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Charles Soule Seeking Charles Soule Replacement, Also Pre-Orders for 'Anyone'

Published Fri, 31 May 2019 13:04:15 -0500

Last updated Fri, 31 May 2019 13:06:25 -0500

Superstar comic book writer Charles Soule is tired of being Charles Soule, it seems, and is looking for someone to replace him. The author took his newsletter and Twitter Friday to announce plans to randomly select a replacement Charles Soule from amongst his fans for a trial run which could last a day, a few days, or maybe even longer.

Of course, leaving behind your life as a successful comic book writer, prose author, musician, and lawyer isn't cheap, so Soule needs to build up some cash reserves first. To accomplish that, Soule is hoping people will pre-order his upcoming novel, Anyone.

Pre-ordering is IMPORTANT for novels. Publishers make many calls based on the numbers. If you know you'll read a book by a favorite author, pre-ordering is *such* a huge help.

You can pre-order my next novel ANYONE here in all formats, from any retailer: https://t.co/mihENnX5lo

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

For my first novel, The Oracle Year, about a modern prophet, I sent out postcards with custom predictions of the future.

For ANYONE, I wanted to do something even cooler. pic.twitter.com/m33tVP8wBt

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

BONUS ONE: an in-universe, personalized artifact – an invitation to NeOnet Global's first trials of the body-transfer tech, aka the "flash." Every letter will be unique, like the Oracle Year postcards, and will provide information about your vessel for the trial.

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

THE GIVEAWAY: I call this the "Be Me" contest. On release day 12/3/19, I'll randomly select an ANYONE pre-orderer (who has sent proof to beanyonewithanyone@gmail.com by 11:59 PM on 12/2/19) and bring them and a guest to NYC for two days. And then, the lucky winners can… Be Me.

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

They can pick *one* of the spots on the Be Me list and have me join – and I'll pick up the tab for that too. Drinks, dinner, whatever. Cool, huh?

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

Also, while I dearly love my publisher @HarperPerennial and their parent @HarperCollins, they aren't involved with this beyond publishing ANYONE. This is all my crazy idea.

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

That's it! I hope this sounds as fun to you as it does to me. Feel free to spread the word, too – RT far and wide.

Questions? Fire away!

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) May 31, 2019

Well? Would you like to be Charles Soule? If so, you'd better pre-order Anyone now.

Anyone
A Novel
by Charles Soule

Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge—and wariness—of technology to his sophomore novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world.

Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer's cure throws a switch—and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband's body. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life—and the world—forever…

Over two decades later, all across the planet, "flash" technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. Society has been utterly transformed by the process, from travel to warfare to entertainment; "Be anyone with Anyone" the tagline of the company offering this ultimate out-of-body experience. But beyond the reach of the law and government regulators is a sordid black market called the darkshare, where desperate "vessels" anonymously rent out their bodies, no questions asked for any purpose – sex, drugs, crime… or worse.

Anyone masterfully interweaves the present-day story of the discovery and development of the flash with the gritty tale of one woman's crusade to put an end to the darkness it has brought to the world twenty-five years after its creation. Like Blade Runner crossed with Get Out, Charles Soule's thought-provoking work of speculative fiction takes us to a world where identity, morality, and technology collide.

On Sale: 12/03/2019
$21.99