Guest Post and Giveaway by Aubrie Dionne : Positives and Negatives of Creating Your Own World

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Aubrie is an author and flutist in New England. Her stories have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade, A Fly in Amber, and several print anthologies including Skulls and Crossbones by Minddancer Press, Rise of the Necromancers, by Pill Hill Press, Nightbird Singing in the Dead of Night by Nightbird Publishing, Dragontales and Mertales by Wyvern Publications, A Yuletide Wish by Nightwolf Publications, and Aurora Rising by Aurora Wolf Publications. Her epic fantasy is published with Wyvern Publications, and several of her ebooks are published with Lyrical Press and Gypsy Shadow Publishing. When she’s not writing, she plays in orchestras and teaches flute at Plymouth State University and a community music school.

Positives and Negatives of Creating Your Own World

by Aubrie Dionne

Paradise 21 is a post-apocalyptic futuristic world. In a way it’s “not my own world” per se, because it’s based on descendants of Earth, and therefore it shares all of our history from Abe Lincoln, to World War II, to Charles Dickens and Michelangelo.  But, because it’s set so far into the future, a lot of the world is my own devising.

With that said, I’ll talk about the positives first:

1. Creating your own world gives you a chance for truly unique word building. Only in a totally fabricated world can you have “locators” embedded in people’s arms, and “subsonic tranquilizer rays” to blast your enemies with. Great fun!
2. Anything can happen! Can man-eating sandworms thrive on a desert planet in the far reaches of our galaxy? Sure! Can a space pirate find an abandoned alien ship, fix it up, and fly away? No problem! Can you create a corridor in space connecting two moving ships, able to sustain an atmosphere? Most definitely!

Now for the negatives:

1. You must work tirelessly at creating richness and complexity in your own made-up world to make it believable and bring it to life. I had to think about how many desert planets there were as opposed to ice planets, barren rocks, and paradise planets, and then how people would categorize and classify them. I had to develop my own social structure and laws. Here’s the hard part: It all had to make sense, and not just to me. 

In my opinion, the positives totally outweigh the negatives, which is why I’ll always be creating my own worlds.

As a reader, is it more interesting to read about a real world or a fictional one?

August 2nd 2011, Entangled Publishing, LLC
247 pages, First in New Dawn series

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Aries has lived her entire life aboard mankind's last hope, the New Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew-a planet that won't be reached in Aries' lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage.

But Aries has other plans.

When her desperate escape from the New Dawn strands her on a desert planet, Aries discovers the rumors about pirates-humans who escaped Earth before its demise-are true. Handsome, genetically imperfect Striker possesses the freedom Aries envies, and the two connect on a level she never thought possible. But pursued by her match from above and hunted by the planet's native inhabitants, Aries quickly learns her freedom will come at a hefty price.

The life of the man she loves.

Giveaways:

E-copy of previous work and/or signed postcard.


Also comment to win the grand prize!

The grand prize pack consists of three gorgeous necklaces made by Aubrie herself.  To enter for a chance to win the grand prize pack all one has to do is leave a comment on one of the blog tour posts.

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