Velveteen
a GAMELAND novelette
Kids, Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction - YA, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
| Author: | Saul Tanpepper | ISBN: | 1230000285402 |
| Publisher: | Brinestone Press | Publication: | December 12, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Saul Tanpepper |
| ISBN: | 1230000285402 |
| Publisher: | Brinestone Press |
| Publication: | December 12, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
*Everyone was sick in those days, sick and dying. Even me.
Especially me. *
Long Island is in the throes of a deadly outbreak, but all six-year-old Cassie Stemple knows is that her family is being torn apart by the recent loss of her baby brother. As her parents struggle to protect Cassie from the terrifying disease swiftly overtaking the island, they fail to recognize the insidious infection killing them from within.
After Cassie’s beloved pet rabbit sickens and her own health begins to deteriorate, the family makes one final desperate attempt to escape the horror. But Cassie refuses to abandon her rabbit. She knows that she can still save him. All she needs is a little time. Or maybe a long, long time. However long it takes for nursery magic to work.
Although a part of the dystopic world of S.W. Tanpepper’s GAMELAND series, *Velveteen *is a standalone novelette. Approximately 14,000 words (total work count ~17,500 words, including excerpts from past and upcoming titles). For readers age 14 and older.
If you haven’t already read the series’ first season, you can get a sense of it in the included short excerpt where Jessie encounters Cassie shortly after entering Gameland (Episode 4: Sunder the Hollow Ones). (For those who might be wondering about Shinji: Yes, he does make an appearance in Velveteen, but only in a supporting role. The focus of this story is Cassie and, of course, her rabbit.
Also included are brief excerpts of two novels from the same world: *Signs of Life *(Jessie’s Game #1, a GAMELAND novel), a continuation of the GAMELAND saga, and A Dark and Sure Descent, a bridge between the original series and Velveteen. *Descent *tells the story of the Long Island outbreak and the role which Cassie’s parents, as animal researchers at the controversial Laroda Island animal research laboratory, play in it.
Total book length with excerpts: ~17,600 words.
*Everyone was sick in those days, sick and dying. Even me.
Especially me. *
Long Island is in the throes of a deadly outbreak, but all six-year-old Cassie Stemple knows is that her family is being torn apart by the recent loss of her baby brother. As her parents struggle to protect Cassie from the terrifying disease swiftly overtaking the island, they fail to recognize the insidious infection killing them from within.
After Cassie’s beloved pet rabbit sickens and her own health begins to deteriorate, the family makes one final desperate attempt to escape the horror. But Cassie refuses to abandon her rabbit. She knows that she can still save him. All she needs is a little time. Or maybe a long, long time. However long it takes for nursery magic to work.
Although a part of the dystopic world of S.W. Tanpepper’s GAMELAND series, *Velveteen *is a standalone novelette. Approximately 14,000 words (total work count ~17,500 words, including excerpts from past and upcoming titles). For readers age 14 and older.
If you haven’t already read the series’ first season, you can get a sense of it in the included short excerpt where Jessie encounters Cassie shortly after entering Gameland (Episode 4: Sunder the Hollow Ones). (For those who might be wondering about Shinji: Yes, he does make an appearance in Velveteen, but only in a supporting role. The focus of this story is Cassie and, of course, her rabbit.
Also included are brief excerpts of two novels from the same world: *Signs of Life *(Jessie’s Game #1, a GAMELAND novel), a continuation of the GAMELAND saga, and A Dark and Sure Descent, a bridge between the original series and Velveteen. *Descent *tells the story of the Long Island outbreak and the role which Cassie’s parents, as animal researchers at the controversial Laroda Island animal research laboratory, play in it.
Total book length with excerpts: ~17,600 words.
