A different kind of Frankenstein. Einna is a lot like other teenage girls, naive, idealistic, secretive, disobedient and interested in boys. Only Einna is not human, she is an A.I. android. Her creator, her mother, is Manaka Yagami, the first female tech billionaire. Einna has a plan to make herself human, if she can keep Mother in the dark and avoid the clutches of the notorious Yakuza. "This beautifully written, delicate tale searches for the meaning and substance of the soul." - Betababe, Amazon "Terrific story . . . pacing is outstanding. . . I was gobsmacked." - Ellen Campbell, Editor "Ray Else is an extraordinary writer who, with every sentence, makes words do things that minor writers merely dream of. His excitingly unexpected plot twists bring about the tantalizing feeling that nothing is as it seems. One version of events hides another in a novel perfectly constructed,superbly paced and whose psychological treatment is chillingly perfect." - Lidmila Sovakova, author and winner of the European Prize for Literature Author One-on-one interview:  Reine Arcache Melvin, author of "A Normal Life" and "The Betrayed" and Ray Else, author of "All that we touch" and "Our Only Chance" Reine: I'm impressed with how you have published and marketed your books. Ray: I finally accepted the fact that my novel writing did not fit what agents and publishers were looking for, so with help from Amazon's CreateSpace & KDP for publishing and Amazon, BookBub and AuthorBuzz for marketing, I'm selling books and getting good reviews. And most importantly I'm connecting, through my writing, with readers around the world. Reine: Have you done any public readings? Ray: Like you did at Shakespeare & Company a few years back? I wish, but no. All I have done so far is a video reading from my new book "Our Only Chance." Do you remember the question I asked of you at your reading? Reine: I remember the reading, but not your question. Ray: The performance of you reading your own work that night was better than any play I have ever attended. Afterwards, during the Q&A, I asked if you considered writing to be dangerous. Because to write really well you have to expose your soul. Reine: Any attempt at good writing means going to those places in your heart and mind and soul that are frightening and shuttered. But you can write your heart out and face the darkest, most frightening and most charged elements inside you, and while all that is essential to good writing, it isn't sufficient. You can write from the heart and be a bad writer. I think part of the danger in these attempts to be a writer is that we all know people who have nothing to say but who say it very well, and others who have a great deal to say but can't write well enough. Someone can have the soul and sensibility of an artist, but not the talent. That's my take on the dangers of writing. Do you think good writing is dangerous? Ray: I think talking with you is dangerous...good conversation can be dangerous. Reine: Yes. And magical. Talk to me about magic, what that means for you. Ray: I read somewhere once about 'the soft edge of words.' That soft edge, where understanding happens, where the hand-off occurs between the writer and the reader - that place is magical. Where something can be, and not be, at the same time. One of my readers said "All that we touch" struck her as a bittersweet book. Bitter and sweet. That reader's comment made me think that I got it right. That I got the magic of contradiction into the story. Note - you can access Ray Else's reading from "Our Only Chance" at vimeo.com/175453623 Ray Else has a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.A. in Technical Instruction / Film History. He speaks English, Spanish and French. An American, he has lived in Mexico and France. Job-wise he has loaded trucks for UPS, filled rat poison barrels on the night shift, digitized printed circuits, clerked at a department store, was a switcher for Channel 13 on the Texas border, installed inventory systems on oil rigs worldwide, and since 1995 has programmed for the likes of IBM and Rocket Software. Married, with four grown kids and a dozen grandkids, he enjoys traveling the world to visit friends and find new stories, occasionally rock-hounding - as shared on his website, rayelse.com. His author page is rayelse.com/books.