#Adult, #Colorado, #Apocalypse, #Contemporary, #Summer Camp, #Girls Camp, #Queer, #Isolation, #Nuclear War, #Hope,

With summer winding down, the counselors at Camp Aspen Heart are counting the days until they go home to their own beds after weeks of songs and campouts and budding friendships. But a missing food delivery after the start of one of the last sessions sets off alarms in the isolated camp. With no easy way to contact the outside world Conifer, a survivalist who grew up going to the camp every summer before becoming a counselor herself, heads out to try and find out what is going on, only to be confronted with the unthinkable: a nuclear war has started, and they’ve been forgotten.  Conifer was raised to survive the end of the world. Any end of the world. Except this one, alone in the woods with over a hundred-fifty kids to save and only a handful of other young counselors to help her.

Camp Daze is a hopeful apocalypse story about an isolated summer camp just trying to make it through winter after the world ends.

Since I'm essentially asking myself these questions, I'm gonna go with my favourite dystopia book.

That definitely goes to Camp Daze by Katy L Wood (aka @thatdisasterauthor)

I'm so excited my copy of Camp Daze by @katy-l-wood arrived last night!!! Can't wait to dig in!

This might sound crazy coming from a person who works with words all day, but I cannot describe how excited I am to share this news!

Welcome Katy L. Wood, our newest client! Katy is a prolific creator. She’s a writer and illustrator—and once you see what she crafts, you’ll know that she’s an amazing, evocative artist whose talents seem unlimited.

Katy’s Young Adult novel will FLOOR you! Gripping, enthralling, and addictive, it’s the definition of a page-turner. I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say it’s I Am Still Alive meets Hatchet with a touch of The Lovely and the Lost… at a summer camp. It stars a badass asexual camp counselor and an all-female cast, and you won’t be able to put it down. Also: it made me ugly-cry.

Here’s a bio from Katy so you can get to know her better!

Katy L. Wood is a queer author and illustrator living in Colorado with her two cats, Rumble–a fluffy gray monster, and Rebel–a tiny black void. During the day she makes replica fossils for museum display, at night she writes and draws things that generally involve forests and/or sibling drama, and on the weekends she runs off into the woods where the internet can’t get her.

  Follow Katy on social media to stay up to date on what she’s up to (and maybe even grab some sweet merch from her webstore!)

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This is Marauder, one of the main characters from my novel, Camp Daze, a hopeful story about an isolated girls summer camp trying to survive the end of the world. You can learn more about the book on my website.

I have no clue how I did the colors in this piece, but I love them. 😂

Did I ever share this illustration outside the book kickstarter? Can't remember.

Either way! Here's Cheyenne, one of the camper characters from my novel, Camp Daze, a hopeful story about an isolated girls summer camp trying to survive the end of the world. You can learn more about the book on my website.

An illustration of Conifer, one of the main characters from my book, Camp Daze, a hopeful story about an isolated girls summer camp trying to survive the end of the world. You can learn more about the book on my website.

The landscape in this one was so much fun to work on.