I Explain Why My New Book Is Perfect If You Hate Betsy/I Explain Why My New Book Is Perfect If You Love Betsy
Next week (2/28) my new release, YOURS MINE AND OURS, hurtles itself onto shelves. (And it's just that violent, too. It flings itself! So guard your face.) YMO is the second book in my FBI trilogy about the Bureau Of False Flag Ops (BOFFO), in which people under psychiatric care are given lawful authority, firearms, and antipsychotics.
(What? It's not like the government didn't come up with even dumber plans in real life.)
YMO is about three very different women who live in the same body. ("Once upon a time, there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women. But they have three things in common.") So yeah, YMO is Charlie's Angels meets Sybil. BOFFO employs people from all walks of sociopathy/neuroses/manias, like "set a thief to catch a thief", and their clearance rate is pretty terrific (much to the annoyance of just about everyone else in the BOFFOverse). My editor calls their various quirks (a crime scene tech who is a kleptomaniac, a field agent with mirrored self-misidentification syndrome) their super powers, which I thought was hilarious. And apt!
(A side note which is not hilarious: the research I did for this book was terrifying. I'll be blogging more about mirrored self-misidentification this week, so be prepared to have the living crap scared right out of you. Even as I'm thinking about SMS the hairs on the back of my neck aren't just standing up, they are leaping up and trying to escape.)
The heroine, Cadence, is the core personality; she is warm and engaging and naive. Her "sisters" are Shiro (weapons expert and chilly antisocialist) and Adrienne (crazycrazycrazy and crazycrazycrazy). When Cadence isn't trying to find the right Secret Santa gift for a colleague, and Shiro isn't making the range master cry and cry, and Adrienne isn't adopting garden gnomes (which she steals, shelters, and then blows up), they try to catch bad guys. In this case, an unbelievably awful killer who kidnaps and kills a fourteen year old boy every June...and has for decades.
Since it's hard enough keeping track of the weirdness in that series (Cadence's sociopathic partner, George; her issues-with-phallic-objects boss; her OCD-laden best friend; her boyfriend the baker...) there is not a drop of the paranormal to be found anywhere. Just easily angered government employees with access to Haldol.
So! I have readers who are kind enough to read my paranormal books even if that's not normally their thing ("But you're funny, so I kind of force myself to get through them." "That's great! But you don't have to force yourself. Just buy 'em; nobody said you had to read them."), this is vampire/werewolf/zombie free.
For those of you who like my paranormal stuff but hate what I'm doing to the UNDEAD series, there's no Book of the Dead, no Ancient Betsy, and no unfortunately-deceased pals (no matter how temporary their death actually is) to be found anywhere in YMO. You can read it safely!
For those of you who like the paranormal books and love the direction the UNDEAD books have taken, while you're waiting for UNDEAD AND UNSTABLE (June 2012) to come out, there are no UNDEAD spoilers in YMO, though there are murders, secret dogs ("I can't have a dog in this apartment, so we have to keep her a secret."), and also bakers. You can read it safely!
Sneak peeks will follow over the next few days ("Don't threaten us, Davidson!") and I hope you'll get a kick out of them. Regardless, I'm once again reminded of this charmed life I lead...I feel so lucky to even have the chance to put something like YOURS MINE AND OURS out there. God bless editors...and readers. :-)
(What? It's not like the government didn't come up with even dumber plans in real life.)
YMO is about three very different women who live in the same body. ("Once upon a time, there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women. But they have three things in common.") So yeah, YMO is Charlie's Angels meets Sybil. BOFFO employs people from all walks of sociopathy/neuroses/manias, like "set a thief to catch a thief", and their clearance rate is pretty terrific (much to the annoyance of just about everyone else in the BOFFOverse). My editor calls their various quirks (a crime scene tech who is a kleptomaniac, a field agent with mirrored self-misidentification syndrome) their super powers, which I thought was hilarious. And apt!
(A side note which is not hilarious: the research I did for this book was terrifying. I'll be blogging more about mirrored self-misidentification this week, so be prepared to have the living crap scared right out of you. Even as I'm thinking about SMS the hairs on the back of my neck aren't just standing up, they are leaping up and trying to escape.)
The heroine, Cadence, is the core personality; she is warm and engaging and naive. Her "sisters" are Shiro (weapons expert and chilly antisocialist) and Adrienne (crazycrazycrazy and crazycrazycrazy). When Cadence isn't trying to find the right Secret Santa gift for a colleague, and Shiro isn't making the range master cry and cry, and Adrienne isn't adopting garden gnomes (which she steals, shelters, and then blows up), they try to catch bad guys. In this case, an unbelievably awful killer who kidnaps and kills a fourteen year old boy every June...and has for decades.
Since it's hard enough keeping track of the weirdness in that series (Cadence's sociopathic partner, George; her issues-with-phallic-objects boss; her OCD-laden best friend; her boyfriend the baker...) there is not a drop of the paranormal to be found anywhere. Just easily angered government employees with access to Haldol.
So! I have readers who are kind enough to read my paranormal books even if that's not normally their thing ("But you're funny, so I kind of force myself to get through them." "That's great! But you don't have to force yourself. Just buy 'em; nobody said you had to read them."), this is vampire/werewolf/zombie free.
For those of you who like my paranormal stuff but hate what I'm doing to the UNDEAD series, there's no Book of the Dead, no Ancient Betsy, and no unfortunately-deceased pals (no matter how temporary their death actually is) to be found anywhere in YMO. You can read it safely!
For those of you who like the paranormal books and love the direction the UNDEAD books have taken, while you're waiting for UNDEAD AND UNSTABLE (June 2012) to come out, there are no UNDEAD spoilers in YMO, though there are murders, secret dogs ("I can't have a dog in this apartment, so we have to keep her a secret."), and also bakers. You can read it safely!
Sneak peeks will follow over the next few days ("Don't threaten us, Davidson!") and I hope you'll get a kick out of them. Regardless, I'm once again reminded of this charmed life I lead...I feel so lucky to even have the chance to put something like YOURS MINE AND OURS out there. God bless editors...and readers. :-)
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