Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:02:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jared Barneck <rhyous@yahoo.com> To: "advocacy@freebsd.org" <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: I referenced FreeBSD in my Utah-based urban fantasy novel Message-ID: <1381809774.50646.YahooMailNeo@web121901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CANtyY_KPXQeuN0_vJOcn5RUmZKMSoTqKmZTCftJH1BAWziGv6w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANtyY_L-Bd6c3jxMGGuurOp9%2B8siBDzhyy62UL4Qeg==1aqzNQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANtyY_KPXQeuN0_vJOcn5RUmZKMSoTqKmZTCftJH1BAWziGv6w@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello fellow=C2=A0FreeBSD=C2=A0friends,=0A=0AI just released an urban fanta= sy novel today, Fire Light by J. Abram Barneck, and wanted to let you know = that I added two references to FreeBSD in the novel.=C2=A0They aren't amazi= ng references or anything. I just wanted the FreeBSD team to know that I wa= s thinking of them, even when doing something non-FreeBSD-ish.=0A=0AI guess= publishing a novel wasn't completely non-FreeBSD-ish. I used some open sou= rce tools when writing this book. I wrote a significant portion of this boo= k on PC-BSD with Open Office. I used Sigil, an open source eBook tool, to m= ake the eBook, and my ebook is in HTML and CSS and is in source control.=0A= =0AOne of the references is followed by an intentional use of an old spelli= ng for a word common both to BSD and fantasy.=0A=0A=0ABelow is my press rel= ease if anyone is interested in seeking out the book and finding the two BS= D references.=0A=0ALater,=0A=0AJ. Abram=0A Barneck (i.e. Rhyous)=0A=0AUtah-= Based Urban Fantasy Novel Released=0AOctober 14, 2013 marks the official re= lease date for author J. Abram Barneck=E2=80=99s Urban Fantasy debut novel = Fire Light. The bulk of the novel takes place in Utah which sets it apart f= rom others in its genre. Fire Light is intended to be the first of four tee= n/young adult books featuring main character Jake Stevens.=0AJake is a jeek= =E2=80=94part jock, part geek=E2=80=94who finds out he=E2=80=99s an unwitti= ng target of genocide against a secret society known as the Druids=E2=80=94= a society he didn=E2=80=99t even know he belonged to.=0AO=E2=80=99Brien, on= e of the last druids, is his mentor. Unfortunately, he is a dud when it com= es to magic, but at least he is ex-military.=0AAs for picking his girlfrien= d . . . well, that=E2=80=99s a split decision. Alexis and Kendra are opposi= tes in almost every way.=0ANow, if he can just survive the nightwalker=E2= =80=94an obsidian-skinned creature with a thirst for blood and a banshee's = mind-destroying scream, who wears a cloak black enough to make the grim rea= per jealous=E2=80=94then he might have a chance.=0AUltimately, protecting h= is loved ones, and himself if possible, becomes his priority.=0AFire Light = is available on Amazon=C2=A0and will be available in paperback and audio in= the future.=0AFire Light is a novelization of a short story J. Abram Barne= ck wrote a few years ago based on the idea of a young man casting a magic m= issile in real life. Realizing the story would progress well into a novel, = Barneck got to work adding characters and changing the story from third to = first person.=0AJ.Abram Barneck graduated from Brigham Young University wit= h a BA in English with an emphasis in Science Fiction and Fantasy Creative = Writing. At BYU, he was the Assistant Fiction Director for Leading Edge the= Sci-fi/Fantasy magazine. Barneck=E2=80=99s poem, The Sentinel, was publish= ed in Issue 48 of Leading Edge under the pseudonym Abram Jacobs.
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