After reaching so many milestones last year both
professionally and personally, I have more groundbreaking writing planned for
2014.
First up, I’m doing a book signing at the renowned Books
& Books in Coral Gables on Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. I’ll read a chapter from Mute – I have one in mind but I’m open
to suggestions – and then talk about how the story of my novel is a metaphor for
my life. The discussion really moved the people who heard it at the Miami Book
Fair so I suggest you hear it live.
If you can’t be there in person, Books & Books will
stream it online. Go here for more information about the free event.
This fall Silver Leaf Books will release my second novel, Famous After Death, in print and e-book.
My publisher already posted a landing page for my novel. How do you like the
cover photo? It’s by the same photographer from Mute, El Cesana in Australia. The font for the title will probably
change, but I feel the photo captures the shocking nature of the story.
I’m glad there weren't camera phones and YouTube when I was a
teenager because a lot of the stupid things I did probably would have been
shared, to maximum embarrassment. I’m lucky some of those stunts didn’t go so
bad that people got hurt. But what if…
In Famous After Death,
three Miami teenagers figure: Everything else has gone viral so why not murder?
This is fast-paced thriller set in South Florida (mostly
Miami). The teenagers do terrible things for attention as the trials of their
childhoods drove them to dehumanize their victims, and make them famous by
posting their deaths online.
Most teenagers who glamorize their violence online are too
stupid to hide their identities, but this trio is clever, and they have help from
a mysterious hacker with an ax to grind against the police officer tracking
them down.
Besides all this, what else
could I possibly have cooking? Well, another novel of course. Mute is just itching for a sequel and I’m
hard at work on the first draft. I can’t say how long it will take to finish
and, especially, to edit. That’s the hard part.
I’ll say this, though. It’ll have more science fiction than
the first novel, and more romance. Yet, other parts are pure horror.
I call it…
Silenced
