About
Published in The New York Times, CNBC online, Yahoo News, The Daily Freeman, and many other venues, author of six books, Celia Seupel – journalist, poet, essayist, and novelist – brings a lifetime SciFi/Fantasy addiction to her debut dystopian thriller, GIRL WITH THE SILVER HAIR. Seupel received her MFA in Poetry and her MS in Journalism from Columbia University, where she also received a Horgan science writing prize. She served as an Editorial Director for Scholastic and taught writing at NYU.
Featured Work
GIRL WITH THE SILVER HAIR, a near-future, dystopian thriller about finding freedom in a tyrannical America. OTHER WORKS Eating the Shadow: A memoir of loss and recovery Night Feet - poetry The Drum and the Melody - poetry Career Launcher: Performing Arts Top Careers in Two Years: Business
Chosen as an "Editor's Pick" with praise like "overflowing with creativity" by BookLife from Publishers Weekly, hailed by Kirkus Reviews as "A bracing headlong rush of SF action and angst," GIRL WITH THE SILVER HAIR is a coming-of-age thriller about finding your own power in a world out to use you or crush you. International best-selling author of the thriller, RUSH, Kim Wozencraft writes, “A smart, gripping sci-fi thriller that explores the dangers of blind patriotism and the challenges of self-knowledge.”
THE GOVERNMENT CREATED HER. THE MILITARY USED HER.
UNTIL SHE DISCOVERED – NO ONE COULD CONTROL HER.
Sixteen-year-old telekinetic Eten longs to be a healer, not an assassin. She’s enraged when she must teach her adorable five-year-old sister to kill. Not that she can do anything about it. These are emotions Eten must keep under strict control or risk the wand—a device that lights up her spinal implants with excruciating pain.
But Eten has begun to suspect things are not as they seem. Why does the war for world peace never end? Why won’t Dad ever let her leave their underground pod to see the surface—or to meet other teens? And why does a prisoner insist he’s a climatologist, not a terrorist?
When Eten’s suspicions lead her to horrifying discoveries, she revolts. Torn between loyalty and fear, she falls from being the military’s biggest asset to the government’s biggest fugitive, fleeing into a beautiful and suffering America to find one special family and one special boy who may help her save herself, her siblings, and maybe even the world.
GIRL WITH THE SILVER HAIR is a YA sci-fi thriller that takes place in a near-future America devastated by climate change and a government that doesn’t care. It deals with issues of violence and greed as well as overreaching government power. The novel is a story about discovering one’s own values and fighting for what you believe in.
