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Space germs decimate the adult population. Who will survive?

For months, astronomers have been predicting that Earth will pass through the tail of a comet. They say that people will see colorful sunsets and, best of all, a purple moon.

But nobody has predicted the lightning-fast epidemic that sweeps across the planet on the night of the purple moon. The comet brings space dust with it that contains germs that attack human hormones. Older teens and adults die within hours of exposure.

On a small island off the coast of Maine, a group of teens and children struggle to survive in this new world, but all the while they have inside them a ticking time bomb — adolescence.

“The high stakes and constant motion just kept building throughout the book. I didn’t want to stop. The idea was what really intrigued me, but the personality and writing really hooked me. It’s written in third person so we can bounce from character to character. I liked that, but I also think it could have benefited from being first person for the emotion. Still, a lot of moments had me gripping my seat in anticipation.”

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“As I went through this book I realized that if I was going to finish it I had to try to hang up my “Mommy” cape but keep on my “Nerdy” boots and then mentally dig deep into my past before I had kids. Back to a time where I liked thrillers and watching movies with just this sort of thing….Hey, I like The Stand so why couldn’t I like this? ( I never really liked Lord of the Flies, but then again, I doubt it was meant to be a “likeable” book. It was meant to teach you a lesson. Sort of like this one)….. And so looking at it from that perspective I found that as Sci-Fi Apocalyptic Underdog stories go…. It was pretty darn good! :D”

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This question was put to me by the Jesse Burgoyne at the blog site Pretty in Fiction

I want to be very careful how much I give away about my YA dystopian novel Night of the Purple Moon. But I think this much is safe to say: Earth becomes a planet of young teens and children—virtually overnight–after space dust from the tail of a comet penetrates the atmosphere. The dust contains germs that attack the hormones which come at the onset of puberty. Older teens and adults have these hormones in abundance. Children and younger teens do not. Yet every one of the survivors of the lightning fast epidemic has a ticking time bomb inside of them: growing into adolescence.

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Tiger Holland at All-Consuming Media invited me to do a guest post on character point of view.

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