Lonely Planet Hotel - Season Two Premier
Happy Saturday! I'm so excited to announce that season two of my cozy sci-fi drama web novel series Lonely Planet Hotel is premiering on Tapas this afternoon! I also had to use it as an excuse to share this amazing art that Michillart over on Instagram did of the main character, Ellis - my first asexual and intentionally neurodivergent protagonist (most of them end up that way haha but Ellis was intentionally written to be autistic based on my own experiences)!
Season two continues to follow the expanding staff of The Lonely Planet Hotel as they serve the eclectic guests that arrived the month prior. With February bringing new hires, new challenges, and new romance to the quiet Antarctic resort, Ellis begins to discover how rewarding healing can actually be once he's able to wrap his mind around it. The staff is preparing for the incoming dark season that is rapidly approach, along with an influx of guests, but the proprietor's new outlook on life and his hotel require some changes to be made to keep the facility going - some that the tenured staff members may push back on when their comfortable way of life is threatened.
Now's a great time to dive into the series and catch up! You can read Lonely Planet Hotel over on Tapas, or you can join me at the Lonely Planet (aka my Patr30n) and read ahead where season two has been in full swing for about two months now!
Lonely Planet Hotel synopsis:
When Ellis Hughes accepted a position at the mysterious Lonely Planet Hotel, he never expected to find himself on a plane bound for Antarctica. Forced to leave his technology behind, Ellis arrives on the doorstep of a grand, state of the art facility nestled in the frigid arctic wasteland. The resort is secretive, exclusive, and completely hidden from public knowledge. Only those with high recommendations can book a season at the resort, and the newly arriving guests looking for reprieve are not what he initially envisioned.
Run by the chipper Carlisle Hawthorne and his dedicated, hardworking staff, The Lonely Planet Hotel opens its doors for the first season of the year, thrusting Ellis into a world filled with artists, aristocrats, heirs and lost souls all looking for healing in the midst of a chaotic universe. The beautiful, isolated hotel offers rest for the weary, healing for the hurt, and family for the lonely; all things Ellis desperately needs but refuses to acknowledge. Most of all, it brings a mysterious writer named Dean Winters into his life that threatens to change everything...
Ellis soon discovers that the loneliest people are the most caring, and he may just find that the home he's been searching for all along is not found in a building, but the people who live there.
