Bio
Jo McCarty is a first-time novelist from Michigan. McCarty shares her time between vibrant city life and rural lake living, inspired by the people and landscapes to write about both. Her first novel of apocalyptic fiction, “Call Me Adam” released on April 1, 2024 and is now available for purchase on Amazon, BN.com and other online retailers.
Background
Jo McCarty is the pen name of a Michigan author who is established as a children’s book writer under another name. Her first novel, “Call Me Adam” is a departure from the fantasy children’s and middle reader fiction she’s written for the last two decades.
Experience
Jo’s children’s work has been portrayed on film, and she’s worked as a freelance writer, publisher, and marketing exec throughout her career. She writes what she enjoys – fiction with a fantasy twist, typically rooted in magic or the unnatural with a strong moral message.
About the Book
In a post-Covid world on the brink of a new disaster, Louie discovers an extraordinary ability—he can’t die. Fortuitous, if not for the small catch that he doesn’t want to live. While everyone else is desperately fighting to survive a global biotic crisis, Louie constantly seeks death only to be resurrected time and time again.
Louie is the town nothing. If life was a school yard pick, he would be the last one on the team. Immortality is a burden, a cruel twist of fate, even as he wonders why him and what is he meant to do. But everything changes when Louie meets Katherine, a smart New York City woman determined to survive in this post-apocalyptic world. Finally, Louie has a reason to live, which is good timing because with each death he becomes weaker.
It would be a love story if not for all the death and dying. Katherine and Louie aren’t living in utopia. There are other survivors who have their own ideas about the future. Ones they’re willing to kill for. Louie and Katherine must not only defend themselves and their resources from outsiders but fight against their own darker natures before Louie’s strange gift fades away.
Amidst the chaos and despair, their story is one of hope, resilience, and redemption. Louie and Katherine, an unlikely modern-day Adam and Eve, will prove that even in the darkest of times, an ending can be a new beginning.
Content Advisory: This book contains adult themes and explores the darker nature of the human condition. Readers will be exposed to content they may find upsetting, controversial, or offensive, including fictional portrayal of self-harm, suicide, and suicidal thinking.