Tell us what your book, “Distorted Reality: The Immortality Paradox Book 1,” is about!
Sure! Here’s the summary:
Distorted Reality, the first book in The Immortality Paradox series, is a thought-provoking science fiction thriller that explores the ethical, psychological, and personal consequences of achieving immortality.
When a powerful technology company, Black Velvet Dominion, discovers how to extract and preserve human consciousness, it opens the door to a future where death may no longer be inevitable. But there’s a catch: the process destroys the human body, and no one knows for certain what awaits on the other side.
At the center of the story are Dmitri and Celine Milanovich, a married couple whose lives become deeply intertwined with the company’s revolutionary research. As scientific breakthroughs push the boundaries of what it means to be human, ambition, desperation, and corporate secrecy raise troubling questions about identity, morality, and the price of eternal life.
Blending psychological suspense with plausible speculative science, Distorted Reality challenges readers to consider one unsettling question:
What if death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you?
What did you love most about writing this book?
We loved creating the moral ambiguity in the characters required to go along with the advance in technology the book portrays.
How did you start writing?
We’ve both been writing for years, but neither had published anything until recently. We work together in the stories we write, with Kosta writing the first draft and Sheri filling in details, challenging plot holes and editing. It truly is a team effort. Two minds are definitely better than one.
Tell us a little bit about your self-publishing experience.
This is our first book and we published on multiple platforms, including Amazon, Kobo, Lulu and BookVault. We built a business around this, complete with marketing, website and newsletter. It’s a lot of work, but also very rewarding.
What was your biggest challenge in bringing the book to market, and how did you solve it?
Our biggest challenge was being new to self-publishing and getting the word out about our book. Our ARC readers were amazing and became our biggest cheerleaders.
What's one piece of advice you have for other writers?
Start telling people about your book before it’s published and don’t rely on just people you know. Get out there on social media and build an audience.
Where can people find your book?
