many people would benefit from chasing their dreams even
if they never caught them.
2.
Who or
what is your inspiration? – My inspiration comes from so many different
places. I never really know where it’s going to originate. The people in my
life inspire me daily. Friends in the flesh and on social media inspire me to
create great characters and to be a better person. My fans inspire me to be a
better writer. But I’m constantly inspired by the world around us. I watch the
news and I’m inspired by the stories I see. Sometimes the roots of my story are
taken straight from the headlines, sometimes they come from a story someone
tells me from their life. Sometime the pure rawness of nature and the mysteries
of the world around us all day long inspire me. The main thing that inspires
me, if life. Life is a wonder. In simple terms, the human experience is so
amazing and diverse that it can’t be ignored. The things we create and discover
as we amble along through our lives can be infinitely inspiring if we choose to
look at them in the right way. We’re all in need of inspiration and we find it
where we can. The world is both awesome and awful at the same time, and that
stark difference is what inspires me. There are people every day that overcome
seemingly impossible odds and that’s inspiring.
3.
Do you
have any pets? - I’ve always had pets since I was a kid. Growing up I had a
dog, a malamute/shepherd mix. We
had him for 14 years. We also had ferrets over the years, many of them. My wife
and I like to rescue animals when we can. We currently have 4 cats. We have Aikido,
a gray and black tiger cat, we have Rascal and gray/black and white tiger. We
have Phantom, an all black Bombay with orange eyes, and we have Smorca a black
and white cat that someone dropped off at my mother’s house in the middle of
winter a few years ago. We had a
dog, Yukon, a 110-pound malamute we got in 2003 but he was older at the time,
and we had to put him to sleep in 2010. It took us a while to get over the loss
of him, but about a year ago, we started to get puppy fever. Then this summer
was tough for our family. My mother spent time in the hospital and then my
wife’s mother passed away after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis, so we
were both feeling down. We just felt like it was time to bring a little joy
into our lives. So, in the first week of July we came across a local dog on
Petfinder.com. We found him at the Cortland County SPCA as a surrender. His
first owner apparently couldn’t afford to feed him, he was undernourished and
needed a home. We went for a visit after seeing his picture and story on the
internet. Almost right away, we knew he was the dog for us. The craziest part
is that his name was (and still is) Buddy. Which as some of you may know was
the name of the dog in my romantic/thriller LEGACY RISING. It was one of those
odd life coincidences that was almost too perfect to believe. We took him home
the weekend of July 4th, he’s one year old as of September and he’s
almost 60 pounds. He’s a shepherd/husky mix and he’s very energetic and very
smart. He’s pretty good with the cats, he wants to play with them but they do
not want to play with him. They just think he’s a big, panting, unrefined
nuisance who has invaded their space. But a couple of them are starting to warm
up to him a bit more. I can see them all getting along in the not to distant
future. As Bill Murray’s character said in Ghostbusters: “Dogs and cats, living
together, mass hysteria!”
