Email your entry to seanderson@bolidepublishing.com before October 24h to be entered to win! We already have some really great artworks and the competition will be tight!

One more way you can win a swag pack? Preorder a copy of Alienation and head on over to my facebook page! Place a proof of purchase in the comments of the pinned post to be entered into the giveaway for the last ever swag pack!

Now, for today’s post… let’s meet two new aliens!

The Crime Lord Maakuna

What can I say about Maakuna Ik’Imo’No that won’t have you finding my corpse drifting in the cold void of space? Not much, I’m afraid. So I will be brief.

First of all, we could speak about his race, the Oexasie. The Oexasie hail from a small green planet called Kuan-Yin (which loosely translates to ‘the place where everything is edible’ in the the Oex tongue, though every other species on the planet disagrees with the edibleness of everything there). The Oexasie live on the swamp-like northern continent, where they spend their days fishing, hunting, or writing song lyrics which can only be described by humans as “oh god, oh god, make it stop.”

Their physiology most likely resembles that of toads on planet earth, though they can easily be confused for slugs if they’re not wearing any clothes, as their globular fat doesn’t put up much of a fight against gravity.

A few Oexasie leave their homeworld in search of a better, more fulfilling life on the core planets. This was the case of Maakuna’s parents. As a result, their son was able to rise to his full potential, quickly becoming the head of his own crime family. You can find Maakuna’s headquarters almost half of the way up Da-Duhui. His home is dark, but only by choice, as he likes the power darkness radiates. He’s rich enough to afford holographic projectors, anyway, and can change the look of a room in an instant. Inside, if you go deep enough, you can also find a museum housing black market items Maakuna has been collecting in secret.

When Sally meets him, she’s immediately put off by his stench. You can take the Oexasie from Kuan-Yin, but you can’t ever get the smell of Kuan-Yin out of the Oexasie. He tries to be intimidating, but seeing as how she’s never heard his name before, it doesn’t carry the weight he expects it to. Even so, Sally is in danger the second she ends up on his radar. And now, so am I. Excuse me while I attempt to change my identity.

The Travoshella

Wife of the mayor of Da-Duhui, the Travoshella is the Earth equivalent of a queen of this city. Bold and beautiful, she upholds a standard of elegance the entire city struggles to live up to.

Travoshella is not her name, though: it is a title. Any upper echelon, estate owning family of the Da-Duhuian nobility go by variations of their family names. Thus, if you to speak of many members of her family approaching you at once with a look that blazes like the fire of a thousand suns, you could say to yourself, “Oh crap, the Travoshelli are about to have me murdered.”

Born and raised on the planet, she married young in a match paired by the Da-Duhuian council. She currently has three children, who are growing up to be just as terrifying as she is. Only their father has a more casual look, as nothing matches his family’s ebony black skin and piercing diamond eyes.

The Travoshella can usually be found out at night, gracing her city with her presence at different high ranking social events. She will never be alone without her entourage, a large group of socialites she collects like one might insects.

And there you have it! We have one last alien on her way to meet you, but more on her later. You might have met her before… Let’s give a big round of applause to Lloyd Ladera for taking my mumblings about aliens and turning them into real works of art! Lloyd is an insanely talented artist and you should check out his incredible work: on facebook and Instagram!

Today, we celebrate the end of the blog tour, and the 3-day mark until the release of Alienation. As you probably can tell, I am so insanely happy for my sequel to come out into the world! It’s just as exciting – or even more so – than releasing book 1. I seriously can’t believe the love and support I’ve gotten for this book and the friends I’ve made along the way!

I sincerely hope you love Alienation even more than Starstruck. I love you!

Ped Aspera, Ad Astra,

Sarah

P.S: no extra word today!