Meet the Ancients + Giveaway: Pre-order of Gravity + bookmarks

Hi lovelies! You’re in for a treat today. Melissa West, the author of one of the highly anticipated books this year is invading Fragments of Life for a guest post and a giveaway. Stick around for it. ;)

Meet the Ancients

by Melissa West, author of GRAVITY

It’s interesting that aliens have become popular in YA lit recently making some assume this is a new trend. It isn’t. H.G. Wells and John Christopher began the concept many years ago, followed by a wealth of sci-fi writers that wrote everything from scary aliens to E.T.

For GRAVITY, I’ve attempted to introduce an alien species that has always been known to the leaders of Earth. They are called the Ancients and are coined from the scientific theory of “ancient astronauts.” They built our planet. They helped us prosper. But like with all amicable relationships, survival instinct can propel a relationship into hostile territory quickly, leading to one inevitable outcome—war.  

The Ancients have one great advantage—advanced intellect. And the humans have one great disadvantage—blind arrogance.

So while you will understand within the first few pages what the tagline “Don’t. Ever. Peek.” means, by the end I hope you’ll see that it’s also metaphorical. It’s a look at the way the humans in GRAVITY view themselves against the Ancients. Do they see them? Do they see themselves? Or do they merely go about their lives never peeking at anything other than what exists in front of them. 

And what about you? Do you believe in aliens? If those aliens inhabited Earth, would you eventually view them as one of us or would you always view them as different?

About the Author (from her website):

I'm not one of those writers that can claim to have been writing "all my life." I haven't. But I have been reading all of my life. Does that count? Probably not. I'm a Southerner, raised in a tiny town in SC. Then after graduate school, I moved to Atlanta, GA with my husband and daughter.

I have a B.A. in Communication Studies and an M.S. in Graphic Communication, both from Clemson University.  

In addition to all the boring stuff above, I'm addicted to coffee, pretend to like yoga, and am obsessed with shoes. I read frequently, write daily, and adore cooking.

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Giveaway: Pre-order of Gravity + bookmarks

In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed--arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know--especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

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