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Fictional Novel about technology but not Sci Fi
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Hi, I would be interested in reading for you. If you are interested in checking out information on my work and rates, my website with reviews is: https://macleaseread.wixsite.com/beta...
I can be reached at macleaseread@gmail.com and if you would like me to do a sample read of a chapter or two I would be happy to do so.
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Dana
Hi Derede,Congratulations on finishing your draft and taking this step in your publishing journey. Your converging storylines caught my attention. Since your characters represent different genders, age groups, races/ethnicities, and social statuses, I'd like to offer my beta and sensitivity reading services. You can find more information about that here , including the "asking price." Testimonials can be found here , and more details of my experience as an editor and reader are here .
If you're interested, please email me at IsabelleFelixEdits@gmail.com. Furthermore, if you need a better idea of how we would work together, please feel free to email 3 pages (about 750 words) of any concerning scene. You can have the subject line be "Free Sample Reading Request."
Thank you so much for your consideration.
Looking forward,
Isabelle Felix
Hey there!That sounds really interesting and if you're still looking for a beta reader I am available to help! I've been beta reading for about five years and I have a lot to bring to the table. I charge .001/word (which is $1/1k words) and can turn around about 75k words in a week.
I love pretty much all genres of fiction and would love to be able to help you over the coming year.
Please feel free to message back or email me at ChristyBetaReads@gmail.com if you were wanting to move forward! I look forward to hearing from you!
Christy
The story is told from third-person POV’s by different characters. There are no explicit sex scenes, but subtle references, as opposed to hard-core sex acts. Likewise, there are no acts of violence except a major accident resulting from electrical explosions, leading to the deaths of some characters in the end.
SUMMARY:
Against a backdrop of desperation and self-inflicted wounds, the seemingly unconnected characters in the story cross paths at a parade on Avenue D, in Alphabet City. Representing different age groups, ethnicities and social strata, they venture through this gated technology-enabled community.
Julia, a high-school graduate in a small NJ community, wants nothing more than to elevate her socioeconomic status. She decides on a whim to find and seduce an Ivy League preppy into marrying her at an upscale Atlantic City casino. She pursues George, a physics grad student at Princeton University, gets pregnant and forces him to abandon his prospective career opportunity as a NASA engineer. As she adjusts to her new life, the young mother is on a turbulent ride on a train bound for New York City. She becomes so obsessed about the “what ifs” of her journey, that she is totally oblivious about the real dangers confronting her, as she doltishly holds her new born baby against the door in the train vestibule. She is hysterical on a phone call with her husband George, as he tries to console her.
Peter Straight dedicates more than thirty years of his career at the preeminent auction house in NYC, where he vigorously hunts down a single Van Gogh painting that has eluded him, circling the globe and passing through the hands of nobility. When Peter finally acquires his object of desire, after two major heart attacks, his obsession with the painting does not subside. Reveling in his conquest, Peter decides to enter the auction house’s storage vault. He accidentally damages the famous painting, bringing major calamity upon himself, ruining everything that he has worked so hard for.
The premier of Prussia is so obsessed about concealing his past that he will stop at nothing to hide his non-German roots. When the Nazis begin to gain power, he becomes fixated on the only woman from his former life who can reveal his true identity. In an act of desperation, he has her captured as part of an insidious plot and tortures her with his dark sexual fetishes.
An engineer in charge of safety in the construction of a major building in Manhattan is consumed by the pending outcome of his divorce. He does everything in his power to avoid the final court proceedings and in the process, ignores major consequential safety protocols.
An accident waiting to happen! This is the dilemma that the diverse group of seemingly unrelated characters finds themselves. Representing different age groups, ethnicities and social status, their lives are on an express track fraught with risks and hazards. But their vulnerability often begins and ends in their own minds, as curiosities and insecurities balloon into dangerous obsessions.
Their paths converge at Avenue D, a community formerly infested by drug activity, has been transformed and is now closely monitored by technology for any social, economic and environmental risks. But the characters must check their baggage at the gate, because life is no longer a gamble as you go through Avenue D. Challenging situations are alerted and averted, even when the odds seem stacked against them. Any threat that is predictable is preventable.
Could the innovative way of life in this gated community on NYC’s lower east side, be the antidote that ultimately confronts concerns and inoculates illusions, to protect their safety and well-being?
I thank you in advance your contribution and feedback. Please send me a private message so that I can forward the manuscript.
Derede