Deal Sharing Aunt: Finding Sage by Logan Judy Excerpt, Playlist, Interview, Dream Cast, & Giveaway

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Title: Finding Sage

Series: The Rogue

Book # or Vol #: 1

Author: Logan Judy

Audience: Young Adult

Genre: Dystopia, Paranormal

Formats: E-book and paperback

Publisher: Logan Judy

Cover by: CCR Book Cover Design

Pages: 358 pages

ISBN: 9781497543232

ASIN: B00JDSJXZ8

Date Published: March 30, 2014

In the future, some people known as rogues exhibit supernatural abilities. That’s not a good thing, however, because the global government hunts them down and executes them, imprisons them, or forces them to become assassins. Silas is such a rogue. He lives day by day constantly paranoid about his chances of survival. So when a wide-eyed hobo offers him a solution to his problems, a mysterious man who the U.N. seems desperate to find, he follows, not having the slightest clue what he’s just stepped into.

Alice hides a dark secret. Many rogues have come and gone in past years, but if people only knew how dark her so-called gift was, they would reject her. Attack her. Kill her. Where can she turn?

Sage is the one that connects them. The one that offers hope to them both. Little is known about him and precious few have seen him. So why is he the only one that the U.N. is afraid of?

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Click. Clack. Click. Clack. Click. Clack.

Carter cringed with every step as he heard the metallic clashing of the chains that bound his wrists and ankles. United Nations soldiers surrounded him: one at each side, two behind, and two in front. They walked with their firearms close to their chests, ready for action at any moment. He scanned his surroundings, looking for an exit: blank white walls, glass security panels, and grey tile ceiling. Blue uniformed soldiers guarded every door, and he saw the door to his doom approaching. He could see no windows looking into the room, only a solid white wall and the grey door, guarded by two soldiers.

Click. Clack. Click. Clack.

The soldiers stopped at the door. They exchanged a few words, told the guards of the door why they were there, showed their I.D.s, then entered the room. It was far less menacing inside than Carter had imagined. There were none of the flickering bare light bulbs, blood stains, or pungent aromas of decaying bodies that he had conjured in his mind’s eye. The room, like everything he had ever seen in this building, was remarkably and shockingly bare. So bare, in fact, that it was creepy. Was this routine for them? Was it normal? Was there nothing extraordinary, nothing even immoral about what they were going to do?

They walked him to the wall on his left, and a touchscreen panel popped up. One of the soldiers pressed a few buttons and he felt his wrists and legs pin against the wall.

“Sure is a sticky situation, eh?” remarked one of the soldiers to his buddies. Soldiers often made comments like this, but always to their friends. Common soldiers were forbidden from talking to prisoners, especially rogues.

Ten gunmen filed in from a door on the opposite wall and lined up with their guns pointed upwards. Behind them approached an agent, instantly recognizable with his black and blue suit. He held his military stance with his hands behind his back and recited the appropriate words.

“William Carter Jackson. You have been found in violation of Sovereign Order 21, which dictates that no biologically outstanding person, defined as those exhibiting phenomena deemed supernatural or otherwise extraordinary, shall be allowed to live, under the equal opportunity statutes of the first United Nations Sovereign Order. Your crime has been deemed punishable by death, and will therefore be carried out in a swift and humane manner, by firing squad, authorized by this Agent Sebastian Jefferson. Do you have any last words?”

Carter lifted his head and established eye contact with the agent.

“Yeah, I do.”

He waited for the soldiers to shift, to listen to what last words he had. None of them budged, but that didn’t change what he had to say.

“What’s so wrong with having good hearing?”

“Ready arms,” said the agent.

The boy refused to break eye contact. He looked the agent in the eye, determined in a last act of ideological rebellion that they would not ignore him.

“Fire.”

All ten rifles fired at once. Blood spattered the wall behind the boy and spread into pools on the ground. The force broke the wall’s magnetism, leaving the boy lying upon the ground.

One of the soldiers who had escorted the boy knelt down and took a look at him.

“Affirmative,” he said. “We’re clear for the clean-up crew.”

I’ve found that a lot of mainstream music (music with words) distracts me. So instead I listen to soundtrack music. I actually made this playlist on Spotify, so you can probably look it up. I named it “Soundtrack Awesomeness.”

1. DNA from Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer)

2. Fog Bound from Pirates of the Caribbean (Klaus Badelt)

3. Oil Rig from Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer)

4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion by Play! Orchestra

5. The Ring Goes South from Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)

6. Look to the Stars from Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer)

7. I Am the Doctor in Utah from Doctor Who

8. Dream is Collapsing from Inception (Hans Zimmer)

9. I Am The Batman from The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer)

10. Molossus from Batman Begins (Hans Zimmer) – This song is amazing.

11. Sent Here For a Reason from Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer)

12. 528491 from Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer)

13. A Narnia Lullaby from The Chronicles of Narnia (Harry Gregson-Williams)

14. The Medallion Calls from Pirates of the Caribbean (Klaus Badelt)

15. Prologue from the Harry Potter Soundtrack

16. The Battle from The Chronicles of Narnia (Harry Gregson-Williams)

17. Mombasa from Inception (Hans Zimmer)

18. Undying Love from the album Invincible by Two Steps From Hell – Gives me chills every time.

19. The Sacrifice of Faramir from Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)

20. He’s a Pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean (Klaus Badelt)

21. The Bridge of Khazad Dum from Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)

22. A Dark Knight from The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer)

23. This is Berk from How To Train Your Dragon (John Powell)

24. Archangel from the album Archangel by Two Steps From Hell

25. Everlasting from the album Archangel by Two Steps From Hell

26. First Class from X-Men: First Class (Henry Jackman) – I didn’t even like the movie and I can’t get enough of this song.

27. Skull and Crossbones from Pirates of the Caribbean (Klaus Badelt)

28. New York City Surprise from Madagascar 3 (Hans Zimmer)

29. Invincible from the album Invincible by Two Steps From Hell

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Logan Judy is a dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy author who published his first book, Finding Sage, in 2014. He spends his days dreaming up new worlds and new stories, as well as wishing for a Serenity sequel. He currently lives in Indiana with his wife and their Don Quixote-like guard dog.

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Interview

Where are you from?

I grew up in a small southern Indiana town. And when I say small, I mean we only had one stoplight and the only chain restaurant we ever had was Quiznos, which has since shut down. It was miniscule. I moved up to northern Indiana to go to Purdue, and have been up here since.

Tell us your latest news?

I’m about half-way through drafting the sequel to Finding Sage. After that, I’m planning a space opera novella and a post-apocalyptic story about a guy who used to be a superhero. I’m really excited about all of that, but I also think they’re going to come a little slower than I’d like. That isn’t a bad thing though; it means it’ll be higher quality.

When and why did you begin writing?

I started writing when I was 12. I always liked coming up with my own stories or doing twists of things I liked. I read Eragon by Christopher Paolini and found out that he was just a teenager (14, I think) when he finished his first book. That motivated me to start writing right then instead of waiting until I was older and better. That’s a great lesson too, because you don’t get better by getting older; you get better by writing more.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

Probably the first time I completed a first draft. I’m really bad about starting things and not finishing them, and the diligence to finish is something that sets a writer apart from a guy who writes sometimes. That moment was when I saw that I could do that. I felt even more like a writer when I published my first book, which was quite a while after that.

What inspired you to write your first book?

The first book I ever wrote I never published and it was an epic fantasy novel. I was inspired to write it because I’d read a lot of it and I really enjoyed it, so I figured I could create a story of my own. It was really born out of a desire to explore realities besides the limited one we live in, which is why I’m so fascinated by science fiction and fantasy to start with. As for Finding Sage, the first book I published, I was more inspired to write it because we always see people with powers portrayed as celebrities and heroes. So I just thought “What would it be like if they were hated instead of loved?”

What would you like my readers to know?

That I’m here to stay. Writing is my passion, so I’m not just going to stop and disappear if my work isn’t as successful as I’d like. I’m going to keep writing simply because I love writing. If you want to follow me, I have pages on Facebook and Twitter. I especially like Twitter, and I use the one account as both my personal and “author” Twitter. My Facebook page is facebook.com/loganjudyauthor and my Twitter handle is @loganrjudy. I also have a website at www.loganjudy.com and you can sign up for my newsletter there.