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5.0 out of 5 stars The genius of this book is that the familiar is also the fantastic. We're hurled immediately into an astonishing action scene July 23, 2014

By gridprice

Format:Kindle Edition

Although the story is set in the future, one wouldn't have to search far to find parallels in the present-day world... or in the past. The genius of this book is that the familiar is also the fantastic. We're hurled immediately into an astonishing action scene, written with gorgeous cinematic vividness, and plunged instantly into a universe of great peril and even greater heroism. It is a wild ride. Plan to stay up all night with this one; it is difficult to put it down.

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The Gold Stone Girl Series

The Gold Stone Girl Series, soon out in Kindle and Audiobook formats, is a hero's journey, by, for, and about human females, set in the distant future.  

In It's Nightmare,  we meet Mina.

Mina lives in a world where dreaming is outlawed.  Blinkin is the sole continent of the planet formerly known as Earth and Winkin is its only city.  There are no women here, only breeders.  Women were reclassified by the Night Mare in the long ago.  

The Night Mare is the supreme dictator of Blinkin, and the head of its government-church.  She is the sole architect of the stone-rule, the method by which the Gold Stone Girl, the breeder who will be raised as human sacrifice, is identified.  These rare girls are eaten alive, on a live broadcast, by the Night Mare herself.  It has something to do with ancient rites, planet-wide renewal, and how the dread demon first came to power, but mostly it’s just gross.  

Mina won’t learn any of the details of this her fate, until she’s surrendered to the government, as is required by law.  She grows up in the Off-grid land that surrounds Winkin City, with Bubba and Dee-Dee, who rescued her as a baby, from inside the trunk of the willow tree where she gestated alongside lygaeids hibernating as larvae.  They raise her as their own in this land where the birth of girls is legally discouraged and privately-owned females are licensed as domestic pets.  They don’t know that Mina is the Dream Weaver, a being who will discover that if she is to survive the Night Mare’s land, she must change everything. 

It's a Nightmare!

If you're at all interested in what I'm writing these days, I'll be posting chapters from IT'S A NIGHTMARE! the first of THE GOLD STONE GIRL trilogy -- dystopic, feminist, fantasy, novels I've been working on these last four years.

In 2008 Sophia Raab Downs and I went to the Women's International Film Festival with RACING DAYLIGHT (now on Showtime).  It was there I saw the trailer for the winning foreign documentary from India.  Its opening credits featured thousands of colorful cloth bundles damming a two river swirl.  The words that crawled up the screen told us that the bundles were the bodies of castoff baby girls, many of whom were still alive when they hit the water.

Why are human females counted as less than males?  Is this true of any other species?  Why are our bodies the subject of legislation, as if we were not capable of deciding what is best for ourselves?  How do we dream a different future?

THE GOLD STONE GIRL trilogy is a cautionary tale, one made up of dreams and of nightmares.

Synopsis: The Gold Stone Girl - Book One

It’s a Nightmare!  is set a million years in the future.  The planet Earth has reformed itself into the one-continent world of Blinkin.  God and his devil have given way to a new polarity --  the Night Mare and the Dream Weaver.  But the Night Mare co-opted her opposite in the beginning, and she now rules both the night and the day.  

Into this nightmare world, where human females are kept as cattle, and licensed as domestic pets -- inside the stone-system designed to prevent the enemy’s return -- Mina, a rogue DreamWeaver, is born in the Off-grid of Winkin City.  She’s found inside the mossy womb of a willow tree, alongside lygaeids hibernating as larvae.  Mina’s is a hero’s journey, as she lives the life of a human-breeder, who discovers that in order to survive the Night Mare’s land, she must change everything.

The prologue for It's a Nightmare can be read now at:

http://itsanightmare.blogspot.com/