Rising Red Light (Y. Correa)

It’s Monday once again at the cave, and I’m feeling all mad-scientist like. Not sure how long I’ll be doing this, so if you get the shine … be glad.

Today I want to talk about Author Y. Correa. Yeah, she’s affiliated with All Authors Publishing House. But, she has no idea that I’m even doing this spiel, which is the “beauty” of it.

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So … why Y? (See what I did there?)

The top reason is because she doesn’t really do the overly-sappy stuff. You may be thinking, “What about that historical romance mashup called MarcoAntonio & Amaryllis?”

Okay, so it speaks of love. It has a couple behind the balcony. I get it. I was deterred a bit too, almost didn’t give it another look until I checked out the other characters, particularly Mother Haydie (#abadass) and Aishe (#abraveass). So it was the action while the love fest took place which kept me invested. I want the rumor of Book 2 to be legit because it’s supposed to be strongly about Mother Haydie. I show up for the antagonist, especially if it’s executed correctly.

The closest she’s ever come to doing romance, to me, has a splash of comedy in it. Two free short stories come to mind: “Ryan” and “Loving … Them!” Therefore, if you like a little rom-com, those are the short stories to read. The titles are hyperlinked so you can get to them … after reading this, of course.

Where Y. Correa excels at is being a Sci-Fi Samurai.

I’m not talking about the “hard” sci-fi (it feels eerie even typing that) but more of a mashup. If I were a hard core science-fiction type, I may give a fart about the craftsmanship of the spacecraft, the color and shapes of the different knobs and buttons, the nipples on the alien lifeforms, and how their sex lives are more exciting to humans. But I like my reading similar to how I do my writing: if it doesn’t serve a purpose, then why is it included?

Like, I don’t want to be snoring by the time I get to Chapter 1. No one has time for all of that. I could be popping popcorn.

The Earth 8-8-2 saga … I’m here for it. It’s one of those books a person reads and thinks … shit I can see that as a movie. No, not one of those D-rated joints that one may be able to watch on some obscure channel past eleven pm and never on Sundays. Like, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime worthy … if they didn’t mess up the casting.

Even the book trailers, which I’m about to put in, look like mini films. Peep it!

On top of that, she does a top-notch job at storytelling. There was a question that I read which stated, “If one is a great storyteller, does that automatically translate to being a great writer?” I don’t necessarily think they both come hand-in-hand. I equate it to the difference between talking about something and translating it on paper, or even intimate conversation vs doing a speech in front of a crowd.

For me, I don’t do a lot of talking. The way I express myself in my cave is the way I’d interact with you if we were on the street. But when you read my stuff, you’d think it was someone entirely different.

I know people who excel at talking. Can tell me stories, going on and on about the details. If I were to ask those same people to jot it all down on paper, so I could share it with others, there’d only be a handful that could do it with the skill of a great writer. There’s a science in making inter-connectivity transcendent, which is why some people talk so much shit about “writing” being easy … until they do the damn thing.

Y. Correa’s short story anthology “Dimensions of Literary Seduction” flexes her storytelling muscle. She’s not dropping “morals of the stories”, but more of things to make you think, going beyond just the whole “beginning”, “middle”, and “end” type spiel. She rebels against the use of simple statements, padding on a bit of antiquated wording and style, meshing it with contemporary literature. Hence, the whole “romancing the words” style Y. Correa often incorporates. It’s not my design, but I don’t think all authors need to write in the same way for people to understand them. DOLS (as I nickname) has something for everyone, even me.

Stay tuned to see if I do any more of episodes of “Rising Red Light”.

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