I have been a lifelong fan of science-fiction authors like Ursula K.
Le Guin and Robert A. Heinlein. Maybe even as far back as my 7th-grade English class. With Mrs. Thomas at Will Rogers Junior High School encouraging me to continue my science-fiction writing, I have kept this science-fiction story about a girl on another planet. And so the obsession began. I started writing the novel, Nadir to Zenith, in 2013. The characters' names and the setting came to me first, as if they already existed. Aurora as the main protagonist, is a young girl with uncertainty and much to prove, living on a planet with aliens. Then I set out to plot out the chapters. I had multiple versions of the book outline. In 2014, I joined a writing group at the very early stages of the novel, which influenced my book development, and how I presented Aurora in the first few chapters. Thanks to the honest feedback of Louis and Dennis, I learned plenty about what I needed to fix. As I kept writing the novel over the years, often taking month-long breaks, I would return to my original chapter outline and be amazed at how much it had evolved. Finally, in 2017 and 2018, while working with a mentor program through Cornerstone Literary in Bath, England, I did the bulk of the serious re-writes and made the hard editing decisions. I was guided by an editor from Bloomsbury Publishing, one of the great publishing houses in England, to the final version you will be reading today.
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