About
the Book:
Book I in the Creation Seekers
series
Published by: CREATION WAY BOOKS (an
imprint of KOT BOOKS, LLC). June, 2017. (Softcover; 314 pages. Illustrated by
Becky Miller.)
What are the mysterious lights
flitting above Oswego Lake on moonlit nights? Marsh gas? Ball lightning? Or
holdovers from the dawn of Creation?
When Jonathan Oliver makes it his
homeschool project to track down the source of the Lake Lights, his search leads
him to Iron Mountain’s abandoned Prosser Mine and its age-old secrets. After
his physicist father goes missing in the wilds of Afghanistan, Jon is left to
decode a cryptic message leading to yet more mysteries and a remarkable,
game-changing invention.
With his grandfather’s help, Jon
matches wits with an unscrupulous scientist who will stop at nothing to steal
the device and sell it to a shadowy criminal organization. Jon’s dual
discoveries not only help him to deliver his city from total annihilation but
also ultimately rock the scientific world to its very foundations.
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A
brief interview with the Author
What
do you love about your new book?
I love the fact that it’s set in an
actual location in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where I grew up. It’s fun to be able to
walk the scenic Iron Mountain trail and identify the remnants of the Prosser
Iron Mine and other landmarks mentioned in the book. Though I’m not a fan of
historical fiction per se, I did enjoy weaving both historical fact and fiction
into the plot. I also loved incorporating some Creation Science principles (and
live “dinosaurs”) into the story, which is one of the main reasons I wrote
it. So many young people and adults nowadays are steeped in Darwinism that I thought
it was high time Creationism received equal billing. Something else I
enjoyed about this title is that all the Oliver family members are devoted
Christians. Moreover, my main character and his sister end up being
homeschooled. I purposely portray homeschoolers as normal, intelligent,
well-adjusted students.
What
are two things you learned while researching this story?
First, I learned a great deal about
the Prosser Iron Mine’s history (which I tweaked a bit for the story). It turns
out that in its day, the mine was the largest of its kind on the west coast,
with many extensive and unexplored drifts. Not far from my childhood home, for
example, a woman remodeling her house accidentally broke into one of these mine
tunnels. Second, I learned more of the flaws in evolutionary theory—such as the
discovery of unfossilized tissues in many fossilized remains. (I’ve actually
studied the subject for many years, but research is turning up new
inconsistencies every day.)
Tell
us about the character who gave you the most trouble.
Dr. Graham MacKenzie is a Scottish
volcanologist who is also a Creation Scientist. As a family friend, he has an
important role to play. I enjoyed developing his character so much that I
carried him over into the sequel, The Vikings of Loch Morar. However, putting
his Scottish idiomatic English on paper proved to be quite a challenge, though
it was great fun!
What
do you hope readers will tell others about your book?
I hope they will tell their friends
that as a clean, inspirational (and educational)
mystery adventure tale, this is a book well worth the
reading—and re-reading.
What
are you reading now?
I just finished re-reading The Wind and the Willows and am halfway
through The Cottingley Secret, which
is a well-written and imaginative spinoff from actual historical events.
Otherwise, I mainly read the Bible.
What’s
next?
I have some ideas rolling around in
my head—a kind of crossover between my two series involving a different spin on
time-travel. We’ll see if those concepts bear fruit.
About
the Author
William D. Burt is the award-winning
author of the seven-title Christian allegorical “King of the Trees” series and
of his new Creation Seekers series: “The Lake Lights” (Book 1) and “The Vikings
of Loch Morar” (Book 2). All nine of Burt’s titles have been awarded five stars
by Readers’ Favorite reviewers. Two of his first series titles (out of three
submitted) were finalists in the 2014 Readers’ Favorite International Book
Award Contest: “The King of the Trees” and “The Golden Wood.”
“The King of the Trees” subsequently
won the 2014 Silver Medal in the category of “Christian Fantasy/Sci-fi.”
The Creation Seekers series is
William Burt’s first foray into the realm of science fiction. The titles in
this series feature the adventures of a fictional Oregon family of brilliant
scientists and educators who turn the world upside down with their
revolutionary inventions and discoveries.
As an Assistant Professor in
the Special Education Department at Western Oregon University, Burt served as a
successful grant-writer and program coordinator. He holds a B.S. in English
from Lewis and Clark College and an M.S. in Deaf Education from Western Oregon
University. Burt has been an RID-certified sign-language interpreter with over
forty years’ experience. His interests include reading, foreign languages and mycology.
He is married with two grown children and four grandchildren.
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