Welcome to another Indie Books column. Brit is a Salt Laker who asked me about writing in this space for her new book and I’m always happy to oblige for a new author.
Her new novel, Vita Maglia, is available currently on Amazon and you should check it out and be sure to read the free excerpt.
But, without further ado, here’s Brit to explain herself and her book in her own words:
Hello, hello Big Shiny Robot!
My name is Brit Malorie and I’m a recent addition to the rapidly expanding publishing world of Amazon. I can say with a certain amount of confidence that my novel, Vita Maglia, is a fairly weird blend and not like many other things you’ve read, good or bad.
I guess if I start at the beginning, that would be the treacherous island of Kadera, a lovely little beach paradise grown on layers of volcanic rock in the South Pacific. Kadera is not a place you should ever go, as some awfully strange things are occurring there under its leader, Lynch Katlan.Now Lynch isn’t a terrible guy. In fact, he has these projects that he’d love for you to be a part of. A missing arm here, a severed head there. Most of all, he really doesn’t like it when his bodies are stolen, especially that of Zander Grace, our hero. But with a bit of luck and struggle, Zander does manage to escape the island and finds himself back home in Colorado in the midst of a pretty spectacular scientific discovery. As in change-the-world kind of spectacular. There’s only one problem: it’s utter bullshit. Meditative circles and spiraling colors of energy. The science behind psychics and ghosts and death. All of our metaphysical connections grounded in real physics? Impossible, and yet he’s drawn further inside until, well . . . you’ll have to find out.
And don’t worry about Lynch. That psycho loves to turn up at just the right moment, determined to find the island’s link to the discovery, slicing up a body or two along the way.
As for me, Miss Malorie, I grew up on horror, so that’s my treat in the dark, but truly I am a novelist. I try my damndest to deliver what the novel requires at each turn of the page, whether that might be a sweat-streaked romance, rigorous scientific detail, an MMA fight with flying spittle and hard bodies, or just some delicious disemboweling. I grew up near Seattle, but moved to Salt Lake to attend the U and study chemistry.
Now I work in anti-doping research for athletics in Research Park.
I know, I know. Get rid of the “anti” and we’re set. So if you’re interested in something a little different, please check out an excerpt of Vita Maglia on Amazon. I’ll also be coming to a booth near you for the Salt Lake Comic Con in April. Lastly, I’m working on a great little sci-fi short entitled “Tyes” about a unique technology set in the near future. Take a little fine surgery and a few doses of rapid cellular regeneration, and all those nasty child custody fights become a thing of the past.
Thanks to Big Shiny Robot for my author post debut, and I look forward to meeting everyone at the next reading.
There you have it! Go check it out!