Why I loved All is Silence by Robert Slater

I am a writer, not an editor...dammit! Basically, what was running through my head when +Robert Slater hired me as his editor on the book All Is Silence (*Disclosure: affiliate link, see below). And it is still true. I am not about to run out and start trying to sell my editing services, that is for sure.

Why did I do it? Well, I had already critiqued a few chapters in the group we both belonged to, and the short answer was: Lizzie.

Lizzie is the main protagonist and has been described as an anti-hero. Anti-hero is a pretty good label for Lizzie...not that she would appreciate being labelled. She is an angry teenage girl who has had a crappy life, and now life is throwing another big bucketful of crap at her--everyone dies except her.

A plague wipes out 90% of the population, including just about everyone she knows. Lizzie already had problems being an outcast, now she is more alone than ever.

I remember when I was Lizzie's age. I've had unfortunate experiences with abuse, like her, and I remember being so angry at everything I would scream and cry into my pillow, when I knew there was nobody around to hear.

I felt Lizzie.