In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed at the world's biggest music festival: Pulse Book One Dystopian SciFi Horror by B.A. Bellec Book Tour with Guest Post and Giveaway
In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed at the world's biggest music festival…
Pulse
Book One
by B.A. Bellec
Genre: Dystopian SciFi Horror
In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed at the world's biggest music festival…
“Bellec's descriptions are phenomenal, brutal, and heart-stopping. There were parts that made my skin crawl, but I couldn't tear my eyes away. . . I needed more!”
- Jessica Scurlock, Author of the Pretty Lies Series & Pulse Beta Reader
Pulse is a plot-driven multi-POV dystopian sci-fi horror thriller set in 2040, centered around a corporation, a creature, and a music festival. Think Fyre Festival, Black Mirror, and X-Files combined. The story deals with themes of capitalism, consumerism, business, politics, pandemics, climate change, activism, and technology while bouncing between a diverse group of characters sure to entertain almost anyone. The book is already being praised for its fantastic use of horror, engaging world-building, and genre-bending approach utilizing some screenplay-like formatting. This is the first entry in a new series with the sequel well underway.
B.A. Bellec writes with a unique, modern, minimalistic voice. He is the author of Someone's Story, his award-winning debut novel called a masterpiece by multiple reviewers. Never afraid of a challenge, Bellec switched genres to bring you this dark vision that simmered in his mind for years.
Awards:
IAN Book of the Year Finalist Horror (Nov 2022)
B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree (Apr 2022)
The Wishing Shelf Adult Fiction Finalist (Apr 2022)
Literary Titan Seal (Jan 2022)
Reader Views Seal (Dec 2021)
Readers’ Favorite Seal (Dec 2021)
**Check out the author’s music on Youtube that is either inspired or tied to his novels!**
Pulse
Book Two
by B.A. Bellec
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic SciFi Horror
The fate of humanity rests in the
hands of a few.
Pulse: Book Two is the
conclusion of B.A. Bellec’s dystopian sci-fi horror duology. This
time around we are tapping into iconic stories like The
Stand, Station Eleven, Cloud Atlas, Contact,
and The Road to add elite and ambitious scale. Our
chaotic journey picks up moments after the first book ends with
action from the second you start turning the pages, but if you
thought you knew where the story was going, leave your expectations
at the door and ask yourself this one question: how would an
autonomous droid defeat a monster?
Someone’s Story
by B.A. Bellec
Genre: YA Coming of Age
In his literary debut, B.A. Bellec
writes an endearing coming-of-age tale about a group of weirdos that
find and save each other from the dark depths of their minds.
Someone’s Story is literally Someone’s story, as in a
first-person narrative of a teenager that calls himself Someone. As
he struggles to find a new footing in a new space, we encounter the
many ups and downs of modern teenage life, the difficulties that
adjusting to adult feelings brings, and a few tear-jerking surprises
along the way.
Littered with music, mental health,
friendship, loss, meditation, advice, pop culture, and even inspiring
an EP, there is so much nostalgia, inspiration, and depth here it is
hard to absorb it all. Cozy up somewhere warm and enjoy!
Awards:
Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Young Adult Book of the Year (March 2021)
B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree (Apr 2022)
Readers’ Favorite Young Adult Book of the Year Finalist (Sep 2021)
Next Generation Indie Book Awards YA 17+ Finalist (May 2021)
Literary Titan Seal (April 2021)
The Wishing Shelf Red Ribbon (Feb 2021)
Shelf Unbound Notable Indie (Dec 2020)
Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Seal (July 2020)
This time around I have something
very different. Let’s start with a question: what is a conlang?
The name says it all. A conlang is
a constructed language and the term is generally used to describe languages
created for works of fiction. Some mainstream conlangs: Klingon (Star Trek),
Na’vi (Avatar), Dothraki (Game of Thrones), Valyrian (Game of Thrones), and
Tolkien’s Elvish, Quenya (Lord of the Rings).
For Pulse: Book Two, I had a plot
point that I really wanted to turn into something special. Early in this novel,
a text is discovered. In my original draft, I had left the spot blank knowing I
was going to develop an unexpected idea to keep my readers guessing. Almost a
year ago now I reached out to Joseph Windsor who is the head of the LCS
(Language Creation Society). I pitched him my idea and then he agreed to help
connect me with a conlanger. From there I met BenJamin “Jamin” Johnson. We went
back and forth for a few months. I gave him pages of notes and then he went to
work perfecting my idea. What I wanted was a language that was both ancient and
futuristic. A language that could be either the basis for English, or what
English could one day become. There are some roots in Cloud Atlas as well as
pulling inspiration from the famous Ozymandias poems. Basically, I wrote an
English poem about the fall of humankind, and then Jamin turned it into
something truly special and unique. I plan to expand on this idea with my Pulse
spin-offs so let’s just say the backstory on this poem is woven into the pages
of Pulse and many nuggets can be found if you are looking for them, but the
truth will be revealed in a later publication.
“The Prophecy”
Ayam dawa hu ste yusap
Ayam dakin af eriwe
Luka yus apa may wak
Yus mayti an dispe.
Kos dapraya manimin
Byu wi nua may
Dea natin navu an
Nuade nitin bray.
Diakitek is rada krut
Dasat tem tu impres
Waw wi mi de framin yuch
De wi kan oni ges.
Wa pawafu ba norikodit res
Wans dewt dahia nayaledit ples.
Dagretes af akamplismins, de kanna bi sin
Dewyu tes yo limis, an eritin itwin.
Here is how it landed on my page:
I didn’t stop when Jamin gave me his final translation
though. There was a moment in the book where a group of characters would recite
the translation as part of a ceremony. I dubbed this moment “The Prophecy” and
I felt I wanted it to be a Gregorian chant. After a few weeks of searching for
the right fit for the project, I found a person named Mike who runs a music
production studio called Music Forge. Mike specializes in Gregorian chants
while also producing a cinematic sound. I love the cinematic sound Skrybe and I
made for Pulse, and Mike’s composition fits right in with the other Pulse
songs. The bells were my suggestion :)
It gets better…
There is another song!
Created during my time working on
The Anatomy of Fear, but also serving as a subtle nod to a moment in Pulse,
Little Lion Man is the debut single from Mumford & Sons, of which Bellec is
a massive fan. This is a reimagination of the original with Darby Yule on
vocals and Skrybe creating the melody. The Someone’s Story EP has heavy Mumford
& Sons inspiration and this song serves as a nod to that project while also
showing my growth in the year since. Can a single song represent 3 different
books? Yes! Someone’s Story, Pulse, and The Anatomy of Fear all have a tie
here!
Bryan “B.A.” Bellec’s debut novel, Someone’s Story, won the Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Literary Award for Young Adult Book of the Year. Someone’s Story is a coming-of-age novel about teen mental health. One of the aspects that makes Bellec’s projects unique is he includes musicians in his novels and then he actually produces the songs as his book goes through the editing stages. You can find that music on his YouTube channel. His second novel, Pulse, was released in 2021 and has been receiving strong reviews. That novel is a genre flip with dark dystopian sci-fi horror peppering the pages. Pulse is the start of a new fictional universe Bellec will write in for years to come!
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