NEW RELEASE: Elfed in New York: Intern – Erik Schubach

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF urban fantasy book out: Elfed in New York: Intern.

Nineteen years ago, Evander Laun and Natalia Havashire went on the air throughout the world on almost every news channel simultaneously, to reveal to the human race that Elves walked among us. It is the most-watched historical event in modern times.

An aspiring investigative journalist, Killishia Renner, finds out with the rest of the world that she is an Elf unbeknownst to her, when she manifests Elvish physical traits on the air during the Tree Lighting ceremony in Rockerfeller Center in New York. It challenges everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

Intern follows the hurdles she must overcome as she learns about being an Elf while facing the uncomfortable popularity of being Elfed in New York.

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Excerpt

The dark sky still refused to give way to the twilight of the approaching dawn as we jockeyed for a parking spot a block from Rockefeller Center. And after squeezing in between Ken’s Taco Express, and a newcomer I didn’t know, whose truck simply had Burritos emblazoned on the side, we started prepping the food, and starting up the gas grills to start caramelizing twenty pounds or so of onions.

I glanced out the window and had to do a doubletake, and just moaned in resignation at the billboard on a nearby building. Melanie Jericho, in all her glamorous glory with her sublime pointed ears and the same shockingly crystalline blue eyes all Elves had, was plastered there on an advertisement for the very LaunPad I owned.

Only I had known her when she had been just Melanie Tubberman, one of my best friends in high school before she got Elfed. And the cute, sweet, and quiet cross country runner became a completely different person when everyone in class started treating her like some sort of A-List celebrity or royalty after she Elfed until the Jericho family claimed her and she was spirited away upstate to a special, astronomically expensive private school where they could teach her about all things Elf. Now she was the spokesmodel for LaunCorp’s consumer electronics division.

I guess I should start at the beginning, the day there is actually a holiday for now, Reveal Day.

It was nineteen years ago, I was just four at the time, but I remember the mix of excitement and fear from all the adults in the neighborhood, when Evander Laun and Natalia Havashire went on the air throughout the world on almost every news channel simultaneously, to reveal to the human race that Elves walked among us.

It is the most-watched historical event in modern times. We had to study it in Social Studies in school. I must have seen the clip which everyone at first thought was some sort of publicity stunt by the CEOs of the two most powerful corporations in the world when before our eyes, their ears lengthened to points and eyes deepened to that almost glowing blue right on the air.

There were varied reactions to this, most were skeptical and thought it was simply digital visual effects, but as some governments and militaries started to react and mobilize in ways that told the world it most certainly wasn’t just a corporate stunt from the two companies that reviled each other. And when more and more people stepped forward with those pointed ears and blue eyes, all mesmerizingly beautiful, the panic began.

Author Bio

I got my start writing novels by accident. I have always been drawn to strong female characters in books, like Honor Harrington. And I also believe that there is a lack of LGBT characters in media. So one day I came up with a story idea that combines the two… two days later I completed the manuscript for Music of the Soul.

Each of my books features strong likable female characters that are flawed. I think that flaws and emotional or physical scars make us human and give us more character than simply conforming to some “social norm”.

I write in many genres including romance, scifi, fantasy, paranormal, dystopian, and even cozy mysteries.