After months of planning, our small business incorporated on Januand soon after, we announced our plans to publish novels from first-time authors making the jump from fanworks to professional publishing. This past weekend marked the eighth anniversary of Interlude Press becoming real. In her free time, she enjoys canyon hiking in her home state of Arizona.Īdd BORN ANDROMEDA to your Goodreads TBR here.Īvailable from the IP Web Store, Chicago Review Press, Bookshop, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Book Depository, and an indie bookstore near you. She enjoys reading and writing YA fantasy and sci-fi, though she also dabbles with YA romantic thrillers. Watts is a debut novelist who first dreamed of becoming an author when she won her school’s Young Author Award at the age of five. Taken prisoner, Andromeda realizes that her captors are unaware of her true identity and sees an opportunity: To best her enemies, she may have to join them. While traveling to Earth, Andromeda’s ship is attacked by galactic pirates led by her father’s sworn enemy, the Lord Captain Bran. But when her parents arrange her marriage to an Earthen prince, she is forced to put her kingdom before her dreams of independence. Disillusioned with royal life, Princess Andromeda dreams of nothing but freedom and adventure outside the protective dome of royalty. She was destined for a royal life-until galactic pirates changed the course of destiny.īeing eighteen is difficult, especially when you’re a cyborg and heir to the entire kingdom of the Moon.

The fluidity of the storytelling, as well as the dramatic circumstances of the story, are likely to attract Orca Soundings readers.Interludepress: “An action-packed space opera that’s not afraid of guts, glory, or going against the grain.“ - Foreword Reviews Mac’s experience as a paramedic gives her portrayal of their work an easy authority, and she sketches Ethan and his group home with a certain amount of precision and humour. Working with a paramedic who used to know his mother helps him dredge through his memories and emerge less traumatized. A few nights in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, with its “drug dealers, hookers, junkies, crazies, bums, winos, street kids, johns, and pimps,” brings up disturbing images of the week he spent locked in an apartment with his murdered mother’s corpse when he was a small child. Injured by a police dog when he’s apprehended for a prank, Ethan is “sentenced” to work several shifts with the paramedics who treated him. First-person narrator, present tense, colloquial language, limited vocabulary (at a 3.6 Reading Level), and the drastic problems of urban youth are all part of the package.Įthan has been in and out of foster homes for years now he’s living in a group home for teens with physical, social, and often legal problems. Carrie Mac’s story meets the guidelines and conventions of the Orca Soundings series with brisk efficiency.

In the Present Tense by Carrie Pack