A writer who has taught me quite a bit about writing and about websites and Internet Marketing is Author Randy Ingermanson. Today he’s going to share the strength of his heroine, Valkerie, the first woman on Mars in his (and co-author John Robinson) ebook reissue of their Christy Award winning sci-fi, OXYGEN. Here’s Randy:

“OXYGEN features a very strong woman as the lead character, Valkerie Jansen, who has the opportunity to be the “first man on Mars” — if she can survive the trip.
Valkerie is cool under pressure and is able to think clearly when everybody else is going nuts. In OXYGEN, she shows this strength on a voyage to Mars when an explosion causes most of the air in her ship to leak out into space while two of her comrades are doing a spacewalk. She does an unscheduled spacewalk, hauls in one of her friends who’s unconscious, and puts an emergency patch in place to save what little air remains in the ship.

Where does Valkerie get her strength? From two places. First, her faith in God helps her to not fear death, because death is not the end. Second, Valkerie has a strong relationship with her father, and she wants to act in a way that’ll make him proud of her.

In OXYGEN, both of those sources of strength receive a severe trial. It’s easy to act heroically in moments of high danger, but it’s not so easy to continue to act heroically when those moments stretch out for days, weeks, or months — and you have time to reflect on the fact that you are probably going to die very soon. When that happens, Valkerie is forced to ask whether her faith is real . . . or just an act.”–Randy

BTW, Randy has a PhD from Berkley in physics (I think!) so the science is all factual not made up.

Drop by
http://www.ingermanson.com

And also co-Author John Robinson’s website:
http://www.litany.com

Randy’s web site about writing fiction is at:
http://www.AdvancedFictionWriting.com

Randy has written a great book called Writing Fiction for Dummies and is known for his “Snowflake” characterization plan which he gives away free on his Advanced Fiction Writing website. He also has a free ezine for fiction writers which is AMAZING!–Lyn