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About the book…
‘When your Father spends most
nights cutting your Mother in half, life’s not exactly run of the mill.’
As the daughter of Adam Adamovitch
and the lovely Ophelia, purveyors of illusion, delusion, sparkling eyes,
flashing teeth, little-left-to-the-imagination costumes, and death-defying
stunts, Sandra’s accustomed to the unusual. But when Adam’s eye lights on yet
another conquest, it’s a chorus girl too far for Ophelia, and Sandra’s coerced
into restoring her distraught mother to a family nobody knew existed. It’s a situation
that even for her - and she’s had years of bizarre – is unnerving, but one
thing’s clear, the sooner she puts distance between herself, the newfound
nearest and dearest, their alarming tendencies and failing hotel business, the happier
she’ll be!
There are just a few issues she
thinks she should sort first - a possessed
chef, hanged housemaid, fly-on-the-wall documentary. Then there’s a
doppelgänger, crazed shape-shifter, and an age-old grudge. Things slide swiftly
from bad to farce, then turn a whole lot darker. One minute Sandra’s trying to shore
up the family business, the next trying to keep them all alive - honestly, you
couldn’t make it up!
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Publisher : Matador
(27 Jun. 2017)
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Genre : Paranormal Thriller
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Language : English
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Paperback : 288
pages
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ISBN-10 : 1788033728
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ISBN-13 : 978-1788033725
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Dimensions : 23.3
x 2.4 x 32.2 cm
Marilyn Messik is a: Wife, Mother,
Grandmother, Book Lover, Housework Hater.
Professional: Author of
Paranormal Thrillers… Default Setting: Mild hysteria.
A feature and fiction writer for various national
magazines, and a regular columnist in Mother & Baby. Marilyn’s first business was setting up teams to sell
children’s party goods, she subsequently opened two shops, adding books and
educational toys to the mix.
When she sold the shops, she moved into the travel
market, creating tailor-made, of-the-beaten-track trips to America. Based on
the success of her U.S. Welcome booking
& planning service, she set up a Publishing Company and created U.S.
Welcome, Selected Hotels & Inns, a full-colour annual publication. When several years later she sold the business to an FTSE 100 company, she launched
her copywriting consultancy.
As well as writing for businesses, Marilyn has
continued writing fiction, features and editorials, she’s blogged for The
Telegraph Online, created and published the Vintage Ladies Collection, written
four business books, and four paranormal novels - taking
care not to mix the two.
Follow Marilyn on Twitter
Brief Interview…
When did you start writing your new book?
'Witch Dust' was started around 2016 and is
the first of the 'Witch' series.
What was the inspiration behind the book?
Watching various brilliant magicians and
illusionists through the years and concluding the simplest and most logical
explanation was ‘real magic.’
Can you describe your route to publication from concept to completed novel?
When I first started a few years ago writing
full-length fiction as opposed to short stories, I submitted to a few agents
and was delighted to get a positive response from three of them. However, one wanted me to change my story one
way, the second wanted to change it in another direction, and the third had yet
another set of ideas. Weighing up one against the others gave me a dreadful headache,
a whole heap of indecision as to which one might be right, and the conviction I
was probably too obstinate to listen to
any of them.
What ideas do you have for any future
books?
Well, Book 2 of the Witch Series will be
started as soon as I’ve finished Book 4 of my Strange Series. When I first started writing
it was very much seat of the pants but now I tend to at least have a rough idea
of where I’m going when I start. Naturally, I suffer from all the usual writer’s
distractions and procrastinations – another cup of coffee, maybe a chocolate
biscuit? If I put a quick wash on now I won’t have to do it later, and hey
there’s a bird sitting on the fence.
Which publishing services would you
recommend?
Definitely print on demand which at the moment I do with Amazon. It makes so much more sense than having a print run which is either too small, meaning you have to have more done - or too large in which case you have excess books lying around reproachfully.
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