Novel One - Lightning’s Hand : What’s in it for You?
I’ve recently re-read my own books, so from the perspective of an audience, I can answer the question of “why bother” accurately…
Here’s a handful of reasons to read Lightning’s Hand:
Entertainment - this book reads fast, with chapters averaging 1500 words each. There’s always time to read just one more chapter, your coffee’s gone cold or your spouse has fallen asleep and you’re again alone with the read. Fall into it!
Science-fiction - get away from today with a toe dip into the future, just a few years in the future but with some outlandish tech readers recognize today (extrapolated wearables, big airships, encroaching technologies). It’s not set in space, populated with aliens or packed with jargon though. It’s soft, near-future sci-fi. “Digestible,” someone said of it.
Characters - just throw these characters in any setting and it’d be fun to watch the sparks fly, the fists fly, etc. Readers can hear the snark and flirtation. They report they adore Rory and Ashley. An Extractor and his supernatural, super-beautiful billionaire girlfriend on the run from armies of baddies, I mean, c’mon!
Commentary - Lightning’s Hand isn’t preachy, but it offers some warnings, especially about invasive technologies and unbridled corporate power. Readers find the midwestern values, settings, and characters both interesting and their perspectives informative. There’s a clear moral compass at work in the Endless Tempest series, and like a good fairy tale, a strong battle between right and wrong.
Clean read - I may be a prude, but I get enough obscenities in my daily life. I like to escape to my ideal world where even villains are well-spoken and creative in their slings and barbs. Maybe I’m writing these for “an audience of one,” these days—myself—but I can live with that, and I’d rather read something a little more refined. (Even so, there’s plenty of gritty violence and tough talk to be convincingly in the world of assassins and lawless rebels.) One reader’s review: “Local author, terrific imagination, sort of bloody.”
Intriguing - Readers keep turning pages—even I kept turning pages—because it’s a bit of a different book. It’s not terribly predictable, and the author’s not so in love with his own world build that the conflicts get lost in the shuffle. We want to know more. We want to know what’s next!
Trope on a Rope - sci-fi romance, found family, forbidden love, enemies to lovers, opposites attract, rural cyberpunk, psionics, approaching-dystopias, on-the-run, action...all the fun you’d expect, bundled in the unsuspecting imaginative writing I’m becoming known for.
Click the cover to get your hands on Lightning’s Hand, lightning-fast! Then you can argue with me about its qualities.
