My first novel

This month I finished my first novel. The winning idea was born in the year 2013, after discarding other approaches based on which I was writing a couple of stories. From the year 2013 to 2019, at least three years passed without advancing a bit for various reasons: the infamous writer’s block, but mostly it was due to an overload of work.

Finally, I made it. When I decided to write a novel, I took courses and researched more deeply about the genre. Even though I have read several books, in my life, it is not the same to write one. You learn a great deal in the process.

The inspiration was initially of the zombie type, but at the same time, the concept of a dead walker eating with a dead digestive system didn’t make sense to me. Hence, I thought about something more feasible in real life, even when it is fiction. This is how I considered that a mutation could transform regular people into cannibals but as a result of an involution that led them to be like an unknown hominid species from a different era. “Genética Canibal” (Cannibal Genetics) was then born. This was the title from the beginning.

I will provide more information about the novel in the next posts, such as how was the process to write it, the cover design, among other things.
Currently, the novel is available in all Amazon’s marketplaces in Kindle version. With “Look Inside,” you will be able to read almost up to the end of the second chapter. Regarding the printed version, it is in the review process. This novel is participating in AMAZON’S LITERARY PRIZE 2019 in Spanish.

This is what you will see in the back cover and in the book description of Amazon:

The discovery of a fossil of an unknown hominid species will jeopardize humanity after an accident in the Dierb Institute.
A situation that seemed under control goes beyond, and a mutagenic virus spread rapidly to the world population. This will change the way of living for a life of survival.
Enclosed in fortresses and shelters, people wait for the threat to fade and self-consumed, but this is far from possible. The external world has its own plan.
Mónica de Vrie, an experienced geneticist, despite her privileges, cannot escape from reality, and it is affected more closely than most. She will have to defend her own from the human nature that is transversal between species.
Will we be defending ourselves from a virus, another species or a more terrifying version of humans?

Genética Caníbal, a novel written by Lunyzbreid López