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Roberta M. Roy

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in Poughkeepsie, The United States

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http://alvapressinc.com/alva_jolt.html

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Memoir

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David Roth, William Faulkner, Jane Austen

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Roberta M Roy’s Jolt Survival Trilogy includes the 2021 Gold Medal Winner in the Jenkins International eLit Awards for Current Events and the Silver Medalist for Multicultural Fiction, Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3) as well as the winner of a Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award, Jolt: a rural noir, revised (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book I), and its sequel, Two Close (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3). They are available at alvapressinc.com, BN.com, Amazon.com, and BookBaby.com. Most recently Roy has authored the pilot and nine hour long episodes of the Jolt Survival Series which is based on her three award winning novels.

Book 1 Jolt: a rural noir - It is said that after a nuclear meltdown, if one can walk away, one will Roberta M Roy’s Jolt Survival Trilogy includes the 2021 Gold Medal Winner in the Jenkins International eLit Awards for Current Events and the Silver Medalist for Multicultural Fiction, Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3) as well as the winner of a Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award, Jolt: a rural noir, revised (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book I), and its sequel, Two Close (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3). They are available at alvapressinc.com, BN.com, Amazon.com, and BookBaby.com. Most recently Roy has authored the pilot and nine hour long episodes of the Jolt Survival Series which is based on her three award winning novels.

Book 1 Jolt: a rural noir - It is said that after a nuclear meltdown, if one can walk away, one will live. Jolt a rural noirtells the story of residents thirty or more miles from a meltdown who survive. Escaping the threat of radiation fallout causes many to flee. Estranged lovers Natalie and Thaw accommodate to the needs of the forced emigrants that flood a small mountain village. Winter is coming. Decontamination, radiation sickness, and lack of food, housing, and proper sanitation threaten Newees and Townies alike. Epic in expanse, Jolt, a rural noir, revised, describes a community determined to survive. Extremely well-researched, informative, and poignant.

Book 2 Two Close: a story of survival, the sequel to Jolt: a rural noir, follows the paths of the Matters family, Mary, Lou, and their sons, Jason and Marty. Separated by circumstances following terrorism and a nuclear meltdown, Mary, at home, recuperates from radiation sickness. Lou, brain injured in a dirty bomb explosion, recovers from amnesia and right-side brain damage. Their sons have fled and survive alone in the woods. Two Close is a tale of courage and the human will to survive.

Book 3 Home Again 2020 the sequel to Too Close, is the story of Jason, Marty, and their mother, Mary Matters, reunited in their home in Ariana. Right hemisphere brain injury has caused Lou Matters, the father, to suffer left side neglect and vision loss. The story of their individual and joint struggles and efforts to heal are blind-sided by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in an environment where answers elude a government that is itself overwhelmed. Home Again 2020 is the story of the search to heal and survive in an increasingly complex world.

Roy’s book Slivers: Poems by Roberta M Roy, medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry. Roy is a Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who resides in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York State where she is the creative lead and owner operator of alvapressinc.com.

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	Jolt: A Rural Noir 4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Close: a story of survival (2) (Jolt Survival Trilogy) by Roberta M. Roy (Goodreads Author), Cherie Cokeley (Photographs), Lorna Tychostup (Photographs) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Again 2020: a story of survival (3) (Jolt Survival Trilogy) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Straight from the Robin's Nest 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The ALVA Axiom Anthology of Author Interviews it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems by Roberta M Roy - Slivers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life's a Dance- A Memoir on My Growing Up and Coming of Age it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Interesting. How much more quickly people I know personally are reading my memoir 'Life's a Dance: On my growing up and coming of age' than they did my novels, essays, and poetry.

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