THAT ELITE WOULD BE OURS AGAIN ONE DAY."
EBOOK: 978-1-62007-493-0
PAPERBACK: 978-1-62007-497-8
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 4TH, 2016
PUBLISHER: CURIOSITY QUILLS
SHE STRUGGLES TO FEEL HUMAN.
In 2256, the only remnants of civilization on Earth’s irst colonized planet, Kepler, are the plant-covered buildings and the nocturnal, genetically spliced bug-people nesting within them: the Cull. During the day, Syl leaves her home in the sewers beneath Elite City to scavenge for food, but at night the Cull come looking for a meal of their own. Syl thought gene splicing died with the Android War a century ago. She thought the bugs could be exterminated, Elite city rebuilt, and the population replenished. She’s wrong.
Whoever engineered the Cull isn’t done playing God. Syl is abducted and tortured in horriic experiments which result in her own DNA being spliced, slowly turning her into one of the bugs. Now she must ind a cure and stop the person responsible before every remaining man, woman, and child on Kepler is transformed into the abomination they fear.
HE STRUGGLES NOT TO.
For Bastion, being an android in the sex industry isn’t so bad. Clubbing beneath the streets of New Elite by day and seducing the rich by night isn’t an altogether undesirable occupation. But every day a new android cadaver appears in the slum gutters, and each caved in metal skull and heap of mangled wires whittles away at him.
Glitches—androids with empathy—are being murdered, their models discontinued and strung up as a warning. Show emotion, you die. Good thing Bastion can keep a secret, or he would be the next body lining the street.
He can almost live with hiding his emotions. That is, until a girl shows up in the slums—a human girl, who claims she was an experiment. And in New Elite, being a human is even worse than being a Glitch. Now Bastion must help the girl escape before he becomes victim to his too-human emotions, one way or another.
Meet Jadah Mccoy
Jadah currently lives in Nashville, TN and works as a le- gal coordinator. When not babysitting attorneys, she can be found juicing her brain for creative ideas or fantasizing about her next trip out of the country (or about Tom Hid- dleston as Loki - it’s always a toss up when she fantasiz- es.)
She grew up in rural Arkansas, yet can still write good and sometimes even wears shoes! She did date her first cousin for a while but they decided against marriage for the sake of the gene pool.
Her true loves are elephants, cursing, and sangria - in that order. If you find an elephant that curses like a sailor whilst drinking sangria, you’re dangerously close to becoming her next romantic victim - er, partner.
She cut her writing teeth on badly written, hormone-driven faniction (be glad that’s out of her system), and her one true dream is to have wildly erotic faniction with dubious grammar written about her own novels. Please make her dreams come true.
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Book Signing Southeast Arkansas Regional Library April 16, 2016, @11am - 2pm
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Praise for Artificial
Ok, let’s just get this out of the way up front.... I LOVED this book. Jadah captivated me with her brilliant world building and her vibrant characters. Whenever I had to put the book down for “real life” stuf I couldn’t wait to pick it up again. The balance between human and not human, glitch and normal in the story fascinated me. And I loved Syl’s gritty personality. I deinitely recommend this book to anyone who likes dystopia and sci-i.
Elisabeth Kauffman, Writing Refinery
This book is SO FUN. I loved the strong, efortless world-building, the realistic and gritty characters, and the fact that this book is an utter page-turner. McCoy weaves classic android and bug - monster scii tropes with her own unique, action-packed world and delivers one hell of a story that takes ex- actly 0 prisoners in its exploration of what exactly makes one human-- and whether or not humans are really any better than animals or androids. I loved this book so damn much, especially Bastion. Bastion♡ 5/5 stars.
Jessica Harvey, Author of Gyre
This is an absolute 5 star book. I thoroughly enjoyed it, from the moment I was immediately sucked into the world of Syl. What amazing world building from page one, which didn't let me come up for air until the end, along with page turning action and just the right hint of romance. Nothing was overdone. It was all perfect. And Bastion, what a character. His wit matched with Syl's spitire is the right blend for great chemis- try. I can't imagine what will happen in book two...
Melissa Mcfarlane, Author of There once were stars
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