Today, April 14th, 2026, is release day for my second novel, Cybernetic Resonance! The second adventure for Alan Harrison, an ex-insurance analyst turned private investigator, and Layla, his Artificial General Intelligence partner. This time, Alan, Layla, and Stacy are trying to get their new investigative agency up and running. Their first cases involve missing drones and vandalism at a robotics factory. When one of the engineers of the robotics company is murdered, apparently by his own home robot, the team has to solve the mystery before someone else is hurt.
The book is available in paperback, hardback, and eBook formats from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Apple Books, Kobo, Everland, and many other sites. You can see a full listing on my website.
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My wife and I watched the launch of the Artemis II last night. The event brought back the wonder and inspiration I always feel when witnessing a new era of space travel. It has been far too long since humans last prepared to leave Earth’s orbit. As exciting and inspirational as the near-Earth orbit era has been it doesn’t compare to the site of humans preparing to explore beyond our globe to the larger space around us. It pains me that it took us 53 years to get back to this exploration. How much farther could we be if we had kept going in 1972. If we had gone back, if we had pushed ourselves to do both the near-Earth orbit work we did in the 80’s and 90s while still pursuing the ultimate dream, exploring the universe.
For those who say we are wasting money on this endeavor, I can’t support that position. Exploration is its own reward. The inspiration, the innovation and the feeling it generates are worth the relatively small amounts we spend on the space program. How many people will see this launch and be motivated to go into science and technology fields. Will they be the ones to unlock the breakthroughs of tomorrow? Will they be the future writers of inspiring fiction? Humans seem to be instinctive explorers, pushing out farther and we should not fight that instinct, we should embrace it and put more effort on that and less effort on destroying our world and killing our own species. Maybe space exploration is a key to giving people hope, something to inspire them to be better.
I know that I am inspired. I really want to figure out how to get Alan and Layla to the moonbase! Wow, that would be something, wouldn’t it?
Dream. Data. Discovery.
J E Sutton Jr
The pop up book signing was a huge success. We met some new friends, chatted with some really good friends who showed up to support us. Made some sales and even chatted with a couple about investing in The Screaming Goat Coffee Company franchise (kidding…mostly). All in all a great Satruday morning and afternoon at Happy Medium Books Cafe. If you haven’t been there before stop by at 2724 Park Streek in Jacksonville. It’s a fun place with lots of good books, coffee and snacke and great company. We hope to be back there in a few months with Cybernetic Resonance.
I am doing my first in person book signing event this weekend Saturday March 28th at the Happy Medium Books Cafe in Riverside. FromI 11a-2p I will be there along with Jeanne my Co-Authored Life podcast partner (and life partner) signing books and talking about my upcoming novel Cybernetic Resonance. If you are in the Jacksonville Area come by and see us at 2724 Park Street. We would love to see you there!
This month, I am giving away three signed copies of my debut novel, The Failsafe Program. If you haven't read this yet, sign up to try to win a free copy. You have until December 9th to sign up for the giveaway.
You can enter the contest at this link: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/427427-the-failsafe-program-an-alan-harrison-and-layla-novel
The response to the novel has been overwhelmingly positive, and I am grateful for the support I have received.
If you liked the book, or are just curious what the fuss is about, you can get a little taste of the universe with my new holiday short story, Holiday Hustle. This story takes place at the Screaming Goat Coffee Company and is full of fun moments and maybe a few surprises.
If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free; otherwise, it is an affordable $.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G45D5CN5
Have a happy holiday, and look forward to some announcements about my next novel in the coming weeks.