Rachel Aukes > Quotes

“Whatever you didn’t plan for, that’s what’s going to happen.”
― Rachel Aukes, 100 Days in Deadland

“She had no doubt the 51st Division, a joint Army-Air Force operations task force focused on space warfare, was here.”
― Rachel Aukes, Collision

“When you play God, God might decide to play back.”
― Rachel Aukes, The Lazarus Key

“There was an old Martian saying that the only thing you could get for free from a Martian was a knife in the back.”
― Rachel Aukes, Freezer Burn

“He died with a sparkling clean conscience because it’d never been used a day in his life.”
― Rachel Aukes, Freezer Burn

“She tried to eat me.” Alan was quiet for a time. “I bet she could eat a lot.” I”
― Rachel Aukes, 100 Days in Deadland

“This is Henry, Connie’s husband,” Picadilly said. “And you”
― Rachel Aukes, Deadland Rising

“Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.”
― Rachel Aukes, 100 Days in Deadland

“attributes—will tug the reader’s emotions. Unlike character development, don’t be afraid to start writing your story with minimal details on your world. For any contemporary genre, you can work out many of the details once you start writing. First, setting is crucial to all genres. When and where does your story take place? Does it take place today in London or two hundred years from now on Mars? Depending on the location you select, you may have a specific landmark, holiday, or natural disaster that you can incorporate into your story. Once you know the location and time period, what is the emotion or mood you want to convey through the setting?”
― Rachel Aukes, The Tidy Guide to Writing a Novel: The clutter-free, 30-minute guide for writing a book right the first time

“Several more aliens—some male, some female—stood behind him.”
― Rachel Aukes, Collision

“You had the taco salad, too, huh?” The”
― Rachel Aukes, 100 Days in Deadland