Sharing Novel Chapters Starting March 22nd!
Hurray for Tuesdays!
Hey there!
Thanks so much for reading my new Substack! Just wanted to let you know that I will start sending novel chapters to subscribers’ inboxes starting next Tuesday, March 22nd. This will give me a bit of time to get the word out.
My plan is to start sharing my latest sci-fi work, Ephemeral. Frankly, this is the book I did NOT want to write. But the story was too compelling, and I wanted to be faithful with it (more on that story-behind-the-story in future Friday posts).
So here’s a preview of the novel. And if you know anyone else who might be interested in receiving the story on a weekly basis, please share this with them so they can also enjoy. Thanks!
Preview:
When interstellar grad student, Clara Milton, visits a planet with accelerated development and realizes she will far exceed Earth’s legal age limit by the end of her internship, she must redefine her priorities and discover the value of life – even in its brevity.
It was only supposed to last for the summer: forty days of interviewing Elpis 7 colonists for her master's thesis. But Elpis 7 is no ordinary planet. When Clara discovers wrinkled, white-haired colonists living far past Earth’s global age limit, she’s astounded and perplexed. But nothing prepares her for a far more shocking realization; for every day she spends on Elpis 7, Clara will age one year and soon become elderly herself. With no way to get home any sooner, Clara Milton – twenty-four going on sixty-four – must engage her new reality, choose her loyalties carefully amid clashing clans, and realize the importance of life regardless of its duration. Ephemeral affirms life's significance in all its stages. There is no expiration date on personhood.