Leia Howard - Author

The Geography section is in the World of Touch of Gray appendix at the end of Out of Touch .  However, my craptacular map is not, so I hope you appreciate my bravery in showing you my extreme lack of map-making skills.  Can = Canada with those red circles representing Hawaii. Yep, Canada is a western country. GT = The Greater Tribal Council of the Americas, they include Greenland. US = United States. They are in the east plus Quebec, Nova Scotia, and part of Ontario. MX = Mexico.  They extend down into Central America and they have some of the island nations in the Caribbean.  Borders are not exact, this is just to give you a rough estimate of where the countries are located and what they encompass. For Invisible Touch promotion, I'll create a map of the Southwest section of North America to include some of the conservatorships and their relation to SWACon.  This will probably be posted in July or August.  But for now, below are the descriptors of countries from the ap

In the world of Touch of Gray, psychics are termed Psycepts and classified into different categories based on certain genetic markers and their general abilities. I always struggle with how to explain the world. I don't wish to overwhelm the reader with everything I know about the world; I want to parse out only the information necessary for the story. Though I have written four books in the series to date, I am not going into the different abilities unless a character or plot requires in-depth exploration. However, I have created a primer of abilities which is placed at the end of Out of Touch . I have also created a Cast of Characters list. SWACon stands for Southwest Alliance Conservatorship. Eleven conservatorships make up the country of The Greater Tribal Council of the Americas, or GT for short. Gray lives on SWACon, in the city of Albuquerque, where OOT takes place. I'll detail more about the geography and countries of Touch of Gray closer to the second novella, Invisibl