It looks like I'm going to subject myself to another round of the Kindle Scout campaign process.
I'm just finishing one more edit of the book Voyageurs for a possible Kindle Scout campaign. It, like Gaia's Hands (which, with fewer than 15 days left, will not make the cut for publication), is a standalone book for the moment. Voyageurs doesn't happen in the same space as the Archetype series, so it wouldn't break up a series (which would make it unattractive to an agent).
Voyageurs is very different than Gaia's Hands. Where Gaia's Hands is a delicate, pastoral slice of magical realism, Voyageurs features the sardonic daredevil Kat Pleskovich and the bookish Ian Akimoto from the disastrous ecological future called The Chaos. What begins as a string of suspicious deaths among the Travellers, or time-jumpers, becomes the uncovering of a plot to destroy the world.
Although it would be easy to dismiss this book as a time traveller romance, I've skewed things a little too much to use that label comfortably. Present-day Kat's streetwise manner and her prickliness make her anything but the girl who needs a big man to protect her. Ian from the future, frail and bookish, has more empathy but a tendency to try to ingratiate himself to Kat. Their mentor, Berkeley, is a frustratingly droll time historian who revels in the Socratic Method. The bad guys? You'll have to read the book.
I would call this book a crossover -- soft SF with a touch of mystery and a relationship that helps pull things together.
If you have any ideas about the timing of the book campaign, please let me know.
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