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Pitch Wars 2018 Indie Alumni Blog Tour Spotlight for The Chamos Project

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This week we’re hosting a series of spotlights as part of the Pitch Wars 2018 Indie Alumni Blog Tour celebrating the indie authors forged through the event. For those unfamiliar, Pitch Wars was once a mentorship competition where established authors and editors would choose mentees from a pool of entrants and work with their mentor to revise their manuscripts and participate in an agent showcase. Pitch Wars was a great way for aspiring authors to find their agent, but not every author took the trad pub path.

This tour is a celebration of those authors who took a different path via indie and self-publishing, and we’ll be shining the spotlight on their books! To follow the tour across the blogosphere, check out the linktree.

Please welcome our first alumni Alexis Ames and The Chamos Project, a breathtaking queer sci-fi novel that explores what it means to be human.

Twenty years after an attack perpetrated by androids takes the lives of those closest to him, Doctor Leander Dade is living a reclusive life on Earth—until the Alliance Fleet recalls him back into service aboard the first extrasolar colonization vessel, Ariadne. Unable to refuse this order, Leander returns to space and finds himself serving alongside androids, whom he has never forgiven for the attack.

Tensions are high from the start, but when a mysterious accident strands Ariadne years away from aid, the ship’s crew and colonists—humans and androids alike—must band together for survival. Leander is forced to work with the very enemy who nearly cost him his life, and he soon finds himself falling for the last person he expected: Mac, the ship’s android chief engineer.

After a mutiny splits the ship in two, Mac comes to the realization that he alone can save the ship and everyone on it, and Leander faces an impossible choice: intervene, or allow Mac to risk his life and their love for each other.

Contains: character death, ableist language, violence, xenophobia, sexual content, and assault.

The Chamos Project by Alexis Ames is available to buy online:

About the Author

Alexis is a speculative fiction writer with works in publications such as Pseudopod, Radon Journal, and Escape Pod. The Chamos Project is her first novel.