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It's 2050, and the world is in serious trouble. Before she disappeared, Quinn's scientist mother unlocked the secret to time travel. To find her and save her planet—and, hopefully, her love life—Quinn must follow the clues she left behind.
About the author
Sarah Lahey teaches design, technology, and creative thinking at a university in Sydney, Australia. Her Heartless series of sci-fi/romance novels have won the Chanticleer Book Awards, the American Fiction Awards, the Independent Publishers Award (IPPY), and the Indie Reader Discovery Award. Her romance novel Louie the Lynx and Ryan the Lion won the Indie Reader Discovery Award. She lives, works, and writes in a small country town in NSW, Australia.
Summary
It’s 2050, and the world is in serious trouble. Before she disappeared, Quinn’s scientist mother unlocked the secret to time travel. To find her and save her planet—and, hopefully, her love life—Quinn must follow the clues she left behind.
Foreword
• The author works as a senior lecturer with Laureate International Universities, will leverage her connections there to promote the book to its over 850,000 students, 25 institutions, 150 campuses, and 65,000 employees, faculty, and staff worldwide.
• Book one in the series, Gravity Is Heartless, will receive a NTRO (Non-traditional research output). This is an international research accreditation for the exploration of future technologies and future world building elements in the novel. This will raise the book’s academic profile, globally and locally, and filter down to Book 2, Nostalgia Is Heartless.
• Gravity Is Heartless will become a key text in 2021 for the subject Future Design Technologies at Laureate International Universities; students will be required to read excerpts from the novel. This will generate interest in Book 2, Nostalgia Is Heartless.
• Strategic pitching to national broadcast media through PR / Marketing company (yet to select a company).
• Pitching to national print publications, including additional content provided by the author.
• Coordinated social media campaign, including the author’s blog on design in the twenty-first century and related
• Author will participate in book readings and discussions in person or via Skype/Zoom.
