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Bios
Short Bio
Carly Coleman writes stories that take readers off to fantastic and sometimes terrifying sci-fi worlds. Her books explore the fine line between humanity and monstrosity. Back in the real world, Coleman explores the beautiful back country of America, letting the experience bleed into the settings of her worlds.
Long(er) Bio
Carly Coleman came into existence in the mysterious, corn-infested state of Ohio. Little did she know that prolonged exposure to the cornfields of Ohio could induce hypergraphia and a fixation with monsters. Like the hidden monsters enshrouded in corn husks that only emerge after 1:15 am, Coleman developed a talent for seeing the hidden monsters lurking beneath our own flesh husks. She began writing about these during her elementary education, the obsession worsening in her teen years, as she taught herself to draw and scream loudly. To support herself in this Sisyphean world, she earned her associate’s degree in Visual Communication and Design, graduating summa cum laude, which she was considerably less upset about than when she graduated high school valedictorian. While working in graphic and web design, she was also called upon to create and edit content due to her proficiency in writing. Seeing as her first love, the English language, is more of a concept than a human being, she instead married a man with a vocabulary and speaking ability that met her austere standards. Modern historians have claimed to have found a steampunk novel revolving around a chemical change that introduces a literal monstrousity to the human form, much like in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but Coleman denies any such connection.
Coleman claims no affiliation with the Center for Galactic Anomalies corporation. She claims never to have heard of such a thing, nor does she know anything about a serialized accounting of the perilous adventures of anyone on Survalis. She said, “Space is dumb. Earth has enough to worry about without adding space into the mix. Save that stuff for later.” Shortly after saying this, she received a call from a restricted number. She departed in a huff, and a CGA-branded business card fell out of her purse, along with seven crumpled Target receipts and two chapsticks. However, she has been spotted in over 28 states in a suspicious-looking van with magnets on the side that featured the CGA logo with the text, “Seen something you can’t explain?” This van has been spotted in a number of suspiciously remote locations, such as the New Mexico desert, the Northern Cascades of Washington, and high up on the Wyoming mountains. The strangeness of the locations suggests possible employment with the CGA, perhaps in trying to catch some of the elusive American cryptids. Investigators are still searching for legal documentation connecting her to the intergalactic corporation.
Contact Information
You can reach me at cmcoleman.pub@gmail.com. If you need to reach me via phone, please email me first so I can verify your humanity. I like my bots in books, not calling my phone fifty times a day.
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The Books
The Center for Galactic Anomalies
Short description: While investigating the murderous invader inside the previously impenetrable Center for Galactic Anomalies, a burnout telepathic behaviorist and a pacifist super soldier must evade their corporate overlords to find the source of this threat.
Long description: In a galaxy full of irony, the planet Survalis is ostracized from the Galactic Federation, and yet they provide the service everyone needs to travel safely between planets: The Center for Galactic Anomalies. The Center for Galactic Anomalies captures and contains all of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries, including those that they have created themselves. When their top telepathic behaviorist, Dexia, is charged with controlling their latest and most disobedient genetically engineered soldier, Tycho, the mysteries start to unravel in deadly ways.
Dexia Mohktar has the unique ability to read and manipulate the thoughts of others. What most would consider a gift, she views as her own doom, as telepaths are strictly forbidden from leaving Survalis, their eternal frozen prison world. While life goes on as the world descends into disaster, Dexia is commissioned with the capture of a rogue genetically engineered soldier. But Tycho isn’t like any of the disposable clone soldiers she’s contained before; he’s intelligent, peaceful, and potentially also a telepath. Her suspicions of the men in control of the CGA rise, especially as anomalies start dying.
For all of the knowledge that was built into him, Tycho can’t understand why he was created. The genetic engineer who brought his mind to life went insane, and no one else will tell him why he’s here. They designed him to kill, but endowed him with a conscience that plagues him every day. All he wants is the freedom to decide his own destiny, a lofty aspiration for a person considered company property. And now some woman shows up and tells him that he might be telepathic, too – just another reason to keep him locked up as an anomaly. But Dexia isn’t like the scientists that made him; there’s an honesty about her that he’s never seen before. Could she be his ticket to freedom, or become his reason to stay behind and fight?
Original publication date: 6/1/24
ISBN: 979-8-9911553-1-1
Page count: 417
Sale links: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IngramSpark.
Editorial Review: Independent Book Review
Into the Void: A Sequel to The Center for Galactic Anomalies
Short description: Take a trip across the universe with two enemies stranded on a ship, one super soldier trying to keep the galaxy alive, a deadly plague, hundreds of hive mind aliens, and a whole lot of nothingness.
Long description: Into the Void picks up where the first book of the trilogy, The Center for Galactic Anomalies, leaves off. Dexia, a former telepathic behaviorist for the Center for Galactic Anomalies, now finds herself trapped in the unexplained and seemingly inescapable void dimension with the Overseer of the CGA, who, less than two weeks earlier, tried to end her life. She’ll have to learn to trust Adrius if they’re going to find a way to break free from their lifeless prison, which can be extra complicated with all of the mind-reading and dream-sharing that comes with two telepaths being stuck in a void. Meanwhile, the super soldier genetically engineered to protect the galaxy from anomalous threats, Tycho, faces his greatest challenge yet: intergalactic political committee meetings. He turns to subverting the absurdity of intergalactic law to save a people in danger and help his first human friend make it out of the void.
Original publication date: 12/31/25
ISBN: 979-8-9911553-2-8
Page count: 457
Sale links: Amazon, B&N and IngramSpark to come
About the Series as a Whole
Category: Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Sub-Genre: Space Opera
