Top 5 Reasons to Buy SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT

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 The best ever ending to a book is right here.

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If you want to lead two lives but can’t, you can do so vicariously through Chordelia in SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT.

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  If you like emotional stories, nothing is more emotional than a mother living in a universe with her dying child…unless it’s being given the chance to leave that universe for a brighter one.

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 You always wanted to know what Sheldon was talking about in The Big Bang Theory when he mentioned SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT

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 It is a novella, a quick read for those with busy lives.

Eileen Schuh, Author
DISPASSIONATE LIES
FIREWALLS
FATAL ERROR
Schrödinger's Cat
THE TRAZ

Favourite Emotional Passages from SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT

Intensely emotional scenes are sometimes my favourite. What's more emotional than parents trying to deal with each other...and a dying child?

He raised the cup halfway to his lips. “I’m taking Krystaline to Seattle,” he said. He took a sip and began turning towards her. Chorie held her breath. Was he actually going to look at her? Have a conversation with her? He stopped turning, though, and gazed out the window at the bright Alberta summer sun.

It was well past six pm, but it wouldn’t be dark for hours. The summer solstice had just passed. The longest day. June 21, Krystaline’s birthday. Last week she turned eight. She would never turn nine. “Seattle?” Chorie asked." ~excerpt ~  SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT

Don't worry, it's only in one universe where Krystaline is dying in this SciFi tale that explores quantum physic's Many Worlds Theory.


Science can have surprising endings.When one's favourite passage appears on the last page of the book, one knows one read an excellent story:

 The smile dropped from Gus’ face. His eyes glazed. “Don’t you remember?” he asked. His pace slowed. It was going to take him forever to get to her. She hoped it did. She hoped he never said what he was about to say.

She locked her eyes on his as he came nearer and nearer. Terror started at her toes, tingled up her legs, froze her tummy. Her breathing ceased; her heart slowed. He glided toward her. ~excerpt ~ SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT

"thoroughly rocked my socks today..."

"a book that engaged all senses and emotions" 

"After the last few years of dull novels I was ecstatic to read SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT" 

 “like a good episode of The Twilight Zone"


Eileen Schuh, Author
DISPASSIONATE LIES
FIREWALLS
FATAL ERROR
Schrödinger's Cat
THE TRAZ

Interview with Katrina Buckhold

She’s abrasive and gutsy and uses the ‘f-word’, making interviews with her challenging.

Katrina as a young teen

“She” is Katrina Buckhold, known as Serena on the street and as Felicity Randal when in witness protection. She’s only four-years old in the prologue to THE TRAZ, the first book in the BackTracker Series, but by the end of the series she is a grandmother.

The BackTracker series is a study of how a person changes over times, how life affects our personality and our outlook and how some traits we are born with never change.

Only the first three books in the series are published, THE TRAZ Book 1 (also available in a School Edition), FATAL ERROR Book 2 and FIREWALLS Book 3. Katrina ages from four to twenty-four in those first three novels. I thought it would be fun to interview her as she appears in each book and compare her answers to some of life’s basic questions as she matures—or doesn’t mature, depending on your perspective!

Katrina as a cop on the cover of FIREWALLS

Question: Katrina, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Answers: 

(4-year old Katrina in the prologue to THE TRAZ) A cop like my dad, or maybe a computer person. I love computers! 

 (14-year old Katrina at the end of THE TRAZ) I don’t want to be f*ing anything other than what I am, okay? 

 (20-year old Katrina half-way through FATAL ERROR) I’m going to be a cop, whether they want me to be or not.

(24-year old Katrina towards the end of FIREWALLS) Although Shrug says otherwise, I am already f*ing grown up. I’m a cop fighting cybercrime, okay?

Question: What do you most regret about your life?

-(4-years old) That we moved from the Arctic. If we’d stayed there, my mom wouldn’t have started drinking.

-(14-years old) That my Mom killed my dad.

-(20-years old) That my mistake killed Lukas.

-(24-years old) That instead of staying in school, I ran with The Traz biker gang. So much bad happened because of that decision.

Question: What do you think is your best characteristic?

-(4-years old) I’m smart. Did you know I wrote a melody with my computer?

-(14-years old) I know how to get what I want. I’m independent.

-(20-years old) I analyze things and see patterns that others miss.

-(24-years old) I sometimes wonder if I have any good characteristics. People don’t seem to like me much

Question: what would you like to improve about yourself?

-(4-years old) I’d get taller. I’m too short. People think I’m a baby.

-(14-years old) That I’d learn to keep my f*ing mouth shut.

-(20-years old) I’ve learned so much about life these past two years. I now need to learn to forgive myself.

-(24-years old) I need to let go of the past and seize the future. I need to learn how to love.

Who’s the most important person in your life right now?

-(4-years old) My dad.

-(14-years old) Shrug.

-(20-years old) It was Chad until he betrayed me and married f*ing Debra.

-(24-years old) Chad, no doubt.

What are you looking forward to?

-(4-years old) School!

-(14-years old) Being free of the gang.

-(20-years old) Becoming a cop.

-(24-years old) Getting married.

Thank you for talking to us, Katrina!

If you'd like, you can follow Katrina on twitter

Eileen Schuh, Author

FIREWALLS
FATAL ERROR
THE TRAZ

              

Favourite Passages: FATAL ERROR

Favourite Passages: FATAL ERROR Book 2 BackTracker Series

I found FATAL ERROR one of the most difficult books to write. Although targeted at teen and ‘tween readers, it explores the complicated subject of justice.

An adolescent’s brain is just beginning to comprehend the grey areas between right and wrong and fair and unfair, concepts that set the foundation for a mature sense of justice.

FATAL ERROR Book 2 in the BackTracker Series could well be a teen’s first brush with a novel whose characters are neither pure evil nor super heroes, a story which forces them to judge for themselves what is right and wrong and decide where justice lies.

Keeping the literacy skills of youngsters in mind while exploring these difficult concepts challenged me. I’m proud, though, of how it turned out. Although written deceptively simple, many passage contain layers of meaning, making FATAL ERROR an interesting read for both youngsters and adults.

In this scene from FATAL ERROR, young Katrina is perjuring herself on the witness stand as she desperately tries to conceal her guilt…or is she?

Tears smudged her vision. Her mouth trembled at the memory of poor Lukas and she began to sob. Soon her cries were streaming through the microphone into the hush of the courtroom. "Lukas didn't deserve that!”

She wept for him, for her dad, for the girl she had once been—before The Traz had destroyed her. It seemed like she sat there forever, weeping and trying to wipe clean the stain of murder on her hands—in her soul.

"Are you finished with the witness?" the judge asked.

Even the adults don’t always get it right in FATAL ERROR. Here Sergeant Kindle and undercover officer, Shrug, debate guilt and blame. Whose fault is it that Katrina was traumatized during her year with The Traz biker gang? Although Shrug invited her to ride with him, Sergeant Kindle was his superior officer in charge of the undercover operation...

"You once asked if it was fair that I didn't tell you outright that I’d involved the girl. It wasn't fair,” said Shrug.

"When I asked you if it was fair, it's not like I already knew the answer," Sergeant Kindle replied.

"You know the answer now?"

"I know your answer now. Not sure about mine."

Eileen Schuh, Author
DISPASSIONATE LIES
FIREWALLS
FATAL ERROR
Schrödinger's Cat
THE TRAZ