Stars Fill Infinity

*cough pretentiously* *unrolls scroll*

Citizens of Kingdom Pen! I have an announcement to make. My efforts to edit my novel Black and White (which a few of you so lovingly offered to beta read) have ended in wrack and ruin and I have put it on the back burner for now.

For anyone who is interested, I now offer a new opportunity. Alpha reader for my NaNo novel Stars Fill Infinity. Which is actually finished and I will send out as soon as get a few readers, so I won’t disappear inexplicably.

This is a first draft and I’m trying to pinpoint the issues that need to be addressed when I do the second draft. I’d love to have two readers (I don’t want to be swamped with feedback at the moment, so I’m only looking for two, at the most three) who would go over the draft, ignore all the frantic words, typos and filler scenes to help me work out what needs to go and what stays.

Okay, let me give you a few specifics. Stars Fill Infinity is:

-A YA Les Mis retelling

-Dystopian

-105k long

-Probably good for readers over fifteen (or fourteen, I don’t know. it depends on you, I think)

-Doesn’t include any swearing, overly sensual descriptions, gore or anything else, but there are “mature themes” (a girl having a child out of wedlock, as an example) but if you’ve read or seen Les Miserables, you’ll be fine.

-Here’s the premise in a nutshell:

Chessy Verde and her sister, Sapphire, have spent their whole lives cut off from the world. That is, until Sapphire rebels and runs away with her boyfriend. Broken-hearted at her sister’s betrayal, Chessy continually escapes into the city outside the walls of her community to heal the sick and care for the poor of the town.

But a storm is brewing in the air, disrupting the fragile peace. A charismatic, fiery young man, calling himself Justice Rift, has arrived in town, bringing with him a flag of freedom and talk of revolution. As the disillusioned young people of the town flock around Justice, clamouring for rights and for the rich and corrupt to pay for the damage they have caused, Chessy finds herself drawn towards the rebellious Justice and the cause he is willing to lay down his life for.

When Chessy makes a foolish choice that puts her on the radar of a deadly and determined police officer, she finds herself asking hard questions. She is willing to die, but is she willing to forgive? She is willing to sacrifice everything, but she is willing to show mercy to those who have hurt her most?

Okay, this post is super long, so I’ll leave it there. if you have any questions please ask! Also, if I don’t choose you to become an early reader, don’t despair, because I will need more readers later on. 😀

Some tags. Just so this gets seen.

@dragon-snapper @kate-flournoy @jane-maree @dekreel @catwing @sam-kowal @everyone!