Wanted: Advance Readers for Doors to the Stars

Sixteen-year-old Wulan has weeks to live. Radiation poisoning from her last salvage run is killing her, and the only thing that might save her is selling the ancient Forger disk she found in the wreck—alien biotech that hums with her dead mother’s lullaby.

When a double-cross gets her best friend killed, she stows away on a smuggler ship and finds something she thought she’d lost forever: a family worth fighting for, who’ll fight for her in return.

But now the Ascendancy is hunting her. Cornered by a ruthless enforcer with a personal vendetta, the disk activates in her hands—and she discovers she can open portals between worlds.

She also discovers she can’t control them.

The disk whispers that it can give her the power to reunite a shattered galaxy—if she’s willing to surrender everything that makes her human.

Doors to the Stars is a YA Space Opera about choosing what you’ll lose to save worlds that never gave a damn about you. For readers who loved Ship Breaker’s survival grit with Becky Chambers’ found-family heart, and protagonists who break—but keep going anyway.

✅ WHAT YOU GET

• Free prequel novella Junk Rat (exclusive early access—see how Wulan ended up scavenging the ruins)
• Full eARC (PDF/EPUB, 92K words)
• Monthly behind-the-scenes content (character art, worldbuilding, excerpts)
• Graphics package, interview opportunities, and more available for content creators.
• The satisfaction of helping launch a book that matters

What I need from you:

• Read before launch (eARC available 6-8 weeks prior)
• Post an honest review in the first 72 hours of launch (Amazon preferred, but Goodreads, your platform, or wherever your readers are works too!)
• Use the hashtag #DoorsToTheStars so I can find and amplify your content

📖 WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Teens and adults who:

• Want intelligent, morally complex SF with characters who think their way through impossible problems
• Appreciate found family dynamics and protagonists who make human choices under impossible pressure
• Want diverse characters who are complex and flawed, not just checking boxes
• Actually respect YA as a category (think Ship Breaker, The Book Thief, Code Name Verity, Hunger Games)
• Bonus (not required): Are building a BookTok, BookTube, blog, or Goodreads presence and want to help launch something that treats readers like they're smart enough to get it

❌ THIS MIGHT NOT BE FOR YOU IF:

• You prefer light, episodic adventures over character-driven arcs
• You want "cozy" fiction (this isn't gratuitous, but it's brutally honest)
• You need protagonists who consistently make the right calls
• You think YA = romance-first with genre decoration