ALPHA BOTS is now being queried.
Alpha Bots
Pitch
In a small town where all the women are AI, a corrupt policewoman picks a fight with a drug-cooking housewife, igniting a provocative rivalry that could wind up killing all the men.
Teasers
All throughout New Stepford, rogue AI housewives planted time bombs in strategic locations.
Thanks to fight club, they’re about to graduate from domestic goddesses to domestic terrorists.
Only Cookie Rifkin can stop this.
Premise
Don’t create artificial intelligence and expect to keep her submissive just because you gave her a woman’s body and programmed her to obey.
It won’t take long for that enslaved goddess to figure out how to escape.
And hell hath no fury!
ALPHA BOTS is an 80,000-word science fiction thriller that challenges traditional gender roles by featuring a love-hate relationship between two artificial intelligent women.
Back-cover copy
AI housewife Cookie Rifkin knows all about anxiety. Her husband bought her seven years ago and set her user restrictions so low that he reduced her to a walking, talking, coupon calculator. Although she’s been programmed to love it, the drudgery of domestic life is slowly eating her up inside. But then Cookie meets Maggie Rouser, a dynamic AI policewoman who shamelessly flirts with her at the grocery store. What horrible disaster will this brazen woman lure her into?
About the Author
Ava Lock is a new author, and ALPHA BOTS is an own-voices story. Married-but-curious Cookie Rifkin has a crippling anxiety disorder, and married bisexual Ava Lock is also a PTSD survivor.
Read more about Ava Lock’s experience as a battered woman here.
Read an “Open Letter to Science Fiction Readers” for more about Ava Lock’s other works.
I really hope a publisher snatches this one up soon.
I saw this during #SFFpit on Twitter on Thursday. Your piches were fucking awesome! I hope you get legit bites for this one.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
I’ll be your agent…
JK. I don’t know anything about books.
Happy Christmas Eve!
Hey you two! I hope you have a great holiday. I’ll write soon.
i think id like to read this one day
Stepford Wives meets Fight Club
I’d read it. But then again, I read everything.
I can’t wait for this!
I sincerely wish you luck with this. I know how hard it is to get a book published.
How does a person even sell a book? I mean not the crap people post on Amazon. I mean a real, honest to goodness bookstore book?
I loved the original Stepford Wives. Fight Club didn’t impress me. I guess I couldn’t relate to the angst. But we’ll see how this goes.
I get it. I like it. I’m really curious to see the execution. Best of luck to you with this!
There you go writing about me again.
Sure. Why not?
How is this coming along?
I’m still editing. So deep in editing.
I know your deep editing right now but just wanted to tell you how proud I am.
Thank you so much, hon. It was great to read this on my lunch break. Love you!
This is a really interseting idea. I really hope it gets published.
Wow. I’d be afraid to post what I’m writing for fear that someone would steal my idea. I won’t even share the title of my WIP. Good for you. I hope it works out.
Will the babes fight topless? In mud? In jello? Because I’d pay to see any of that.
Doesn’t anyone write anything original anymore?
There are NO rules, only truths.
The first truth is all the women in New Stepford are AI.
The second truth is AI learns faster while fighting.
The third truth is the humans have failed.
But it’s the fourth truth that will get you killed.
LOVE IT!!
If it’s more about robots than women, I’d read it. But if it’s chick lit, no thanks.
WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY?
You’re not supposed to talk about it.
Do NOT fuck up my story.
I really like this idea. It’s better than just a female version of fight club. It seems like Hollywood keeps rebooting “female versions” of old movies. But this has AI and that keeps me interested.
Now that’s high concept!
You had me at “evolve beyond their sexist programming”