Steven Koutz’s “Shadowed Stars: The Children of Home” was Exhibited at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Steven Koutz’s “Shadowed Stars: The Children of Home” was displayed at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, last April 22-23, 2023.

The book’s display at the country’s largest book festival was made possible by the self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet. The company exhibited many titles by different authors. ReadersMagnet is committed to helping authors such as Steven Koutz share their stories with the world in venues such as the L.A. Times Festival of Books, which is annually attended by approximately 150,000 people all over the world.

The third book in the “Shadowed Stars” series, “Shadowed Stars: The Children of Home” is a science fiction book that follows Rico, a half-human and half-Luth Bik, who is tasked to transfer a queen to another planet as part of his first mission to save their kind from extinction. Rico was born to a human mother and a Luth Bik father who sacrificed himself to save everyone.

Rico has fully human cousins as they were children of his Aunt Eva and Uncle Slade. He was accompanied by his human cousins to help him fulfill his mission across the galaxy. Quinla is an open lesbian who believes in true love; Nata is the middle child who feels lost and is trying to find her purpose; and Jon is a young teen who needs a bit of growing up to do.

While on the mission, a rogue element sends everything into chaos and has many of the crew separated. One group struggles with a hostile kingdom takeover. The other group faces a villain who can control minds and place people into different alternate realities.

Despite the mission of saving his kind from extinction, Rico still feels like he does not belong. Being a son of a human and a Luth Bik makes him feel like an outcast. However, he finds a woman who makes him feel as if he belongs.

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“Shadowed Stars: The Children of Home”
Author| Steven Koutz
Published Date| 2022
Publisher| Page Publishing
Genre| Science Fiction

Author’s Biography

Steven Koutz is from St. Paul; Minnesota originally and now resides in South Dakota. He has written tales of all kinds of adventure in all genres for as long as he can remember. His collection of comics and love for serialized tales has led him to always wanting to create a grand universe. Science Fiction has always been his favorite genre and he likes to mix it with elements of westerns, high adventure, romance, and horror. “Shadowed Stars” is that darker and more mature universe that he has created. It is an eight book series with many short stories on his website Shadowedstarsbooks.com that links into the series and opens even more aspects and adventures of the characters he has created. He writes even number books with focus on one group of characters and the odd number books with focus on another. He keeps his universe linked with crossover characters and events. Steven considers “Shadowed Stars” the Children of Home to be his masterpiece to date.

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