Human enhancement is commonplace. Gene therapy is routine. Cybernetics are the new frontier. Against the backdrop of female abductions, one man fights to preserve his organic self even as he hawks machine parts to the masses.

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Champions of the Third Planet

A story about five kids who must band together to fight alien monsters on a far-away planet in order to save Earth.

Dawn Larrison liked The Life Interstellar

Hey everybody!

So, Inkshares sent out the refund email before I was expecting it, leading to a deluge of emails/calls/messages. Thus the quick note to let everyone know that news is coming instead of the neat-o reveal I was planning. Apparently it didn’t sit well with everyone (I promise I wasn’t trying to be mysterious, @Jamison Stone ), so here’s a better explanation.

This is the deal. A number of traditional publishers have expressed interest in The Life Interstellar, completely unrelated to its campaign on Inkshares. This left me the following choice: 1) Enter the Quill collection, pay thousands of dollars to a freelance editor (because I go for quality, damn it), sell hundreds of copies, do my own promo (instead of writing) and start from scratch with the sequel. 2) Pursue a traditional deal with one of these publishing houses, receive an actual advance (so I can maybe work fewer hours and finish the damn book) and have a shot at sitting on the shelf next to authors that everyone on this site knows and loves.

So I don’t know if that passes the BS test @Richard Saunders and @Nicola Sarjeant , but I find it hard to believe that anyone who truly wants to be an author is going to turn down a chance like this. Inkshares is an amazing platform for us beginning authors and I love it; where else can you write, promote, and sell your book in a community like this? However, I have an opportunity that many people would kill for (metaphorically, I hope) and I’m going to take it. I hope you would too.

So! In the meantime, I have completed a 150-page novella called The Life Interstellar that I plan on sending to everyone currently following the project. It will be the first act of the novel that will eventually be published, and I actually think you’re going to love it. So hopefully that will be worth whatever credits Inkshares didn’t return, but if not just let me know and I will buy you any book on the site, no joke.

Thanks for the support, @Brian Guthrie and @Amanda Orneck .

Talk to you all soon.

Zack J.

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The Bird’s Road

Tragedy upon tragedy craters a family of nine, leaving the youngest boy on the periphery not expecting to survive.

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H.R.

The Xarpaxen alien race contacts Libby Evans, interim Director of Human Resources at the largest company in the world. The Xarpaxens are ready to take rightful ownership of Earth’s most valuable resource, the humans, and they’ll need Libby’s help.

Dawn Larrison liked a review for Cape’s Side Bay

With a thrilling air of mystery, Cape's Side Bay engages readers with compelling suspense. Wonderful imagery is used to create a sense of the town and the people within it. Though the people seem to have dismissed the danger to that of urban myth, the prologue clearly propels the story in such a way I really want to know more. In fact, the weakest part of the story is that there isn't any more to read.

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With a thrilling air of mystery, Cape's Side Bay engages readers with compelling suspense. Wonderful imagery is used to create a sense of the town and the people within it. Though the people seem to have dismissed the danger to that of urban myth, the prologue clearly propels the story in such a way I really want to know more. In fact, the weakest part of the story is that there isn't any more to read.

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Cape’s Side Bay

For years something has been lurking in Cape’s Side Bay. When the truth is revealed questions of mankind’s existence begin to be raised, and their worst fears are about to be realized.

Dawn Larrison liked a chapter from The Science of Magic

Introduction

Though it may seem to have a shorter history than non-magical biology, magical and non-magical biology actually began at the same time approximately 2,000 years ago. However, magical biology’s history is much more sparse than non-magical due to the separation of the two cultures and reign of dark lords.

Early Biology

As is the case with non-magical biology, magical biology largely stems from the teachings of the Greco-Roman philosophe. . .

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