BATTLESUIT
"Pepper's Gulch needed a hero."
One week.
One dying town.
One busted battlesuit.
On a remote, hostile world lost to interstellar war, a handful of settlers have nowhere left to go. Their automated defenses hold a perimeter around their town, Pepper's Gulch. The evacuation order has been posted on every door.
Into this doomed town falls a mercenary's ship, burning down from orbit. Marcus Kingsbury — the galaxy's least profitable liar — leads a group out to see what fell. A week is a long time if you're willing to fight for it.
Dan Adiletta
With twenty years in classroom instruction, Dan teaches high school Computer Science part-time. The rest of his hours are devoted to writing speculative fiction able to hold even his students' attention.
Coaching competitive robotics gives him first-hand experience with brilliant young minds under intense strain. His students inspire him. They live the themes that genius is nothing without persistence, and that courage is often about showing up tired. Because of them, he knows how to write heroes who pay a price for their ingenuity.
He reads and rereads books on writing, attends conferences and literary workshops, runs a writing group, and is often baited into long classroom tangents about crafting stories. He committed to writing professionally on Father's Day, 2019.
He lives in Cleveland with his wife and son.
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