Paraworld Zero

Twelve-year-old Simon Kent thinks his biggest problem is the local bully, Butch, until a green-haired girl named Tonya appears. Drawing from the massive amount of E.M. energy on Earth, Tonya is able to cast spells and travel to other paraworlds. They join in the battle to defeat Captain Drackus and General Mayham who plan to use E.M. enhanced weapons to destroy the race of magicians--a race that Simon now realizes is his own.

Matthew Peterson is an award-winning short story writer, second degree black belt in karate, Eagle scout, computer programmer, and former missionary. He also has uncanny luck with firsts, from getting accepted to the first and only university he applied to (Brigham Young University), becoming the Director of Information Technologies from his first and only job interview after graduating with a business management degree, and even marrying the first woman he dated in college. He wanted twins, and, miraculously, his first two children were red-headed twins. He won first place in the first writing contest he entered, and the first publisher he sent his book to bought the rights to publish it. He hopes his luck with firsts will continue on with his debut novel, Paraworld Zero. Matthew has won or placed in several writing contests including Writers Digest, Writers Weekly, and L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife, five boys, and their giant African tortoise.