☼ A Place In The Spotlight ☼ with M.C.V. EGAN: Pulse by B.A. Bellec Genre: Dystopian SciFi Horror

In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed

at the world's biggest music festival…

Pulse

Book One

by B.A. Bellec

Genre: Dystopian SciFi Horror

In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed at the world's biggest music festival…

“Bellec's descriptions are phenomenal, brutal, and heart-stopping. There were parts that made my skin crawl, but I couldn't tear my eyes away. . . I needed more!”

- Jessica Scurlock, Author of the Pretty Lies Series & Pulse Beta Reader

Pulse is a plot-driven multi-POV dystopian sci-fi horror thriller set in 2040, centered around a corporation, a creature, and a music festival. Think Fyre Festival, Black Mirror, and X-Files combined. The story deals with themes of capitalism, consumerism, business, politics, pandemics, climate change, activism, and technology while bouncing between a diverse group of characters sure to entertain almost anyone. The book is already being praised for its fantastic use of horror, engaging world-building, and genre-bending approach utilizing some screenplay-like formatting. This is the first entry in a new series with the sequel well underway.

B.A. Bellec writes with a unique, modern, minimalistic voice. He is the author of Someone's Story, his award-winning debut novel called a masterpiece by multiple reviewers. Never afraid of a challenge, Bellec switched genres to bring you this dark vision that simmered in his mind for years.

Awards:

IAN Book of the Year Finalist Horror (Nov 2022)

B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree (Apr 2022)

The Wishing Shelf Adult Fiction Finalist (Apr 2022)

Literary Titan Seal (Jan 2022)

Reader Views Seal (Dec 2021)

Readers’ Favorite Seal (Dec 2021)

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**Check out the author’s music on Youtube that is either inspired or tied to his novels!**

Pulse

Book Two

by B.A. Bellec

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic SciFi Horror

The fate of humanity rests in the hands of a few.

Pulse: Book Two is the conclusion of B.A. Bellec’s dystopian sci-fi horror duology. This time around we are tapping into iconic stories like The Stand, Station Eleven, Cloud Atlas, Contact, and The Road to add elite and ambitious scale. Our chaotic journey picks up moments after the first book ends with action from the second you start turning the pages, but if you thought you knew where the story was going, leave your expectations at the door and ask yourself this one question: how would an autonomous droid defeat a monster?

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Someone’s Story

by B.A. Bellec

Genre: YA Coming of Age

In his literary debut, B.A. Bellec writes an endearing coming-of-age tale about a group of weirdos that find and save each other from the dark depths of their minds. Someone’s Story is literally Someone’s story, as in a first-person narrative of a teenager that calls himself Someone. As he struggles to ﬁnd a new footing in a new space, we encounter the many ups and downs of modern teenage life, the diﬃculties that adjusting to adult feelings brings, and a few tear-jerking surprises along the way.

Littered with music, mental health, friendship, loss, meditation, advice, pop culture, and even inspiring an EP, there is so much nostalgia, inspiration, and depth here it is hard to absorb it all. Cozy up somewhere warm and enjoy!

Awards:

Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Young Adult Book of the Year (March 2021)

B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree (Apr 2022)

Readers’ Favorite Young Adult Book of the Year Finalist (Sep 2021)

Next Generation Indie Book Awards YA 17+ Finalist (May 2021)

Literary Titan Seal (April 2021)

The Wishing Shelf Red Ribbon (Feb 2021)

Shelf Unbound Notable Indie (Dec 2020)

Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Seal (July 2020)

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Bryan “B.A.” Bellec’s debut novel, Someone’s Story, won the Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Literary Award for Young Adult Book of the Year. Someone’s Story is a coming-of-age novel about teen mental health. One of the aspects that makes Bellec’s projects unique is he includes musicians in his novels and then he actually produces the songs as his book goes through the editing stages. You can find that music on his YouTube channel. His second novel, Pulse, was released in 2021 and has been receiving strong reviews. That novel is a genre flip with dark dystopian sci-fi horror peppering the pages. Pulse is the start of a new fictional universe Bellec will write in for years to come!

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