The World of Zone-E

My new book, Zone-E centers around a world that is Earth, but not Earth. After other planets with other intelligent beings were discovered and given names such as Zone-A, Zone-B, etc, Earth was renamed Zone-E.

This all came about after a global change that isn't talked about much in the book itself. It is almost like a second Dark Ages. Anything before the year 3000 isn't talked about much, there isn't any real record of it. And though the book also doesn't delve into this fact, the schools don't teach it.

Actually there are a lot of background things that I've gotten into that don't ever get mentioned in the book. Let's just say I plan for some spin offs in the not so near future... But I do want to explain a little more about this world that is Zone-E.

I see it as a rebuild of whatever disaster that happened before 3000. The Avarices are already in power when this new year comes around. It is the father of Lord Avarice (the villain in Zone-E) who is really in charge at this point. But what point are we at? The world is in chaos. Much of it is iced over except for the southern hemisphere which is seeing lots of rain and definitely isn't as warm as it used to be. The United States are not only cut off from the rest of the world itself (thus why we don't hear anything about Europe, Asia, etc) but is completely broken - as Lyza Carroe puts it, "Say goodbye to democracy, folks." The new USA is simply called the States and has actually changed its region a bit. Sure, the leader of what the USA was is in charge, but as Lyza briefs us, there has been a hostile takeover of the livable areas, which so happen to be more of South America than anything (though I imagine states like Texas, New Mexico, and so on are still a part of the mix for sure). The northern parts of the USA and probably bits of Canada (Note- as the book stands, Canada has kind of disappeared. I plan to give explanations of this in later books) are now the N.A.T. or Northern Arctic Territories. These are iced over completely and home to only a few small villages where the main enterprise is being a Guide, someone who goes out into the uninhabited NAT to retrieve leftover supplies that may be around.

The only part of the States that people live in is called Aquaria. This was a ploy by Avarice to keep people in Zone-E and possibly attract tourists from other planets. He located this completely frivolous and out-of-the way project at the bottom of the ocean off the what-was-once-California coast. The plan was to have a bunch of Domes be a part of Aquaria, but the project ran out of money after the first Dome was completed. Now what Aquaria is is a strange mix of upper and lower class (with an extreme difference between them as there is no middle class) How could this be? Well, those with money were able to strive in the Dome while those who went there seeking fortune (kind of like immigrants who came to America seeking better opportunity) found a hard life.

And that's the basics. I'll later delve into some other info about the world, but I thought it would be cool to brief you on what its all like. I've spent so much time on a world that doesn't fully make it into the story's plot that I realize it would be fun to share it. (Yes I was inspired by J.K. Rowling extra info she puts out on Pottermore... :P)