{"id":323,"date":"2014-12-18T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-02-04T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:51:12","slug":"my-favorite-book-roswell-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2014\/12\/18\/my-favorite-book-roswell-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Book: Roswell or Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Roswell<\/a>
Roswell or Bust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fresh from the euphoria of writing a novel, Emperor Dad, just for fun, I decided to do it again.\u00a0 So I had to pull an idea out of my hat — any idea.<\/p>\n

Aliens!\u00a0 That\u2019s always a good science fiction idea.\u00a0 Better yet, since this was just for fun, rather than a serious deep science fictional analysis, Roswell Aliens!<\/p>\n

Now, I have been going to New Mexico all my life.\u00a0 Blue Haven is a summer camp where I and my children attended over the years, in the mountains outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Many trips delivering the kids made me very familiar with the town, much more so than Roswell, which I had visited a couple of times, but wasn\u2019t really my stomping grounds.\u00a0 So, the idea of a road trip came to mind.\u00a0 Roswell Aliens (1947), still alive in the current day.\u00a0 We\u2019d have to have MIB, but by now there\u2019d be in the second and third generations.<\/p>\n

So, a girl, daughter of a MIB courier, is hunting her missing father, and linking up with a motel kid, who knew her father as a regular traveling salesman who stayed at his family\u2019s motel.<\/p>\n

I had to deal with the alien language problem.\u00a0 So why not a universal translator, and what better person to demonstrate that than the girl, mute from a cancer surgery.<\/p>\n

The story came together naturally, and I threw myself into the research.\u00a0 I dug into the alien mythos and discovered more tourist info about Las Vegas than I\u2019d ever imagined.\u00a0 I even drove the 2000-mile road trip path myself, finding places of interest that I added into the narrative.\u00a0 Finding the sites of secret MIB bases in various towns was interesting, and I wonder what people thought when I walked around their property, identifying where the official and hidden entrances would be.<\/p>\n

As I realized they needed a bigger vehicle as they added more aliens to the party, I took my own RV and added it into the mix.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the story was done — and I needed another cover.\u00a0 This time, I had a niece who was making a name for herself with her artwork and I decided to give her a try.\u00a0 I had her make it look \u2018cartoony\u2019 to go with a poster in the book.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a good fit, catching a lot of people\u2019s attention of the years.<\/p>\n

So, Roswell or Bust was a fun book, which tapped into a lot of my fond memories of New Mexico and traveling by RV. That\u2019s why it\u2019s my favorite.<\/p>\n

More about Roswell or Bust<\/a><\/p>\n

Next up — My Favorite Book: Extreme Makeover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh from the euphoria of writing a novel, Emperor Dad, just for fun, I decided to do it again.\u00a0 So I had to pull an idea out of my hat — any idea. Aliens!\u00a0 That\u2019s always a good science fiction idea.\u00a0 Better yet, since this was just for fun, rather than a serious deep science… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Roswell or Bust<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[26,12,8],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-5d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}