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Genre: Science Fiction
About Denny S. BryceLocation: Washington, DC Home Region: Age:55 Website: http://dennysbryce.blogspot.com Favorite novels: To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, The Red Dragon Favorite writers: J.D. Robb, L.A. Banks, Chelsea Cain, Dan Brown Favorite music: Me'Shell Ndegéocello (anything by her that's old) Non-noveling interests: Photography, Tennis, Travel, Twittering:), Reading |
Joined: October 2, 2007 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 0 NaNoWriMo buddies: 4
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Brief Author Bio: Denny S. Bryce is a writer of erotic romance who specializes in paranormal, urban fantasy and near-future stories featuring multi-cultural heroes and heroines. She is currently working on a novel set after an apocalyptic climate change in Washington, DC. where vampires and humans compete for the body and soul of the female protagonist. When not writing, Bryce works as a marketing and public relations professional. |
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Synopsis: The Story of Michael
Michael Pepperdine is a beat cop in Chicago in the year 2040. It's a tough life, living in rain, cold, and mud, fighting street violence, gang wars, and a world getting used to co-existing with a myth. But it's better than being buried beneath a billion tons of volcanic ash, like most of the human race. Luckily, he and his kid brother survived the apocalyptic climate change because of Katrina Wallace, a 50 year-old vampire. It was the advent of vampires as humanity's allies and Katrina took him and his brother in when they were children. Twenty years later, he is facing the end of a destructive love affair, the death of his brother, and a truth, Katrina says he can't escape. His quest will take him to the nation's capitol and a woman he never imagined he'd love.
Excerpt: The Story of Michael
Prologue
Chicago in the year 2040 hadn’t changed much from Chicago in the year 1999. That’s what his mother told every night as she locked him and his kid brother securely inside the basement vault. They couldn’t be out and about. The vampires had a problem with human children. As much vaccine as they’d injected, it was hard to suppress the desire for the blood of an innocent youth. Even the risk of exile to the Death Caves made it a temptation worth finally dying for.
Michael Pepperdine loved the city though. It was the world into which he was born. A little dark, but mostly permanent twilight, as his mother called it. Wet and cold. Another effect of the eruption of the super volcanoes, which blocked out the sun, and left a three-inch layer of ash on everything, everywhere. And then there were the vampires.
Yeah. That’s right. Vampires. They were the saviors of the human race, according to his mother. She never let him or his younger brother forget that critical fact. It was her right to remind them, too, she claimed. And considering she was a vampire and they were human – they had to understand how much they owed her.
Michael always found that part of the lecture the most entertaining. He imagined armies of vampires, immediately after the explosion, scavenging around the planet, since they didn’t need to breathe, the ash falling in buckets from the sky didn’t affect them. They were the reconnaissance teams; squadrons of bloodsuckers who didn’t have any blood to suck unless they foraged food, clothing, fuel, whatever, in order to save the lives of what remained of their food supply.
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