About
Businessmen are serious people, right? Not always. Steve LeBel — hospital president, technology entrepreneur, algorithmic trader — is definitely not serious.
Not when he writes.
Whimsy overcomes him at the word processor. Whimsy is at the core of his novel, The Universe Builders, which is told with LeBel’s unique balance of seriousness, humor, and whimsy.
Steve lives in Muskegon, Michigan with his wife and two cats. When not writing, he is busy planning his next trip, cursing the stock market, providing tech support for his friends, or thinking up new plots for The Universe Builders.
Description
<p>It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.</p><p>Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, <i>Commitment</i>.</p><p>Alex embeds in a secret organization of intelligence operatives known as The Collaborative. Its partners include operatives from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, US Department of Defense, and an entanglement of foreign intelligence agencies.</p><p>It’s about half a year after the death of President John Merrow, a friend and someone she respected. But she remains committed to overthrowing The Collaborative as she works with a onetime adversary who believes the organization’s involved in the president’s death.</p><p>Meanwhile Alex; her wife, Cassidy O’Brien; and Cassidy’s son try hard to live as a family but must first overcome personal struggles, including a nasty custody battle with Cassidy’s ex-husband, Congressman Christopher O’Brien. The family has their own share of secrets that, if unleashed, could affect their hopes for the future.</p><p>There’s no place to turn without discovering people who are not who they claim to be. That can’t stop Alex. She must remain committed to the cause, both at home and as she works against The Collaborative.</p>
Story Behind The Book
Many years ago, someone joked that God must have received a C- in Universe Building 101.
It got me thinking...
What if there was a world of gods and goddesses in the business of creating universes? Perhaps they went to school for it and ended up with jobs creating universes. What would they be like?
Wouldn't they have their share of misfits and incompetents? How would all of this affect the universes they built? And how would it affect the creatures who lived in these universes?
And, of course, the ultimate question: What would the god's world be like?
Oh, the creative juices just flow... How can they not when your main characters are gods with the power to create universes?
