I received the cover art for my book Stellarnet Rebel, coming from Carina Press in January 2012.
I also received the official cover copy. This is what would be on the back cover if it was being inked onto dead tree pulp. I assume it’s also what will show up in the description of the book on Amazon, B&N, Carina Press, Audible, etc.
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Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers. Genny O’Riordan has shifted in from Earth determined to find a story that will break her blog into the Stellarnet Top 100, and even better—expose the degradation of the colony’s denizens.
Duin is an alien—a Glin—a hero of a past revolution against the Glin royal family, yet branded a terrorist. Duin speaks every day in the Asteria market, hoping to spur humans to aid his home world, which has been overtaken by the evil, buglike Tikati.
When Genny and Duin meet, what begins with a blog post becomes a dangerous web of passion and politics as they struggle to survive not only a war but the darker side of humanity…
94,000 words