The Inspiration Behind The Collaborator

​My work in progress is a scifi romance about a young man who infiltrates the police force of the alien race that has conquered Earth in hopes of finding his father who has been arrested for terrorism. While searching for his father, he meets an attractive guy he later discovers is a high ranking invader in a human’s body. He decides to use their obvious chemistry to get answers about his father, but at the same time he has to be careful to protect his heart because no matter how charming this alien may seem, he’s the enemy.

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​So far people who’ve read the first couple of chapters immediately bring up Stephanie Meyer’s The Host and I understand the connection. The Host has aliens that take over people’s bodies, this story has aliens that take over people’s bodies. But that’s about as far as the similarities go.

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 It’s a bit like with my Dragoste Academy when people hear it’s a magic school and go, “Oh, so like Harry Potter?”
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Yes, just like that, but different in every possible way.

But there is an inspiration behind this story, though almost no one has guessed it, which I don’t know is a good or bad thing. I started dreaming up my own alien occupied dystopia as I was watching Colony.

When I first started thinking of my story, there were very few similarities between it and the show, though I’ve been working on this story for over a year and another season of Colony has come out and I cringe as I see more overlap developing. Fortunately, there are also major aspects of the plot developing that have no similarities to my story at all.

I can’t wait to share the love story of Lex and Clark, but as they say, all good things take time.

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