Back to Aeva for Novel November

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Eight years ago today, I posted a meme about NaNoWriMo pulling me away from my work in progress. That WIP was Aeva. I was supposed to be finishing it, and a shiny new story kept stealing my time. (Here’s the proof.)

This year, it’s the other way around.

I’ve signed up for ProWritingAid’s Novel November, and I’m spending it on Aeva: The Inheritance, book 2 of The Last Hope series. Last year I used Novel November to push through a round of edits on The Republic of McCoy. This year it’s a draft, two actually. I’m aiming for PWA’s full 50,000 words: about 35,000 to finish book 2, and the rest to get a head start on book 3.

Book 2 picks up right where Aeva: The Last Hope left off. Aeva is on her way to Earth, a planet that isn’t sure it wants her. Meanwhile, out on Pfore, Maya’s story is only getting started.

If you haven’t read book 1, it’s on Kindle+ now.

I’ll check back in December to let you know how it went. Are you doing NaNo this year? Tell me what you’re writing.

40 Words Friday: No. 21

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“Astraea,” he said, so slowly and breathtakingly that Astraea bit down on her lip to keep from saying something stupid like, “You say it so lovely. Say it again.” He rolled her name around before adding, “What a beautiful name.”

Aeva: The Last Hope Is Now on Kindle+

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My space opera novella Aeva: The Last Hope is now on Kindle+, Amazon’s new name for Kindle Unlimited as of this week. If you’re a member, you can read it free. If not, the ebook is $2.99.

And it comes with something new: a playlist. Every song is matched to the chapter where it plays, from the opening track as Rowen finds the missing cargo ship to the last song at the end. You can listen along here: Full Playlist: Aeva: The Last Hope.

If you haven’t met Aeva and Rowen yet: a virus is destroying an alien species’ ability to have children, human women are being used as surrogates, and a captain who’s just lost everything is assigned to help a genetically engineered survivor recover her memory before interrogation day. What she remembers could cost her life, and Rowen has to decide how much he’s willing to risk to protect her.

And yes, there’s more coming. I’ll be drafting Aeva 2 this November.

Read Aeva: The Last Hope on Amazon

Free Review Copies of The Republic of McCoy

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The Republic of McCoy is out, and I have a limited number of free review copies up on BookSirens for readers who’d like to read it and leave an honest review.

Marlowe takes a security job at Cleancore Industries to cover her rent, and it turns into something else: guarding Trevor Ledeus, heir to the company. The job comes with a helmet she doesn’t take off, a number where her name should be, and one condition. ID 7 does not show her face. Trevor asks for her real name anyway.

Cleancore builds the machines that clear the debris fields. The machines are built from the dead. It’s legal.

It’s a neon-noir cyberpunk novel with a slow-burn romance, and a story about love, loss, and the name she keeps to herself.

Get your free review copy on BookSirens → HERE.

What’s Inside The Republic of McCoy

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She’s out in the world, and here she is in all three formats.

A bodyguard in a helmet she never takes off. A company that builds machines from the dead. And the day she recognizes one of the faces.

If you’ve been wondering whether McCoy is your kind of book, here’s the quick version:

The ebook is $2.99 for launch week only, and the paperback and hardcover are out now too.

Get it here >>> The Republic of McCoy.

🎶 Curious what I listened to while writing McCoy? Here’s the McCoy playlist.

One Day Left: The Republic of McCoy

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Tomorrow, The Republic of McCoy is out in the world.

It’s a neon-noir cyberpunk story set in a city that runs on its machines. Marlowe is a woman who has watched people she loves become part of that machinery, and she refuses to let it happen to her. The quote above is her, standing her ground. It’s one of my favorite moments in the book.

This book has been a long time coming, and it’s strange and wonderful to finally be one day out.

Where to find it on October 15:

Thank you for following along on this journey. See you on the other side of launch day.

— Tori

Two Days

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Two days until she’s out in the world.

The Republic of McCoy is out October 15. The ebook is $2.99 for launch week only.

Pre-order here >>> The Republic of McCoy.

🎶 Listening to Still with Me by Chicane. To me it’s Marlowe’s song, and it’s on the McCoy playlist with the rest of the music I listened to while writing.

Three Days

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The city keeps glowing, and Thursday it steps out into the world.

The Republic of McCoy is out October 15. The ebook is $2.99 for launch week only.

Pre-order here >>> The Republic of McCoy.

🎶 Listening to Still with Me by Chicane. To me it’s Marlowe’s song, and it’s on the McCoy playlist with the rest of the music I listened to while writing.

What I Listened to While Writing The Republic of McCoy

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I can’t write without music. Every chapter of The Republic of McCoy had a song playing behind it, some of them on repeat for weeks, and by the time I finished, the list had grown to 43 tracks.

Twenty of them are listed in the front of the book. The full playlist, every song I wrote to, is here: The Republic of McCoy: Full Playlist

If you only listen to one, make it “Krazy” by Seal.

The Republic of McCoy launches October 15. The ebook is $2.99 on pre-order, free ARCs are still open on BookSirens, and the Goodreads giveaway runs through October 14. All the links are in my last post.

— Tori