Dead Girl Running, a New Adult Dystopian, is a cross between The Giver, The Handmaiden's Tale, and Agenda 21.
Dead Girl Running is Book One of the New Order Series.
"New Order" is a bit of a play on words because a Dystopian Society typically is governed by a "new order," but I also dug out my old New Order CDs when writing it. (Along with some 80s rock, but that's another story...)
Here's a sample of their mechanical sounding music. Yes, I just sent you to a You Tube video using clips from the 80s movie Pretty In Pink, which had New Order's "Elegia" in the soundtrack.
No, I can pretty much guarantee I won't ever be writing any "kissing books." This isn't your typical New Adult Contemporary Romance. Again, this is something different. |
Dead Girl Running is Book One of the New Order Series.
"New Order" is a bit of a play on words because a Dystopian Society typically is governed by a "new order," but I also dug out my old New Order CDs when writing it. (Along with some 80s rock, but that's another story...)
Here's a sample of their mechanical sounding music. Yes, I just sent you to a You Tube video using clips from the 80s movie Pretty In Pink, which had New Order's "Elegia" in the soundtrack.
Eight years ago, SILVIA
WOOD's father died in an industrial accident. After suffering through years
of Psychotherapy Services and Mandated Medications for depression and
multiple suicide attempts, she longs to work in Botanical Sciences. When the
Occupation Exam determines she must work in Mortuary Sciences instead, she
wonders if the New Order assigned her to the morgue to push her over
the edge.
To appease her
disappointed mother, Silvia enters the Race for Citizen Glory, in an attempt to
stand out in the crowd of Equals. After she begins training with "golden
boy" LIAM HARMAN, she discovers he also lost his father in the same
accident that ruined her childhood. Then Silvia meets and falls for Liam's
older cousin, whose paranoid intensity makes her question what really happened
to her father. As the race nears, Silvia realizes that she's not only running
for glory, she's running for her life.
Squee!
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm pretty happy. It's been a GOOD, GOOD day! :)
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