Blood Tide Released!

I'm thrilled to announce that the second novel in the Aquarius Rising trilogy, Aquarius Rising: Blood Tide, has been released by Double Dragon Publishing. This continues the cli-fi saga begun with Aquarius Rising: In the Tears of God, winner of the 2014 EPIC eBook Award for Science Fiction. In a nutshell:

Megalops is an Aquarian from one of the many reef-cities that thrive beneath the waves on an Earth transformed by climate change. Humans clinging to the barren lands blame Aquarius for their plight and unleashed the Medusa Plague that entombed Megalops's wife and daughter in stone. Tormented by that loss, Megalops swears to avenge his murdered family by unleashing a Vendetta Virus as cruel and lethal as Medusa. Ocypode the Atavism and his allies battle desperate odds to prevent Megalops from igniting global conflict. War demands sacrifice. If Mother Earth and Mother Ocean wage war against each other, will anyone survive?

I greatly enjoyed writing this and hope that comes through in the reading. I took a very different approach with this novel: Book 1 was pretty rigorously (okay, anally) plotted and planned in excruciating detail up-front; Book 2 was more loosely pre-planned so that the action could flow more organically in the direction dictated by the main characters. The story ultimately took a few twists I never envisioned at the start.

If you're interested in learning more, the publisher's book page for Blood Tide can be viewed here:

Blood Tide - Book Two Of The Aquarius Rising Trilogy

If you're a fan of climate fiction, or just good ol' science fiction, please check it out! (And if you're inclined to spread the word, I won't try to talk you out it... ;-)

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