Devin Wayne is a private security contractor. Two years ago, he was hired by Victor Daco, patriarch of the Daco dynasty, and a member of the American Fathers. Devin was assigned protection duty of Victor Daco’s daughter, Irene, the alluring twenty two year old heir to the Daco wealth. Irene and Devin were attracted to one another from the first time they met. Even though all they did was flirt for two years, Victor Daco eventually found out, and subsequently fired Devin.
Escape from New Orleans begins on the day after Devin and Irene finally consummated their attraction to one another. Irene’s father has hired the most effective hit man in the world to take care of this problem. Devin is running for his life. The first step to his survival is to make it out of New Orleans alive.
Targeted Age Group:: 18 and older
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
A sense if humor, a love of romance, and a passion for engaging stories.
How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
The character that will surprise everyone in this story because of his unusual name was actually the result of a writer misunderstanding what another writer was saying in one of my critique groups. This was after several drinks of course.
About the Author:
The best description of my writing is Near Future Fiction. I love technology, and I also believe social issues can be addressed in fiction, without compromising the strength of the story or lowering the entertainment level of the work.
In his Listmania! List, Carlos Baez says Near Future Fiction writers “usually extrapolate imaginatively from present trends.” Since we are narrating stories that take place sometime in the next one hundred years, they may include strange, intriguing, and even frightening technologies and phenomena, but our worlds are familiar in a way that makes the events in the stories feel immediate, and therefore avoidable.
Although current social trends may include Monsanto and others lobbying congress for the ability to obtain patents on human genetic sequences, it is still possible for us to avoid the world of The Windup Girl, in which ‘calorie companies’ devastate the global population through plagues caused by genetically enhanced, treatment resistant, disease causing organisms.
In some ways, Dystoopian Narratives are great metaphorical expressions of our fears. Stories like The Hunger Games and Divergent open to worlds that are economically, socially, and politically screwed up. There is also typically the presumption that it’s been that way for a long time.
For the characters, the time before global catastrophe is a distant memory. This creates chronological distance between our world and that of the book’s heroin, making it easier for readers to live vicariously through these engaging characters, as they stand up to fascist societies and battle despotic leaders.
Like Fantasy, Dystopian Science Fiction transports the reader into a completely different world. One which is often far simpler than our own, in which seven percent unemployment characterizes the same economy that also supports a booming stock market, and selfies and twerking have been placed upon media shelves alongside Duck Dynasty and a Whites only Santa Clause.
I acknowledge that our world is confusing, but to me it’s also incredibly interesting. Interesting in a way that can be entertaining, and enlightening. This is evident in well written shows like Homeland and House of Cards.
Characters like Carrie Mathison and Francis Underwood inspire me to write The Hacker, Bryce Anderson, Vanessa Stanton, and crazy Rafi. I hope you enjoy them and learn as much as I have in creating them.
Henry L. Sullivan III
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