He must figure out just how to use these powers and for what purpose. Then Matthew finds a stone with odd powers one day as he practices his martial arts forms. He attempts to figure out just how to fit in with the ultra-wealthy friends that he makes during a class trip to France. Matthew’s advanced in school and exceptionally bright which means he will have to deal with being more than a year younger than these other students in his junior class.

Matthew Brandt, after his dad’s unexpected death, is granted a scholarship to the exclusive high school in northern San Diego County, California. “Matthew and the Stone” is the first novel in the “Stone” series and was released in the year 2017. He writes the “Stone” series and the “Delphi in Space” series and his work is from the young adult and science fiction genres. He finished his first three novels, which make up “The Stone Series”.īob’s debut novel, called “Matthew and The Stone”, was released in the year 2017. After he retired to the beach in Mexico, the only things that would compete with writing were the sound of the ocean and sunsets over the water, so he was able to complete the books he began writing.

and traveling on long business trips to places like India, Singapore, and Europe, he wrote books in his mind. He toyed with writing for a few years after he finished college, but was always too busy to finish a novel. After he retired, he and his wife moved a few miles south to Mexico where they enjoy their home on the ocean.īob has been a voracious reader since his mom first took him to a library when he was five years old. He raced off to the west coast just as soon as he graduated, and for over thirty years, lived in San Diego, California while working as a manager and an engineer at HP. The family moved to Noble, Oklahoma, which is just south of Norman and the University of Oklahoma, where Bob went to college. During his childhood, his family moved somewhere almost every year until Bob was fourteen years old, however they managed to stay in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for three years before his dad retired from the military. His dad moved the family back to the states when Bob was just six months old. Bob Blanton was born in Augsburg, Germany, as the son of a US soldier and a German national.

Starship Sakira by Bob Blanton