Huh, so I apparently am pretty good turning a reference picture into an anime like character... Who knew? I think I might actually be able to do this book's cover art myself...
This is Michiko Hoshimoto, one of the protagonists from the book I'm working on. She's the 16 year old pilot of the NIS-X Shinshin, one of two prototype 'interceptor frigates' which are piloted by a pilot by neural interface and hold the pilot in a pod filled with shock absorbent gel to allow them to withstand up to 80Gs of acceleration.
As for the book, well... It's sort of like what you'd expect a bastard child of Pacific Rim, EVE Online, and Ender's Game to end up being like.
I'm going to be writing the last chapter tomorrow from the way things are going right now, then I'll be polishing and editing it for another week at least. I may have it ready by the end of the month.
Hmm, maybe I should give a bit more detail as to the story...
The VALKYRIE series focuses on the character of Michiko Hoshimoto, Daniel Logan, Rosa Lowe, and Svetlana Gurevich, the first four pilot's assigned to Project VALKYRIE. The planet is under attack by an insect like race called the Ixo, who pilot ships that far outpace the abilities of conventional human vessels. We can't simply upgrade these ships as the reason we can't build ships that would match an Ixo vessel's acceleration is that such a ship would kill the crew when it lit it's engine.
The answer comes in the form of pilots whose minds are hooked directly to the ships submerged in a pod filled with shock absorbent fluids. As the immense difference between a human mind piloting a human body and a human mind piloting a starship, only teens and children are capable of adapting to 'being the ship' as it were.
Book #1 is called Candidates, and focuses primarily on the relationship between Michiko Hoshimoto and the protagonist, Daniel Logan. They have to adjust to living and working together at Wolf Point Academy, base of the VALKYRIE Project, in the Galapagos (cool location, and there's a sensible reason they're there!)
So I better get back to writing and crank this thing out.
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