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If your stories contain love in any form (do any not contain it?), check this out. My SFF series Finding Humanity, about the search for other human survivors in a future ice age, explores these various types of love and their counterparts.
#love #writing #amwriting #author #authors #FindingHumanitySeries
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If your stories contain love in any form (do any not contain it?), check this out. My SFF series Finding Humanity, about the search for other human survivors in a future ice age, explores these various types of love and their counterparts.
#love #writing #amwriting #author #authors #FindingHumanitySeries
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If your stories contain love in any form (do any not contain it?), check this out. My SFF series Finding Humanity, about the search for other human survivors in a future ice age, explores these various types of love and their counterparts.
#love #writing #amwriting #author #authors #FindingHumanitySeries
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If your stories contain love in any form (do any not contain it?), check this out. My SFF series Finding Humanity, about the search for other human survivors in a future ice age, explores these various types of love and their counterparts.
#love #writing #amwriting #author #authors #FindingHumanitySeries
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If your stories contain love in any form (do any not contain it?), check this out. My SFF series Finding Humanity, about the search for other human survivors in a future ice age, explores these various types of love and their counterparts.
#love #writing #amwriting #author #authors #FindingHumanitySeries
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#WordWeavers: 11. What would be the most unappreciated social event a character of yours could be invited to?
For my #FindingHumanitySeries, Atsushi’s dad is on the Council, and Atsushi can’t stand the Council’s facade of politeness with a side of political backstabbing. So, if he is expected to attend a Council social event with his father, he is desperately looking for acceptable excuses.
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Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay to all my ace friends! And if anyone is looking for ace characters, I have a POV one, Bleu Reinier, in my SFF #FindingHumanitySeries. It’s not directly discussed much in the first book, since he’s just trying to stay alive at that point, lol, but it’s in out there in the second book when he connects with someone.😊
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Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay to all my ace friends! And if anyone is looking for ace characters, I have a POV one, Bleu Reinier, in my SFF #FindingHumanitySeries. It’s not directly discussed much in the first book, since he’s just trying to stay alive at that point, lol, but it’s in out there in the second book when he connects with someone.😊
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Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay to all my ace friends! And if anyone is looking for ace characters, I have a POV one, Bleu Reinier, in my SFF #FindingHumanitySeries. It’s not directly discussed much in the first book, since he’s just trying to stay alive at that point, lol, but it’s in out there in the second book when he connects with someone.😊
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Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay to all my ace friends! And if anyone is looking for ace characters, I have a POV one, Bleu Reinier, in my SFF #FindingHumanitySeries. It’s not directly discussed much in the first book, since he’s just trying to stay alive at that point, lol, but it’s in out there in the second book when he connects with someone.😊
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Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay to all my ace friends! And if anyone is looking for ace characters, I have a POV one, Bleu Reinier, in my SFF #FindingHumanitySeries. It’s not directly discussed much in the first book, since he’s just trying to stay alive at that point, lol, but it’s in out there in the second book when he connects with someone.😊
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I had a discussion yesterday with someone who wondered what my return on investment was for writing books. I don’t work that way. I write because I love my characters and I want to share them with you. I love creating. Money is not everything. It’s not even half of everything.
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Rereading my own book, The Chasm, to double check that all the multiple POV threads and mysteries are properly continued in The Ruined. Feeling a bit gutted by the discussion between Eka and Kahali before Kahali and Rana go up the mountain.😭
#iykyk #FindingHumanitySeries #scifi #books #author #amwriting
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Book 2, The Chasm:
The humans of Northern Haven reluctantly ally with the mysterious star beings, hoping to gain help finding other survivors of the new ice age. Instead, they discover a fierce, new threat that sheds doubt on their new allies.
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All my books can be found on all major online distributors and ordered from Indie bookstores.
My main SFF series starts with The Calling:
In a future ice age, Bleu’s expedition team emerges from their subterranean haven to discover humans are no longer the dominant life form on Earth.
https://books2read.com/FindingHumanityBook1
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Save almost $7 on the paperback of The Chasm! Amazon only, since they marked it down.
💫A Great Holiday Gift for Teens!💫
The humans and star beings thought the biggest problem they faced was each other. They thought wrong.
💫Enemies forced to cooperate
💫A young leader set up for failure
💫Morally grey villain
💫A cute cave digger pup
💫Future ice age shifters
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When the world gets crazy, new books can help us escape, find heroes we relate to, and grow our TBR pile. 😂
If you enjoy scifi or fantasy, consider my future ice age series. The first book is The Calling:
https://books2read.com/FindingHumanityBook1#hopepunk #scifi #fantasy #book #books #amreading #reading #escape #FindingHumanitySeries
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I’m at the Bristol Public Library in Bristol, CT this Saturday September 6th for a large multi-author event. Come on by 10am-2pm: Meet authors, hear readings, book signings and more!
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#WordWeavers:
SC POV: How do you calm down when you’re angry?Neviah: Always Choco. Choco fixes everything, but it’s hard to get ahold of, so when that’s lacking, I go to the helicopter flight simulator and practice blowing things up.
(Chocolate doesn’t exist in the future ice age, but technology has “recreated” it as choco.)
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#WordWeavers: If your story were food, what kind would it be?
My #FindingHumanitySeries:
A maple snow cone with hints of pine essence served at a cozy campfire.WIP: Werewolves, Chocolate, & Pigeons:
Deep-dish brownies served warm with whip cream and crumbled toffee by a kitchen witch analyzing how best to mischievously improve your life. -
#WordWeavers: Do any of your characters value being well-dressed?
In my #FindingHumanityseries, two characters care about their looks, both guys. Kahali loves his fancy clothes, just for the sheer beauty of them. Luckily, one of his fathers is a textile artist. Commander Savas also cares a lot about how he looks, for *reasons.* -
Need an escape? Try the future ice age hopepunk world of my Finding Humanity series!
Can the expedition team pull together or will their new discovery pull them apart, limb by limb?
#hopepunk #scifi #fantasy #FindingHumanitySeries #books #reading #amwriting #author #authors #ya #climatechange -
#WordWeavers: What would it take for your character to become violent?
This question sums up one of the main themes in my #FindingHumanitySeries: Is nonviolence viable in a violent world? Multiple “humanoid” (quotes because the Ruined would kill me for comparing them to humans, lol) species exist on future Earth. The star beings are nonviolent. Being so is essential to their survival, and they believe humans can eventually do the same. But the star beings get tested by Human and Ruined drama.
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“A less cynical yet nuanced take on humanity’s future, while still being full of action, twists, betrayal, and love…”
Some chasms are better left uncrossed.
50% off this weekend!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFPHQVN
#Hopepunk #scifi #books #deals #sale #reading #writing #fantasy #FindingHumanitySeries
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#WordWeavers: How does your MC respond to danger?
In my upcoming WIP:
Bleu: Freezing, fighting, and once simply Facing it.
Rana: Her nonviolent version of fighting (hey, it’s hard to explain, she’s not human, lol)
Kahali: Freeze & Conscious use of Fawn (also not human)
Commander Savas: Usually he’s all fight, but we get a freeze too
Atsushi: Flee
Digga: Fight like hell, what else would you expect from a cave digger.
Given what they face, I’m with Atsushi.😂😂
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#WordWeavers:
Is understanding others easy for your MC?Bleu grasps most people, but doesn’t always “get” when his friends discuss dating because he’s ace and none of his friends are.
Rana can read peoples’ minds, so she gets them, unless they’re human. She doesn’t understand the human penchant for violence.
Commander Savas understands others enough to have mastered manipulating them, and figuring out the best way to do so.
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#WordWeavers: Do your characters celebrate any kind of a new year starting or ending?
In my WIP, The Ruined, no. They celebrate what should be the seasons as in equinoxes and solstices, but the humans think of the planet a bit like snowball earth. It’s an ice age, which is different, but despite their value on science, their anger at the ice age blinds them to what’s truly happening on the Surface.
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#WordWeavers: How good at saying goodbye is your antagonist?
Hakan has seen too much death of those he loves. He’s a bit numb to loss, though only his best friend (Mican) knows it, because he appears normal to his people.
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One of my friends is reading my book and has called twice to complain not about my book, but that the battery on her e-reader has died and she got tossed out of my book world, needing to plug in her device.😂😂😂
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Just got an email that my future ice age book, The Calling, was nominated for three awards in the 2024 Indie Ink Awards!
(Best Cover, Best Setting, and Wittiest Character)If anyone wants to check out The Calling, here you go! (and notice the amazingly detailed artwork by @raifiondella!)
#FindingHumanitySeries #scifi #hopepunk #fantasy #youngadultbooks #author #authors
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💫Great Holiday Gift for Teens!💫
❄️Enemies forced to cooperate
❄️Saving a sibling
❄️First contact
❄️Touch of paranormal
❄️A nonviolent badass female MC
❄️Found family
❄️Usurped love triangle trope#scifi #hopepunk #fantasy #books #youngadult #aliens #iceage #FindingHumanitySeries #reads #reading
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#WordWeavers: What part of your antagonist’s personality makes them so antagonistic?
For Commander Savas, it’s his all-encompassing belief that he must save the last of humanity at all costs. Sounds good on the surface, but he’s willing to sacrifice everyone to that goal, and won’t take any risks trusting anyone or anything that could harm humans.
If you’re interested in learning more, The Chasm is currently half-price on Amazon.
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…because I felt we all needed new stories where each of us can affect things and make a difference, where society CAN change to overcome violence, & we CAN live in harmony with our planet. It’s multiple POV because the real MC is all of humanity.
To learn more:In a future ice age, Bleu’s expedition team emerges from their subterranean haven to discover humans are no longer the dominant life form on Earth.
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I started writing The Calling at the original heyday of dystopian literature (2011), and specifically wrote it to seem in the beginning like a “Dystopian, chosen one” trope that later gets usurped to “Hopepunk, no chosen one, everyone is responsible,” … 1/2
#hopepunk #scifi #dystopian #humanity #nonviolence #violence #peace #fantasy #FindingHumanitySeries
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#WordWeavers: Were there any other names you considered for your MC?
Usually, my characters tell me their names. Bleu told me only that he had to be named Blue, but it could be any language. After a lot of research, I went with the French, because it’s close enough to English that hopefully his mother naming him after the sky she’s never seen will be more obvious.
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#WordWeavers: SC POV: Who knows your deepest secrets?
Jeb (Human, in his sixties): My deepest secret, my deepest shame, haunts me forever. We do stupid things when young, and I really fucked up. *Voice lowers* Only my dead best friend, and the Ruined that murdered him know what really happened….
All my fault…and I’m worried sick that kid Bleu’s risking a similar mistake.
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#WordWeavers: Have your MC choose truth or dare. Tag another player to get their challenge.
Bleu chooses truth, and I tag @paul
Here’s a picture of 18 yr old. Bleu for those of you who haven’t read The Calling.
Art by Miriam Yvette.
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Just finished reading Branwen O'Shea's The Calling
Now what am I going to do?
It had me reading and reading in the middle of the night when I should have been asleep and if that is not the definition of a good book, I don't know what is. Complex. Inventive. Rich in imagination. Packed with characters you would want as your friends (and a few you wouldn't). Excellent
@BranwenOShea #TheCalling #BranwenOShea #FindingHumanitySeries #amReading #YA #HopePunk #Sifi
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Just finished reading Branwen O'Shea's The Calling
Now what am I going to do?
It had me reading and reading in the middle of the night when I should have been asleep and if that is not the definition of a good book, I don't know what is. Complex. Inventive. Rich in imagination. Packed with characters you would want as your friends (and a few you wouldn't). Excellent
@BranwenOShea #TheCalling #BranwenOShea #FindingHumanitySeries #amReading #YA #HopePunk #Sifi
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Just finished reading Branwen O'Shea's The Calling
Now what am I going to do?
It had me reading and reading in the middle of the night when I should have been asleep and if that is not the definition of a good book, I don't know what is. Complex. Inventive. Rich in imagination. Packed with characters you would want as your friends (and a few you wouldn't). Excellent
@BranwenOShea #TheCalling #BranwenOShea #FindingHumanitySeries #amReading #YA #HopePunk #Sifi
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Just finished reading Branwen O'Shea's The Calling
Now what am I going to do?
It had me reading and reading in the middle of the night when I should have been asleep and if that is not the definition of a good book, I don't know what is. Complex. Inventive. Rich in imagination. Packed with characters you would want as your friends (and a few you wouldn't). Excellent
@BranwenOShea #TheCalling #BranwenOShea #FindingHumanitySeries #amReading #YA #HopePunk #Sifi
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Just finished reading Branwen O'Shea's The Calling
Now what am I going to do?
It had me reading and reading in the middle of the night when I should have been asleep and if that is not the definition of a good book, I don't know what is. Complex. Inventive. Rich in imagination. Packed with characters you would want as your friends (and a few you wouldn't). Excellent
@BranwenOShea #TheCalling #BranwenOShea #FindingHumanitySeries #amReading #YA #HopePunk #Sifi
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The Calling is on sale for $1.99 this weekend!
In a future ice age, Bleu’s expedition team emerges from their subterranean haven to discover humans are no longer the dominant life form on Earth.
https://books2read.com/FindingHumanityBook1
#books #scifi #hopepunk #MastodonBooks #iceage
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Love this! When people tell me war is the only way to stop dictators, I say if all we have in our toolbox is a hammer, we think it’s the only option. I’m not saying crayons would stop everything, but we need to think differently or we doom ourselves to endless cycles of violence.
#FindingHumanitySeries #thinkdifferently #war #violence #creativity #peace #amwriting
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New character art!
Meet Kahali, my playful star being drummer who gets himself caught up a dangerous situation with the chaotic humans. Art by Miriam Yvette. -
New character art!
Meet Kahali, my playful star being drummer who gets himself caught up a dangerous situation with the chaotic humans. Art by Miriam Yvette. -
New character art!
Meet Kahali, my playful star being drummer who gets himself caught up a dangerous situation with the chaotic humans. Art by Miriam Yvette. -
New character art!
Meet Kahali, my playful star being drummer who gets himself caught up a dangerous situation with the chaotic humans. Art by Miriam Yvette. -
Join Bleu and his friends (and enemies) on this hopepunk adventure!
💫a touch of paranormal
💫found family
💫a usurped love triangle trope
💫enemies forced to cooperate to survive
💫a cute cave digger pup
💫and a touch of mysticism.#books #scifi #hopepunk #fantasy #adventurebook #FindingHumanitySeries