The Alienation
of Courtney Hoffman
by Brady Stefani
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller/Scifi
Release Date: June 7th 2016
SparkPress
Summary from Goodreads:
Fifteen year old Courtney wants to be normal like her friends. But there’s something frighteningly different about her—and it’s not just the mysterious tattoo her conspiracy-obsessed grandfather marked her with before he disappeared. She's being visited in her bedroom at night by aliens claiming to have shared an alliance with her grandfather. And imaginary or not, they're starting to to take over her mind. “Mental illness is a slippery slope,” her mother warns her.
The last thing Courtney wants to do is end up crazy and dead like her grandfather did. But what about the tattoo? And the aliens trying to recruit her? With her new alien-savvy friend Agatha and her apocalyptic visions, Courtney begins connecting the dots between the past, present and future—of her bloodline, and the ancient history that surrounds it. Is she going insane, like her family claims her grandfather did, or is she actually a "chosen one" with ancestral connections to another world? Either way, Courtney has a mission: untangle her past, discover the truth, and stop the apocalypse before it's too late for everyone.
by Brady Stefani
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller/Scifi
Release Date: June 7th 2016
SparkPress
Summary from Goodreads:
Fifteen year old Courtney wants to be normal like her friends. But there’s something frighteningly different about her—and it’s not just the mysterious tattoo her conspiracy-obsessed grandfather marked her with before he disappeared. She's being visited in her bedroom at night by aliens claiming to have shared an alliance with her grandfather. And imaginary or not, they're starting to to take over her mind. “Mental illness is a slippery slope,” her mother warns her.
The last thing Courtney wants to do is end up crazy and dead like her grandfather did. But what about the tattoo? And the aliens trying to recruit her? With her new alien-savvy friend Agatha and her apocalyptic visions, Courtney begins connecting the dots between the past, present and future—of her bloodline, and the ancient history that surrounds it. Is she going insane, like her family claims her grandfather did, or is she actually a "chosen one" with ancestral connections to another world? Either way, Courtney has a mission: untangle her past, discover the truth, and stop the apocalypse before it's too late for everyone.
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Alienation of Courtney Hoffman was featured in
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Advance
Praise:
A must read sci-fi
book.”
- Hypable, Hypable.com fandom reviews
“A wild ride through
portals to other worlds… This debut novel fuses a serious issue—the stigma of
mental illness—with sci-fi to chronicle a girl’s unusual coming of age.”
- Kirkus Review
“This novel has a
breakneck pace and Stefani’s writing is fluid and perfectly suited to this most
extraordinary tale that blends coming of age, adventure, science fiction, and
post-apocalyptic genres— and it all works beautifully.”
- Readers' Favorite, Five Stars
“As the father of two
teenage girls, I can tell you that Brady Stefani must have some sort of
supernatural helmet that helps him think and write in their language. But The
Alienation of Courtney Hoffman is much more than a novel for teens. This
fast-paced adventure kept my attention, blazing back-and-forth from reality to
an alter-world so close by that it’s creepy. Here’s a page-turner that captures
a lot about childhood struggles through an imaginative story filled with
surprises.”
-Jim Schaefer, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer
for the Detroit Free Press
“Stefani’s The
Alienation of Courtney Hoffman is a thought-provoking and emotional journey
through a young girl’s mind as she struggles to understand who she is, where
she came from, and who she is supposed to be—all while deciphering between
reality and the tricks our minds can sometimes play on us. Stefani beautifully
demonstrates how difficult life can be for anyone who thinks or acts a little differently,
and reminds us that, more often than not, the things that terrify us the most
are the things trying to save us.”
-Jessica Stevens, author of Within Reach
About the
Author
Brady G. Stefani has a
bachelor's degree in creative writing, and a graduate degree in law. During law
school, he spent time as an involuntary commitment caseworker for the
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, where he interacted with patients
suffering from severe thought disorders, including numerous patients presenting
with subjectively real memories of being visited and abducted by alien beings
(commonly referred to as alien abduction phenomenon). It was through his study
of these patients, along with his own struggles with anxiety and cognition,
that Stefani became aware of just how deceiving, mysterious, and powerfully
resilient, the human mind can be.
In an effort to provide awareness of mental suffering, and spread hope to all those touched by it, Stefani is focused on writing YA novels that explore the experience of being different and the other-worldly places our boundary-less imaginations can take us. Alienation is his first novel. But with two works currently in progress, the journey has just begun.
In an effort to provide awareness of mental suffering, and spread hope to all those touched by it, Stefani is focused on writing YA novels that explore the experience of being different and the other-worldly places our boundary-less imaginations can take us. Alienation is his first novel. But with two works currently in progress, the journey has just begun.
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The Alienation of Courtney Hoffman Playlist
I don’t have an elaborate set list, but I do have three
albums that I depended on greatly to set the tone form my while I was writing
certain types of scenes.
For the frightening scenes, which there are many I listened
to Burzum’s first self-titled album (Norwegian black metal) especially the song
“Feeble Screams from a Forest Unknown”
To lighten things up, for the less frightening scenes, I
listened to Head on The Door by the Cure, and OK Computer by Radiohead
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