{"id":1459,"date":"2020-09-27T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/?page_id=1459"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:55:24","slug":"the-ascender-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ascender Series Launch\u2014YA Sci-fi Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPotential<\/strong> to be a blockbuster series\u201d ~ Readers\u2019 Favorite <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

*American Fiction Awards Finalist<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0Would you like to dive into the WAVE?<\/p>\n

The Ascender Prequel Novella: Ascension Club’s Shadow Villain.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What if the secret government’s best weapon is also their worst nightmare? Ron Lemon is far from the hero of the story, but there’s a heart that beats within.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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And… Book 1 — The Ascender<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

What if terrifying energy waves kept rewriting your past? \ud83d\udc47<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Hit subscribe above and get first 3 chapters FREE before the prequel novella!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u2b50Stop the presses! Early review just came in from Readers’ Favorite on Book 2: The Descender, calling it “Brilliant middle-grade Science Fiction… well-written and highly imaginative.” Awarded 5 star badge!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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What if the only way to move forward was to go back in time?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Book 2: <\/strong>The Descender<\/strong> <\/em>— <\/em>Billy & The Ascension Club travel back to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, where they meetup with Nikola Tesla and must survive HH Holmes’ Murder Castle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sadly, GSP closed their doors and I lost my publisher for The Ascender, book 1, not long after it grabbed a finalist spot in a big contest. \u00a0Time to make some lemonade and set sail on new adventures in self-publishing for books 1 and 2\u2013newly completed\u2014in The Ascender Series.<\/h3>\n

The Ascender Series is a teen sci-fi epic that involves teleportation, an energy weapon, timeline changes, and a desperate kid who wonders why he’s the sole target of a gov’t stalker. And yet, somehow, he still finds time to crush on a girl who can’t seem to make up her mind.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you like sci-fi & fantasy bullet trains, hop aboard and grab FREE reads from dozens of authors in this group giveaway I’m so horored to be a part of for the entire month of July. [FREE READS HERE]<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPotential to be a blockbuster series\u201d ~ Readers\u2019 Favorite *American Fiction Awards Finalist \u00a0Would you like to dive into the WAVE? The Ascender Prequel Novella: Ascension Club’s Shadow Villain.\u00a0 What if the secret government’s best weapon is also their worst … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1459","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":109,"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51299,"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1459\/revisions\/51299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceypacelli.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}