My book series: Prototype Prison, fits
into a niche I call “sci-fi for chicks.”
I borrowed the chick term from
“chick-flicks,” and I think most people know they are the movies
that women really dig because they are happy ending love stories with
a lot of gossipy, emotionally driven drama. Boyfriends and husbands
have to sit through chick-flicks to make their loves happy, and it
seems to work out fine. A few guys will admit certain chick flicks
have a cute quality, especially if they have good comedic characters.
Male actors know that's where a lot of their salaries come from.
Anyway, I am not a sci-fi buff so you
could say I created the genre for myself. I loved the Star Wars
movies of my teen years, and caught one or two Star Trek films, but I
really was not the movie goer that wanted everything to revolve
around space travel.
I know sci-fi isn't only about space.
I have enjoyed a few superhero story lines (X-Men), as well as the
supernatural thrillers (the paranorml episodes of X-files), but I
have not attended conventions or put on character costumes to
celebrate my love of awsome movies.
Perhaps Ghost fits my description. So
when I began writing Prototype Prison, it had a little bit of
techno-fiction that could almost sound plausible and a lot of
relationship attention woven in to the story with a variety of
personalities who have diverse talents that became useful while the
characters banded together to solve some very serious techno-fiction
type crises.
I know most women are fine with science
fiction, but here you go, my sci-fi for chicks.
In my next few blog posts I will
include some personality evaluations so you can decide if I conveyed
their character traits well enough on paper.
Enjoy! Welcome to the Prototype
Prison family.
P.S. I came across this link about popular female writers who authored sci-fi hits. CLICK HERE.