Title: Day Zero Summer Lane
Series: The Zero Trilogy
Series: The Zero Trilogy
Author: Summer Lane
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
Publication date: October 10th 2014
Publication date: October 10th 2014
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Elle is a survivor.
Since the collapse of modern society, she's been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life.
And then everything changes.
After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely comrades, and the hope of a safe haven. Together, they journey toward the dregs of civilization, facing starvation, imprisonment and death.
They are alone, but they are ready.
Day Zero begins today.
Day Zero is a novella, the first installment in The Zero Trilogy, a novella series complementing the international bestselling Collapse Series.
Since the collapse of modern society, she's been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life.
And then everything changes.
After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely comrades, and the hope of a safe haven. Together, they journey toward the dregs of civilization, facing starvation, imprisonment and death.
They are alone, but they are ready.
Day Zero begins today.
Day Zero is a novella, the first installment in The Zero Trilogy, a novella series complementing the international bestselling Collapse Series.
Goodreads Link
[This sounds really interesting and it's going straight on my "wishlist/want to read list". I also have the Collapse Series firmly on my "have to read list"]
[This sounds really interesting and it's going straight on my "wishlist/want to read list". I also have the Collapse Series firmly on my "have to read list"]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summer lives in the Central Valley of California, where she spends her time writing, teaching, and writing some more. When she is not writing, she enjoys leisurely visits with friends at coffee shops, dates to the movies, hiking in the mountains and strolling on the beach.
AUTHOR LINKS
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5823376.Summer_Lane
GUEST POST
GIVEAWAY
GUEST POST
Why
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction?
Many people ask me how I got started
writing post-apocalyptic and survivalist fiction. The answer is that it found me. I have always loved survival and adventure stories – the more
exciting, the better. I began writing my first post-apocalyptic story in high
school, but I didn’t consider publishing a survival story until well after I
had graduated. It occurred to me that people might ask themselves the same
question as me: What would happen if the
electricity went out permanently? What would happen if there were no cars, no
food and no water? What if we were invaded by a shadow army and forced to
defend ourselves?
These are all food-for-thought questions,
and I got to play around with a lot of possible survival scenarios and
conspiracy theories while building my story worlds. The more I wrote
post-apocalyptic books, the more fascinated I became with the ideas, and the more
I had to continue to write. I love
the complete vulnerability that characters have when you remove them from their
element of comfort on an entirely new level. Electricity? Cars? Cellphones?
Computers? Running water? Get rid of all of it. It really strips characters’
humanity down and challenges their moral compass. Who will survive? Who will
die? Who will learn to love and who will fall into the trap of hatred?
I love post-apocalyptic fiction because
everyone can identify with the premise of what
if? Day Zero fits into that niche
perfectly!
Writing
about Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood and Santa Monica
Writers of post-apocalyptic fiction have
the interesting task of taking the world in which we live and transforming it
into an entirely different reality. For Day
Zero, I chose Hollywood and Santa Monica, California, as the primary
setting for my novella. Why those two cities? For one, I’m very familiar with
them. I’ve spent a lot of time in southern California, visiting the Walk of
Fame and Santa Monica Boulevard. It’s always best to base fiction on the legs
of reality, so I went with what I knew.
I also recall asking myself the question, What would happen if Hollywood became
uninhabitable? It’s interesting to think about the city without the glitz
and glamour, with only the threads of civilization hanging on. I researched and
visited famous places like Wilshire Boulevard, the Santa Monica Pier and Millions
of Milkshakes on Santa Monica Boulevard. I believe grounding a story in
something that exists makes it relatable to the reader – and fun for the
author!
GIVEAWAY
Blitz-wide giveaway (INTL)
A pack of eBooks including:
Dead Girl Walking, by Ruth Silver
Fractured Dream, by K.M. Randall
Spirit Warriors: The Scarring by DEL Connor
Eyes of the Enemy by Kelly Hess
Jacob, King of Portalia by Casey Club
Destiny Gift by Juliana Haygert
Aftershock by Roberta Trahan
Thank you so much for posting today - I appreciate it very much! :)
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