Category: The Apollo Illusion

• December 6, 2018

  What Would You Do If Your Mother Was Killed and You Wound Up on the Streets?

    Imagine this: you’re a teenager and living in a small, one-bedroom apartment with your mom. She works 16-hour days and barely makes enough money to eat. You live in a desert inferno and barely leave your boxed home. Then, one day, you take your younger brother for ice-cream. When you return, you find your…
• November 15, 2018

  Prices for ‘The Apollo Illusion’ Increasing by December!

  Due to wider distribution, prices for my debut novel, The Apollo Illusion, will soon be going up. If you haven’t grabbed a copy yet, now’s the time while the e-book is only $2.99 and the paperback is $10.99. These changes may happen as early as December, so if you’re curious to read it, hurry and buy it…
• November 7, 2018

  Cover Reveal! Stone from HELL: An ‘Apollo Illusion’ Short Story

  Oooooo guys, doesn’t it just give you CHILLS? If you haven’t read a sneak peek of this sucker yet, read the first two chapters now! What Makes a Monster? In this short story about The Apollo Illusion’s most notorious hacker, Stone, we learn about the teenager he was before everything fell to pieces. And the…
• October 17, 2018

  READ A SNEAK PEEK! Apollo Illusion Offshoot to be Launching Soon, ‘Stone from HELL’

  If you read my debut novel, The Apollo Illusion, then you know all about Stone and HELL. But how did Stone become the person he was in The Apollo Illusion? “Stone from HELL: An Apollo Illusion Short Story” is the backstory of how Stone came to be, and the birth of the infamous organization, HELL.…
• September 6, 2018

  Win a SIGNED Copy of my Book, The Apollo Illusion!

  Do you love reading, author-signed books, and fun giveaways? Well … Starting today, I’m launching a giveaway for two SIGNED copies of my debut YA science fiction/dystopian suspense novel, The Apollo Illusion. That means YOU could win one of two author-signed copies! Wanna enter? Here’s how: Enter the Giveaway! To enter the giveaway, just sign…
• July 25, 2018

  How to Deal with Criticism After Publishing Your Book

  No matter how you slice it, reading criticism of your beloved book is hard. Especially when it’s your first book, and a critique can feel like a personal assault on your child. I get it. As I prepared to read the first public reviews of my debut novel, The Apollo Illusion, I mentally put up…
• June 5, 2018

  Have You Seen these Dope Artists? They Designed My Rockin’ Book Cover

  One of the reasons I went indie with my debut novel, The Apollo Illusion, was creative control—not just of my story, but of the cover art and presentation. I had two artists in mind who I wanted working on my book’s look, because these guys are seriously awesome AF. Cover Art: Rebecca Lopatin Yes, we…
• May 21, 2018

  How Babies and Tablets Inspired this Dystopian Novel

  Babies and tablets. The rise of propaganda. Rosh Hashanah dinner. These were a few of the factors that led to the inspiration behind my debut novel, The Apollo Illusion. I love reading the story behind the story from favorite authors, like Margaret Atwood or Junot Diaz. So when Autumn of Fallen Over Book Reviews asked me…
• May 17, 2018

  [REBLOG] Review: The Apollo Illusion by Shari Lopatin

  

  “Where nothing is ever what it seems” Genre: Dystopian Suspense, Sci-fi, YA, Speculative fiction Similar to: The Hunger Games. Could be enjoyed by: Fans of YA, especially if you feel like you’re growing out of the genre a little. Publication date: 19th May 2018 Disclaimer: I was approached by Shari to review her new book,…
• May 14, 2018

  What It Feels Like to Publish Your First Book

  What does it feel like to publish your first novel? As a professional writer and journalist who’s dreamed of publishing a novel since she was a fetus, let me count the ways …   Like skydiving in your underwear.  Like singing “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift while cruising along the Pacific Coast Highway with…