Molly, accompanied by her son and his boyfriend, embarks on
a high-stakes mission to rescue her kidnapped husband, unraveling secrets while
racing against the clock to prevent a technology from falling into destructive
hands.
The Poseidon Project
The Herb Society Mysteries Book 1
by E. William Podojil
Genre: Techno Thriller, Adventure, Romantic Suspense
Molly Halloran and her friends have a secret past.
Their bucolic retirement is suddenly upended when Molly’s
husband is abducted and held for a steep ransom. Now she, her friends, her tech
executive son, Lukas and his Air Force pilot boyfriend must race against the
clock and travel halfway around the world to meet the kidnappers’ demands.
But when they learn why her husband has been abducted, they
realize how high the stakes truly are. Molly and her friends now must face
their past in order to save the future. But not only their futures; the
world’s.
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E. William Podojil is an international
business executive
and novelist. He has traveled extensively and visited over sixty countries
while living in Europe and the United States. Podojil works as an executive
business advisor, and strategist while also pursuing his love of storytelling
and writing. Podojil's first novel, The Tenth Man, was published in 2004. His
second novel, The Poseidon Project, was released in August, 2024 by The
Wild Rose Press, and is the first in The Herb Society Mysteries, a series of
adventure thrillers. His novels and other writing are showcased on his website www.ewpodojil.com. Here he also writes a
personal blog with humorous stories of his life and travels with his husband
and three sons. He and his family currently reside in Northeast Ohio.
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GUEST POST
What made you decide to get the book made into an audiobook?
My mom loves audiobooks as do her friends, so I made it for her and others who spend a lot of time in the car or traveling and wanted to be able to listen to the story.
Who did the narration on the audiobook and what made you choose them?
I auditioned a bunch of narrators and they were all good, but just not what I was looking for. The minute I heard John Mancuso’s voice and reading style, I knew he was the one. I’m not kidding, it was one sentence in and I hired him. He was wonderful to work with. Very collaborative and adaptive to things I wanted to focus on or not. Very professional and a complete pleasure to work with. I’ve already asked him to narrate Archipelago.
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
They are composites of parts of people I know, traits, strengths, weaknesses, that are mixed up to create new characters.
Convince us why you feel your book is a must read.
The Poseidon Project is about a family who gets pulled into a major conspiracy to steal a technology that can save humanity, or if it’s used improperly, can potentially turn Earth into a wasteland. It takes place around the globe as the group searches for the bad guys and find that they are pulled into a much, much bigger story that gets played out in Book 2 and Book 3. It’s a story with a family who loves each other, who have their own faults and struggles, but pull together to help find Molly’s husband and save humanity from annihilation. The three books stand alone, but are sequential until the big mystery/plan is revealed.
What did you edit out of this book?
The editor for the book, Dianne Rich, is an amazing writer and editor. She pushed me to cut and reshape parts of the book which made perfect sense to me, but not to a reader. I edited out a big chunk of backstory and cut it down to about a paragraph. It made the story go much better, faster and jumped into the mystery much more quickly than I had originally written it. Archipelago, the second book, needed very few edits because Dianne and I got to know and trust each other and it was much simpler and continues as I write Chameleon.
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