{"id":532,"date":"2025-06-21T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charlottelaws.com\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:02:36","slug":"new-novel-elevator-people-by-charlotte-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/charlottelaws.com\/?page_id=532","title":{"rendered":"Elevator People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elevator People <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Charlotte Laws <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sci-fi, Humor, and Horror
Released on July 11, 2025. Available wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrilliantly written! Dystopian thriller packed with humor, heart, and horror. Eight charity volunteers go on a macabre journey and confront the most consequential moral message of our time. They must decide whether to embrace it or hide out at a mattress store in a Baltimore mini-mall.\u201d \u2013 Bruce Goldberg, best-selling author<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOriginal! Funny! Surprising! A wake-up call for a world that has gone astray.\u201d \u2013 Cynthia Shortreed, editor <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn imaginative sci-fi masterpiece with unexpected twists and turns. It forces you to rethink your values. You\u2019ll never look at life, compassion, or the planet in the same way again.\u201d \u2013 Sue Jones, Hollywood TV Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat do Charles Manson, the Killer Clown, and Hitler have in common? They all make an appearance in Elevator People<\/em>. Have they come back to life? Or what? I\u2019m not telling. You\u2019ll have to read this well-crafted, edge-of-your-seat thriller to find out.\u201d \u2013 Pamelyn Ferdin, actress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Charlotte Laws fulfills Elevator People\u2019s promise of intrigue and deadpan comedy. The main characters are a terrifically mixed bag of personality traits, which makes for richly entertaining reading. Elevator People is a high-spirited time-travel adventure\u2026 with sharp dialogue and a winning cast of contrasting characters.”  \u2013 Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Elevator People<\/em>\u00a0is a true original with wondrous world-building, featuring odd aliens, Cruelty Quotient scores, cameos by Hitler and Charles Manson, and the Charity Eight doing the absolute best they can.” – Publisher’s Weekly (Booklife Prize)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight people leave a charity gala in 2025. They step off a hotel elevator and find themselves in a different century. This is not an ordinary world. They see atrocities\u2014hideous and hellish things found only in nightmares. The place is a horror show. Their values and beliefs are put to the test. Victims beg for help, and they become underground operatives. They are hunted by the authorities and the cultlike masses who call them terrorists. They are a threat to their customs, a risk to their bloodthirsty ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They eventually learn that thousands of elevator people around the world have time traveled as a part of the Earthling Extermination Project. Earth is causing catastrophic weather events for other planets, and elevator people are tasked with softening the blow before annihilation day\u2014that is, if they agree to accept the mission. Will they save the planet? Will they ever get home? What will be their fate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are cameo appearances in Elevator People<\/em> by a number of dead scoundrels, including Charles Manson, the Killer Clown, and Adolf Hitler. This dystopian time travel novel makes a captivating turn at the seventy percent mark where it offers a profound, philosophical message. Thematically, it analyzes the values and behavior of people today and offers a better path forward\u2014a direction for embracing a more compassionate world.   <\/p>\n\n\n

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Amazon <\/a>and Barnes & Noble<\/a><\/p>\n

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