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Eco Reign Shortlisted for Cygnus Award!
Incredible news!!! Eco Reign, Warning: The Barriers Burn advanced to the long list and now has been added to the short list for a Cygnus Award with Chanticleer Book Reviews!
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Combined with the other awards for Young Adult Fiction and Young Adult Science Fiction, Eco Reign being added to this Science Fiction award demonstrates its strength and appeal in this genre.
Very excited to see if the book moves to the next round!
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Combined with the other awards for Young Adult Fiction and Young Adult Science Fiction, Eco Reign being added to this Science Fiction award demonstrates its strength and appeal in this genre.
Very excited to see if the book moves to the next round!
Eco Reign wins Finalist in Storytrade awards
Thrilled to announce that Eco Reign, Warning: The Barriers Burn won a Finalist award from Storytrade Book Awards in the category of Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Winning award in a mixed category group shows that Eco Reign stacks up with even the best of fantasy books.
The Storytrade Book Awards are dedicated to recognizing and celebrating literary craft, excellence, and innovation in small and independent publishing. Receiving the finalist award medal from Storytrade has been a highlight to publishing!
Thank you Storytrade for your support and recognition!
The Storytrade Book Awards are dedicated to recognizing and celebrating literary craft, excellence, and innovation in small and independent publishing. Receiving the finalist award medal from Storytrade has been a highlight to publishing!
Thank you Storytrade for your support and recognition!
Eco Reign wins Honorable Mention for Social Issues from Reader's Favorite
Reader's Favorite announced its winners of the 2025 book awards and Eco Reign, Warning: The Barriers Burn made the list! Reader's Favorite awarded Eco Reign with an Honorable Mention in Social Issues in the Young Adult book category.
With Eco Reign winning awards in young adult science fiction, young adult general categories, young adult fantasy/sci-fi, shortlisted for a CIBA sci-fi award, and now a social issues honorable mention, it all builds up to show that Eco Reign is a book worth reading and captures recognition across the board.
Get your copy today and start reading the award winning book, Eco Reign!!
With Eco Reign winning awards in young adult science fiction, young adult general categories, young adult fantasy/sci-fi, shortlisted for a CIBA sci-fi award, and now a social issues honorable mention, it all builds up to show that Eco Reign is a book worth reading and captures recognition across the board.
Get your copy today and start reading the award winning book, Eco Reign!!
Eco Reign Receives Kirkus Starred Review
This must be shouted from the rooftops! Eco Reign, Warning: The Barriers Burn, a young adult science fiction novel, received the highly coveted Kirkus Starred Review and a "Get It" Recommendation from Kirkus. Only 2-3% of Indie authors receive a Kirkus Star and only for those stories of exceptional merit.
I delayed submitting my book for a Kirkus review, fearing their reputation for a harsh critique. But I couldn't be happier with the review. The full review is below or check out the Kirkus website.
Want a book that's winning several book awards across genres and recently received a Kirkus Starred review? Check out Eco Reign! It might just be your next favorite book.
Go give Eco Reign a like on Kirkus!
Kirkus Review:
astly powerful space aliens hijack Earth and abduct and imprison humans.
Following a power outage, our adolescent narrator, Lauren, her younger brother, Matthew, and their mother are among the masses of humanity literally swept up by powerful, godlike space aliens and jailed in rather conveniently available hangars in town. Deadly energy barriers keep people contained, and troublemakers die hideously. Eventually, the Invaders show themselves. The gaunt, robed, elongated humanoids declare that humankind’s endless ravaging of Earth’s environment must end immediately. The planet will be rehabilitated whether they like it or not. Earth’s inhabitants, meanwhile, will suffer an indefinite period of “atonement...and…enlightenment.” Small liberties are soon granted to the prisoners. Ultimately, Lauren finds herself corralled with the other children separated from their families, and she’s trained by a pair of Invaders (one female and kindly, the other male and harsh). The aliens seem to have other ET species working in subservient positions, and as long as Lauren cooperates, she’s permitted access to the Invaders’ impressive technology, which allows for the revival of extinct animals and restoration of Earth as a biodiverse paradise. But cruel mistreatment of humans persists, and Lauren wonders if the Invaders have a more selfish, sinister agenda. Galuppo’s YA debut is akin to The War of the Worlds and not unlike recent bestsellers, like Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave. But rather than spectacular destruction and action, the novel emphasizes stifling confinement and slow, crafty indoctrination. A hostage-style narrative of deprivation, reward systems, and Orwellian mind-conditioning that might have succumbed to tedium and predictability is actually provocative and suspenseful. Invaders are allowed to remain nonhuman enough that their overwhelming menace does not feel merely like a nasty caricature of Homo Sapiens’ “green” movements. An open ending and fertile story threads indicate Galuppo has more than a few seedlings for a sequel in the girl-vs-Goliath mode.
Vicious alien conquest and oppression drive this provocative YA/SF thriller.
I delayed submitting my book for a Kirkus review, fearing their reputation for a harsh critique. But I couldn't be happier with the review. The full review is below or check out the Kirkus website.
Want a book that's winning several book awards across genres and recently received a Kirkus Starred review? Check out Eco Reign! It might just be your next favorite book.
Go give Eco Reign a like on Kirkus!
Kirkus Review:
astly powerful space aliens hijack Earth and abduct and imprison humans.
Following a power outage, our adolescent narrator, Lauren, her younger brother, Matthew, and their mother are among the masses of humanity literally swept up by powerful, godlike space aliens and jailed in rather conveniently available hangars in town. Deadly energy barriers keep people contained, and troublemakers die hideously. Eventually, the Invaders show themselves. The gaunt, robed, elongated humanoids declare that humankind’s endless ravaging of Earth’s environment must end immediately. The planet will be rehabilitated whether they like it or not. Earth’s inhabitants, meanwhile, will suffer an indefinite period of “atonement...and…enlightenment.” Small liberties are soon granted to the prisoners. Ultimately, Lauren finds herself corralled with the other children separated from their families, and she’s trained by a pair of Invaders (one female and kindly, the other male and harsh). The aliens seem to have other ET species working in subservient positions, and as long as Lauren cooperates, she’s permitted access to the Invaders’ impressive technology, which allows for the revival of extinct animals and restoration of Earth as a biodiverse paradise. But cruel mistreatment of humans persists, and Lauren wonders if the Invaders have a more selfish, sinister agenda. Galuppo’s YA debut is akin to The War of the Worlds and not unlike recent bestsellers, like Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave. But rather than spectacular destruction and action, the novel emphasizes stifling confinement and slow, crafty indoctrination. A hostage-style narrative of deprivation, reward systems, and Orwellian mind-conditioning that might have succumbed to tedium and predictability is actually provocative and suspenseful. Invaders are allowed to remain nonhuman enough that their overwhelming menace does not feel merely like a nasty caricature of Homo Sapiens’ “green” movements. An open ending and fertile story threads indicate Galuppo has more than a few seedlings for a sequel in the girl-vs-Goliath mode.
Vicious alien conquest and oppression drive this provocative YA/SF thriller.
