We love new and interesting ways to explore swimming. Why not a Sci Fi Novel for kids of all ages? Well now the swimming community has one!
K.H. MacKinnon is a writer and ghost writer based in Southern California. She’s written a sci-fi novel called GILLS for pre-teens, teens, and young adults. It’s a story of self discovery, self-empowerment and self-acceptance. One day the central character is a typical student going to school, swimming on the swim team and chatting on her phone, and the next day she is on a breathless adventure to save her life and the lives of her siblings.
Gills is done, in the can, ready to hit the market, but it’s only the first installment of the GILLS Trillogy. Ms MacKinnon needs our help to reach the largest audience possible and that takes a little investment for professional production and marketing costs: the editor, illustrator, designer & publicist.
If you’re a reader, a swimmer, and a fan of Sci Fi, you may want to help Ms MacKinnon on her publishing, marketing and distribution journey.
For more details and to offer your support, go here.
Follow her (via MaggieMackBooks) on Twitter here.
Project: GILLS, a Sci Fi Novel for Kids
GOAL: $11,000
Time: 28 days left
Via Kickstarter
GILLS is a completed sci-fi novel (200+ pgs) I’ve written for pre-teens, teens, and young adults. It’s a story of self discovery, self-empowerment and self-acceptance – as the main character suddenly learns something very unique about herself! One day she is a typical student going to school and chatting on her phone, and the next day she is on a breathless adventure to save her life and the lives of her siblings.
Throughout GILLS is the theme of love & conservation of the ocean.
During the course of her adventures (this is Book ONE of the GILLS Trilogy) she discovers things about herself she could never have fathomed before, and learns to accept and love ALL parts of herself.
GILLS as a metaphor for self acceptance
The story of Gills is a metaphor for what every child, teen, and person goes through in life as we learn to discover, embrace and love who we actually are. Most all of us have experienced at some point disliking parts of ourselves, only to discover later that those very parts are some of our best attributes! The characters in GILLS experience this type of realization and awakening throughout the book.
NO GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE
Our heroine learns to trust her instincts and she does protect herself …but without page after page of gory violence that seems to pervade so many books marketed to kids and young adults today.
FUN TO READ
I’ve already given GILLS to a number of teens and pre-teens for their feedback. I asked for their two main thoughts about the book and they replied with variations of the following:
- “So Fun! Can’t wait to see what happens next – when can I get book TWO?”
- “I felt good after reading it!”
I realized that with the rampant marketing of violence to children it’s important to remember that kids might not want all that horrendous violence and mayhem in the books they read.
WHY I NEED YOUR HELP…
I am a writer and ghostwriter with great reviews and steady sales on my books and I’ve decided to self publish Gills. I want GILLS to reach an avalanche of young readers and for that I need to pay for professional production and marketing costs: the editor, illustrator, designer & publicist.
I’ve posted below some screen shots of a few of my books from different genres (romance, parody & self help) so you can see that I do what I say and I say what I do!
