Back in October, NeoText digital publishing introduced its new novella series DNA by Screenwriter Julian Meiojas and Artist Mad Dog Jones. The saga is set in a twisted future America, and accompanied by spot illustrations from Michah Dowbak (aka Mad Dog Jones). Jones supplies illustrations in his recognizable neon noir/neo-cyberpunk style. DNA is a multi-part, futuristic jaunt that follows anti-hero protagonist Ram, a low-level, irreverent “process server” at the Death Notification Agency. We have now reached Volume 3 of this six volume series.
In Volume Three: The Tombstone, Ram, his best friend Jonesy, and his girlfriend Camille have escaped to DNA headquarters in New York. Their plan: to confront its head honcho and get to the bottom of the unraveling conspiracy before Ram’s ticking clock runs out…
Thanks to our friends at NeoText, we are pleased to offer an exclusive look at the cover art, some of the interior art, and a first chapter preview.
DNA-3-The Tombstone Ch 1.pdf
For those who missed the initial release, here are the details for NeoText’s DNA per the introductory Press Release:
NeoText Presents DNA
Meet Ramsay Carnes. Known to his friends as “Ram,” he’s a process server. In otherwords, he’s a reaper for the Death Notification Agency. The DNA is now the biggest government organization in the world. Why? Mainly thanks to a mysterious and highly-guarded technology that can determine the time of anyone’s demise, right down to the minute. And it’s Ram’s job as a reaper to deliver death notices to soon-to-be-deceased citizens 24 hours before they give up the ghost.
Ram floats through his days letting folks know when their lives are about to go belly up. Afterwards, he then heads to Nasty Nate’s Tavern in his aloha shirt to wash down the days with a well-earned drink or ten. And since the DNA’s never been wrong in predicting a death, Ram works with confidence. The confidence of knowing he’s doing his part to help people put their affairs in order and say goodbye to their loved ones in their final hours. But Ram’s simple life is about to get a lot more complicated when one night… he receives his own death notice.
DNA follows Ram as he now has to outrun his own death. Traveling from sweat-drenched Florida down elevated sky roads to New York City, where the DNA’s skyscraper headquarters resides. The HQ hides a secret that (if Ram digs deep enough) could unravel the truth behind not just his own death notice but the life and death business as he knows it.
Writer Julian Meiojas
“DNA has been a labor of love for me from the moment Ram’s juicy, expletive-laden voice popped into my head years ago. He was urging me to tell this story about a guy who only starts valuing and living his life only when he gets the news he’s going to die,” said writer Julian Meiojas. Ram’s world where life and death has become a government-regulated business captivated me so much. Mainly because I’ve always been fascinated by the rapid growth of technology and the drastic effect it has on our lives. Why not our deaths, too?
Even when all else seems lost, there will always be light, color and hope in the chaos and despair. I wanted to explore this paranoid feeling. The feeling that maybe we don’t even have enough time to recalibrate before having to face the consequences of our own progress.
Couple that with a deep admiration for 70s conspiracy thrillers and rage against the machine masterworks like Taxi Driver and Bladerunner and voila, you get Death Notification Agency. I couldn’t be more excited to tell Ram’s story over six volumes with NeoText, and hopefully give readers a popcorn hellride they enjoy as much as I did writing it.
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