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The Origin Story
In a few words: Margaret Beaver (she/they) is a twenty-year-old design student, mental health and LGBTQIA+ equality activist, and award-winning poet and novelist. She has been honored as a two-time consecutive Topical Winner of Live Poets Society of New Jersey publications, a recipient of the Readers’ Favorite five-star cover seal, decorated with the 2023 Donna Lynne Quille Award for "Best Advocacy Prose," and her debut novel was recently named a finalist for the 2024 "YA Fiction" American Writing Award. She writes nonfiction poetry collections and novels spanning all subgenres of fiction detailing the integral topics of inclusivity and prejudice, abusive authority, estranged parents and children, the detriments of mental illness, and the triumph of family. She is the author of INKWELLS. (Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers, 2022); FLOWERS FOR PAPA (Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers, 2024); and SEASONS: AUGUST’S COLLECTION (Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers, 2024).
As a representative and ambassador for Focus on Women Magazine, she harbors close affiliations with local news channels and is the founder of Margaret Beaver Books (MBB), a grassroots organization aspiring to collaborate with mental health and literary initiatives in aiding the accessibility of treatment, education, and the arts. In addition to attending foundational education programs from top-rated course providers, Margaret proudly upholds certifications from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Stanford Health Care concerning equality in medicine. In May 2024, she was declared a certified Web Designer by the International Association of Professions (IAP) Career College and graduated from the Graphic Design and UI/UX Design Specializations of the California Institute of the Arts. Commencing in the Fall of 2024, she intends to continue her fine arts education by pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Sessions College for Professional Design. Download her resume here.
Margaret's debut novel, FLOWERS FOR PAPA, is OUT NOW. Accompanying it is also her second poetry collection, SEASONS: AUGUST'S COLLECTION, told from the perspective of the main character. You can buy both books now.
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The year was 2105, if Time existed.
Risen from the vestiges of the asteroid is the nation of Averly, where the weather is mild, and the geography of technology has surpassed all humanity. Impenetrable VR assistants and portable note screens encrypt all activity, and spasming collars fitted to throats censor and punish all thought and speech accordingly. Beyond the government’s corruption, prejudicial famine and the dire pestilence of the Infection survive to terrorize the population.
Echo Joel was a previously law-abiding citizen, incited to crime to uncover the government conspiracy responsible for the ever-mutating Infection—while simultaneously taking on the task of freeing her best friend, Benny Silvers, from government captivity in a public squalor known as the Village. Colliding by chance and combining by choice, Echo and working-man Linus Foster strive to reveal the nation’s corruption—until disaster strikes the Social Relief Committee and dooms the Medical District. Going back to where it all began, Echo and Linus must infiltrate the Village for answers, joining forces with the Underside resistance to stage a final, perilous uprising. In a country rotting from within, they must burrow beneath the flesh of Averly, clinch its bloodied heart, or die trying.
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