Sabre de Pleiades
by Bernadette Y. Quander
WINNER! -
2014 Pacific Book Review Writer's Awards
for Fantasy
About the Author
 My name is Bernadette Y. Quander,
and I have been involved in the teaching profession for the last 10
years, working with children in kindergarten to young adults in Art
and Design school. I have faced many challenges simply to impart
crucial knowledge and skills to the impressionable minds under my
guidance. My proudest moments as an educator come when the students
understand and master what I teach them. But, my free time for
writing was limited and my desires and goals were not being met. I
just wasn't happy with me!
I needed to share with the world what I see
and the skills I have acquired in the field of creative writing and
drawing. So I turned my writing hobby into a fledgling business. My
professional title is Author / Publisher at Tall Tales 509 (TT509 -
five zero nine), which specializes in assisting the independent
author with his or her publishing needs. I received my masters in
Education from Regis University with emphasis on the role of quality
leadership.
Tall Tales 509 published its first title,
Sabre de Pleiades, the first installment of a 9 book series, in
November 2012. The second book of the series will be out in Fall of 2014. TT509 will publish a young lady who has written a beautifully told
true story for young children in the Spring of 2014. TT509 will
release its first graphic Espionage Romance thriller in Fall of 2014. This is an exciting time for the written word and the creative mind.
I am currently involved with The Independent
Book Publishers Association and The Society of Children's Book
Writers and Illustrators. My hobbies and interests include travel
and creative writing. I am drawn to and passionate about charitable
organizations such as World Vision. Two of my sponsored children
have been adopted. The American Indian Relief Council is also an
organization that holds true concerns for me.
Contact: Author Bernadette Y. Quander
My View of America
Morning brings the rising sun every day in
America. Clouds full of rain, devastating twisters, horrific
hurricanes, ravaging snow storms, or just simplistic beauty may hide
its face from some of the people some of the time. But those
citizens who are so fortunate to feel its warmth merely dismiss its
presence and prepare for their daily routines.
Tucked away in every corner of our nation
are unidentified men and women who ponder upon the plight of our
great society. They are indeed miniature potters. No, their
objectives are not merely molding lumps of clay gathered from the
slurry buckets of a cast off, tossed aside, unfunded form of art. These determined individuals are the boat rockers, the innovators,
and the brain feeders who are stepping away from the
accepted practice of doing nothing.
Their objective is to stimulate great
thinkers and great doers and guide young eager minds to explore and
push the limits of human intelligence. I see them struggle daily and
tackle obstacles that attempt to block and hamper those lofty
goals of truly educating our youth, who in turn will help educate the
world.
My soul cringes when a family with children
is burdened by hunger in our society. My head aches when an
administrator removes Art or PE and Music from a schools
curriculum. My blood boils when code switching is implemented within
a multilingual curriculum instead of purposefully teaching English
and allowing sufficient time for an ELL student to master the
language prior to exposure of a state mandated test.
But when I put on my rose-colored
glasses, I
see the unemployed and wonder how many entrepreneurs will be born
out of necessity? I see the end of poverty, I see the cure for
Autism, I see the renewed urgency of quality education, I see the
goodwill of all our citizens, and I see peace among the subcultures
that proliferate our society as a whole. The quote on the Statue of
Liberty says it best about my great America:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send
these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp
beside the golden door.”
About the Book
Type: Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
Reviews:
Sabre de Pleiades
Autographed Copies: $25.99 Hardcover, $15.99 Paperback, $2.99 eBook.
Contact: Author Bernadette Y. Quander
Interviews: Yes
Personal Appearances: Yes
Publisher: Tall Tales 509 (Website Under Construction)
Editor: Brian Edenfield, Graphic
Composition, Inc.
Cover Copy:
It is the year 20509. On the
world of Moreipa in the Pleiades Star System, two brothers devise a
plan. They are sons of an Earth woman and a spirit king—Sabre is
human, but his older brother Panache is a spirit who desires to be
human. Sabre promises to help his brother find a suitable human
form. Enlisting the aid of his best friend, Kenturah Red-Feather,
they transport a human being from twentieth-century Earth. The
world’s most famous entertainer, Morton Jacobs, is chosen to blend
body and spirit with Panache. Before long, however, Morton sees the
real reason Panache wants a human form while a stranger plants a
seed of evil to get rid of Sabre.
In an ancient book written by his
grandfather, Sabre finds pages documenting the events that led
humans to find a new home world similar to Earth, which was
destroyed many years ago. There are warnings of dangerous challenges
ahead—death will come nine times to the descendant of the Po-at
slave. Despite this discovery, Sabre makes plans to journey to
Earth. He uses the ancient ritual technique of Mind Travel on the
queen, but a glitch turns him into a cat, sending him to a small
North American town in the year 1993.
Back on Moreipa, King Vandro finds out his
son used Queen Shalowae for his mind travel and is lost on Earth. He
sends out a team to bring Sabre home and to contain a toxic organism
that was accidentally released. As the team arrives on Earth, they
learn the organism only infects domestic animals and Sabre is
nowhere to be found. If the Mind Travel is reversed, Sabre can
return to Moreipa. But the consequences may be more deadly
than anyone can imagine!
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