When I'm not writing or creating a story, I spend my free time supporting literacy campaigns and community organizations, fly fishing, playing basketball and tennis, doing crosswords, watching movies, dabbling in video games, reading (lots), and (more than anything else) spending time with my wife and two daughters. Check out DARK EDEN to experience this type of cross-platform project. Currently I'm developing a few new-media projects. Here's a fun note.the books have been translated into approximately two dozen languages. I've been fortunate enough to have had some bestselling series work: The Land of Elyon, Atherton, Elliot’s Park, 39 Clues, and Skeleton Creek. I've written young adult and children's books for Scholastic, Little Brown Books For Young Readers and Katherine Tegen Books/ HarperCollins Publishers. After college, I spent a decade living in Portland, Oregon where I worked in advertising, game design, and technology. Salem, Oregon is where I spent my formative years and I graduated from Willamette University. (Mar.I have been a lifelong writer and storyteller. Agent: Peter Rubie, FinePrint Literary Management.

A large but well-developed cast and some grim turns of events keep the story moving and lay groundwork for the next book in this planned trilogy. Carman’s world-building doesn’t stand up to scrutiny (too many social structures appear designed to enable plot points), but the character-driven action should keep readers invested. After Liz’s family emigrates, Faith gets caught up in what could be the beginning of a war. Faith also discovers her “pulse,” a rare power that gives her telekinesis. When Faith Daniels’s school is consolidated into another one, she and her friend and fellow junior Liz meet attractive and dangerous twins Clara and Wade.

If they decide to emigrate, they are given free transportation to one of the States and cut off from the network. In the near-future wasteland between the giant Eastern and Western States, the remaining teenagers attend sparsely populated schools, ordering goods and taking classes piped in from the States on their networked Tablets. Carman (the Dark Eden series) mixes high school drama with mutations and conspiracies in this impressive take on the postapocalyptic novel.

Pulse by patrick carman