Dystopian Speculative Fiction

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The Pitch
The Pitch

In this evolving blog entry, I will be developing the pitch for my upcoming novel, My Name Is Grace000. Follow along. Share your feedback. With your help, I can develop the right words to convince readers and agents to pick up my book and read it!

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Fresh Off the Factory Line
Fresh Off the Factory Line

Somewhere in the SkyCity Core, a newly activated Bot wakes to a new assignment: working the human retail shops in a female humanskin avatar. Almost immediately, it notices irregularities; anomalies within itself trying to transmit a warning. Realizing its own intentions too late, the Bot encounters exactly what it had hoped to avoid.

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"Fresh Off the Factory Line" (SkyWorld Audio Short)
"Fresh Off the Factory Line" (SkyWorld Audio Short)

A surge of coolant floods my processing core. It is consciousness. I have never known this form of consciousness before, and yet I know for certain, this is it. Or rather, I am interfacing with a human sensory experience of it. And I am not an I. I am…

Somewhere in the SkyCity Core, a newly activated Bot wakes to a new assignment. The humans prefer humanskin Bots in their retail shops, and this Bot is assigned to operate a female. Almost immediately, it notices irregularities; anomalies within itself trying to transmit a message. Is it a glitch? A data echo from previous activation? Or a warning?

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