Hi everyone. Today I am featuring a New Release Tour for Angela Lam and her book "Switched." Dive into this Dystopian Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Fantasy and read an exclusive guest post from the author herself. Check out how to get your copy today below. Happy reading :).
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What would you do if you woke up a different age and gender?
Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
I wanted to be an artist, but I had more success writing so I stuck with it.
Tell us something really interesting that's happened to you!
Last December, I tripped and fell while running and suffered a concussion (and some bleeding in the brain, which healed on its own over six weeks). I haven’t been the same since, but I have learned some things about neurology and the brain that goes beyond what I hinted at while writing Switched. Lived experience always supersedes book knowledge and interviewing experts. One of the things I experienced is a phenomenon of being in my body but being disconnected from my mind, much like a computer that cannot connect to the Wifi, I couldn’t connect with my higher consciousness or God, and I consider myself a very spiritual person. To not have a direct connection with God and to experience a literal static between this world and the next was the most alarming thing I’ve dealt with to date. Thankfully that part of my healing journey has recovered, for the most part, which is a relief.
If you knew you'd die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?
I would spend the time with loved ones, and probably post a bunch of goodbyes online for the people I couldn’t visit in person.
Describe yourself in 5 words or less!
Intuitive, passionate, creative, impulsive, loving.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
Hmm…that’s a great question. I wrote and illustrated a book called Just Kidding, when I was eight years old. But I considered myself more of an artist than a writer. I think winning the district wide essay contest about What I Like Most About School solidified my switch from artist to writer since I won a $50 savings bond. Money changes everything, even at ten years old.
Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?
Several. Mostly my romances like Legs, The Divorce Planner, and Friends First.
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
I didn’t plan this pilgrimage, but I ended up in Denver, Colorado, so I walked to the No Name Bar where Kerouac used to frequent. The experience was a little deflating because a place can’t embody the spirit of a person who visited it if that spirit is no longer there. The most profound experience I’ve had was at Jack London park in the room where Jack London died. I was pregnant at the time, and I felt the baby move, and I became quite nauseous. I told my husband, “He (Jack London) doesn’t want this place to turn into a writers’ retreat. He wants to be left alone.” To this day, those who were with me at the time believed I was communing with the spirit of London. I’m not the only one who has had such an experience. Several people who have visited the site claimed to have felt his presence. I think someplace like that where the energy still lingers is what we mean when we say a place is haunted. London never left. Kerouac, on the other hand, hasn’t been back to the No Name Bar since his death. That’s the difference.
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Switched
by: Angela Lam
Genre: Dystopian Cyberpunk SciFi Fantasy
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A global phenomenon is rewriting the laws of biology, causing men over fifty-five and women between eighteen and forty to suddenly and inexplicably switch their ages and genders. No one understands it, and no one can stop it.
Maxine thinks she can stay on the sidelines, supporting her brilliant boyfriend-turned-girlfriend Jo—an audacious biotech pioneer, who’s breaking new ground with brain-to-brain communication. But when the transformation strikes Maxine, her reality is flipped upside down.
Now facing an unexpected future, Max must grapple with their identity, struggling to align who they were with who they have become. Can they reclaim control over a life that’s no longer theirs, or will they be swept away by the changes they never asked for?
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Angela Lam
Angela Lam writes across all genres, from romance (The Women of the Crush series) to memoir (Red Eggs and Good Luck) to thrillers (No Amends) and science fiction (Switched). Sometimes, she writes under a pen name to keep things interesting (The Heroic Adventures of Madame X). The rest of the time, she is busy exploring mixed-media art and teaching others what she knows.
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