Hello! Long time no writing on the internet. I’ve got a new book coming out at the end of the month! It’s called BEGGARS WOULD RIDE and it’s an atompunk amalgamation of PREY, STATION ELEVEN, and THE GOONIES. Or a mash-up of THE MANDALORIAN, ROMEO AND JULIET, and ’50s B-movies. There’s also some overtones of the FALLOUT video games, HIGH FIDELITY and NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST, and maybe a little WHITE FANG, too. Oh, and THE WIZARD OF OZ.
If none of the above floats your goat, then here’s a simpler description: BEGGARS WOULD RIDE is a retrofuturistic dystopian Western about teenagers and first love and atomic monsters and survival and self-reliance and abandoned theme parks and also aliens, too, a little. (And if that’s still not descriptive enough, here’s a link to the first chapter.)
It’s a lot of book, is what I’m saying. And, unbelievably, I reined myself in enough to keep it a PG-13 affair.
Anyway, here’s the cover and the back cover blurb:
After a secret rendezvous goes fatally awry, store-crossed lovers Rhea and Wren, sixteen-year-olds from opposite sides of the last truck stop in existence, find themselves hunted and on the run, forced to survive in the post-utopian wreckage of an alien-blighted civilization. They’ll need to face down the impossible threats of a neverending desert, the atomic insects and sandstorms and the barren nothingness of a world rusted sharp, in search of a city that shouldn’t be.
The nights are long and the odds are bad, but Wren and Rhea wouldn’t have it any other way. They’re finally free, reveling in being alone, and together. But happiness is never easy at the end of everything, and soon enough – and with some unexpected help – the teenagers stumble upon a series of cascading discoveries that upend everything they thought they knew, leaving them reeling, reconsidering, and forced to reckon with what they owe the ones they left behind.
Pre-orders are pre-ordering now,
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