Intro: Annelise Drake

The INVASION OF THE RARAKS

The first novel series I am going to expose is my sci-fi awesomness known as the Invasion of the Raraks. There's a whole ARMY'S worth of characters in this series, but I'm going to show you the main twenty or so before I move on to places and things.

Annelise Drake

A fun-loving, seventeen-year-old high school junior. Her mother, Regina, was a security-intelligence warrior for the American Rebellion that fought the Raraks (pronounced RARE-acks), the secret army of hostile aliens from a far-away galaxy infiltrating the world's governments. Her father, Peter, was an innocent civilian that had no idea the aliens and the Rebellion even existed. Regina had wanted to tell Peter about it, but was too afraid of being caught. Rarak ears were everywhere. There was a beautiful love between them in despite of this.

The Raraks wanted to kill Regina because of her high standing in the Rebellion, but the Invasion had also started to collect humans to become slaves on their planet, creatively-named Rarak (genius, I know). So after Regina gave birth to her twins, Annelise being one of them, the Raraks killed Regina, weakened from child labor, and stole Annelise's twin brother, who looked to be the stronger of the two. Peter and Annelise were then alone, Peter not knowing anything about Annelise's twin, for conveniently, the doctor that birthed the children was a Rarak himself.

So Annelise was an only child for many years of her life. When she was seventeen, news reached the evil Raraks that her potential for becoming a Warrior for the Rebellion was high, and she was a danger to their secrecy (the Rebellion kept the Invasion a secret for the safety of innocent humans). The mysterious Lord of the Raraks, whose identity is not yet known, demands Annelise's head, but an intel mistake prevents that from happening and Annelise's bus driver, a Rarak Assassin, kills Peter instead.

Long intro, I know, haha.

So as far as you know, Annelise is an orphan with nowhere to go. Time to get introduced to the Rebellion!

I have grabbed real-life actors to portray every character, just because my imagination is fed well through real-life potential. When trying to decide who looks the most like Annelise, it took no time at all to decide that the young singer Jojo was the best pick, and closest to the true thing that could possibly exist. Not a lot of makeup though - Annelise has a true natural beauty.

Such gorgeous hair. I'm obsessed with that!

Every day I plan to upload two or three characters, and eventually you will know the whole story! Keep Annelise in mind though - she is the MAIN character and most of the story is told in her perspective.

Thanks for reading!

Welcome!

Yay, my first blog! To be honest I've been wanting to do one for a long time now, but I've never gotten around to it, so welcome to my blog! :) This blog is called Novel Ideas, and will track my progress as I write three separate young adult series. This first post will explain all of them so that you guys get a grip of what I'm saying (which is more than a lot of people can do, haha).


All riiiight so here is the beginning, but first, I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself. I'm 20 years old and have am pursuing a double major in biochemistry and professional writing. I hope to one day become a technical writer (because I love writing soo much and chemistry is just, well, my thing). I love kayaking. The picture is from New Hampshire, when I went with my sister for a week to no-man's land and Augusta, Maine. Gorgeous up there. You guys have to go if you ever get the chance. Now enough about me, let's get down to the books!

I've been writing for 8 years now, and have finished four good books in that time (when I was 14 I wrote this really crappy series that I only keep for nostalgic reasons). I'm currently working on three books at once now, which sounds like it would be a lot, but it's really not, because they're all so different and I deeply enjoy letting my mind hop from one universe to another! (Come on, who DOESN'T?)

The first series I will be explaining is my science-fiction series, the Invasion of the Raraks. It takes place pretty much present-day, though the technology is a little advanced. Maybe 20 years in the future. But not insane. It's about an alien invasion that tries to conquer Earth by dominating a major country at a time, and America is the next target. They take over our government and we even elect one as president (SPOILER). It's not my BEST series, but I do enjoy it and I would love to keep on detailing it. I'll be inserting pictures, actors (that I dream portray the main characters), and other things that will show you the universe of the series.

The second series I'll be explaining will be The War of Rhilion, of which I am currently writing the third book and editing the first two (just because I'm crazy like that and think they're never perfect, haha). It's a fantasy book that has nothing to do with the modern world. It has wizards, kings, sea monsters, banished princes, resistances, and evil children because Stephen King is that awesome. No elves though, even I'm a LOTR freak. Just humans and an over-aged, rotting King dude named Raxithor.

The third series I just started like two weeks ago. It's actually a single novel for the moment, but I might make it a duo or a trilogy. It's called Operation Child, and is an apocalyptic story set in 3051 A.D. Isolationist countries rule the world, and greenhouse gases made the planet incredibly hot. The story centers around a small 10-year-old girl, Isabel Boynton, and her journeys, and the trains that ship children that cannot be looked after to an unknown place controlled by the government. It's pretty cool. I like it, but really, I just started it. The world in 3051, though, is a fantastic place in my mind.

Hope you like the blog! And again, welcome!