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a faded blog by adam bender, author and reporter

Awards and Moderation

I entered WE, THE WATCHED for Amazon.com’s annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) for unpublished and self-published novels. The grand prize is a publishing contract with Penguin, including a $15,000 advance. So, yeah, wish me luck. If telecommunications law is more your thing, you may be interested to know I recently moderated a panel about [...]

Watched Around the World

Praise for my novel continues to come in! Recently, I got this message from an English teacher who lives in Bolivia. To her, my portrayal of the government in WE, THE WATCHED hit almost too close to home. I loved it.  The Cold War, secrets kept by the government from the people who elect the [...]

Update on Sequel to We, The Watched

Work continues on the sequel to WE, THE WATCHED. I just downloaded the Windows beta of a writing program called Scrivener. If you’re a Mac user you may have heard of it already. Up until now I had been writing the novel in MS Word, but Scrivener is already making things easier. My old system [...]

Review of ‘Brilliant’ We, The Watched

I’m excited to say that online magazine The American Chronicle just published a rather flattering review of my novel We, The Watched. There’s action, romance, and social commentary woven into a brilliant story with an amazing plot twist near the end. It’s science fiction in the way that Orwell’s1984 or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury dystopian [...]

Quick Update on New Novel

Things are really starting to come together on my second novel, an apocalyptic romance set after the events of WE, THE WATCHED. It features some of the same characters, but I’m writing it so that you won’t have to have read the first one to understand what’s going on. Reading both might give you a fuller picture, [...]

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