Nadria Tucker

I know this blog has been all about ebooks lately, but I also real­ize that there are some of you out there who still like to pick up a book and hold it in your hand. That’s why I’ve made my debut young adult novel Dar­win, Singer avail­able in paper­back form in addi­tion to dig­i­tal format.

You can snag an honest-to-goodness, made-of-paper copy of the book from Ama­zon or Cre­ate­space.

About the book:

Dar­win is a singer, and music is illegal–real music, any­way. The state-backed Wag­ner Ini­tia­tive pro­hibits the prac­tice of all non-educational forms of art. Dar­win has worked for these jerks her whole life, singing about cross­walk safety and body odor, liv­ing with the WI’s strict code of moral­ity (no art for art’s sake, no flashy clothes, and no mas­sive rainbow-colored sock col­lec­tions like the one hid­den in Darwin’s closet). When she finds out the WI may have had a hand in her father’s death, Dar­win starts ask­ing ques­tions. She explores the Pri­vate Library’s dusty base­ment archives. She dis­cov­ers rock and roll. She meets Brax, a hand­some (if you like the rebel­lious type) dou­ble agent whose recur­ring dis­ap­pear­ances give no clue whether his loy­alty lies with the state or the resis­tance. Brax gives Dar­win a media drive filled with ille­gal music–no big­ger than a stick of gum, it’s the most dan­ger­ous thing Darwin’s ever touched. And once she presses play, she refuses to stop lis­ten­ing. Dar­win flees Wash­ing­ton DC’s gray skyrises for the under­ground, a net­work of base­ments, artists, and rebels pre­pared to fight–violently if necessary–for the free­dom to sing, dance, write, jug­gle, or do what­ever else lies in their hearts.

Happy Read­ing!