Really bad cover I made for the book because I hated the generic images provided by Amazon.
It’s been a while between published stories, but I have a new novel on Amazon’s Kindle platform. This is part of my continuing journey through the various aspects of the writing world (and the continuing testing of the limits of my sanity). Truthfully, I’ve achieved more than I thought I would: short stories published (level up!), novels published (level up!), five book series finished (level up and extra life!), and now a self-published novel (either level up! or level sideways! Not sure).
For those thinking of reading Luck, I’ll warn you that it was written mainly to amuse, and is not much like my YA novels. Think Charles Dickens meets Stephen Colbert, with Stephen King sending in plot notes.
The Amazon blurb is as follows: In a distant future, technology has banished hunger and natural disease, and added a century to the human lifespan. Pity poor evolution, deprived of its most reliable assassins. It has turned to a less dependable ally. luck, to reduce the population. Chance now rules the human race, choosing who will die and who will survive.
The rich and powerful fight to control this awesome power, but natural selection has always been whimsical, and the greatest concentration of good fortune ever known manifests in the genes of a poor orphan girl named Dust. Accompanied by an odd collection of the wise, the violent, and the insane, Dust will travel across the galaxy, pushed by her tyrannical luck towards a confrontation with sinister powers.
Kevin Harkness writes both adult and YA speculative fiction. City of Masks, the second book of his YA series, City of Demons, won the 2016 eFestival of Words Award for Best Young Adult Novel.
If you do read Luck, I hope you enjoy it.