Blog Updates for Flores Girl: The Children God Forgot Novel and the new Sequel "The Sacred and the Profane"

My Goal: To be the most popular author never published!

This is a relaunch of the official Flores Girl blog.  Flores Girl: The Children God Forgot is my first novel and is a romantic sci-fi adventure novel about two scientists who unwittingly introduce a tribe of dwarf prehistoric people living in isolation for a million years to the ultimate modern predator: humanity.  So not only has the novel been ignored by publishers but my first novel was also attacked by creationists and religious fundamentalists. I have since gone on the offensive against both foes and this blog is my counter-attack against the forces of ignorance and dinosaur publisher domination.

Originally, my first blog, that is the Millennium Writing blog was all about writing, creativity and the marketing of that creativity. The idea was that I would share with you my writing challenges and some ideas I have for the marketing of those very same writings. It was all about getting eyeballs for your work and breaking the constraints of the old school publishing world. There are thousands of manuscripts that end up in slush piles and millions of blogs that go unread. Somewhere in between there are a few success stories. To date that does not include my own work but hey you never know!

But lately the blog has taken a turn about the fight against Intelligent design and religious fundamentalists. The goal is to be a beacon of light among the human waves of ignorance. As to my own background I have a degree in Biology from the SUNY at Stony Brook and for a time studied physical anthropology. At some point in my life I came to the realization that I didn’t want to teach and charted an entirely new course in life but the love of science and nature has stuck with me nevertheless.

Now I spend my days being a computer technology marketing slut when I am not combating the dark forces of Intelligent Design. On yeah, in my remaining hours I continue to write this speculative fiction trilogy on the finding of a living Homo floresiensis troop in Indonesia. You guessed it, I don’t sleep as much as I should.

Oh, as to my own spiritual and religious beliefs, ah well.., oh, who to hell cares? All I know is I am not about to foist them off upon you and please no more of the tired arguments that evolution is a religion upon itself. Evolutionary theory is a science that is observable and subject to a rigorous scientific methodology. Furthermore, despite all the protestations by the Creationists, it is not a belief system like Intelligent Design. I can and have gone out to the field and collected fossils that are consistent with the theory of Evolution and that are inconsistent with the belief of a 6,000 year old earth. I ask all of the Intelligent Design advocates to do the same for their theories and I will be glad to weigh their evidence and present them a forum for their arguments. I’m looking for physical proof of your theories, you know like the bones of an angel or perhaps the proverbial bunny-rabbit fossil in a Precambrian rock. Come on give me something solid and not just your tired arguments. I want bones or proof that god did it!

(Insert sound of crickets here!)

That’s not happening, am I right?

Anyway, the Flores Girl Blog will take the brunt of the fight against the evils of  antiquated publishers and creationism so I can have more time to write.

Erik John Bertel