I start my mornings with coffee and a couple of hours on the net taking the pulse of current events, politics, technology, and business before starting work on the current writing project. I spent most of last year working on the final book in my Alt History Trilogy, ‘After The Contact’. By December, I was almost ready to send the draft to my beta readers, hoping to publish it early in the new year.
Then, the stories about the Virus in China started to appear, and I recognized, at 76, I am in the most vulnerable target group. A new story line came into my subconscious, and I couldn’t let it go.
On January 15th, I gave up, and started writing what has become
‘After The Virus Apocalypse’, which is fiction today, but...
What if a bio-weapon escapes after mutating and the cure no longer works. Suppose it mutates again while infecting the initial victims, goes dormant if the victim -recovers, and returns, without symptoms, to be contagious again before killing the weakened host.
I published it on March 17th, and started writing another story set in the same worst case conditions.
After The Virus Depression follows a young couple from vastly different backgrounds, who find love, and then are torn apart by events beyond their control, in a world that is out of control.