Sandra Macek
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Connection to Illinois: Macek is a member of SCBWI and Chicago Writers Association. She facilitates a critique group through her local library and enjoys several book clubs. Biography: Sandra Macek is the author of the young adult sci-fi series the Scorched Earth, which includes the novels, Kindling, Flare, Magma and Firestorm. After completing a degree in rhetoric, she dreamed of becoming an American novelist; instead she got a job so she could eat. Now she’s an IT professional by day and a writer by night—surviving suburbia on a continuous diet of girl-power fiction. Given the chance to be anyone else, she’d be Buffy, Bella or any woman in Paris.
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Kindling (Scorched Earth) ISBN: 195805173X OCLC: 1464649674 Snowy Wings Publishing 2024 It’s 2701 and a new human species reigns over Earth—one that is smarter, stronger, and possesses powerful mental gifts. But only a few hundred thousand have survived on the ravaged planet, and their present peace is unraveling in the face of an uncertain future. Mercy Adams sees the future, but she’s obsessed with the past. When her influential parents are kidnapped, she’s pulled from her simple, academic life into a world of peril and sacrifice that will test her bravery and threaten the future of Scorch itself. Amidst encrypted transmissions from outer space and revelations of a secret society, the population begins to take sides—heal Scorch or evacuate it? Mercy and her friends embark on a rescue mission to save her parents, only to discover it might be the spark that ignites a war. |