Sunspots

Bored, lazy, and slightly incompetent, John Farrow is an unlikely hero. Working as shift manager on Sunspot 2, a battered old cargo spaceship that takes the Earth's rubbish and dumps it in the Sun's corona, John's limited skills are put to the test when he wakes up on a routine voyage to find half the crew missing, and the ship at a standstill. A situation made more irritating for John as he's not even supposed to be there. Now that everything has gone wrong, John realises how completely out of his depth he is. The remaining crew don't trust him as a leader, he doesn't trust himself as a leader, and yet he knows he has to get the crew working together if they have any chance of survival against an unknown threat... 'Writing from a first-person perspective allows for the sort of sharp writing that makes this book shine. The dialogue is colloquial and fast-paced, packed with frustration and foul mouths, but it energizes the story. A unique and entertaining novel." Self-Publishing Review, 4 Stars 'Sunspots is a well-crafted story that keeps the reader fully engaged and curious to know more.' - Onlinebookclub.org 'A dark and suspenseful tale set in the confines of a garbage scow in space, SUNSPOTS is an intense and intelligent thriller.' - IndieReader.com

About the Author :
Gary Martin was born in the small market town of Devizes, Wiltshire in 1978. Back then, the maternity ward was on the same site as the mental health hospital, and some of his friends would probably say that explains a lot. He still lives in Devizes with his wife and their idiot dog. In his real life he works as a printer. He says the hours are long, the shift pattern is awkward, and ultimately it's very dull. He spends most of his free time making sci-fi models, binge watching TV shows on Netflix, painting, writing, going down the pub, recording music, and playing in three bands. Drums in two of them and bass in the other. He's played guitar and sang in a few bands in the past, but the less said about that the better. He's also made a couple of very low budget sci-fi films with a friend, that are on Youtube somewhere. Gary has always had a soft spot for the more naive sci-fi of the 50's 60's and 70's, with their monsters of the week, and the man in a bad monster suit attacking miniature spaceships, submarines, or cities. He wrote 'Sunspots' on his days off, between his other hobbies over the course of a year. The original idea behind 'Sunspots' was for it to be vaguely similar to Star trek, (which he loves all of) but darker and with swearing and knob gags. He then developed it from there. A lot of the ideas came to him while working the night shift. He says that between 2am and 4am is a very odd time to still be awake, and the brain starts thinking in odd ways, so he jotted anything down that may just work in the story. He is currently working on the 'Sunspots' sequel, which he thinks will probably done by late 2016. Probably.