The Biloxi Star Warrior - Chapter 1

Hi. I'm Katie Papilio, author of "Alder's World," "Flash Master," "Summer of the Masters," and a few other. I'm also the owner of Dryden House Publishing. For about the last 3 years, I've really worked on nothing but Dryden. This summer though, a series of illnesses forced us, more or less, into hibernation. While I wait for us to resurrect ourselves (one illness cured, two ongoing) I thought I'd take a break and work on something else.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do though so, I posted a challenge to my friends and followers, "Give me a one sentence story outline, a genre, a location, and at least one interesting trait about a main character and I'll write the novel of it."

Combining the responses from Fluffy Sama, Tracy Vincent, DuWayne Tewes, and Charlotte Garneau, this novel is about a kickboxer from Biloxi Mississippi, who hears voices in her head and has to pilot a giant robot against the invading aliens with the help of nice guy aliens, and the Grand Canyon is one of the locations.

Wish me luck.

Most of this came from DuWayne, who once wrote a paper for an English class about how The Merchant of Venice is like the Dukes of Hazzard. I'm going to take a little bit from him stylistically and maybe get just a little tongue and cheek.

My commitment is to write it directly into Wattpad as a rough draft, then, if I like it, refine it and publish it. Ready, set....