Introducing "Shutdown"

The history of the rejected YA novel I'm now publishing on Substack.

I first started writing Shutdown in late 2011, early 2012.

My debut trilogy was under contract and I wanted Shutdown to be my next book after the trilogy was complete. 

It was quite different from Taken, which was a YA dystopia launching during the tail end of the dystopia craze. Shutdown was quieter by comparison. More of a contemporary, but with a subt…