THE FOREVER GIRL by Rebecca Hamilton

Author's Creative Brand: 
"The Forever Girl, sophia's journey"
Genre:  An Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance Novel of the Occult
Length:  352 Pages
Immortal Ink Publishing

My 9 Reader 'Hot-Button' Considerations

1. World's Immersion:  
We arrive in Sophia's "ordinary world" of Belle Meadow, Colorado, an isolated mountain-town, inside Sophia's ostracized P.O.V. working at a diner surrounded by small town scrutiny. We follow Sophia into her private world, inside the generations old house she inherited from her Grandfather, or to Paloma's intriguing metaphysical shop with its special curiosities.  We learn of Sophia's world as she stumbles on the realization, that supernatural beings are converging all around her, and her supposedly ordinary, small town.  This gradually opening aperture into the world of "The Forever Girl" is how Rebecca Hamilton introduces her new series to enthrall Readers...

AFTER RESONANCE with AUTHOR J.D. MADER

 

Author Bio:  J.D. MADER (@jd_mader) hangs his laptop in San Francisco Bay Area.  He is primarily a fiction writer, but also writes nonfiction and music.  He began his professional writing career at age 15 as a sportswriter in San Diego.

1.  If you were to choose 1 character from "Joe Cafe" to spin-off into their own book, which one might have that appealing intrigue for you, and why?

J.D.:  Oh, that’s easy.  Chet, for sure.  He’s the most fascinating character.  I love ‘Lolita’ by Nabokov because I am simply astounded that he can make the reader empathize with a predator like Humbert Humbert.  Lots of people feel this way.  Not trying to claim it’s my unique idea.  But I love Chet for the same reason.  Logically, he is a terrible, terrible person.  He starts out terrible.  But then you get inside his head and by the end of the book you want to give him a hug.  And then beat his ass.  It’s a weird dichotomy.  He’s an interesting character because we are so quick in our society to write off “bad” people without considering their circumstances. 

JOE CAFE by JD Mader

Author's Creative Brand
"Joe Cafe"
Genre:  Psychological Crime Noir
Length: 136 pages
Lockjaw Publishing

My 9 Reader 'Hot-Button' Considerations

1. World's Immersion:
The stage is first set by a comforting nostalgia...a simple, ma & pa store kind of small town, Millersville, where the only reality of violence was at a distance, sending their young men away to war.  The first interior Readers will step inside is the Joe Cafe, owned by the Chens.  A family-operated, 'town personality symbol' embodied by the kind of comfort-food atmosphere, where locals could be their own irritating or invisible selves...where truckers en route from elsewhere would make a point of stopping in, off the long road. 

When I read about the underbelly, I like to find myself in the darkened places.  That's part of the fun of reading...going places one might not try to go in reality.  JD takes Readers through the belly of seedy motels where the illicit go to play or hide, a strip club housing the lost and languishing, but also away from the hidden town grit, to a town's dreaming, quiet place.  The rooms we read about house many extreme acts, ludicrous acts, haunting, humiliating...and fascinating.