APPLE draft in test reads

Again, somewhat old news.  It’s been about a month now but I’ve had my hands full with The Silent Army.  Apple is basically what I would term Sci-Fi Horror, I suppose, but in a weird way it’s mostly a story about two lost souls.  The crisis that brings them together could have been a lot of things, but to me an intelligent form of necrotizing fasciitis engineered by a dead race seemed the logical choice.  One of my test readers once told me I had an obsession with the transformation of human beings into something else, and I suppose this falls into that category on both a figurative and literal level.

It’s also pretty grisly so I’m not sure how it will be received.  Some might say it’s a little extreme but then, I’m sure there are those who would say it’s not extreme enough.  I’m shooting for as extreme as it needs to be to get its point across.  We’ll see.

Once I have feedback I’ll get another draft together and forward that to my agent.  I’ll be able to manage that I think once the first draft of The Silent Army is complete (or maybe after the second, while it’s in test read).