Thursday, June 10, 2010

My new (and first!) YA novel

My YA novel, The Blending Time, will debut in early October 2010 by Flux Books. I am new at blogging, so forgive the underlining and whatever other garbage falls out of my posts.
It took me years--eons--to learn to write a decent manuscript, so this may be my 15 minutes of fame. Beneath the image I've posted an excerpt from Amazon's listing. Get your friends to rush out and buy dozens of copies! It's not a bad book, if I say so myself. (Blush). I'd be curious how many of you like dystopian fiction (where the near future is really messed up and people have to survive).



Congratulations on turning age seventeen. You are now ready for placement by the Council government.

"For kids in the year 2069, turning seventeen means they’re ripe for Global Alliance work assignments that range from backbreaking drudgery to deadly canal labor. Trying to survive in a desiccated world that’s been ravaged by plagues, AIDS III, and environmental disasters, three “s’teeners” from very different backgrounds think they’ve gotten lucky. Jaym, Reya, and D’Shay are chosen to be among thousands of blenders whose task is to help repopulate Africa after a solar flare left its people sterile.

But the continent itself—roiling with civil war and mercenaries intent on crushing the blending program at any cost—poses the gravest danger of all. Separated, the three friends struggle to escape horrific situations, somehow reunite, and reach a camp in the mountains that promises salvation from the harsh and threatening world."

"Shocking and unrelenting--Kinch delivers a blistering, no-holds-barred tale of a dystopian future that feels all too real"

(Arthur Slade, Governor General Award-winning author of The Hunchback Assignments.)

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