Accidently Inspired... CRUMPLE ZONE .

It is my pleasure to have Edith Parzefall as my guest today. 
It is time to break open the champagne and celebrate the release of her latest novel from Museitup, CRUMPLE ZONE.


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Hi,I'm Edith. Often people forgetthe 'h' when theyaddress me via email.Edit, that's what Ido a lot.

My last name isParzefall, the name ofa famous fictional charactersince at least the middle ages.

Chrétiende Troyes called himPerceval, Wolfram von EschenbachParzival, and Richard WagnerParsifal. In English he'scommonly known as Percival.
Storyline:A simpleton becomes King ofthe Holy Grail. Soundsquite promising, doesn't it? :-)
Find out more about me at: EDITH PARZEFALL flickr pics and EDITH PARZEFALL's blog
When my partner and I visited Chile in 2008, we actually made the front page in a local newspaper, only they gave my name a new twist: Parceball. Well, the real star of this adventure was my knight, the rented X-Trail.

On a wonderful road trip, weexplored this long, narrowcountry, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, mostly the Atacama Desert. 

If I'dseen our trip ina movie, I'd havecommented a few timeson the symbols andforeshadowing along the road, as in the face as a blood-red moon rising over a forest where a bunch of college kids just got lost...
  
It started on the return trip from San Pedro de Atacama to Santiago. Symbols of death and danger everywhere. A deserted mining village with a looted cemetery. 

The policestopped us to checkour papers, told usto switch on thelight and drive safely. 

When we crossed fromRegion II to III,a giant sandstone handrising from the desertwarned us to gono further. Not tomention the little altarsalong the road commemorating accidentvictims.
   Next,a huge truck transporting miningequipment needed both linesof the highway andforced us onto thedirt shoulder quite unexpectedly ata crest. We sawit just in time to get out of harm's way.  Not for long though...

Unfazed,we drove on towardLa Serena, where the most amazing thing happened. Wewere squashed between a tomato truck and a liquidgas truck. Battered butuninjured, we stepped fromthe wreck into the open arms of caring Chilenos. 
   At the hospital, exams and x-rays confirmed that we really were uninjured. Unbelievable. Since we didn't get a replacement car, we found ourselves stranded, but the Carabineros gave us a ride searching for accommodation.
So we stayed the last few days, nurtured our seat belt bruises, lurched about town, picked up a newspaper featuring the accident, and booked a flight straight to Santiago de Chile, arriving just before we had to fly back home. Of course I had to turn these experiences into a novel.
Part of Crumple Zone follows pretty much in our tire tracks, except I needed more interesting characters than me (bookworm) and my partner (math nerd) and I had to invent the trucker causing the accident as well as motivate his lapse in attention. 

The beautifully symbolic model name of the X-Trail made it clear that my main protagonists needed to be at a crossroads in life, taking either the right or wrong turn, but no more going straight ahead and ignoring the important things in life. Okay, no spoilers... the result turned into psychological suspense.
Here's a teaser:
When Chilean trucker Enrique bumps into jobless workaholic Lara, he thwarts her flight from life and his escape from reality.
Back Cover: Lara, a workaholic from Seattle, loses her job, drowns her frustrations in scotch, and books a trip to Chile. Instead of facing her messed up life, she escapes to South America and hooks up with a backpacker, whose bag of tricks conveniently distracts her.
Hauling freight along the same route, trucker Enrique battles the loneliness of the Atacama Desert, imagining his wife by his side. If only she'd stop urging him to come home. 

With growing unease, he sets off on the return trip. When his path crosses Lara's, the impact knocks them both off their errant tracks to face unpleasant realities.
If you like, check out the book and read an excerpt at MuseItUp Publishing: CRUMPLE ZONE

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So raise your glasses and join us in celebrating the release of Crumple Zone. Congratulations Edith!