WHAT IF FOR SOME, WHEN THEY SLEEP, THEY DON’T SIMPLY DREAM, BUT FALL INTO ANOTHER WORLD? As “Dreamers”, they’re sworn to protect a world called Luceria and that duty has never been needed more than now. There was a time when Luceria was a beautiful magical place, but has become dark and dangerous because of The Taker. The Taker is a Dreamer who wants the magic of Luceria for himself and wants the ability to stay there forever and rule with those Lucerians he’s turned into his own army. For the past six months, Ander has been having nightmare like daydreams that he can’t seem to stop or get away from. He doesn’t know where to turn or who to trust and its beginning to affect every aspect of his life. On the night of his 14th birthday after spending the day being tortured by the school bully, Ander goes to bed and shortly after falling asleep, he feels like he’s falling and lands in the abandoned looking, terror filled world of Luceria. Is this the same place as his daydreams? Why is this happening to him? Are there others like him on Earth who can fall into this other world? Where has everyone gone? Ander has more questions than answers as he begins to try and navigate not only the notion of another reality, but who he really is meant to be. ANDERS REALITY is a YA Low-Fantasy Novel and is written for ages 10 and up.
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Crafting Stories, Shaping Worlds. For me, some of the greatest excitement is writing a new story. It's tough to stay focused on the story at hand because there is always a new idea brewing in the back of my mind! I talk about that and more in my newsletter, which you can join by visiting my website: adamroachbooks.com, I'll even throw in a FREE novel and novella! You can also follow me on social: IG: instagram.com/authoradamroach/ FB: facebook.com/authoradamroach IT ALL STARTED WHEN… My daughter had an imaginary friend when she was about 2 and would always tell us the adventures she went on. I took one of those adventures and wrote her a short picture book. As my brother and his wife had kids, they also starting writing simple abc/123 picture books for their kids. From the time my son was about 8 or 9, he started commenting that he was the only one who didn’t have a book. He would ask when is he going to get one. He was the only one of 5 kids to not have a book written. The problem I had was by this age a simple picture book wouldn’t be enough, so now I had to write an actual book, but what was I going to write? I thought about what he liked and started and stopped his book at least 10-15 times, with different concepts, plots, characters, etc. When he was around 12 I started to think I had a decent idea with a focus on Augmented Reality, but it still wasn’t working. I was coming up on roadblock after roadblock and had decided this wasn’t the way. I needed a new plot and I stalled out for 3-6 months. Then one day he was in my wife and I’s bathroom, brushing his teeth, and he asked me off-hand, “Do you know what Lucid Dreams are?” I said, “I think so.” He responded, “Supposedly they’re dreams where people can actually control their dreams while they are in them. I think it would be so cool to have a Lucid Dream.” With that one comment, I had the framework of the storyline in about 10 minutes and knew I finally had the plot which has become Anders Reality.
