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cacopeland
Novel: Classes
Genre: Science Fiction
50,969 words so far   Winner!

About cacopeland

Location: Tuscaloosa, AL

Home Region:
USA :: Alabama :: Tuscaloosa

Age:42

Website: http://www.cacopeland.com

Favorite novels: HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, EarthCore, Infected, Nocturnal, Spherical Tomi, 7th Son, Brave Men Run, Playing for Keeps, Personal Effects: Dark Art

Favorite writers: Mur Lafferty, Scott Sigler, JC Hutchins, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Nathan Lowell, Mike Bennet, Douglas Adams, Dean Koontz, William Gibson

Favorite music: Groove Salad, Sonic Universe & Space Station Soma (somafm.com), smooth jazz & electronica

Non-noveling interests: computers, blogging, frisbee, RPGs, gaming

Joined: October 26, 2008

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'08

NaNoWriMo posts: 0

NaNoWriMo buddies: 8

 

Brief Author Bio:

My day job is an Information Security Analyst for the University of Alabama. I have 16 years of experience in Systems/Network Administration, Project Management, Messaging/Groupware Administration, Security Analysis, and IT Business Analysis.

During the Summer of 2007, my family spent 5 months in Nairobi, Kenya while my wife did research for her PhD in Medical and Cultural Anthropology. While we were living in Kenya, I realized an unfulfilled need to write. So, I began one project and planned another: the first is a fantasy/scifi novel I have been tossing around in my mind for some time and the second is a memoir of my grandparents and their farm.

Synopsis: Classes

When two of the hottest movie stars, Kevin and Cathy Jones, announced that they were expecting their first child, the entertainment world began chattering about the passing of the torch. When reporters asked about the baby’s gender and the parents responded that they did not know and wanted to be surprised, everyone thought them quaint and adorable. When it was reported that the Kevin and Cathy had twins, a boy and a girl, everyone was surprised and delighted. When it was revealed that Kyle was born a protector and not an entertainer, like his twin sister and parents, the entertainment world collectively gasped. Mixed families happen from time to time, but not in entertainment and especially not for reigning entertainment royalty.

In a society where your career is determined, not by aptitude or interest, but by the natural color of your hair, what happens when your family and your destiny clash? After a most successful session at school, Kyle is rewarded with a vacation. He returns home, unexpectedly, and is shocked at what constitutes normal in the entertainment society he, so recently, considered home. Keep up with the Joneses and follow Kyle, the protector son of entertainer parents, as he grows up and attempts to fulfill his prescribed destiny and as he figures out if his destiny places him outside of his world or maybe outside of the whole world.

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