Book Spotlight: Ordinary World by Jack T Canis

Life often boils down to simple questions with complex answers. Olivia Buchanan's question was simple, if twofold:

'Was sixteen year old Olivia Buchanan truly the culmination of a secret 30 year genome project, by a clandestine research organisation, to create the ultimate human in order to save humanity from itself?

Or: Has she merely inherited her mother's delusional schizophrenia, spiralling her into a nightmarish hell created by a diseased and fractured mind?'

Simple.

GENRE: Science Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy

LINKS: Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jack T Canis lives in South Wales, UK with his wife, three neurodivergent children & menagerie of animals. He started his professional career as an archaeologist, but through the years has also been a self-employed armourer; an administrator for the NHS and in recent years a qualified person-centred counsellor specialising in bereavement and loss, now retired. Currently he is a full-time carer for his youngest child who has Sotos Syndrome and carer for his eldest child who is autistic. He is a part time writer. He is published in a number of publications including: Purple Wall magazine (honourable mention & co-champion), Datura, & Sledgehammer Literary magazine. He is in four anthologies and has been longlisted in the Cranked Anvil monthly competition & Bridport Flash Fiction Competition (2021). All his published works can be found on his website:

https://www.jacktcanis.co.uk/

Twitter (daily): @jackcanis.

Facebook (rarely): @jacktcanis.

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About BBNYA and the Spotlight Tours

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 16 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out www.bbnya.com or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

To browse through the list of all the entrants, check out this Pinterest board! Nearly 300 authors signed up their books this year, and the quality's been amazing that we've indeed had a challenge scoring the entries. We're currently in the final round and the competition is just so tight. Stay tuned for the winner announcement this December!

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