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Lost in deep space, the crew of a rescue ship must cooperate with an alien rebels to find a way home.
Hmmm, cooperate seems a bit weak perhaps Lost in deep space, the crew of a rescue ship must chose sides in an alien rebellion against another species if they wish to return ?home
Hmmm, cooperate seems a bit weak perhaps
Lost in deep space, the crew of a rescue ship must chose sides in an alien rebellion against another species if they wish to return ?home
See lessA military bioweapons collector attempts to cover-up an accidental release of a deadly, new strain of flu by destroying the project’s hard drive before his Russian counterpart can prove the CIA’s involvement.
Valid points all. The only way around making my hook work is to change the main character to another who is also dominant but more empathetic.?Here is ?what I have managed with this sudden veering: An Obeah Woman leads a bioweapons collector into the Ta?no ?Land of Souls? to find the cure for a deadRead more
Valid points all. The only way around making my hook work is to change the main character to another who is also dominant but more empathetic.?Here is ?what I have managed with this sudden veering:
An Obeah Woman leads a bioweapons collector into the Ta?no ?Land of Souls? to find the cure for a deadly virus he helped create
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Children suddenly begin dying from a mysterious illness in the isolated village of a medical missionary. Sister Genevieve Rocco is pulled into international intrigue when she discovers the deaths were the result of an accidental release of an ancient virus during a clinical trial. More will die unless she can help a Bioweapons Collector evade the island?s germaphobic dictator. A cholera epidemic and civil unrest offer afford little safety in an island on the verge of collapse so she turns instead to an aging shaman who is both her mentor and father. The Obeah Man sends them into Coaybay, the subterranean ?Heaven? of the Ta?no to find a cure for the man-made plague. But to get there they must first avoid becoming specimens of a Russian Biocontainment Force led by his Soviet counterpart and former lover. Only by solving the riddles of ancient petroglyphs can they find the ?Green Road? that leads to a cure and prevent the virus’ spread into a global pandemic.
See lessA military bioweapons collector attempts to cover-up an accidental release of a deadly, new strain of flu by destroying the project’s hard drive before his Russian counterpart can prove the CIA’s involvement.
first the easy question. The amoral female is Tatiana, the Collectors girlfriend who is also the sister of my character's Russian counterpart, They are actually friends and met in a bar in Istanbul, my Collector liked the Russian who introduced him to his sister, Tatiana, ?who instantly fell in loveRead more
first the easy question. The amoral female is Tatiana, the Collectors girlfriend who is also the sister of my character’s Russian counterpart, They are actually friends and met in a bar in Istanbul, my Collector liked the Russian who introduced him to his sister, Tatiana, ?who instantly fell in love with him. But, alas she is a controlling bitch and he doesn’t like to be controlled. In my story, the American and Russian collectors never knew each other were in the same line of work until they both ran into each other doing field work in Liberia during a Lassa fever outbreak. Both were wearing biosuits then realized they were not only friends but also competitors. But, by then they were friends so now they try to outdo each other during outbreaks.
My hook is hard, I tried real science once with Bill Gates saying this: Bioterrorists could one day kill hundreds of millions of people in an attack more deadly than nuclear war, ?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/biological-terrorism-could-kill-people-nuclear-attacks-bill/?but no one seems to like a realistic hook. My Collector isn’t even my favorite character, that would be his boss who is a corrupt Cajun Senator. Man I love Harley he is an old bad ass berserker, otherwise he is a nice guy but still a drunken corrupt schemer. My problem is I was told I have to have a main character in my hook and my novel is about a TEAM. ?The shaman’s daughter is a nun and also part black, French and Taino Indian. My book explores the very beach where Columbus’s men slaughtered the Taino and I also have a lot of central American Hispanic mythology. I even made a Pinterest blog to dump the images and info i use for research:?https://www.pinterest.com/richardstanzak/viral-chapter-67/
There is so much in my story apart from the Collector it seems sad to make my least favorite character the main one but he does drive most of the action.
The hook should be:
An ancient virus is resurrected for use in?a clinical study . It escapes and mutates the?common flu virus ?into a killer that targets children.?
My editor friend told me the VIRUS is actually my main character and actually I agree.
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