Meet my Young Adult and New Adult novels by Liza O'Connor

Okay, weird moment. All 3 blogs I'm promoting today are created by me. I didn't plan for them to fall on the same day, they just did that because most of my visitors do not wish to have a Sunday blog.

So here is why I look vain and self-centered today:

A Blog about my young adult book Rana: Teenage Queen.  It’s so good, that even adults want to read it.

RANA: TEENAGE QUEEN @Liza0Connor

If Rana can place her hand over a person’s heart, she can discover what they feel.

http://www.sherifredricks.com/2017/03/rana-teenage-queen-yanovel-by-liza.html

2) Next is more data I’m collecting about Titan to help me write book two of the unpublished Titan Series.

The big question is can we make Oxygen on Titan? Are the ingredients to do so there?

The answer is yes! We just need a sturdy structure to live in, say the big ship we arrive in, because baby it’s cold outside. But as we convert the methane into water and carbon dioxide (the plants will be happy with the later) then we can get Oxygen from the water, all the while increasing the temp of the planet as we buff up it’s already thick atmosphere. There will no doubt be consequences over time, but Earth is doomed. The brightest of the human race are being moved to Titan.  (Other people are going to Mars.)

https://multiuniversesoflizao.blogspot.com/2017/03/titans-lakes-and-human-survivability.html

3) I discovered I have many books that qualify as Young or New adult. I didn’t write them for the young adult market. I don’t give any consideration to genres/ages when writing. I just get a story in my head and write it.  These aren’t all the young peeps I’ve ever written, they are just the better behaved ones that might qualify as suitable for young adults.  However, I would never talk down to any of my readers, so I treat them like smaller sized adults. Since I never had children, I never became a mom. Therefore, I am just an adult kid, and I certainly don’t wish to be talked down to.

Thus, these are books for all ages, but happen to have one or more young people starring in them.

http://www.lizaoconnor.com/2017/03/meet-my-young-and-new-adult-stories-by.html

And thus, concludes what appears to be Liza O’Connor’s vainest day of marketing.

One of them was actually the first book I published through a publishing house. It's about an old woman who has cancer and decided to off herself, only she wakes up in a hospital, pissed she'd failed at this one simple task. Then she realizes something is wrong. There are strangers in her hospital room, rich people.  It takes her a while to realize what happened, but somehow, she is now residing in the body of teenage age girl. She knows if she tells them who she really is, they'll throw her into a mental ward, so takes on the challenge of being a teen again. Can't be that hard, right?

Ha!

Saving Casey

by Liza O'Connor

I was told by a short term Rom Critter that the book was unpublishable. So naturally, stubborn me, chose it as the first book to publish, and within three months and two rejections, I had a publisher. So here is some advice. NEVER let anyone else throw crap on your dreams. That particular critter thought she knew everything, but she didn't. She was just a dream-stomper and left soon after because the Rom-Critters are NOT dream stompers. We are a very positive group of writers.

Fortunately, a well-published author agreed my book was really good and gave me the encouragement to continue on.

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The next book I published was a New Adult book with crazy misbehaving men-childs and a paranormal twist. It's funny and I loved it. It got picked up at the first publishing house I sent it to.

Ghost Lover 

by Liza O'Connor

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At this point, I realized I would be economically better off if I published my own books exclusively to Amazon. So I located an editor, who also did fabulous cover and gave it a try with a Young Adult who grows up over the five book series. Book 1 Worst Week Ever is THE funniest book I've ever written. I call it a Disaster Romance.

It is also my best selling novel by far.

Worst Week Ever

by Liza O'Connor

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My Victorian Sleuth series has New Adult characteristics. It's fun, Vic is a 21 yr old woman, pretending to be a young man, because frankly, the life of a Victorian woman sucks! She wants to do interesting things! So she becomes the apprentice to the greatest Sleuth of the times: Xavier Thorn. (Never call him Sherlock Holmes!!!) This is my longest running series and my personal favorite. However, book one has some adult topics, so it's for mature New adults and above.

The Troublesome Apprentice

by Liza O'Connor

By this point, I had begun creating my own covers to reduce my costs. If you don't start making money by year three, the IRS will declare your efforts a hobby.

You do NOT want to be declared a hobby! Publishing 

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Recently, I wrote a Young Adult about a 16 and a half young lady (half fairy/half human) who is the daughter of the King and Queen of Stronghold. Sadly, both her parents die at the beginning of the story, leaving her to claim her right to not just her throne, but also of the hold that had attacked hers. Declaring her right to be Queen and taking control turned out to be two very different matters. But Rana is determined to create the finest hold on the planet Hope.

It's an uplifting story to empower young readers. You can do more than you think!

Rana: Teenage Queen

By Liza O'Connor

Soon another New Adult story will arrive in August. It's about a young man who just wants to be a championship bullrider, but that is harder than he ever imagined. He's having terrible luck in his girlfriends. His parents die. Then he get injured. Yet, after ever slam, he gets himself up. And eventually his dreams will come true beyond his imagination, but he had to stay strong through the hard times to get to the great times.

Slammed

By Liza O'Connor

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And finally, but not least, is my Scavenger's 3 book series. 200 years in the future, after the terror wars change everything about earth. Alisha is a 21-year-old Debutante turned street girl turned scavenger and finally becomes a SkyRyder. She flies better than any Ryder in the Corp.

Scavenger's Mission

by Liza O'Connor

I hope you enjoyed this walk through some of my 'younger age appropriate' books. I do have more coming. I try very hard to give all my readers something that they might light in all my many genres.

There are other books a young or new adult might enjoy such as Book 1 of the Multiverse series, call the The Gods of Probabilities. I originally named it Drogan, but then decided that didn't match the series, so I renamed it. (Honestly, I probably should have kept it at Drogan.)  

While Lydia Bennet in Untamed & Unabashed is only 16, I still do not classify it as young adult, nor New Adult. Turns out Lydia is a wild child.  Oddly when she matures a bit more and gets rid of Wickham, she become a very fine adult in book two, The Duchess Lydia (Coming in November)

Rana: Teenage Queen by Liza O'Connor

Troubles that humans brought to Hope

Not all humans are created equal. In fact, some of us shouldn’t have been created at all. While most of the colonists who traveled to their third planet were good people, a few were pure evil. And what is worse, those evil males’ dominant DNA left no chance of a son or daughter being anything but evil as well. No matter the pairing, their DNA would dominate all offspring.

Had the fairies been aware of their existence among the colonists, they would have destroyed them at once, but many of the evil men hid their dark souls. However, their clever and ruthless nature enabled them to become king of their holds, and others to spread out among other holds and took control of all businesses within a hold. These men called themselves the Black Mafia.

BLURB

Rana is only sixteen when she becomes queen. Her first challenge is to quell an internal coup while a massive army storms the gates of her castle. Her enemies believe her to be a child, but she has powers they’ve never suspected. She also has great dreams for her people, and she will do whatever is necessary to make them happen, even marrying a prince she does not want.

EXCERPT

Rana pushed in. “King Allan, I am only slightly knowledgeable about Firehold. If they lose their army, how will that impact their hold?”

“Can you not get your history lessons later? My father needs his rest!” Seren snapped.

King Allan stopped his son’s rant. “This decision cannot wait, Seren. I have ordered my general to kill them all, but Rana’s question gives me pause. I will tell you more about the hold, but let me talk to my general first.”

The screen went blank.

“What now!” Seren yelled.

“Your father has placed us on pause,” Ditter explained and pressed his hand on Seren’s shoulder. “King Allan is alive. Just relax. All is well.”

He then looked at Rana. “Firehold does not have a separate army. All the men fight, as well as most of the women who are not pregnant or have babies. Their hold began as a prison where the original colonists sent those they felt were damaging their chance of survival. Unfortunately, as the number of inmates grew, the more violent the group became, and in the tenth year of its existence, they broke free.”

Rana was shocked that her history classes mentioned none of this.

“They immediately attacked the closest holds, since they had neither food nor water. None of the holds had soldiers back then. Even their police forces were very small.” His eyes darkened with despair. “Only a few women survived the invasions, and I’m certain they would have preferred to die.”

Seren frowned. “Why was I not taught this in history?”

“Because a truce was made with the prisoners that nothing would be mentioned of their past if they would stop killing. Instead, each hold agreed to accept twenty of the men into their own, find them work, and ‘reform’ them.”

“Then why is there a Firehold?”

“Because these men did not wish to reform. So they created a new hold. They are the reason all holds have armies now. They are also the reason why all holds have corruption within their ranks.” He then smiled at Collins. “Only your general is very determined to purge the cancer from your holds.”

She appreciated the approbation of her general, but remained focused on Ditter. “Has any good person ever come from Firehold?”

“No, genetically, they are programmed to prey on the weak.”

When the King returned, his brow was furrowed. “Since it is your soldiers who prevents the Firehold army from retreating and saving themselves, you should have a part in the decision I’ve made. So I’ve asked my general to stop eliminating the Firehold army until I can explain the reason for my seemingly heartless action.” He closed his eyes a moment and breathed in deep. “Every year we lose about a hundred good, hardworking men who carry our crystals to other holds. We also lose the crystal, but the pointless loss of the men is what angers me the most. Firehold has no reason to kill my drivers. They are told not to resist if they are held up by thieves. But they die all the same, in gruesome and painful manners such as having their skin pulled from their flesh while they are still alive.”

The idea of being alive while someone ripped off her flesh made Rana tremble in horror.

Seren covered her hand as he spoke. “Father, Rana does not need to hear this. She is barely a woman.”

“I agree with you, King Allan” Rana spoke, ignoring Seren’s insulting words. “They should all be eliminated. It will be better for the prosperity of our holds.”

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About the Author

Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing novels.

OTHER BOOKS BY LIZA O’CONNOR

SCIENCE FICTION

The Multiverse Series

Sci-Fi Soap Opera with humor, romance, and science

The Gods of Probabilities

Surviving Outbound

Surviving Terranue

Surviving Sojourn

Artificial Intelligence Series

Sci-Fi/Romance

Public Secrets

Birth of Adam

The SkyRyders Series

Sci-Fi Romance

Scavenger’s Mission

Scavenger Falters

Scavenger Vanishes-coming 2017

FANTASY

RANA: TEENAGE QUEEN

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