STEVE BENTON

Mythos : LILI G MUST DIE's Prīmulī Universe derives many of its concepts from classical mythology/religion. Lili's Uncle Michael (really her grandfather) was once known as St. Michael the Archangel, as well as Thor, Osiris and Apollo due to his infrequent interactions with humans throughout the ages. These days, Michael works as a curator of ancient Earth arts, while preventing Lili from melting everything she sees into slag. Lili also has another uncle: Gabriel (a.k.a. Ares, God of War). After her parents, he's her favorite relative. 29th century Azul differs completely from what the reader would believe, based on today's popular offerings. There is no social media. No one has a smart phone. The DataNet is highly regulated. Biotech implants, which had turned Earthlings into virtual zombies, were outlawed before the Exodus' arrival. Movie stars were long ago replaced by CGI and artificial intelligence created for the entertainment industry. In fact, celebrity sta...

A complimentary, sample chapter from LILI G MUST DIE FIRST KILL W    here am I? I move through the pitch black,   feeling my way along an icky, stone wall of sorts.   It is slimy and gross,   like snot,   yet for some reason I am unable to smell the moisture's composition.   The clanging of cold steel rings in my brain like a hammer against a bell of iron,   and to make everything worse, I feel sick to my stomach.   I truly fear I will vomit again.   But I must not,   for the enemy shall detect the scent of my discharge,   and thus easily track my location.   Then they will eat my face—and my eyeballs. Vampires enjoy eating eyeballs. I find it difficult to move.   The boots I pilfered last week are ill fitting,   and have filled with mud.   They make an unsettling sloshing sound with each delicate step I take in this unfamiliar passage.   Worse yet,   I fear I will be heard...

Finally, after years of struggling with uninterested literary agents and publishers, and having received butt-loads of AMAZING reviews from BETA readers, I decided to pull the trigger and publish LILI G MUST DIE, the first YA installment in The Prīmulī Prophecies. Readers of the series already know Liliana. Born and raised in a restored, feudal Earth of the 43rd century, she experienced her first years in opulence and luxury, being the only child of Lord Kenneth and Lady Marcella Engel, of the Rhönen Dominion. After her parents, both borne lycans, tragically killed each other during a full moon, Lili was kidnapped by the callous minor mage Siegfreid, who performed illegal and nearly-lethal magical experiments on her, having somehow learned she is not only a borne lycan, but also a mage - a rare and extremely dangerous combination of enhanced subspecies. But Liliana survived. Castle life was hard. Having no land nor title, she was forced to work as a servant in the castle of...