A dark, gritty post-apocalyptic tale of love, loathing, & survival!
Tribes
by Mia Frances
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian, Dark Romantic Suspense
A dark, gritty post-apocalyptic tale of love, loathing, & survival!
Alex, her sisters, and their kids are on their way to her camp in the Adirondack Mountains for the Columbus Day weekend when the unthinkable happens. A voice on the radio warns the country is under attack! Greeted by guns and bullets when they try to seek shelter, they're forced to hide in a cave to wait out the fallout.
After two weeks in their dank hole, Alex wakes up one morning to discover her sisters gone. They've taken the rented minibus and returned to the city to search for their husbands, leaving Alex to care for her 7 nieces and nephews. It's an arduous 35-mile hike through the mountains to her camp...a journey through hell!
Society is devolving. The strong: looters, murderers, and rapists; preying on the weak. The small hamlets and villages they pass through have become killing fields, as survivors battle each other for the few remaining supplies. Above them, the skies are growing darker every day, blocking out the sun. Temperatures are plummeting. Winter is coming early.
Along the way, Alex
rescues two starving orphans whose mother was murdered by marauders.
In her struggle to keep the children alive, Alex stumbles on a hidden
cache of food only to discover it's guarded by a man who'll haunt her
nightmares. Half guardian angel, half demon. Both barbarian and
benefactor. A strange mixture of brutality and gentleness, cruelty
and caring. A man named Wolf!
This book contains explicit, non-consensual sexual scenes, spankings, and elements of power exchange, which may offend or trigger some readers. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book. For readers ages 18+
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Mia Frances is the pen name of author Mary Vigliante Szydlowski. As Mia, she's the author of the dark, gritty post-apocalyptic romance, TRIBES; steamy romantic suspense novel, Little Girl Lost; and the erotic romance, murder mystery series: IN HIS KEEPING: TAKEN, IN HIS KEEPING: BANISHED, and IN HIS KEEPING: CLAIMED.
Her Science Fiction/Fantasy works include novels: The Ark (Jarl Szydlow), The Colony (Mary Vigliante), The Land (Mary Vigliante), Source of Evil (Mary Vigliante), and novella, The Hand of My Enemy. She's also the author of horror novel, Worship the Night; and Dark Realm, the tale of a dystopian world ruled by Satan. In addition, she's the author of mainstream novel Silent Song.
She’s also published 11 children's book: There's A Mouse In The House, Are We There Yet?, Little Sowbug & the Big Flood, Ghoul School, Millie Muldoon & the Case of the Halloween Haunting, Millie Muldoon & the Case of the Thanksgiving Turkey-napper, Millie Muldoon & the Christmas Mystery, A Puddle for Poo, Kia’s Manatee, The Duck in the Hole, and I Can't Talk I've Got Farbles In My Mouth.
Her short stories, articles, children’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the web. She's also a contributor to the Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies: The Dog Did What?, Volunteering and Giving Back, Merry Christmas!, Mom Knows Best, and Life Lessons from the Dog.
She's a member of the Authors’ Guild, SCBWI (Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators), SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America), and RWA (Romance Writers of America).
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GUEST POST
People often ask where I get my book ideas. The answer is simple. Everywhere! A place,
a piece of music. Anything. Everything. Ideas? They're all around and free for the taking. Just
add a spark of imagination and a little perspiration and you've got yourself a story worth telling!
Sometimes you get an idea, but it's only a small part of your story. You need to add more
pieces to complete it. It's like putting together a quilt. There are other times though when you
see or hear something and like magic the whole story takes shape before your eyes.
My favorite place to write is...
At my desk in our family room. It's next to some French doors that lead out to our deck and the
Normanskill Creek 50 feet down the hill. When I get bored with writing I stare out the glass and
watch the birds, squirrels, and ducks. I also love to write while lounging on a beach. Some of my
funniest kids books have been written while I'm on vacation.
A random fact about me...
I used to be a newspaper reporter. Twice when I had writer's block, I took a break from fiction
and worked for papers. One a daily where I covered local government and wrote a Consumer
complain/help column, and the other a small town weekly.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, rewrite, and then rewrite again. And when you're finished...edit, edit, edit! Don't rely on
your spell checker. Before you send your book out or upload it, read the book aloud all the way
through. That's the best way I know to catch redundancies, homophones (words that sound the
same but are spelled differently-especially true if you used voice recognition software to write
your book), typos, punctuation, sentences that are too long and unwieldy and paragraph
issues. Your ears will hear problems that your eyes don't see on the page.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It's from The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear by Ralph Keyes. I used to read it
to my students in my writing classes.
"In writing as in so many pursuits, it's not the most gifted but the most determined who
succeed........Those we hear about are more blessed with pluck and persistence than ability and
skill. According to Thomas McGuane the most successful members of his writing program at
Stamford-himself, Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey were not the most gifted ones only the most willful
"Kesey was not even remotely the best writer in class," said McGuane of the author of One Flew
Over the Cuckcoo's Nest, "but he was maniacally determined!"
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