Sure! ARTIFICIAL is the story of a young woman, Syl,
who lives in a post-apocalyptic city ravaged by Cull—genetically spliced bug monsters.
She’s abducted while scavenging and her genes are spliced. Syl slowly begins to
turn into one of the Cull and ventures to an android city to find a cure and
stop the person responsible for the splicing. ARTIFICIAL is the first in a
trilogy.
Do you
have a favorite character?
My favorite character (and yours, too—you’ll see!) is
Bastion. He’s the male main character and second POV in the novel. Bastion is
an android living in New Elite and working as a pleasure bot in the slums. He
is the sassiest robot, and while he plays the perfect anti-hero, he has a
caring heart—er, cortex? The relationship between Syl and Bastion—their banter
and chemistry—is one of my favorite parts of the novel.
Did you
try the traditional route to publishing, i.e. querying agents/publishers?
I queried agents as well as querying small publishing houses
directly. I had a couple of bites from agents, but more from the smaller
houses. I queried for maybe a month or two when Curiosity Quills asked for my
full. A week later they offered me a contract!
If you
used a graphic designer/publisher’s designer, how involved were you during the
creative process for your cover?
I used Regina Wamba with MaeIDesign. When I hired her, she
gave me an extensive questionnaire to fill out, listing the novel’s themes, my
vision, etc. I left her to do her thing, and she later sent me a mock up, which
I made comments and changes to. Overall, I would say I was very involved in the
process.
What is
your writing process? Do you listen to music or do you like silence?
My writing process is to vom words onto a page. Honestly, if
I didn’t do that, I would nit-pick the story to death. I find the most
efficient way for me to draft is in “layers.” Get the ugly first draft down,
then keep writing drafts until all the details I want are there. I can only
write in absolute silence. I’m very easily distracted!!
Do you
outline your story or just go where your muse takes you?
I am a master plotter. I’m paralyzed in my story until I
plot everything out. Prior to this series, I was never like that at all—a
pantser to the nth degree. However, I find plot to be the hardest part to get
down, so I resolved to plot this series. It’s made my writing process so much
smoother.
Did you
hire an editor to review your manuscript before publishing?
Yes. I have a very intensive editing process. I finish my
drafts and have a product I feel is safe for public consumption, then send it
to critique partner one. After I get that feedback and make changes, it goes to
critique partner two. After that, I hire a professional editor. Then I submit
that product to my publisher, who has their own in house editor take a look at
it. I ain’t playin’ with no typos!! I don’t want to see one typo in that book
when I’m finished with it!
Besides
Amazon, are there any other sites where your books are for sale?
You can also find my book on Barnes & Noble!
Besides
writing, do you have any other passions?
When not writing, I’m usually traveling. I’ve been to seven
countries so far: Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ireland, New
Zealand, and Indonesia. Next on my list is Japan!
What’s
next for you?
Book two in this series, titled ORGANIC, is slated for a
Spring 2017 release. I’m currently writing the third book in the series, due
out 2018. And I have lots of shiny ideas in my head, including a horror and
fantasy series, as well as a prequel for my Kepler Chronicles trilogy. So, lots
to work on!!
Thanks for having me!
Book &
Author Details:
Artificial by Jadah McCoy
Published by: Curiosity Quills Press
Publication date: April 4th 2016
Genres: New Adult, Science Fiction
Published by: Curiosity Quills Press
Publication date: April 4th 2016
Genres: New Adult, Science Fiction
Synopsis:
She struggles to feel human.
In 2256, the only remnants of civilization on Earth’s
first colonized planet, Kepler, are the plant-covered buildings and the
nocturnal, genetically spliced bug-people nesting within them: the Cull. During
the day, Syl leaves her home in the sewers beneath Elite City to scavenge for
food, but at night the Cull come looking for a meal of their own. Syl thought
gene splicing died with the Android War a century ago. She thought the bugs
could be exterminated, Elite city rebuilt, and the population replenished. She’s
wrong.
Whoever engineered the Cull isn’t done playing God.
Syl is abducted and tortured in horrific experiments which result in her own
DNA being spliced, slowly turning her into one of the bugs. Now she must find a
cure and stop the person responsible before every remaining man, woman, and
child on Kepler is transformed into the abomination they fear.
He struggles not to.
For Bastion, being an android in the sex industry isn’t
so bad. Clubbing beneath the streets of New Elite by day and seducing the rich
by night isn’t an altogether undesirable occupation. But every day a new
android cadaver appears in the slum gutters, and each caved in metal skull and
heap of mangled wires whittles away at him.
Glitches—androids with empathy—are being murdered,
their models discontinued and strung up as a warning. Show emotion, you die.
Good thing Bastion can keep a secret, or he would be the next body lining the
street.
He can almost live with hiding his emotions. That is,
until a girl shows up in the slums—a human girl, who claims she was an
experiment. And in New Elite, being a human is even worse than being a Glitch.
Now Bastion must help the girl escape before he becomes victim to his too-human
emotions, one way or another.
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AUTHOR
BIO:
Jadah currently lives in Nashville, TN and works in law.
When not babysitting attorneys, she can be found juicing her brain for creative
ideas or fantasizing about her next trip out of the country (or about Tom
Hiddleston as Loki - it’s always a toss up when she fantasizes).
She grew up in rural Arkansas, yet can still write good and sometimes even wears shoes! She did date her first cousin for a while but they decided against marriage for the sake of the gene pool.
Her true loves are elephants, cursing, and sangria - in that order. If you find an elephant that curses like a sailor whilst drinking sangria, you’re dangerously close to becoming her next romantic victim - er, partner.
She cut her writing teeth on badly written, hormone-driven fanfiction (be glad that’s out of her system), and her one true dream is to have wildly erotic fanfiction with dubious grammar written about her own novels. Please make her dreams come true.
She grew up in rural Arkansas, yet can still write good and sometimes even wears shoes! She did date her first cousin for a while but they decided against marriage for the sake of the gene pool.
Her true loves are elephants, cursing, and sangria - in that order. If you find an elephant that curses like a sailor whilst drinking sangria, you’re dangerously close to becoming her next romantic victim - er, partner.
She cut her writing teeth on badly written, hormone-driven fanfiction (be glad that’s out of her system), and her one true dream is to have wildly erotic fanfiction with dubious grammar written about her own novels. Please make her dreams come true.
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