When I was twelve-years-old I read Victor Hugo's Les Miserable. The experience changed my life; I fell in love with fiction. After university, I discovered Ayn Rand. The experience changed me again; I fell in love with life’s possibilities. I looked inside myself and asked: What am I meant to do on this earth? What will inspire me all my days?
I scanned my memory. In one corner I found rhyming poetry I wrote in elementary school, which the Principal selected for publication in the school paper. Beside it was a short story, Why the Lion Is King of the Animals? Something I scribbled in abominable hand-writing at the age of eight. And scattered everywhere were grades in literature classes, always the highest grade in class. What inspires me? What do I love? Easy. I love the written word. So I chose to become a writer.
Today, when I am not writing non-fiction articles to earn a living, I write my own value-driven stories. My latest project, a young adult adventure novel, centers on individual rights. In a reflection world to ours, I create a culture where no man has a right to his own life. Literally.
The Premise of the Story Is Simple
Our world has produced a reflection of itself, the way a sound produces an echo. Every tree, flower and animal has a see-through reflection in that other world. And so does every human being. And because Sounds come into existence before Echoes, there are those who think that Echoes should cease to exist after their Sound dies.
And so a whole system of legal murder became law in the world of the Echoes.
While back in the world of the Sounds, twelve-year-old Will Cleary is swept into a strange world of reflections where evil creatures are trying to kill him, just to give rise to the legal murder of his Echo, the Prince.
To learn more about The Sound and the Echoes, authored under the pen name, Lucid Pellucid, check out my Current Project and Sample Chapters pages on this site. You can hear me reading the Author’s Introduction on the audio page. I am seeking literary representation for this novel.
Thank you for visiting and happy reading!
Tal Boldo |
