How was the novel 2.18 conceived?

Sometimes I feel slightly envious of the authors who can answer the question “How did you come up with an idea for your book?” in a fun exciting manner. I wish I could do the same, but it wouldn’t be true.

It all started because I was bored to death on one fine November evening in an empty apartment. We moved to another state on a whim, and all the furniture and books were still in some container in route to our new home. All we had was an air-mattress, a small table lamp, clothes, travel necessities and “The Good Omens” book that I got fond of and had finished earlier than I hoped.

It was after midnight, my husband was asleep, and I was staring at the ceiling. So, I grabbed a notebook, where we were noting our travel schedules and to-do lists and started to write down a novel for myself. This is the exact moment the first pages of 2.18 were born.

Afterwards, the scenes and chapters were created and written in the weirdest places – on a desolated highway from Colorado to Wyoming under B-Tribe tune, during a tedious meeting at work, deep down in the catacombs of Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Ukraine, dancing in the darkness under Afro-Celt Sound System band, hiking with my dog in a National Forest. .. It has been a wild journey.

I am thrilled, scared and excited to share 2.18 with all of you. I know you will enjoy it!

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The First Look at the Book Cover for my novel 2.18

Hello everybody,

Just wanted to share with you the official Book Cover for my upcoming fantasy novel 2.18. I've been jumping around, clapping my hands, giggling and squealing like a little piggy when I first saw it! ;-))) The cover is created by a super talented artist Bradley Cassani.

What do you think?

So, what is my novel 2.18 all about?

Hi everybody,

Between final edits of the 2.18, writing a new chapter for the second book, learning Twitter, Facebook and creating this blog in the rare waking moments left between my regular job, family, friends and my dog, I feel overwhelmed but thrilled at the same time. Even yoga doesn't help to relax any more. I used to love to meditate, but I've forgot how to do it now! How does everybody relax? Any favorite tips? What works?

In the meantime, just wanted to share a rough annotation to my novel 2.18 that I hope to make available on Amazon (Kindle edition) on August 31st.

"An ordinary, twenty-three years old, MarCom manager in Denver finds herself falling in love with her seemingly ever-present Guardian... Demon. “Seemingly” is the key word here, because by a bureaucratic mistake, at the time of Tessa’s birth, she was not assigned a Guardian Angel or a Guardian Demon, until just now. And the reason they appear in the middle of an ordinary summer night in her bedroom is a simple one. By another mistake made by somebody in the Archives of the Powers, she wasn’t given a purpose in life.

Tessa Vetrov is offered a new mission -- to hunt down an insane Russian scientist in Geodar, a neighboring realm of Earth under the supervision of her newly-appointed Guardians. She reluctantly accepts the offer, which is guaranteed to take only one minute of her life here on Earth, and the successful completion of which will bring her a hefty reward.

Unfortunately, it turns out that Tessa is just a pawn in a high-stake game of the Higher Powers, and not all of their promises will be kept..."

How does it sound?