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Read these bestselling tales of
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Shattered Worlds features six
full-length novels from bestselling authors. Immerse yourself in
post-apocalyptic civilizations and bleak near-futures where hope
still lives.
Books & Authors Details:
Shattered Worlds by Boxed Set
Publication date: February 26th 2014
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
Publication date: February 26th 2014
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
Books in the set:
New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author Elle Casey – Apocalypsis Book 1: Kahayatle
My name's Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen
years old, and I live in a neighborhood outside of Orlando, Florida.
I live alone because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all
the other adults in the world. I'm almost out of food and the gangs
of kids that roam around my town are getting more vicious by the day.
It's time for me to leave and find
another place to live ... a place where I can find food and shelter
... a place where they won't be able to find me.
Alone, it might have been possible; but
now I've got company. I'm worried that I don't have what it takes to
get from here to my final destination.
And I have no idea what might be
waiting for me when I get there.
**May not be suitable for younger,
middle grade readers.**
Shalini Boland – Outside
A post-apocalyptic romance thriller.
The world of the future is divided by
Perimeters: high-security gated communities where life goes on as
normal. If you’re inside you’re lucky, if you’re outside life
expectancy takes a nose dive.
Riley is fortunate to have been born on
the right side of the fence. But her life of privilege comes crashing
down when someone breaks through the Perimeter and murders her
sister. She forsakes her own safety to go in search of the killer.
Luc decides to go with her otherwise she’ll be dead before she’s
past the security gate. But what awaits her outside is more
unbelievable than she ever expected.
Cut to the present day where Eleanor's
world is falling apart. This time next year, civilisation won't be
quite so civilised . . .
*Suitable for adults and teens aged
13+*
Zoe Cannon – The Torturer’s
Daughter
When her best friend Heather calls in
the middle of the night, Becca Dalcourt assumes it's the usual drama.
Wrong. Heather's parents have been arrested as dissidents - and
Becca's mother, the dystopian regime's most infamous torturer, has
already executed them for their crimes against the state.
To stop Heather from getting herself
killed trying to prove her parents' innocence, Becca hunts for proof
of their guilt. She doesn't expect to find evidence that leaves her
questioning everything she thought she knew about the dissidents...
and about her mother.
When she risks her life to save a
dissident, she learns her mother isn't the only one with secrets -
and the plot she uncovers will threaten the lives of the people she
loves most. For Becca, it's no longer just a choice between risking
execution and ignoring the regime's crimes; she has to decide whose
life to save and whose to sacrifice.
It's easy to be a hero when you can
save the world, but what about when all you can do is choose how you
live in it? An Amazon dystopian bestseller, The Torturer's Daughter
is a story about ordinary life amidst the realities of living under
an oppressive regime... and the extraordinary courage it takes to do
what's right in a world gone wrong.
Scott Cramer – Night of the Purple
Moon
Abby, 13, is looking forward to
watching the moon turn purple, unaware that deadly bacteria from a
passing comet will soon kill off older teens and adults. She must
help her brother and baby sister survive in this new world, but all
the while she has a ticking time bomb inside of her--adolescence.
*Parental discretion advised for
readers 13 and under*
Sarah Dalton – The Blemished
A beautiful world comes at a price...
In a world filled with stunning clones
Mina Hart is Blemished. Her genes are worthless and that takes away
her rights: her right to an Education, her right to a normal life and
her right to have a child.
Mina keeps a dangerous secret which she
never thought she could share until she meets Angela on her first day
at St Jude's School. But their friendship is soon complicated by
Angela’s adoptive brother Daniel. Mina finds herself drawn to his
mysterious powers and impulsive nature. Then there is the gorgeous
clone Sebastian who Mina is forbidden from even speaking to…
The Blemished is a frightening take on
a fractured future where the Genetic Enhancement Ministry have taken
control of Britain. It will take you on a ride filled with adventure,
romance and rebellion.
Book one in the popular YA dystopia
series 'Blemished'.
Katie French – The Breeders
“When the Breeders come for ya, there
ain't no escape. They strap ya to a bed and all ya hear is the thud
of your heart and the cries of your friends as they wheel ya down to
hell. Then the doctors come. You squeeze your eyes shut and pray you
can forget. But ya never do.”
Sixteen-year-old Riley Meemick is one
of the world's last free girls. When Riley was born, her mother
escaped the Breeders, the group of doctors using cruel experiments to
bolster the dwindling human race. Her parents do everything possible
to keep her from their clutches-- moving from one desolate farm after
another to escape the Breeders' long reach. The Breeders control
everything- the local war lords, the remaining factories, the fuel.
They have unchecked power in this lawless society. And they're
hunting Riley.
When the local Sheriff abducts the
adult members of her family and hands her mother over to the
Breeders, Riley and her eight-year-old brother, Ethan, hiding in a
shelter, are left to starve. Then Clay arrives, the handsome
gunslinger who seems determined to help to make up for past sins. The
problem is Clay thinks Riley is a bender-- a genderless mutation,
neither male nor female. As Riley's affection for Clay grows she
wonders can she trust Clay with her secret and risk her freedom?
The three embark on a journey across
the scarred remains of New Mexico-- escaping the Riders who use human
sacrifice to appease their Good Mother, various men scrambling for
luck, and a deranged lone survivor of a plague. When Riley is forced
into the Breeder's hospital, she learns the horrible fate of her
mother—a fate she'll share unless she can find a way out.
About the Authors:
Elle Casey
Elle Casey is a full-time writer of New
Adult and Young Adult titles in several genres, including romance,
urban fantasy, sci-fi dystopian, and action-adventure. She's an
American girl who's been living in southern France with her husband
and three children since 2010. She loves chatting with her readers,
so feel free to drop her a line.
You can find her on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/ellecaseytheauthor or on her website:
www.ElleCasey.com.
Shalini Boland
Shalini lives in Dorset, England with
her husband and two noisy boys. Before children, she was signed to
Universal Music as a singer songwriter. Now, writing novels has
hijacked her life and she is usually to be found with a laptop welded
to her fingers and the house in a permanent state of neglect. Find
Shalini at: http://www.shaliniboland.co.uk
Zoe Cannon
Zoe Cannon writes about the things that
fascinate her: outsiders, societies no sane person would want to live
in, questions with no easy answers, and the inner workings of the
mind. If she couldn't be a writer, she would probably be a
psychologist, a penniless philosopher, or a hermit in a cave
somewhere. While she'll read anything that isn't nailed down, she
considers herself a YA reader and writer at heart. She lives in New
Hampshire with her husband and a giant teddy bear of a dog, and
spends entirely too much time on the internet. Find Zoe at:
http://www.zoecannon.com
Scott Cramer
Scott Cramer has written feature
articles for national magazines, covered school committee meetings
for a local newspaper, published haiku and poetry, optioned a
screenplay, and worked in high-tech marketing communications. His
pursuit of a good story has put him behind the stick of an F-18,
flying a Navy Blue Angels' fighter jet, and he has trekked through
the Peruvian mountains in search of an ancient Quechua festival
featuring a condor. Scott and his wife have two daughters and reside
outside Lowell, Massachusetts (birthplace of Jack Kerouac) in an
empty nest/zoo/suburban farm/art studio with too many surfboards in
the garage. Find Scott at: http://www.facebook.com/authorscottcramer
Sarah Dalton
Sarah grew up in the middle of nowhere
in the countryside of Derbyshire and as a result has an over-active
imagination. She has been an avid reader for most of her life, taking
inspiration from the stories she read as a child, and the novels she
devoured as an adult.
She is the author of the popular YA
dystopia series 'Blemished' and the gothic novella 'My Daylight
Monsters'. She is currently working on a YA Fantasy series titled
'White Hart'. Find Sarah at: http://sarahdaltonbooks.com/
Katie French
Katie French imagined herself an author
when her poem caught the eye of her second grade teacher. In middle
school she spent her free time locked in her room, writing her first
young adult novel. Though her social life suffered, her love for
literature thrived. She studied English at Eastern Michigan
University, where she veered from writing and earned an education
degree. She spent nine years teaching high school English. Currently
she is a school counselor, doing a job that is both one of the
hardest things she's ever done and the most rewarding. In her free
time she writes, reads great books and takes care of her two
beautiful and crazy children. She is a contributor and co-creator of
Underground Book Reviews, a website dedicated to erasing the
boundaries between traditional and non-traditional publishing. She
lives in Michigan with her husband and two children. You can find her
at www.katiefrenchbooks.com.
Short Blurb:
Limited Time only!
Special sale price of only $0.99!
Together these books have over 650 five star reviews!
Read these bestselling tales of
survival against the odds, dark worlds, dystopian regimes and heroic
rebels.
Shattered Worlds features six
full-length novels from bestselling authors. Immerse yourself in
post-apocalyptic civilizations and bleak near-futures where hope
still lives.
New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author Elle Casey – Apocalypsis Book 1: Kahayatle
My name's Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen
years old, and I live in a neighborhood outside of Orlando, Florida.
I live alone because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all
the other adults in the world. I'm almost out of food and the gangs
of kids that roam around my town are getting more vicious by the day.
It's time for me to leave and find another place to live ... a place
where I can find food and shelter ... a place where they won't be
able to find me. Alone, it might have been possible; but now I've got
company. I'm worried that I don't have what it takes to get from here
to my final destination. And I have no idea what might be waiting for
me when I get there.
**May not be suitable for younger,
middle grade readers.**
Shalini Boland – Outside
A pulse-pounding dystopian tale set in
post-apocalyptic Britain: Riley has always wondered what lies beyond
the high-security perimeters of her community. But when tragedy
forces her into the outside world, she can’t believe what awaits
her...
*Suitable for adults and teens aged
13+*
Zoe Cannon – The Torturer’s
Daughter
Becca has never questioned what she's
learned in Citizenship class: dissidents want to tear the country
apart, and people like her mother are the only thing keeping them at
bay. Until her mother executes Becca's best friend's parents as
dissidents, and Becca learns a secret that changes everything...
Scott Cramer – Night of the Purple
Moon
Abby, 13, is looking forward to
watching the moon turn purple, unaware that deadly bacteria from a
passing comet will soon kill off older teens and adults. She must
help her brother and baby sister survive in this new world, but all
the while she has a ticking time bomb inside of her--adolescence.
*Parental discretion advised for
readers 13 and under*
Sarah Dalton – The Blemished
A beautiful world comes at a price...
The Blemished is a frightening take on
a fractured future where the Genetic Enhancement Ministry have taken
control of Britain. It will take you on a ride filled with adventure,
romance and rebellion.
Katie French – The Breeders
Sixteen-year-old Riley Meemick is one
of the world's last free girls. When Riley was born, her mother
escaped the Breeders, the group of doctors using cruel experiments to
bolster the dwindling human race. Her parents do everything possible
to keep her from their clutches-- moving from one desolate farm after
another to escape the Breeders' long reach. The Breeders control
everything- the local war lords, the remaining factories, the fuel.
They have unchecked power in this lawless society. And they're
hunting Riley.
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10 things you wish every aspiring writer would knowShalini Boland, author of the Outside Series.
- You can’t wait for inspiration to strike. If you want to be an author, you need to have the discipline to sit down and write, even if you ‘don’t feel like it’.
- Sales don’t come instantly (unless you’re very lucky … or you sold your soul to the devil). You have to work for them.
- Once you’ve finished writing your first book, that’s when the hard work starts. I’m not really selling it to you am I? Let me try and be a bit more positive in point number 4.
- There’s nothing quite like the feeling when you’re writing a scene and the characters’ emotions spill over into your own. You can end up laughing or crying with your own creations – that’s a pretty amazing feeling!
- There is no ‘one way’ to write a book. Everyone has different methods. You can plot methodically, or go with the flow. My way of writing lies somewhere in between the two.
- When writing a book, there’s always comes a point (usually around a third of the way in) when it becomes the hardest slog on earth, and you’ll wonder why you started writing it, and the whole thing feels like this giant waste of time. At this point, it’s advisable to have a good cry/punch a wall/ eat a whole jumbo size bar of chocolate/get drunk. Now you’ve got that out of your system, you must push on through the pain barrier and kiss and make up with your masterpiece-of-a-manuscript. After a chapter or two of hard slog, you’ll be back in love with it again.
- Beta readers are invaluable. I have input from betas during and after the writing process. People who can look at your manuscript with fresh eyes, spot gaping plot holes, tell you your pacing is off, point out that your characters aren’t believable enough etc etc. And no, your mum is not a good choice for a beta reader.
- Good coffee.
- Get a thick skin. Once you finish your book, you’ll have all manner of people telling you, you suck. From editors with red pens. To gatekeepers with heart-piercing stock phrases: ‘Thank you for your submission. While we do consider it to have merit, unfortunately we ….’ But possibly the worst and most disheartening moment is your first 1 star review. Or even worse – the pompous 3 star reviewer who tells you that he/she is a writer and would’ve written it like xyz, not like your crazy-ass xyf. Learn and move on. It’s not personal.
- Don’t always be analysing the sales and marketing and craft aspects of writing a book. Allow yourself to wallow in your scenes and step into your characters’ skins. Have fun with the plots and delight in wicked twists. Yes, writing a book is really hard work, but it’s also a wonderful experience. And there’s nothing quite like that incredible feeling of achievement when you type: ‘The End’.
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