Release of Powerless: The Stasis!
It's with great pleasure that I present the third book in the Powerless series, The Stasis! This book, following our heroes as they get involved with the long-standing war, is action packed. But instead of describing big armies and lots of head-clobbering, I tried to keep a tight focus on the characters and make sure every bit of action deepens our understanding of them. This book also sees the romantic end of the story come into full force. Hopefully fans of the first books will find even more to enjoy in book 3!
Featuring an epigraph from Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried that I got special permission to use (how cool is that!), I think there are strong parallels between the two works concerning the tolls of sending teens off to fight before they're emotionally ready to handle it. All they have are each other, and so they bare the brunt of each other's psychological frustrations in addition to the dangers surrounding them. I hope it says something about their friendships and their personalities as well, how they deal with everything. That's what's really important.
The description: In book three of the Powerless series, The Stasis, Mira and her friends are assimilated into their nation's military. As they endeavor to defend their homeland from a ruthless tyrant and his ravenous followers, Mira hopes to find what she has sacrificed so much to reclaim. Their mission becomes that much more difficult when they encounter their military leader, a man obsessed with the power of his position who proves just as life-threatening as their enemies to Mira and her friends.
Danger surrounding them on all sides, this small group of teens is forced to depend upon each other for survival. They've known each other their entire lives, but under these harsh and desperate circumstances their bonds will be tested as never before. Whether struggling to cope with trauma or turning affections into fledgling romances, they will all learn something different about living in the world when every breath could be their last.
Powerless: The Stasis is available on Amazon.com, BN.com, and will soon be available on Smashwords. You can find it on Goodreads here. I hope you enjoy it!
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Dan wrote: "yeah, slow down, I still have yet to read the second one."They'll be there whenever you're ready for them! How's everything at the Wide Island View going?
Got a quote from you from "Reading Lolita in Tehran"...
"The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in one's own home." I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.
Dan wrote: "Going great, man. Just wish more people wanted to write. I winding out at least an article a month. And I started writing a bit on the side. Thanks for the inspiration. Got a quote from you from ..."
That's an interesting take on fiction, though I bet it would be just as possible to make the opposite case: that good fiction makes you feel at home in someone else's home, as a way of exploring, believing, and understanding that which is altogether foreign or strange.
Dan wrote: "Good point. I wish there was a "Like" button on here."Ha, thanks! Hopefully you're able to rustle up some writer for the WIV.
Oh yeah, and how many books do you have, 50? I've got a lot of catching up to do!