Hi. Thanks for
having me here to celebrate the release of Temper. I’m so excited about the
sequel to Lifer and can’t wait for everyone to read it.
I’m from
Australia, in South Australia and I live just a few minutes from the sea. Where
I live and being Australian can’t help but influence my writing. In fact, the
whole idea of a ‘LIFER” someone working off ancestor’s petty crimes was
inspired by Australia’s convict past. I wanted to put that idea of being sent
far away from your home and country into the future.
My Aussieness
seeps in to my language choices although there aren’t many ‘mates’ or ‘shielas’
in the story. My wonderful editors help make sure I don’t include anything too
strange. I think we’re all influences by where we come from. I think there are
echoes of the Aussie outback in the harsh countryside where those from the
Pelican and the green Robes make their settlement. I’d like to think my
characters have some of the Aussie spirit in their courage and sense of
adventure. Their unwillingness to bow under the threats of the Company and the
way they keep fighting.
At the same
time, I think all of these things are universal. I’d like to think I’m not so
different to my American friends and my stories are accessible no matter where
you are from.
Thanks again for having me.
FREEDOM COMES WITH A PRICE.
Free from the spaceship and reunited with Samuai, Asher
should be happy. But thoughts of her dead family weigh heavily on her mind.
Things worsen when temper problems in camp lead to a murder.
When Asher volunteers to get the drug need to calm people down, tension
ignites.
Loyalties are questioned.
Jealousy rears its head. Sparks fly.
And when rumor of a second ship hits close to home, all bets
are off.
Have the aliens returned? Is this the end of everything
Asher has ever known?
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ABOUT BOOK 1: LIFER
The Bourne Identity
meets Under the Never Sky in this intergalactic tale of love and deception from
debut novelist Beck Nicholas.
Asher is a Lifer, a slave aboard the spaceship Pelican. A
member of the lowest rung of society, she must serve the ship’s Officials and
Astronauts as punishment for her grandparents' crimes back on Earth. The one
thing that made life bearable was her illicit relationship with Samuai, a
Fishie boy, but he died alongside her brother in a freak training accident.
Still grieving for the loss of her loved ones, Asher is
summoned to the upper levels to wait on Lady, the head Official’s wife and
Samuai’s mother. It is the perfect opportunity to gather intel for the Lifer’s
brewing rebellion. There’s just one problem—the last girl who went to the upper
levels never came back.
On the other side of the universe, an alien attack has left
Earth in shambles and a group called The Company has taken control. Blank wakes
up in a pond completely naked and with no memory, not even his real name. So
when a hot girl named Megs invites him to a black-market gaming warehouse where
winning means information, he doesn’t think twice about playing.
But sometimes the past is better left buried. As Asher and
Blank’s worlds collide, the truth comes out—everyone has been lied to...
I always wanted to write. I’ve worked as a lab assistant, a pizza
delivery driver and a high school teacher but I always pursued my first dream
of creating stories. Now, I live with my family near Adelaide, halfway between
the city and the sea, and am lucky to spend my days (and nights) writing young
adult fiction.
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