Awesome Lavratt - a tongue-in-cheek space opera

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Beautiful Aranna Navna plans to conquer the galaxy one planet at a time. She steals the Awesome Lavratt, a mind control device, from a freighter in Horace Whistlestop's junkyard. She takes Horace, too. With the Lavratt, Aranna manipulates the thoughts and desires of everyone around her—until she gets to the Emperor of Calistania. Then things go from bad to worse for Aranna.

The Lavratt, however, has only just begun! Oh, the fun you can have from a small cube with mind control powers. Travel the galaxy with Tyrantz Lavratt. Silly science fiction at its best. All puns intended.

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The Book Smugglers use words like "wicked sense of humor", "brilliant", "genius", "quirky", "off beat"...

A Journey of Books said Awesome Lavratt "was funny, lighthearted and thoroughly entertaining. Wilkes has a great way with creating depth to her characters and adding realism to the story."

"Quirky and twisted, with a surprise around every corner (for you and her characters!), Awesome Lavratt leaves you grinning--and hoping for more." - Pauline Baird Jones, The Key, Winner, Dream Realm Award

"Awesome Lavratt is a fun ride on a spaceship of fools. Great characters, wonderful humor. Can't wait to see Ann Wilkes' next venture into the outer galaxies of her imagination." - Shelley Singer, Shamus nominee and author of Blackjack (as Lee Singer)


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2011 Appearances

FEBRUARY : 7 Redwood Writers Library panel on styles of writing 6-8 PM, Sebastopol library, Sebastopol, CA

MARCH: 12 FOGcon, SF/F convention, San Francisco , CA

JUNE: 18 Author Day, San Mateo County Fair, San Mateo, CA

AUGUST: 19 RENOVATION, WORLD SF convention, Reno , NV

SEPTEMBER:

9-11 Conjecture, Science Fiction convention, San Diego, CA

24 Sonoma County Book Festival (Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading 11AM), Santa Rosa, CA

29 Story and Poetry exploring the theme of sisterhood, Sonoma, CA Download flyer

OCTOBER:

15 Totally unrelated to me or sci-fi. I don't have a political bone in my body, but many outraged ones. On the 15th, I'll be at OccupySR (Santa Rosa, CA) in front of city hall at 2PM. Find out more at www.occupysantarosa.org.

NOVEMBER: 11-13 Orycon, Science Fiction convention, Portland, OR

More dates to follow (and possibly precede). When I master time travel, chronological order will be meaningless.

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Interviews

By Brian Rathbone on PodioRacket
Beyond the Words with Kim Richards
MilSciFi.com
Why I Write Fantasy with Amber Polo

Reading:
Broad Universe's BroadPod May 2011

Reviews of Awesome Lavratt

A Journey of Books She Reads Books
Sonoma County Bohemian
Highlander's Books
Fantasy/SciFi News and Reviews
New Myths
Beyond the Words (with interview)
The Book Smugglers
Amazon
SF Crowsnest


Press photo by Patrick Wilkes


Last updated: November 29, 2011