Starting tomorrow, January 25, one of my earliest books will have a one-week promotion on Amazon Kindle. For five days, this ebook of mine will be free for all Kindle readers.
Solstice: A Transgender Tale was one of my attempts at a Twilight Zone-style story (the other one being Devil’s Due: A Transgender Tale). Each of these books had some initial success but then kind of dwindled away in terms of sales–and some of the online reviews by readers were less than enthusiastic. And yet Solstice is a story that I rather like, myself.
It’s a transgender sci-fi horror story–again, a Twilight Zone sort of tale. Its heroine is a young woman named Denise who awakens one fine summer solstice to discover that the former Jake Miller is now actually a fully female woman named Denise. And so, instead of being a trans female in the early stages of finding her way in the world, she is abruptly living the life of a young woman–a young woman who, save for the gender change, is living the same life our protagonist left behind.
But it turns out there is a sinister reason for this switch, a reason that is only gradually revealed to Denise. And the book ends with a rather alarming ending, an ending which some readers found unsatisfactory.
One reviewer, however, to my delight, seems to have appreciated Solstice much the way I do. Reader JP Miller wrote:
“Thought Provoking Ideas
This story first supposes an alternate universe to which our male protagonist has somehow found himself in, as a woman. By the end of the story there are implications of good and evil AI systems trying to direct the future. I loved it all. This story now begs for a sequel. Maybe title it Equinox.”
I have to admit, I really enjoyed knowing that somebody out there liked Solstice as much as I do. And so, for the next five days, readers can check out the book for free and judge for themselves.
Transgender Tales 