No
Biz Like Showbiz
Lexi
Carmichael Mystery Series
Book
5
by Julie
Moffett
Genre:
Mystery/Romance/ Action Adventure
Publisher:
Carina Press
Date of
Publication: July 21, 2014
Word Count:
75,000
Book
Description:
Lexi
Carmichael: Helping Geeks Everywhere Get Some
Okay, so it’s
not exactly as it seems, but that’s what is happening on the dating reality
television show called “Geeks Get Some” that I, Lexi Carmichael geek
extraordinaire, am called to work on. Not that I’m a fan of reality shows (I
can barely deal with my own reality), yet I’ve been sent to Hollywood to find a
hacker who’s screwing with the results of the show’s online voting system.
So what happens
when I get there? Well, the producers convince me to continue my investigation
from the inside. What should be an easy hunt for the hacker turns ugly when he
sets his sights on me. Add to that a studio obsessed with ratings, a bunch of
nerdy contestants, and my own confusing love life, and unraveling this mystery
might make me a star—or get me killed.
Catch
up with Lexi in No One Lives Twice, No One to Trust, No Money Down, No Place
Like Rome!
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Excerpt from No Biz Like Showbiz
No
Biz Like Showbiz . . .
My
name is Lexi Carmichael and I have a problem with most of today’s television
programming. Not because of the sheer implausibility of a majority of the
shows—although that does factor—but because too many programs seem to feature a
tech genius who can solve the problems of the world with one stroke of a
keyboard.
Here’s
how it happens… a tech head is desperately trying to hack into a system. Death,
the collapse of the free world, or the apocalypse is imminent if he fails.
(Yes, tech heroes always seem to be guys since I guess in Hollywood a woman
doesn’t know her way around a keyboard.) He types commands frantically as the
clock ticks down to Doomsday. As the scenario continues, our frazzled hero
takes a moment to run his fingers through his perfectly styled hair before he
types just one more command and bingo, he’s in. He’ll then have a whole
millisecond to navigate a completely unfamiliar system, find the magic switch,
and shut down the entire system in time to save the day, world, girl, whatever,
with one stroke. All of this while the super expensive, cutting-edge government
system or expensive black-market technology used by the show's villain will aid
our intrepid hero by providing helpful visual prompts like Access Denied or
Access Granted in big bold letters across the screen as he works his hacking
magic.
Just
shoot me.
I’m a
real hacker and yes, I’m female. I double-majored in mathematics and computer
science at Georgetown University and have spent most of my twenty-five years
learning how to bypass cryptographic protocols, exploit system vulnerabilities,
and finesse distributed denial of service attacks. I’ve never had to avert an
apocalypse, but if I did, I’m pretty sure it would take more than one freaking minute,
and I wouldn’t be worried about my hair while doing it. My first successful
hack on a relatively simple system took five hours. It might have taken four,
but my mom kept distracting me by yelling through my bedroom door that if I
gave ballet class just one more try she’d give me a hundred dollars to spend
however I wanted. So, watching these types of shows and movies is hard on both
my nerves and stomach.
About the Author
Julie Moffett is
the award-winning author of thirteen published novels in the genres of
historical, paranormal fantasy, and time travel romances, and action/adventure
mysteries.
She grew up as a
military brat (Air Force) and has traveled extensively. Her more exciting
exploits include attending Kubasaki High School in Okinawa, Japan, backpacking
around Europe and Scandinavia for several months, a year-long college graduate
study in Warsaw, Poland and a wonderful trip to Scotland and Ireland where she
fell in love with castles, kilts and brogues.
Julie has a B.A.
in Political Science and Russian Language from Colorado College, a M.A. in
International Affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,
and is nearly finished with her M.Ed from Liberty University in Virginia. Able
to speak Russian and Polish, she worked as a journalist for the international
radio station, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Washington, D.C. for eleven
years, publishing hundreds of articles. She now works as a proposal writer and
research advisor for a defense contractor in the Washington, D.C. area.
Julie has two
sons who keep her quite busy. She belongs to Romance Writers of America and
Washington Romance Writers where she served six years on the organization’s
Board of Directors. She was also the Market News Columnist and Feature’s Editor
for the organization’s monthly newsletter, Update, for eleven years.
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