Tag: Dystopian

Updated Cover

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My previous cover for my newest novel, Relics of Life, didn’t quite sit right with me. I think my concern was with the dull colors and the faded look of the images. I found another image that symbolizes the story perfectly that is eye-catching and am happy with it. I believe it stands out much better, as well.

So, one step closer to publication with a clean cover and a solid storyline. It’ll probably take 8 more weeks for the revisions and then submitting to my editor, and when she can schedule me in for her line editing, interior and exterior book cover services before I can publish. Therefore, it’ll probably be released in late July or early August.

I’ll keep you updated, of course!

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Step by Step, Real Progress is Made

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This afternoon, I managed, while doing revisions to my novel, Relics of Life, to produce what was needed to wrap up the storyline completely. I rewrote a scene, improving it, and added a scene to tie up any loose ends that hadn’t been done in my first draft of this amazing story.

I’ve got several weeks to a month or two before this story will be ready to be published, but it’s getting closer!

My last published book was in the spring of 2022. I’d rather prefer having at least one book out each year for my readers.

So sorry to my readers that I fell behind!

Here’s the possible book cover and blurb for Relics of Life:

Blurb:

The world is in turmoil from Russia to the United States.

Monks Sergius and Herman from a monastery in Russia are sent to the United States to find a saint’s prophetic writings and a small piece of the Cross of Christ that went missing during Stalin’s reign but were smuggled into America in 1978.

The monks’ search takes them to Virginia to the town of Fairview, where quiet introvert Stephanie and her family live in the era of a declining American Empire giving birth to mass surveillance, rampant crime, corruption, poverty, and loss of connection to God and humanity. In addition to the ominous conditions of Stephanie’s town and country is a catastrophic third world war.

Stephanie and her family face harrowing events that are tearing them apart. They must gain the courage to fight to reconnect. As the monks pursue the relics, they meet Stephanie and others at her church–the last one in town. Through their collective prayer and search for the holy relics, they hold onto hope for themselves and a broken, decimated world.

Updates on a summer publishing date in the coming weeks to month.

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Another One Pending…

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Friends,

I hope to have my new novel, Relics of Life, out by sometime in the summer. God willing!

Blurb:

The world is in turmoil from Russia to the United States.                                    

Monks Sergius and Herman from a monastery in Russia are sent to the United States to find a saint’s prophetic writings and a small piece of the Cross of Christ that went missing during Stalin’s reign but were then smuggled into America in 1978.                                    

Quiet introvert Stephanie Jenkins and her son and mother live in a town in Virginia, during a pinnacle era where the American Empire is in decline, proven by prolific mass shootings, a third world war raging, and the economy teetering on total collapse. Stephanie must face all the harrowing events falling down upon her and her family, and loss of connection with each other.                                    

The monks’ search takes them to Fairview, Virginia, Stephanie’s home town. Stephanie encounters the monks at her church in the midst of a world gone mad. She discovers why they’ve come and shares their interests. The relics may be their only hope in saving themselves and the broken world.                                    

Stay tuned!

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