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Cam Baity and Benny Zelkowicz are pleased to share an excerpt from  Blaze of Embers,  the conclusion to their Books Of Ore series. Micah realized that work in the camp had stopped. Feeling warm all of a sudden, he shed the thermal blanket and found that his skin tingled in the night air. The hair rose on his exposed arms. There was a strange scent too. Not harsh and metallic like most of Mehk, but sweet and rich, almost like roses. Watchmen stood alert. Workers clustered together, all of them staring off to the left at something on the horizon. The Shroud was churning. Clouds formed. Not the scrap-metal clouds of bullet rain, but soft white ones, like cumulus clouds back home. They bubbled out from the wall of fog, growing and rising. And . . . glowing? And coming at them. The air was hot now, and Micah felt sweat beading on his forehead. There was pressure in his ears, a squeezing sensation that swallowed up the sound around him.  “Get those jets up and running!” Goodwin...

Waybound , the Second Book of Ore novel by Cam Baity and   Benny Zelkowicz, is now in stores and will entertain middle grade readers and adult speculative fiction fans alike. In honor of their latest release, here is some trivia about the two authors along with more information about the books. Fast Facts about Cam Baity -Cam was born in Texas --- during a heat wave, naturally! -Cam wrote his first book when he was in the second grade. A wombat was the leading character! -Cam studied animation at two places: The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and at Calarts. -Cam won an Emmy for his work on  Robot Chicken . Fast Facts about Benny -At Oberlin College, Benny studied the brains of African knifefish! -Benny later turned his attention to animation, particularly stop-motion, clay, and sand animation. -Benny's award-winning film,  The ErlKing , was screened at Sundance, Annecy, and The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.  -Benny provided the v...