Losing Addison, by Marty Beaudet

Quite a few years ago, Darcia Helle and I used to run an online writers' forum with our fellow writer Stacy Juba. It was called BestsellerBound.com - The name was thought up by Stacy, and the idea behind it was that we were all going to be bestselling authors one day :)

The site attracted a lot of members and was always buzzing with online chat about the highs and lows of writing.

I look back on the BestsellerBound years as some of the most enjoyable of my writing journey so far. It was great to interact with so many different independent authors. We all learned so much from each other. I think it helped to chat about our writing and editing/publishing problems, and it helped us all to develop our skills.

Over the 2-3 years (maybe more) that we ran the site, we also produced a few publications. Jason McIntyre and I wrote an online novella, "Cutting the Fat", which was available at Amazon for a while. That was a cool writing experiment where we wrote a chapter each, alternately. It was a lot of fun and the story turned out to be very popular.

The BestsellerBound Anthologies that we published are still available at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...). They include short stories from many of the talented writers that were members of BestsellerBound.






I still keep in touch with many of the former BestsellerBound members. I made some really good friends on that site.

One of my friends from the BestsellerBound days contacted me recently about his exciting new project. Marty Beaudet, is about to shoot the film adaptation of his novella, "Losing Addison". He wrote the book online, on his blog, during the BestsellerBound days. He named a few of his characters after some of the authors from Bestsellerbound :)

One of the characters in the book was named after me. For legal reasons, he's changed the names of the characters for the film version, but the character he named after me is still called Maria, but is now Maria Sanchez.

I read the book back in 2011 and loved it. Here's the review I wrote after I'd read it:

I was hooked on this story from the start. I find the way it was written fascinating. The author literally dreamt this book, and then wrote it all out from his memory, without editing it. It's just perfect as it is! I heard about Marty Beaudet's experimental writing and, although curious, I didn't have time to go and read the serial as it was developing online. I finally found time to visit the blog and read the free online version when the author had already written 16 chapters. I read the whole thing in one sitting because it was that gripping!
Losing Addison is a psychological thriller exploring schizophrenia and the unexplained bond between twins. It's a story that will have you glued to the page. The suspense is well constructed and made me want to continue reading until I found out what was happening. The story unravels bit by bit, slowly revealing the reasons behind the characters' behaviour. Beaudet drip feeds the information in the most effective way, with flashback scenes and high drama. A wonderfully entertaining story. I'd recommend it to everyone who likes a good suspenseful thriller. And I am thrilled that the author chose to name one of the characters after me! My namesake appears in chapter 13!




The film crew have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help with production costs for "Losing Addison".

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

There are many awesome 'rewards' that you can claim for pledging towards the film costs, for example if you pledge $50 you could spend a day with the cast and crew during filming. If you pledge $25 or more, you get a thank you in the film credits along with a print copy of the book. Check out the page for full details and the list of rewards.

Excerpt from the Kickstarter Campaign description:

"Losing Addison is a psychological thriller that came from a nightmare in 2011. Marty woke up from the nightmare early one morning, with every detail fresh in his mind, as though it were dictated to him so specifically and completely that he was able to write and subsequently publish it in novella form just fifteen days later.

We optioned the rights to Marty's nightmare and he adapted it for the screen in 2015. We have since developed the feature, and are ready to begin principal photography on October 16th of this year, 2017.

Losing Addison is a film about human nature, the different sides of every person, and how every human being has a good side, and a bad side."

Read more about it on the Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

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The official website for the film: https://www.losingaddisonmovie.com/