Coming Soon!

The project my daughter and I have been working on for a long time is finally coming to fruition! We hope to announce the release date soon. I've been talking about this YA novel for a while, under a different title.

Name changes: First, my high school student  granddaughter decided we needed to call the series The Tapestry Tales. Then the college student granddaughter told us our original title, Five Palms, was lame. And we always pay attention to the opinions of these two young women. They are nearly always right! We now have themed titles for the series and the individual books.

Cover changes: Merida Bass, co-author and artist, has created several iterations of the cover. For a series, the font, art design, and color schemes need to have uniformity. This cover will have meaning for readers, once they dive into the story. And do you notice the TFE badge in the lower right corner?

Book One - Frayed Dreams: Jagrav Mahajan needs his mother’s approval for a cybernetic leg replacement, but she vanished with her Pythagorean cult of mathematical naturalists. Inspired by eco-superhero Breaker, African American high school student Nia Beckett is determined to save the last wild jungle from development. When the teens meet at the crumbling Five Palms Resort, they suspect Breaker is there on a mission of her own. What none of them realize is that Ando the squirrel monkey's powerful Talent is growing with every passing moment.

After doing research, we realized most YAs seem to be heavy on dystopia, angst, and romance. Our story fits the lighter tone of Ready Player One, which is definitely a dystopian world, but has welcome helpings of humor. Our teens are disconnected from the Tapestry, and exposed to the natural world with no buffer of mind-filling entertainment - or control.

This is our experiment in Indy publishing. I have dozens of reasons for going this route with this project. Merida is determined we should do as much of the work ourselves as possible. She has taken on the lion's share of the publishing research, and is doing all the artwork and graphic art.

I'll announce the release date soon. We intend to follow-up swiftly with book two in the Tapestry Tales series, Broken Threads.​

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