M.C. Frank's Blog, page 433
September 27, 2017
Win Signed Copies of No Vain Loss
Exciting announcement, everyone!I’m giving away a few signed paperback copies of No Vain Loss, my science fiction novel about a world where Christmas doesn’t exists and kissing is forbidden.
Synopsis:
A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do.
A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.
A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack.
The world hasn’t known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. It has also forgotten love and beauty.
This is the One World.
The year is 2524.
Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic young adult novel in three parts is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace.
Written in three parts, this is the breathtaking story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time.
In No Vain Loss, the world is on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Lives will be lost. New truths will be revealed.
Recommended for fans of:
Hot soldiers (see Kdrama, Descendants of the Sun, and so on)
My True Love Gave to Me anthology, Christmas feels and aesthetic
Ray Bradbury-inspired scifi worldbuilding
YA dystopian/postapocalyptic novels
These Broken Stars series
Book boyfriends
A touch of existential issues Huxley-style
Star Wars-style action
Intense romance
Hidden libraries
Fight for survival
Forbidden kisses
Bromance
BearsReaders say:
Fast, Futuristic, Creative. -Yesha, Books Teacup and Reviews
My new obsession and yours too! No Ordinary Star reads like a love letter to humanity. -S. E. Anderson, author of Starstruck
This book is magic. -Alex Rowe, @captain.valour
I fell head-over-heels in love! -Drew C.
Oh, how I’ve already fallen in love with our two main characters, tin solider and match girl. -Rebecca RavenCurrent rating on goodreads 4.8 stars
Pages 230
Release date: 5 Dec 2017
Does it sound like something you’d like to read?
G I V E A W A Y
Preorder the kindle for .99 here: http://amzn.to/2gNO7zi and send me a screencap of your recept/confirmation (email here)
You will be automatically entered to win one of 5 signed paperback copies!Good luck!
Books + glasses
In this book, people have to wear glasses or...
Books + glasses
In this book, people have to wear glasses or they go blind. In my current Robin Hood WIP, there is a character with a physical disability (missing fingers) and another with a mental one (needs no research *hint
September 26, 2017
Greek Pantheon Asks
Apollo: Do you have any talents?
Ares: What small thing makes you angry?
Artemis: What are you hunting for in life?
Athena: What is/was your best school subject?
Demeter: Do you miss anyone?
Dionysus: Do you drink alcohol? If so, what's your beverage of choice?
Eros: How do you define your sexuality?
Gaia: Where's your favorite place in the world?
Hades: Have you ever had a near-death experience?
Hecate: What do you think of magic?
Helios: Do you sunburn easily?
Hephaestus: What's the coolest thing you've ever made or built?
Hera: Are you the jealous type?
Hermes: Have you ever stolen anything?
Hestia: Where's your home away from home?
Hyperion: Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?
Hypnos: What was your most recent dream about?
Iris: What's your favorite color palate?
Kronos: What's the stupidest thing you've ever eaten?
Nemesis: What's a time you helped deliver justice?
Nike: What's your most recent accomplishment?
Nyx: What's your favorite nighttime activity?
Pan: What do you do for fun?
Persephone: What's your favorite season of the year?
Poseidon: What's your favorite sea creature?
Rhea: What's your favorite type of nature?
Selene: What's your favorite phase of the moon?
Tartarus: What's your personal hell?
Thanatos: Is there anyone you just really, really hate?
Uranus: What are your zodiac signs?
Zeus: What do you think about thunderstorms?
Reader/Writer questions
tagged by the lovely @writingdella
1. Who is your favorite author/poet and why?
Author: Austen&Dickens
Poet: Yeats
2. Do you have a pre-writing/reading ritual? If so, what is it?
I totally need to grab the book before I start reading, or else the whole process becomes REALLY hard, not to mention pointless. Lol. *whispers What is a prereading ritual, anyway?* The same goes for writing. I totes need my laptop. *wink
3. What project are you working on that you’re most excited about?
The Robin Hood WIP
4. What piece of literature has resonated most with you and why?
Ray Bradbury’s short stories, because they are built entirely on pure IMAGINATION
5. What is the best advice for life/reading/writing you’ve ever received?
“Read. A lot.”
6. If you could shadow anyone from any time period for one week, who would it be and what would you hope to learn?
I’d love to shadow Jane Austen and know whether she ever truly felt that kind of love she was writing about.
7. Do you have a favorite fictional trope? What is it?
That one where there are no tropes, just imagination unleashed and originality.
8. If you could change anything about society, what would it be and why?
9. What is your favorite book/series?
Can it be a manga? Oooh or a TV series? Sorry, I can never answer this question.
10. What major influences have made you who you are as a person/reader/writer?
My dad
My illness/recovery
Books (”I am a product of endless books” - C.S. Lewis)
Tagging: everyone who wants to answer those! Side note: If you’re interested in being tagged by me in general, pretty please leave a comment, as I’m kind of tired of always being ignored by the people I tag
Just had a lowkey full-blown anxiety attack
which lasted for 2 days approximately, after talking to my editor for half an hour (Talked to him today again, for about half an hour, and hopefully I resolved the issue. But there’s still a ways to go). I now have *only* vertigo left, symptoms-wise, so I hope I’m at the fading away end of the nightmare.
claryfightwood:
what is it about kpop that drags people in so successfully like i’ve never seen...
what is it about kpop that drags people in so successfully like i’ve never seen anyone casually enjoy kpop like i wake up every morning to another mutual lost to kpop their icon, their url, every post on their blog is different it’s like they never even existed as anything else what is happening
Writer + character aesthetics
Been arguing with my bicycle...
Writer + character aesthetics
Been arguing with my bicycle notebook all day yesterday (official name: Lil Notebook, or LN ) because he says he’s ugly. I told him don’t be silly, you’ve got the Robin Hood story inside of you, you need to be serious. So he started crying. Thankfully his auntie Alina @tea.books.lover said she’d send him some cards for a makeover, to make him look all #gorjuss
