Self Made [Paperback]

M. Darusha Wehm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2010

Ever wish things were different? Ivy Velasquez did, so she became someone else. In the 3D virtual world Marionette City, you can be anything you want - but everyone still knows who you are. Driven by her desire for a new life, Ivy takes her future in her hands when she makes another identity for herself. A brilliant designer, Ivy works for one of the huge multi-national firms which control the online system the world relies upon for both business and pleasure. But one day, Ivy tries to access M City as her alternate self, Reuben Cobalt, to discover that Reuben had been murdered. Since alternate identities are forbidden by the firms which control access to the nets and to M City, Ivy has nowhere to turn - until she finds Andersson Dexter. Part private eye, part vigilante and part cop, Dex sets out to uncover Reuben's killer. Since the corporations control almost every aspect of life, including law and order, justice for average people comes only at the hands of the outlaw organization to which Dex belongs. Self Made is a murder mystery set in a vision of a future that seems to lurk just over the horizon. But above all, it is a story of how people strive to control their own destinies, and how that desire affects them and the people around them in ways they could never imagine.

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About the Author

Darusha has done a lot of different things. She was the Senior Editor at the Conversations Network, the internet audio networks started by IT Conversations' founder Doug Kaye. She wrote critically about technology and its effects on our society in her weblog The Golden Hammer, (http://goldenhammer.darusha.ca) where she has been known to podcast audio segments. She wrote several articles about popular and unpopular science at http://90ways.com. In the physical world, she was a civil servant with the Government of Canada and is currently a website consultant for podcasters and other rich media providers, a freelance editor and writer. She is a poet, novelist, audio and video podcaster, a bicycle commuter, sailor, serial hair dyer and technophobic gadget junkie. She was most recently based in Victoria, BC, Canada and is currently sailing the Pacific coast of the Americas with her partner, Steven on their sailboat, Scream.

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Darusha Wehm (January 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973746734
• ISBN-13: 978-0973746730
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,072,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Darusha is from Canada, but has spent the past three years living and sailing on her sailboat. She's in New Zealand now where she's writing short stories and novels for your entertainment.

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4.0 out of 5 stars complex characters for a future world, May 27, 2011

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Lynnette A. Phillips "Lynnette Phillips" (YUCAIPA, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self Made (Paperback)

In Indie author/publisher M. Darusha Wehm's second novel, released in January of 2010, we are introduced to a future world. One where day-to-day life as we now know it doesn't exist and social activity takes place on the multitude of `nets' and `boards' designed by computer programmers.

Darusha Wehm has cleverly developed complex characters to populate this multifaceted world that is complete with diverse neighborhoods to explore. The first murder in this world has occurred and Ivy Velasquez has contacted Adersson Dexter, Dex, an independent investigator of private claims and concerns, to find out who hated Reuben Cobalt, her other identity, enough to scramble his code.

To protect her real identity, Ivy created Reuben to find new friends and explore this other world in safety. It wasn't safe for Reuben though. Most employers have a no `multi' (multiple identity) clause in their employment contracts. Ivy needs to find out if Reuben was destroyed because of the multi bigotry that exists or because she knows something dangerous. As one of the Cubicle Men, an underground private security force, Dex has the connections to find out.

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