Day Zero by Summer Lane
(The Zero Trilogy #1)
Publication date: October 10th 2014
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
Synopsis:Elle is a survivor. Since the collapse of modern society, she's been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life. And then everything changes. After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely comrades, and the hope of a safe haven. Together, they journey toward the dregs of civilization, facing starvation, imprisonment and death. They are alone, but they are ready. Day Zero begins today. Day Zero is a novella, the first installment in The Zero Trilogy, a novella series complementing the international bestselling Collapse Series.
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AUTHOR BIO
Summer Lane is the author of the international bestselling
Collapse Series, which includes State of Emergency, State of Chaos, State
of Rebellion and State of Pursuit. The fifth installment, State of
Alliance, is releasing January 2015. Summer is also the author of The
Zero Trilogy and an upcoming survivalist/science fantasy series coming in
2015. She owns WB Publishing, Writing Belle Magazine, and is
an accomplished creative writing teacher and journalist.
Summer lives in the Central Valley of California, where she
spends her time writing, teaching, and writing some more. When she is
not writing, she enjoys leisurely visits with friends at coffee shops,
dates to the movies, hiking in the mountains and strolling on the beach.
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Guest Post
Creating Elle
One of the joys of being a writer is that you get to create
new and exciting characters entirely from scratch. Of course, fictional
characters are simply made up of bits and pieces of realistic people and
personalities, but combining them to make a single, unique protagonist is an
awesome task.
Elle is the fifteen year-old protagonist of Day Zero, and will be the starring
player in the entire Zero Trilogy.
When I began writing the story, I had a very clear picture in my head of who
this girl was, and where she came from. I find it helpful to create intricate
character backstories – regardless of whether or not those stories make it into
the novel. Knowing your characters as well as you know yourself makes them real
to the readers.
I built Elle’s appearance and personality around the fact
that she had been through serious trouble and tribulation before we get into
her head in Day Zero. This is what
shaped her character for the book, and it is what carries her through many of
her adventurous survival scenarios. I can’t wait to see where Elle’s journey
ends up taking her!
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