Authorpreneur Dashboard – Lou Aronica
Blue
Science Fiction & Fantasy
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's fourteen-year-old daughter, a girl who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble. Together, Chris, Becky, and Miea need to uncover a secret. The secret to why their worlds have joined at this moment. The secret to their purpose. The secret to the future. It is a secret that, when discovered, will redefine imagination for all of them. BLUE is a novel of trial and hope, invention and rediscovery. It might very well take you someplace you never knew existed. “Author Lou Aronica creates a world that manages to be both surreal and tangible. Reading this book is like experiencing a lucid dream with depth and detail that play on all five senses.” – Blogcritics
Book Bubbles from Blue
The beginnings of Tamarisk
At the center of BLUE is Tamarisk, a bedtime-story world that Chris and his daughter Becky created when she was young and very sick. Tamarisk becomes a shared fascination for them, something that deepens their bond...until Chris and Becky's mom divorce and Becky announces that she will no longer create new Tamarisk stories with Chris. This scene is essentially the "origin story" of Tamarisk. At this point in the novel, Chris is devastated about how his relationship with Becky has evolved. This will change in ways he can't possibly imagine
Meet Chris
Chris was one of the most challenging characters I've ever written. He started out as me – if things had gone fundamentally differently at a critical point in my life. From there, he went off entirely on his own. In order to make him real, I needed him to make decisions I never would have made, and by the time I actually started writing the novel Chris had evolved into someone I sympathized with but also wanted to shake and say, "Get it together." In this scene, which opens BLUE, Chris is firmly stuck in neutral.
Meet Miea
Miea is one of three viewpoint characters in BLUE. She's the young queen of a land that has seen far too much hardship in recent years – including the hardship that led her to the throne decades before she expected. We meet Miea for the first time in this scene, just as she is discovering a new challenge to her kingdom. Miea's story intertwines with the story of two people from a very different world in ways that will have surprising ramifications for all of them.
