Self-publishing has been hard work, but so incredibly satisfying, and I'm glad I chose this path for the Alliance series. Writing Adamant was a total whirlwind, as those of you who were around to witness the insanity will know. :P
I was incredibly nervous about sending it to readers, because after four years in the query trenches and signing my whole Darkworld series with a publisher, I'd decided to self-publish this series. But then I started getting feedback. My CPs and beta readers convinced me that I wasn't totally deluding myself, and I got to work on my self-publishing plan! I'd already spent two months outlining the whole series (six books) so I could jump right into drafting the second book. In fact, I decided to draft the whole series back to back! I hired a cover artist and freelance editor, drafted a schedule, and in December, I got to announce the series! And then followed pre-orders, the cover reveal, print proofs... all the exciting stuff. And now... it's here!
On an alternative 21st-century Earth in which our world is one of many in the Multiverse, the Inter-World Alliance exists to keep the peace between the worlds, and keep the monsters out.
Ada Fletcher is twenty-one, keeps a collection of knives in
her room, and is more interested in fighting than her day job as a cashier. She
also risks her life on a daily basis, helping refugees from a devastating
magical war on her homeworld hide on the low-magic Earth. But when she’s taken
into custody by the Alliance, her unusual magic makes her a prime suspect for a
supervisor’s suspicious death.
For Kay Walker, whose family founded the organization,
there has never been any doubt that his future is with the Alliance – even if
it means dealing with sarcastic centaurs and dangerous monsters in the dark
Passages between worlds. But when his supervisor is murdered, Kay discovers
that a research project might have been the reason, and faces the choice of
whether to ignore his instincts or risk becoming the next target, not to
mention digging into the Alliance’s history and memories he’d rather keep
buried. And there’s something not quite right about the strange, fierce girl he
arrested as a suspect.
The last thing Ada wants is to help the infuriating
Alliance guard who arrested her, but it soon becomes clear that the Alliance knows
too much about Ada’s offworld origins. More, in fact, than she knows herself.
Now she has to choose between loyalty to her family, and helping the Alliance
save the Earth – and the Multiverse – from a deadly enemy.
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And... it gets better. Nemesis (Alliance, #2) is already available to pre-order on Amazon, and it'll be released on June 8th 2015!
Pre-order here.
To celebrate, I'm giving away a $10 Amazon gift card!
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