June 1, 2023
A year ago, I released a novel about Earth, 200 years in the future, that has only one season: winter.
This month, we talk all about it.
Cold World has a science-fiction lens, but that’s not its focal point at all. It’s a story about a whole lot more, including spirituality, loss, faith, grief, and family.
It’s a world of extremes: extreme temperatures, extreme sides of faith and disbelief, extreme means to unjustifiable ends.
Our protagonist, Calef, however, is just trying to find a space between.
Just like his author.
This is a book where I really got to move forward as a writer; I don’t like to sit still, and this feels like big steps forward. I get to use so much of what I’ve learned, and this is the longest story I’ve published so far (and its most common complaint is that it’s too short!).
In Cold World, I do what I love to do: I take an idea that is fantastical and heightened on its own, and imbue it with the deepest, most personal of thoughts and feelings.
I can’t wait to get deeper into it in June.
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