In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author C.J. Milacci discusses the first two books in her Talionis series: Recruit of Talionis and Fugitive of Talionis. These sci fi dystopian novels were written for the young adult audience, but fans of C.J.’s series vary in age with the youngest fan being just 10 years old, and oldest being ninety-eight. In this series, the main character Bria is a young woman haunted by personal tragedy who is kidnapped to become a recruit in an army of secret soldiers, forced to fight in a war that she wants no part of. What was C.J.’s inspiration for this series? She started with a question: What would happen if America fell like Rome did, while the rest of the world moved on and abandoned the survivors of America’s collapse? From C.J.’s answer to that question, the Talionis series was born. In this episode, I’ll chat with C.J. about her writing journey, the reason she is became a fan of plotting her stories, and what she loves about dystopian novels.
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