Fanfare! Augmosis by Steven Tye - Launches 1 August

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"Augmosis" A technothriller by Steven Tye

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The blurb is as follows:

AI, AR and the Metaverse. Tomorrow's technology is both humanity's saviour, and its master. Augmosis an original techno-thriller, set in a world where reality is no longer absolute. Humanity has forgotten the disaster that destroyed the world. Now confined to a network of underground cities, their bland reality has been concealed through augmented reality. Technology integrated into the eyes and ears masks and improves the way each person views their world. Everything, from a person's appearance to the city's architecture, has been re-sculpted. Virtual projections hide what is beneath and empower each person to project a perfect version of themselves to the world around them. Even telepresence robots: remotely piloted personal avatars, have their appearance masked by their pilot's projection.

But in this seemingly perfect society, several murders lead Detective Hal Briggs, an outcast in his department, from unexplained anomalies to conspiracy, with the unpopular consequences likely to rock the society to its core. At the same time, sculptor Carli Dawes faces a crisis of purpose when she discovers that the Collective seems to be actively pushing back against some of the freedoms she holds dear and that fighting for those freedoms will come at great personal cost.

All buying options through retailers and marketplace can be found at www.steventye.com. An audiobook sample will also be released tomorrow through the web site.

Many thanks to the Litopia community, particularly @AgentPete and the "Southern Huddle" for your help!

 

[JohnBertel]

Well done and good luck!

I see on Amazon that the reading age is set for 13-18 years. Is that intentional? The blurb doesn't sound YA to me.

 

[tyes]

Well done and good luck!

I see on Amazon that the reading age is set for 13-18 years. Is that intentional? The blurb doesn't sound YA to me.

Thanks! It should be 18 so I’ll get onto that!

 

[tyes]

So in KDP, you optionally specify a minimum reading age in terms of content appropriateness, which i said as 13. Checking a few othe sites, it looks like this can be misleading. Setting it instead to 18+ also can indicate very adult content, so it looks like the correct thing is to just remove the reading age completely. Thanks!

 

[RK Wallis]

The website looks awesome @tyes!!! Fab work Best of luck for 1 August.

 

[tyes]

The website looks awesome @tyes!!! Fab work Best of luck for 1 August.

Thanks Rach!

 

[Sarit]

Looks good. I like the author site. Simple and clean. Congratulations!

 

[Aethalope]

Gorgeous site, nice job! I love the audio book preview.

One thing I spotted, the About Steven section shifts from first person to third person (Steven is a capable speaker...)

 

[tyes]

Gorgeous site, nice job! I love the audio book preview.

One thing I spotted, the About Steven section shifts from first person to third person (Steven is a capable speaker...)

Ah thanks! I fix that up!