Coming this month, Race the Thunder, the 4th novel of the World Gone Dark series by January Bain!

 

Good Morning to you, and Happy October!

Aw, the witching season is upon us, the leaves are turning, pumpkin spice is everywhere, and the publishing industry is already thinking about Christmas. Meanwhile, my Mackenzie Clan of Kentucky, has considerably bigger problems. 

They're trying to find each other.

The lights have gone out.
The world they knew has disappeared.
The roads are no longer safe.
And somewhere between Kentucky, California, prison cells, abandoned highways, and a world slipping steadily into chaos, a family is desperately trying to make its way home.

So while the rest of us are deciding which Halloween costume to wear and wondering when it's socially acceptable to put up the Christmas tree...

I'm over here worrying about whether my characters are going to survive the next chapter.

Such is the glamorous life of a writer. 😉

And now the Mackenzie family's journey continues in Race the Thunder.

I can't tell you too much without spoiling the fun, but I can tell you this:

The world may have gone dark.
The Mackenzies haven't.

They are still searching.
Still fighting.
Still making impossible choices.
And still discovering that surviving the apocalypse may be easier than deciding what kind of people they want to become afterward.

That's really where the heart of World Gone Dark lives for me.

It's not simply a story about the end of civilization.

It's a story about what remains when civilization is stripped away.

What do we protect?
Who do we become?
Who do we refuse to leave behind?

And perhaps most importantly...

How far would you go to get home?

                                    RACE THE THUNDER
                                   World Gone Dark Book 4

                              The world ended in a single day.

                             Getting home may take a lifetime.

October always feels like an appropriate month to release readers into a little darkness, don't you think?

There's something about this time of year—the shortening days, the cold creeping into the evenings, the leaves disappearing from the trees—that makes us think about what happens when the familiar world changes.

That's probably why I love writing stories about people being tested.

Because the interesting question isn't whether the world will change.

It always does.

The interesting question is what we do when it does.

So, while the publishing world prepares for Christmas, I'll be sitting at my desk with another cup of coffee, trying to keep the Mackenzies alive long enough to get them home.

Wish me luck.

They have a rather unfortunate habit of surprising their author. 😉

Hugs, January Bain

Storyteller