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As a new writer, I felt like a whisper in a hurricane entering a market with approximately 100,000 new adult fiction books released globally each year. In this digital age, the sheer volume of data is daunting. We read too much….and yet too little. We Google, text and tweet. We rely on sound bites and slogans, skimming the surface of information but never mining its depths. In fact, statistics show that in the developed world, online gaming, movies, and fictional books are dominated by the fantasy genre: monsters, superheroes, and otherworldly beings provide a welcome escape from reality.
Yet simultaneously, millions of people face natural disasters, famine, war, riots, oppression, disease, abuse and poverty, and there’s no end in sight. We live in a time that is saturated with entertainment but starved for edification. Hungry for hope. Unfortunately, statistics also show that hand-held devices are the bane of the book industry; videos and social media consume our time with ‘instant-on’ gratification. Thus, every new book on the market must conquer a very steep hill.
Vista makes that climb. Its premise and subliminal message convey significant substance, by addressing social issues and human conditions that apply to all cultures and time periods. Readers of my novel will encounter thought-provoking questions on religion, class divisions, education, culture, trade wars, child labor, slavery, materialism and even their own mortality. Vista explores the nature of our very existence.
That is why Vista is more than entertainment. It is hope.
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” ~ Henry David Thoreau