This Week's Special Guest - John Nelson

This week at the Tiki Hut, we welcome John Nelson, an author with Wild Child Publishing as he talks about his new thriller - AGAINST NATURE.

AGAINST NATURE by John Nelson

The U.S. is ground-zero for a mysterious global pandemic. The disease is highly infectious and kills its victims within two weeks of exposure. It’s neither bacteria nor a virus and all traditional treatment regiments have failed.

Serena Salus, a radical scientist, discovers the organism is an extraterrestrial dust mite brought to earth by a shuttle astronaut.

The government contends it’s a genetically-engineered organism created on earth by enemies of freedom.

Dr. Salus uncovers a vile plan for distributing her experimental antitoxin and finds herself in a deadly confrontation with powerful forces that’ll stop at nothing to control the distribution of her vaccine.

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Welcome to the Tiki Hut John, could you tell us a little bit about your novel?

It’s a dystopian thriller. The U.S. is ground-zero for a mysterious global pandemic. The disease is highly infectious and kills it’s victims within two weeks of exposure. It’s neither bacteria nor a virus and all traditional treatment regimens have failed.

Serena Salus, a radical scientist, discovers the organism is an extraterrestrial dust mite brought to earth by a shuttle astronaut. The government contends it’s a genetically-engineered organism created on earth by enemies of freedom.

Dr. Salus uncovers a vile plan for distributing her experimental vaccine and finds herself in a deadly confrontation with powerful forces that’ll stop at nothing to control the distribution of her vaccine.

What led you to write this book?

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. In our proverbial rearview mirror we see things like Abu Ghraib, secret prisons, torture, wars built on lies and before us we see Social Darwinists rising to power in Washington. Scary stuff! I wondered what would happen if we had a great catastrophic event like a global pandemic; a disease without a cure. I used some past events and superimposed them on my fictitious event and what came out the other end was a pretty frightening dystopian thriller.

What do you believe is the key to good fiction?

I think a good novel blends facts with fiction and if successful, blurs the lines between them. The story should be plausible enough to pull the reader in and keep them turning pages.

The Dystopian genre seems to be popular again.

Yes, I think that’s true in young adult fiction, especially with the success of the Hunger Games series. Against Nature is geared for the adult reader, but that doesn’t mean it won’t appeal to young adults too. I think Against Nature is infused with a larger dose of social criticism in the spirit of Orwell or Huxley. I’m glad to see more dystopian novels hitting the shelf (or e-reader.)

What do you want your readers to get out of your book?

Any good dystopian novel should make you think. That’s my goal with Against Nature.

Was the story compelling and entertaining and did it make you think? If so, then I succeeded.

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