Call Me Cassandra

Jolene Martin, a folk-singer with an unexpected hit song written out of grief following the death of her beloved Sandra, now discovers she has powerful enemies who want her dead. Where can she find equally powerful friends to help her survive, let alone turn the tables on those enemies? As a long time space advocate and critic of Christine Watson's early science fiction, Jolene decides she has no choice but to ask Christine for help. Very much to her surprise, her call to Starfield Valley is answered by Ben Shelby, once Vice-Chair of the Joint Chiefs of staff and a long time fan of her space songs. Together they embark on an odyssey to share her songs, old and new, with all the other fans in the military that she didn't know she had--and poke her powerful enemies in the eye with each concert.

Theresa Holmes has been writing science fiction and fantasy for decades and waiting for technology to catch up to make it easier to self-publish her work. She’s been designing her perfect house for even longer. Over the last twenty years or so, she’s expanded on that idea to design the Villages of Tomorrow. Through the Starfield Valley Tales, she explores what it would be like to live in villages designed to be as fully integrated as possible, not only physically, but ecologically and sociologically as well, because only such villages will enable their residents to survive in reasonable comfort anywhere on Earth-or in space.