About
Kristin A. Oakley is the author of two award-winning suspense thrillers, Carpe Diem, Illinois and God on Mayhem Street, and her award-winning young adult dystopian series, The Devil Particle. She teaches writing workshops, has critiqued manuscripts through the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies, and has helped writers hone their agent pitches at the Division’s Writers’ Institute. As a Chicago Writers Association board member, Kristin was the managing editor of The Write City Magazine and The Write City Review and was co-chair of CWA’s educational programming. She served on the educational committee of the Wisconsin Writers Association. Additionally, Kristin reviews books and writes about being a novelist in her newsletter available at kristinoakley.net.
Featured Work
The Devil Particle
Seventeen-year-old Paul Salvage is determined to prove himself by competing in the Vessel Trials. If he wins, he'll become the vessel containing all of humanity's evil and save the world. But when a city guard murders Paul's brother, Paul gives up his dream of competing to comfort his grieving father.
Persuaded not to drop out of the Trials by a powerful family friend, Paul competes against forty-nine other candidates, including his girlfriend and his rival. The teens battle to the top of an abandoned skyscraper filled with mental, physical, and psychological tests and traps. But as he grapples with one horrible choice after another, Paul fears he isn’t noble enough to be the hero who will rescue everyone on Earth.
Can Paul escape the dangers and his doubts to climb to victory?
