It’s Launch Day!
Today is the day: Launch Day! A year ago this day didn’t even register as realistic, but here we are and now you can read In Stasis too. Over 239 pages (73,256 words) my thoughts are poured onto the parchment, taking you all on a journey that will feel uncomfortable at times. Not because of the writing or anything like that but because of the world. I know this could seem like a huge turn-off but here’s my pitch—it has resolve. The crazy world we live in has an unwritten ending however the dystopian fiction story of In Stasis finishes and it does so at a place we can feel some sense of something besides the unknown. For me it is cathartic to write the frustrations and pains of the world, but weave a golden thread of hope because as angry as I may be with what is going on in our timeline, I have to hope it will get better, even if that may appear delusional. I hope that you as the reader have the same journey as me. To see your fears, pains, frustrations and anger recognized, but to be reassured there is hope for a better day.
So, I hope you read In Stasis. I hope you enjoy it and share it with someone else. I hope you sit with what it forces to reflect upon and I hope you know that you are capable of hard things.
For those who found this blog and have no idea what they stumbled into here’s a little synopsis. In Stasis is about Jessi who is forced to choose to flee to the forest with her dog, Janus, to avoid arrest after facing a betrayal under a newly established authoritarian regime. There in her former glamping vacation rental turned survival outpost, she must learn what it means to survive in this new world. Jessi and Janus must exist unnoticed in the wilderness uncovering buried skills and determining who to trust, all while the authoritarian government is tightening its grasp.
It is a dystopian, (yes, dystopias CAN be in the wilderness), survivalist speculative fiction novel. There are themes of authoritarian baddies, wilderness survival, an average woman who rises to the occasion, a dog companion, (who doesn’t die), autonomy, and found family/community. While it is a dark, gritty story it is written lyrically almost like poetry resulting in something that I think lingers like a folk song (or the hanging tree song in Hunger Games).
And now this piece of collected words is out in the world for you to read. I hope you do.