'They were my Canvas, painted with my last brightest colors mixed on my favorite palette in exchange for daunted and monochromatic figures.'
Olivia Mellan Cruz has been an aspiring artist ever since she was little. It's always been her dream to be more active in her creative part of herself, as she aims to be an inspiring Animator and Storyboard artist in an Animation Studio,
It's a rough path to take for her when the environment she grew up in sticks to an obsolete traditional standard of career. She's on the verge of questioning her wants and beliefs in herself on their disapproval, will she continue to pursue what she's passionate about?
Or pursue what her loved ones want and let them mold her into what they want her to be?
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UNDER REVISION
Book 1 of the Aspiring Minds Series
Book Sequel: Painted Me (Publishing Date TBA)
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
*****
When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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