The Children's War now available on Kindle!

Visit www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005… now to purchase!

With the American literary industry moving in the direction of stagnation, every day more and more young, aspiring authors like me get turned down by literary agencies when our books do not fit the impossibly thin niche of what is popular. Profit, not diversity, not creativity, is the force that drives not only this industry, but the gaming industry as well. But thanks to technology and platforms like Steam and Kindle, soon every artist will discover that we do in fact have a place in the world.

And so I present to you the Children's War, my first literary sci-fi novel now available for purchase on the Kindle network. In short, it is a tale about a girl who goes to war. But really, it is a story made to take us inside the mind of a soldier. The mind of a human who returns from the killing field each day with a little less of her humanity intact. It is a story about death and dying, but also about finding beauty and love amidst the ruin that Mankind has brought upon itself.


Narrated by the young pilot Clarion Maddox, the Children's War is a reflection of the events that unfold during the first world war ever to be conducted in space. After several of the Earth's public space colonies are invaded by the autocratic Northern System, a private country of colonies beyond the planet's atmosphere, the global military sends it's troops in to execute a brief, efficient cleanup operation. However, this ill-planned maneuver swiftly escalates to a full scale war, and as the conflict progresses towards it's crescendo, Clarion and her four closest comrades must fight not for their lives, but to hold onto their humanity, their identities, and most of all, each other. It is not the war itself that drives Clarion, but her internal struggle to fight against the trauma, the horror, that begins to unravel her even as the people around her are already succumbing to it. And as the Earth's military continues to lose control of the fighting, Clarion is forced to decide whether she will allow herself to die in battle or if she will forge on, continuing to exist in a ruined world. Her inner reflections of the conflict around her continue to dip deeper into despair, revealing to her the most basic truths of humanity; that even the strong and steadfast cannot survive forever in the face of the brutality that wars offer them, and eventually every soldier, every human, will crumble beneath the burden. Only the shy, uncertain affection of her closest friend, a fellow pilot who also bears the mental and physical scars of the war, continues to give her a reason to keep walking the tortured path of a soldier.


Stay tuned for updates on my journey into the indie world of self publishing, and check out my gallery for some Children's War concept art (more soon!). And if you're thinking, gee Maxwell, this sounds like a good thing you've got going on, but I don't have a Kindle! Well, fear not! Amazon has made their Kindle reading software available for FREE for download on Mac, PC, Ipad, Iphone, Blackberry, Droid, and probably others too!

Again, here is the link if you'd like to buy a copy of the Children's War, only $8.99 USD : www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005…