Hello book fans!
I'm just getting started with all this marketing and outreach stuff, so please bear with me. Right now I've got a facebook and unaffiliated webpage via WIX at facebook.com/willyyonkers and willyyonkers.com respectively. Go check 'em out and like the facebook page if you'd like to get updates on what I'm working on.
Right now the only published work I have is the Tic-Tac-Tome, but I'm planning on launching a full-fledged sci-fi novel inspired by some time I spent in NYC around the 2008 financial crisis. I *think* I'm going to go the self-publishing route with Amazon's KDP system, but I'm not a huge fan of e-books, so we'll see how that goes. I'm still getting all my ducks in a row, but the manuscript is copy-edited, layout and formatting are done, and I've made my own (semi-terrible) cover art.
In the novel, SHIFTER, Ellen, a 25 year old, over-educated, under-employed delivery woman, lives in an alternate near future of 2025 New York, a bleak world where only a privileged few see a path to a prosperous future. She gets sucked into the the mob controlled underworld of SHIFT racing in the subway tunnels of NYC quite by accident due to the skill and determination demonstrated on a particularly dangerous delivery run. The miraculous new 'SHIFT' technology allows for flying race pods to pass through solid matter, shifting the atoms of the craft into a state where they do not interact with our world. Using it however, is not without potentially deadly consequences.
The meat of the story follows her rise through the ranks from total rookie to elite pilot, illustrating the ways her life is changed by a tantalizing exposure to enormous wealth and the dangers of the criminal underworld. At the peak of her career, she begins to realize the payoff may not be worth the toll it's taking on her spirit. In a mid-race freak accident she's given the choice of saving herself a total stranger and chooses the latter.
She recovers and hides out from the mob as she tries to figure out how to escape her illicit career. This hiatus allows her to gain perspective and glimpse a chance at a normal, prosperous life, but inevitably she's pulled back into racing. More desperate than ever to escape for good, she creates an elaborate plan to bankrupt and humiliate her mob masters.
Right now the only published work I have is the Tic-Tac-Tome, but I'm planning on launching a full-fledged sci-fi novel inspired by some time I spent in NYC around the 2008 financial crisis. I *think* I'm going to go the self-publishing route with Amazon's KDP system, but I'm not a huge fan of e-books, so we'll see how that goes. I'm still getting all my ducks in a row, but the manuscript is copy-edited, layout and formatting are done, and I've made my own (semi-terrible) cover art.
In the novel, SHIFTER, Ellen, a 25 year old, over-educated, under-employed delivery woman, lives in an alternate near future of 2025 New York, a bleak world where only a privileged few see a path to a prosperous future. She gets sucked into the the mob controlled underworld of SHIFT racing in the subway tunnels of NYC quite by accident due to the skill and determination demonstrated on a particularly dangerous delivery run. The miraculous new 'SHIFT' technology allows for flying race pods to pass through solid matter, shifting the atoms of the craft into a state where they do not interact with our world. Using it however, is not without potentially deadly consequences.
The meat of the story follows her rise through the ranks from total rookie to elite pilot, illustrating the ways her life is changed by a tantalizing exposure to enormous wealth and the dangers of the criminal underworld. At the peak of her career, she begins to realize the payoff may not be worth the toll it's taking on her spirit. In a mid-race freak accident she's given the choice of saving herself a total stranger and chooses the latter.
She recovers and hides out from the mob as she tries to figure out how to escape her illicit career. This hiatus allows her to gain perspective and glimpse a chance at a normal, prosperous life, but inevitably she's pulled back into racing. More desperate than ever to escape for good, she creates an elaborate plan to bankrupt and humiliate her mob masters.
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