Today, I would like to welcome author Aubrie Dionne to the blog to tell us more about her projects.
How Colonization ties into the New Dawn Series:
I’ve just finished the longest and most involved series of my life thus far: a four book, new adult space opera series called The New Dawn series, published by Entangled Publishing. The last installment came out this fall, September 11th. In between writing books 1 and 2, I took a break and experimented with Colonization: Paradise Reclaimed, my first young adult space opera. This story is directly tied to characters from the book 1 in my New Dawn series. In fact, some of them, even though it’s three hundred years later, are still living!
The main character of Colonization: Paradise Reclaimed is Andromeda Barliss, the great granddaughter of Astor Barliss, the BAD GUY from Paradise 21. You heard me right: her grandpapa is the BAD GUY from the previous book. When Colonization begins, he’s had three hundred years to reflect on his life, and he isn’t quite so bad anymore. You wouldn’t believe what three hundred years of self-reflection can do to a person!
Astor Barliss is still one of the most complication characters I’ve ever written. He wants to help Andromeda, but he also doesn’t want her to repeat his past mistakes. This book completes his character arc, at the same time starting a new arc in that of his great granddaughter.
You’ll have to read both Paradise 21 and Colonization: Paradise Reclaimed to see the change in Astor Barliss and how it affects his choice with Andromeda.
About the
Author
Aubrie
grew up watching the original
Star
Wars
movies
over and over until she could recite and reenact every single scene
in her backyard. She also loved
The
Goonies, Star Trek the Next Generation--favorite
character was Data by far--and
Indiana
Jones.
But, her all time favorite movie was
The
Last Unicorn.
She still wonders why the unicorn decided to change back to a unicorn
in the end.
Aubrie
wrote in her junior high yearbook that she wanted to be “a concert
flutist” when she grew up. She majored in flute performance at the
University of New Hampshire on a full scholarship, then secured two
teaching jobs at a University and a local community music school.
While playing in orchestras and teaching, stories popped into her
head, and she used them to make the music come alive for her flute
students. Her students said they were so good, she had to write them
down! Maybe they were right, who knows? Two careers seems to keep her
busy. For now.
She
is represented by
Dawn
Dowdle
and
writes sweet and adventurous fantasy, science fiction, and
contemporary romance.
Connect
with Aubrie Dionne
Website:
http://www.authoraubrie.com
Twitter:
@authoraubrie
Colonization
(Paradise Reclaimed #1)
by
Aubrie Dionne
YA
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Romance (Action/Adventure)
Published
by InkSpell Publishing
Released
on November 7, 2012
Heat
Level: Sweet
Word
Count: 60,000
Blurb
Andromeda
has spent all seventeen years of her life aboard a deep space
transport vessel destined for a paradise planet. Her safe cocoon is
about to break open as Paradise 21 looms only one month away, and she
must take the aptitude tests to determine her role on the new world
and her computer assigned lifemate. As a great-granddaughter of the
Commander of the ship, she wants to live up to her family name. But,
her forbidden love for her childhood friend, Sirius, distracts her
and she fails the tests. The results place her in a menial role in
the new colony and pair her with Corvus, “the oaf”.
But
when Andromeda steps foot on Paradise 21, her predestined future is
the least of her worries. Alien ghosts from a failed colonization
warn her of a deadly threat to her colony. And when Sirius’s ship
crashes on the far ridge in an attempt to investigate, she journeys
to rescue him with Corvus.
Andromeda
now must convince the authorities of the imminent danger to keep her
protect her new home. What she didn’t expect was a battle of her
own feelings for Sirius and Corvus.
Can
she save the colony and discover her true love?
Read an excerpt:
The pollen released in my fall was so thick it obscured my vision, and I coughed, trying to clear my lungs and decide if I should run. The humanoid figure glided closer as if it floated above the turf. It had two bumps above each shoulder. At first I thought it was a backpack, but then I wondered if the lumps were folded wings.Was it an angel? Had I died in the jungle? Been poisoned by some unidentified species or pulled into the stomach of a man-eating flower I couldn’t even name? Trillium something. My mind whirled as the being moved toward me and came into focus. It wasn’t an angel at all.It was an alien.
Giveaway Info:
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Thank you for hosting me!
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