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Cahoots Publishing (1 Feb. 2018)
available in ebook and paperback
323 pages
My thanks to Rachel Gilbey of Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation to take part in the tour. For my turn today I have a guest post from Jenny and there is also a giveaway for 3 e-copies of Hiding (open internationally). To enter the giveaway please refer to the Rafflecopter box below.
DARK DEEDS? What kind of person writes psychological thrillers? And why?
by Jenny Morton Potts
As Stephen King grew up, he was lonely and his father had left. King had nightmares about a local boy who was hit by a freight train. Additionally, the author had a host of phobias to contend with and was assailed by superstition too. So it’s not surprising perhaps that he found his way quickly to the horror genre.
But what about those of us who don’t mind walking under ladders, who check into hotel rooms numbered thirteen, without a second thought and whose neighbours led uneventful lives? Someone like me, for example. An optimistic girl, with ready humour and a life full of love, why am I writing about murder and mayhem?
Well, all cannot be entirely well, not even in people of the sunniest (and I’m not) disposition. One of our most common fears is being chased, hunted. I dream of this a lot. I have a recurring dream of being a child in a large house and someone is in there looking for me. My only recourse is to lure them away from the door and to run through it to freedom. (Actually, it’s a while since I’ve had that dream but I expect I shall tonight!) This particular nightmare started around the time of a series of burglaries at home. I also regularly dream that men are killing me and I have to kill them first. And I do kill them, lots of them; not with a weapon but with my bare hands. I generally pick them up by their ankles and hurl them around my head, then dash their head against a building. This is not a scene I have used in fiction to date.
‘They’ say these terrifying dreamscapes are practice grounds, to equip ourselves for this actuality in our waking lives. Fortunately, I haven’t had to yet. And for this same reason, ‘they’ say, we like to watch horror (I don’t, only very occasionally because my son pleads for me to watch with him); that our minds need to examine and analyse life-threatening scenarios so that we might learn how to cope in such a situation. Of course the more common explanation for lusting after horror on the page and on the screen, is simply the thrill, the adrenalin rush.
It’s certainly true that I address some of my own fears in writing psychological thrillers, but I address many, many other issues too. I get a strong sense of what is right for the storyline and I write towards that, rather than the other way around, ie incorporating a storyline which facilitates my inner gore. At least that’s what I thought. But now I’m not at all sure…
| About the Book |
A gripping psychological thriller with chilling twists, from a unique new voice.
Keller Baye and Rebecca Brown live on different sides of the Atlantic. Until she falls in love with him, Rebecca knows nothing of Keller. But he’s known about her for a very long time, and now he wants to destroy her.
This is the story of two families. One living under the threat of execution in North Carolina. The other caught up in a dark mystery in the Scottish Highlands. The families’ paths are destined to cross. But why? And can anything save them when that happens?
| About the Author |
Jenny is a novelist, screenplay writer and playwright. After a series of ‘proper jobs’, she realised she was living someone else’s life and escaped to Gascony to make gîtes. Knee deep in cement and pregnant, Jenny was happy. Then autism and a distracted spine surgeon wiped out the order. Returned to wonderful England, to write her socks off.
Jenny would like to see the Northern Lights but worries that’s the best bit and should be saved till last. Very happily, and gratefully, settled with family. She tries not to take herself too seriously.
Author Links: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Amazon UK | Goodreads
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