Hard to believe my debut novel, The Genesis Code, came out 13 years ago today. I embarked on writing it around 2004ish. Took me 2 years or so to finish. I’d written short stories. Genesis was my first foray into novel-length work, so a lot of that time was needed to get my sea legs, so to speak.

I made sure to finish it up before I started law school in 2006. I–correctly–presumed I’d have no time to devote to it. I tried to shop it around now and again, to no avail. I didn’t have the time to really make an organized go of that. Law school was all-consuming.

In 2012, Greg Gifune was acquiring novels at DarkFuse. He’d accepted my very first short story (“Vacancy”) for publication in his then-zine, The Edge, back in 2002, so he was familiar with my work. He accepted the novel and scheduled it for publication in May 2012.

The Genesis Code has since been joined by several novellas and a number of additional novels in the intervening years. My most recent, Ravenna’s Road, came out last year. I’m working on the next one now–it’s a sort of sequel for both The Genesis Code and Down the Brink.

My novels, mainly near-future dystopian thrillers of one flavor or another, are available wherever you get your books.

Thanks for reading,

Lisa von Biela