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The Good Ship Kindle Edition

by Jeremy M. Wright (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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In the middle of the Atlantic, a doorway opens. Through this doorway is an island only explored by those still trapped here.

Thirteen-year-old Annabelle Cross can't explain where the island came from. She does know it’s the only haven after her boat is destroyed. She isn’t alone here. Imprisoned children show her how to overcome the island's unusual trials and the sinister creatures determined at capturing them.

Nothing here is what it seems. There are mysterious lights at the bottom of the lake and a dark palace deep in the woods. A pirate-like green ship guards the island’s borders, allowing no one to escape. And shadows with teeth stalk the children by night, taking them to places unknown. It’s only the beginning of the incredible strangeness the island offers.

Annabelle finds a promise of returning home when she’s shown what the children have hidden deep in the island. It’s a project built on hope and the only plan to set them free. But when a spy reveals their secret, the moment arrives to escape, only to face the island's controlling force, a wickedness as old as time.

A doorway opens, and a fantastic journey awaits inside for those daring enough to walk through…

In the tradition of timeless stories like The Swiss Family Robinson, Peter Pan, Lord of the Flies, and The Chronicles of Narnia, Jeremy M. Wright has woven fantasy, adventure, and the struggles to survive against all the odds. A tale told in first-person narration is a vivid, family fun, and crazy ride across a world of strange and wonderful possibilities.
K.E. Wilson

The Good Ship is a wonderful escape that challenges the imagination and evokes feelings of wonder. I believe it will be thoroughly enjoyed by people of all ages. If you’re looking for light reading that has a touch of fantasy, a little humor, and a lot of action, this book is for you!
OnlineBookClub

I found The Good Ship to be an enjoyable read and the story was paced really well. It’s a fun, island adventure story unlike any other and perfect for younger readers.
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In the tradition of timeless stories like The Swiss Family Robinson and The Chronicles of Narnia

A mysterious portal. A colony of lost children. And an island with a dark secret……

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About the Author

I was born in 1974 in Omaha, NE. I have since uprooted my life there and have moved with my wife to the beautiful country hills of Arkansas. I took a love of reading and telling stories at an early age. I strongly believe in most of the writing advice I've learned from teachers and self-help writing books. Here is where I disagree. I've been told by many to write what you know!'. That's all well and good if you know a lot. However, for some of us, our knowledge is running a very short race, probably with a mental bad knee that makes us run more in circles instead of a straight line. So I usually choose to write about what I don't know. How else do we learn new things if we never explore the dark unknown corners of existence? I have also chosen to resist all urges to be pigeon-holed as a single genre writer. I love reading different types of novels just as I love writing them. How else can we evolve if we're typing away day after day about a private investigator who has a soft spot for pretty girls in short skirts, following his own rules, and dependency on whiskey? Fifty novels later has our protagonist really learned much? Grown? Or changed by any fascinating degree? Probably not. So I explore because it's what we humans do best. I write in the range of mystery, fantasy, thrillers, dramas, sci-fi, action/adventure, comedy, mainstream, satire and anything else that might seem challenging enough. Basically, if the plot idea has strong legs, the characters a great purpose, then the idea deserves to be written. Although I will tell you to never expect a Danielle Steel or Nicolas Sparks type novels from me. I've got to draw a line somewhere! So the rundown is simple if you're expecting to find my work nicely bundled up in one genre because it's the genre you're most comfortable traveling those pages, then I'm not likely an author for you. But, if you want to go on a fun road trip and see those odd side attractions everybody else misses because they're too busy catching the same old (yawn, yawn) attractions thirty million other people have seen, then I am an author for you.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Y7RNMTD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stone Gateway Publishing (September 22, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 22, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2764 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 198 pages

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I was born in 1974 in Omaha, NE. I have since uprooted my life there and have moved with my wife to the beautiful country hills of Arkansas.

I took a love of reading and telling stories at an early age, grade school-ish.

I strongly believe in most of the writing advice I’ve learned from teachers and self-help writing books. Here is where I disagree. I've been told by many to "write what you know!'". That's all well and good if you know a lot. However, for some of us, our knowledge is running a very short race, probably with a mental "bad knee" that makes us run more in circles instead of a straight line. So I usually choose to write about what I don't know. How else do we learn new things if we never explore the dark unknown corners of existence?

I have also chosen to resist all urges to be pigeon-holed as a single genre writer. I love reading different types of novels just as I love writing them. How else can we evolve if we're typing away day after day about a private investigator who has a soft spot for pretty girls in short skirts, following his own rules, and dependency on whiskey? Fifty novels later has our protagonist really learned much? Grown? Or changed by any fascinating degree? Probably not.

So I explore because it's what we humans do best. I write in the range of mystery, fantasy, thrillers, dramas, sci-fi, action/adventure, comedy, mainstream, satire and anything else that might seem challenging enough. Basically, if the plot idea has strong legs, the characters a great purpose, then the idea deserves to be written. Although I will tell you to never expect a Danielle Steel or Nicolas Sparks type novels from me. I've got to draw a line somewhere!

So the rundown is simple if you're expecting to find my work nicely bundled up in one genre because it's the genre you're most comfortable traveling those pages, then I'm not likely an author for you. But, if you want to go on a fun road trip and see those odd side attractions everybody else misses because they're too busy catching the same old (yawn, yawn) attractions thirty million other people have seen, then I am an author for you.

If you like you can take my hand because I see a journey just up ahead and around that dark corner. You shouldn’t worry, not just yet, because I know the way. We'll probably make it through all right, with our sanity, just maybe.

About The Good Ship:

After finishing my first novel Chasing Daylight I began another called Man of Exile. At some point, my brain hit a mental blockade. I didn't know where I was going next in the book. It was during this time of story reflection when I got an interesting idea that quickly came around.

The idea was a young adult story about a bunch of children trapped on an island, and why they were being held there. I wrote the story in just over a month. It was honestly the easiest thing I've written because it was fun. Teenagers, a bit of fantasy, and life at sea was out of my wheelhouse, but it demanded to be written. I believe it's a fun story because it was fun to write. I hope the enjoyment is obviously found in the pages for each reader. It certainly isn't only for young adults. All people who long for adventure and enjoy not knowing what's to come next will find an interest in this tale.

By the way, I did break through that mental blockade and finished Man of Exile. I'm very pleased with the end result.

Now available:

Chasing Daylight (Mystery/suspense).

From Shadowed Places: 13 Darkly Twisted Tales (various horror, mystery, and suspense short stories).

Man of Exile (Thriller/political corruption)

The Good Ship (Young adult fantasy adventure)

Upcoming for 2023:

Paper Moon Landing (young adult...ish, category: mainstream...ish) Release date early in the year. March...ish

Dark Horse Rising: Book 1 (Intense thriller. One man's goal of getting to the core of political corruption, and a deep-seated plan to destroy them one by one)

Upcoming for 2024:

This is Where We Burn: (A delicious story of revenge, survival, and a paranormal ability most of us wish we had).

Wild Meridian (Satire. A BFF story of abnormal levels. A silly tale infused with suspense and crazy fun).

How to reach out and find me!

stonegatewaypublishing@gmail.com

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An Escape into Fantasy!

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020

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The Good ship was an escape into my childhood memories in all the best ways. I was an avid reader and the tales of children swept away into alternate realities, and the classic trope of the castaway were some of favorites. This story definitely hit all those sentimental sweet spots, though I’ll admit I kept waiting for the shoe to drop with an island full of kids left to their own devices. (I’ve probably read Lord of the Flies one too many times).

When thirteen-year old Annabelle and her family pass through a magical gate of light, they find themselves in another time and place, and separated from each other. The mysterious and tyrannical Jade army has abducted her brother and father, and she is washed up on the shores of an island full of children who have likewise been stranded, in some cases for hundreds of years without aging a day!

What ensues is a whimsical journey of shared discovery, as we learn along with Annabelle the legends and lore of this world and the personal stories of other children’s experiences in that place. Dramatic encounters with mythical plants and creatures are balanced with valuable moral lessons about appreciating your unique role and place in the world, while recognizing that the good of the collective must sometimes be held over the desires of self ; especially when survival is on the line. But most of all readers are reminded of the strength and courage it takes to choose the path of goodness and love, over hate, even when there is every justified reason to do so. There is wisdom of not judging a book by its cover.

If there was one critique to be made, for me, it was the flow of the ending of the story. There was a moment in the telling where the tale felt ‘ended’ and right in the middle of the resolution beat was a sudden plot twist/conflict chapter that just felt a little forced. Its impact on the story was negligible beyond resulting in a moment that seemed to undermine the central message of good overcoming evil that was generally the main theme. That being said, all ended well and the writer avoided the more comfortable ‘it was all a dream’ ending that could have lessened the value of the lessons learned. A solid YA read all around!

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RoseKay55

Peter Pan Meets Narnia ... A highly recommended, fun book for all ages!

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2021

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I very much enjoyed The Good Ship, a story in which Annabelle, a 13-year-old girl and her family are attacked at sea and swept away into another dimension. The father and brother are taken by a wicked entity and unknowingly undergo a form of hypnosis to become part of the entity's mindless army, whereas the girl washes up on a Neverland type of island. The kids on this island, who haven't aged over the years, have nearly finished with constructing a ship from salvage. While the girl makes a handful of mistakes that endanger the castaways along the way, she makes up for those errors in helping not only the kids but their mind-controlled families escape the dimension.

There are many things to like about this book. The author's imagination is delightful -- the whole concept is intriguing, enjoyable for all ages and I would think most especially appealing for a younger audience. He does an excellent job of depicting age-appropriate behavior and conversations. Overall, The Good Ship is extremely good. There are a few things I would encourage the author to consider, though, to take it up a notch where it could conceivably become a well-loved classic. I would recommend stretching the book out just a little by:

Building the budding friendship/relationship between Annabelle and Nate with a few more interactions of them learning about each other (ie: Nate sharing a thing or two about himself and his world before their adventure and vice versa, perhaps).
More development of a few of the lesser characters. Jacob and Cody for example. Their role in the escape was huge but we really don't hear much of anything about them. Perhaps a brief conversation about why he's/they're explosive 'experts' somewhere along the way? Maybe their dad(s) were in a related field or there was a love of science with an amusing story from before the capture: mom going ballistic when her kitchen was nearly blown up in an experiment or something.
Draw a picture when possible rather than simply telling an event happened. Example: (Kitchen explosion scenario) "Mom was on the other side of the kitchen, cutting onions for the soup she was making for dinner when it all went wrong. Next thing I knew, Boom!' The blast blew a hole clean through the wall. Some of the plaster ended up in the beef stew mom was making for dinner. Talk about a mess; stew was everywhere. And the table? It wasn't much more than wood chips. A few of the splinters were actually burning. You gotta know, Mom was always the patient one, super low-key. But that day, I thought SHE was going to explode. When she turned around and saw her grandma's antique oak table in smithereens then looked through the hole in the wall into the living room, her eyes began bulging out of her head, face redder than I'd ever seen it. She came at me with the knife in her hands and a murderous expression that let me know I was dead meat. I wasn't sure if she planned to strangle me or stab me or what, but I sure the heck got out of there before I could find out." He shrugged then, in a way that was like asking, What else could I do? "At least I didn't have to eat onions that night." His guilty grin made me think it was a fond memory. Crazy kid. Smart but crazy. Hopefully he'd learned a thing or two since then.

Anyway, just one person's thoughts. Hope they help. In any case, I think the author should definitely keep writing!

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David Escobar

Original and really fun

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2020

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I enjoyed this book. As a fellow writer, there are a few things I'd recommend to the author to improve future novels, like more show than tell (classic but necessary), and use more conflict to keep the story engaging throughout. The potential is there with loads of creativity. I found the writing overall to be quite good, well-paced, fun descriptions, and the dialogue felt natural enough. Also, the side characters often showed a lot of potential and left me wanting more. The problem is, I didn't usually get much more than an intro. Besides some advanced improvement, The Good Ship is a really good YA story that has the originality most books yearn for.

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Chandler Kitching

Extremely impressive display of imagery and wordsmanship

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021

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This is easily one of the best books I've read all year.. And as a fellow author and ferocious reader I don't take that lightly. I felt like I was taken away into a land similar to peter pan but more adult themed. I mean it's totally children friendly but I felt like I enjoyed this book more than reading peter pan as an adult. It seems more realistic and made me feel like a child again. Everyday at work all I thought about was finishing this book. It's truly a masterpiece. ~Chandler Kitching Author of "The Art of Doing Nothing"

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PhillF

A heart warming, gripping and satisfying read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2022

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This is a lovely book. I won't précis the story here, the book description does enough of that. Instead I'll just give my reactions.
The plot line is absorbing, with the right balance of surprise, predictability and tension. Annabelle is a great character, the sort where you think, 'I'd really like to know her.' Nate, too, although he's maybe not quite as rounded. The story is engaging and grips from the start. It's a sort of modern-day Alice in Wonderland, with bizarre unpredicatibilities, crazy creatures, good and bad, all held together within its own logical framework. There's plenty of excitement, interpersed with calmer passages, and just when you think it's all settled down and is crusing along calmly a new crisis hits you on the side of the head.
The writing style is admirably suited to the material, and the tone of the narrative through the eyes of the thirteen year-old protagonist is completely convincing. Although technically I suppose it's YA genre I'm way outside that age group yet I enjoyed it enormously. It's a book that will make you feel good, and can be highly recommened to all ages. If I had the cash I'd be in there bidding for the movie rights!

Seraphina Moon Pekkala

Pure escapism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2022

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I really enjoyed this fantasy novel although I feel it was a children's book.
However a bit of childish escapism goes a long way. (Look at Harry Potter!!)

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