![]() ![]() PS My novel was significantly inspired by The Icebergs. Here’s the Amazon link, and thank you for reading. It’s out there now on the shelves of major retails and wherever books are sold online. They glide through the night, regrettably together, and they argue. I can see them in the car before the accidentthe heavy rain, the world and the pavement as wet and slick as if it had been oiled down for their arrival. There will be those who loved my first novel who will not enjoy my second, but I also think there will be those who will like my second novel better than my first, there will be those who love my second but can’t get through my first. If he had been with me, everything would have been different. Where If He had Been with Me is long and ponderous, This Song is (Not) for You is short and intense. What I knew was that I was tired, that I felt like I was carrying a burden that I could never set down. ![]() I was sick with Multiple Sclerosis while writing this novel, but I didn’t know it. This is a novel about passions and hopes. When I wrote my second novel, I was thinking of my future, of my readers’ futures. ![]() I was trying to tell the readers what I had learned, how hard those lessons had been. ![]() When I wrote my first novel, I was processing my past mapping out what made me the person that I am. ![]()
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Well wonder no more, because Sea of Rust hinges on that exact premise a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Summary: A robot tries her best to survive in a hostile world, in which two competing mainframes are seeking world domination. ![]() ![]() One of my favourite adult novels is 'The Time Traveller's Wife' and I love the idea of being able to travel both into the future and into the past to revisit people and events. I'm a huge fan of books about time-travel. 'Tempest' is a time-travelling romantic action-adventure which will probably be read by most people in one sitting because it's so compulsively good that you won't be able to put it down! It's the debut novel from Julie Cross who's an exciting new writing talent and is the first in a trilogy which I'm thrilled about because I want more.now! 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