"Epic" is Almost Here

Eleven teenagers. Eight planets. Seven Keys. One wronged queen.

When Annabelle Garcia and her friends find themselves mysteriously on another planet, they learn that they may only return to Earth after retrieving seven magical Keys for queen Mayra of Eden, who has been stripped of her crown and accused of murdering her husband. With reluctance, Anna and her friends accept Mayra’s offer, but the secrets being kept threaten to tear them apart. An impossible mission, the odds are stacked against them in every way. If they aren’t careful, our heroes and heroines will be pushed to the limits of the psyche, become enemies of nature, and if they’re caught by anyone, they face the a high possibility of execution.
Danger lurks around every corner in the form of nightmares and monsters too vile for the worst of humans to endure. But with their combined skill and wit, and a little bit of luck, the crew just might be able to succeed and return home.
A highly imaginative novel that pushes the boundaries of fantasy, this is a tale that can only be described as epic.

Epic is a high fantasy young adult novel, and the first book of a duology. You can preorder it on Amazon, and it will be delivered to you on July 11, 2016. Many of you have waited YEARS to read this novel and we’re finally here. In less than a month, well… you’ll be able to swipe its pages on your ereader.

Make sure to preorder the novel, read and review it, as well as tell your friends if you enjoy it. Thank you so much for all the support you guys have given me over the years :)

As soon as I have more information about ordering a physical copy, I will let you guys know!

Okay now that I’ve gotten all the business stuff out of the way, I want to talk a bit more about the story. I’ve said a lot on my blog about Epic, about wanting to have a story full of imagination and all that jazz. But one of the biggest reasons that I’m proudest to finally have this book out into the world is that it means there’s one more book for LGBT+ youth and youth of color to see themselves in, as main characters and not sidekicks. When I was younger, I always wanted to read a story like this, and I feel that many readers want the same thing. So Epic is a book for me, for the reader I was who could never find the story she needed. But it’s mainly for the rest of the world, for people who have been told through fiction that they are always second rate to the majority. I’m sure that one day, I’ll end up writing thousands of words about what Epic means to me, and perhaps some day, I’ll receive letters and messages about what the story means to the readers. I’m looking forward to it.

- L