After a lot of writing, rewriting, and balancing key moments across Chapters 11, 12, and 13, I’m happy to say the final act is nearly complete. Chapter 14 is in progress, which means the first full draft of the book is almost finished. That’s a big milestone.
Aliki thought managing a used spaceship dealership would be straightforward—at least as straightforward as it gets on Earth. In this chapter, she finds out otherwise.
The third chapter (in draft form) is posted on the web site. Please let me know what you think of the story so far!
The plot is thickening! Writing it felt like piecing together an intergalactic puzzle, but it’s all starting to click.
As a plotter, I love creating outlines that start as faint ideas and gradually grow into detailed scenes. However, the real challenge comes when it’s
Imagine what it’s like to grow up in a family that isn’t human. You’re raised by aliens who adore you in their own peculiar way but always seem to regard you with a sort of bemused affection, like an exceptionally clever houseplant. That’s my protagonist’s, Aliki Martin’s, reality: she’s a human raised by a family who loves her dearly but can’t help seeing her as a charming, if slightly baffling, oddity. Now she’s back on Earth, a place she’s supposed to belong, only to find she’s not entirely sure how this “life on Earth” thing is supposed to work.
How Aliki meets Emmett.