Hugh Howey has a new release coming up. A slight departure from his post-apocalyptic series Wool (along with Shift and Dust) and Sand, this one has a romance smack-dab in the middle of it.
Release date: Next Sunday, December 13th, 2014.
THE SHELL COLLECTOR is a blend of mystery, romance, and environmental disaster. It’s the story of our rising oceans; it takes place in a future where seashells are so rare that people pay a fortune for a prized specimen.
Maya Walsh is one such collector. As a writer for the Times, Maya is working on a series of pieces about the oil magnates who profited from the rising seas. One of them is Ness Wilde, the world’s foremost collector and CEO of Shell Oil. Maya blames him for ruining her world. Now she’s out to destroy his.
You can pre-order The Shell Collector now at several places:
The Shell Collector on Amazon.com
The Shell Collector on iBooks
The Shell Collector on Kobo.com
A note from the author:
Before I started writing, I lived and worked on boats. I spent ten years of my life at sea. THE SHELL COLLECTOR is my homage to the ocean.
Every week, I see another story that has me fearing for the future of the sea. Just this morning, there was an article in the Washington Post about an island on the East Coast that will be the first to disappear as sea levels rise. And in Miami, we are seeing streets flood during the highest of tides. They didn’t use to.
If you pick up The Shell Collector, let us know what you think of it in our Discussion Forum.
