It is my pleasure to have Edith Parzefall tell us more about her new release.
It is time to break open the champagne and celebrate the birth of her latest novel from Museitup, CRUMPLE ZONE.
For free review copies contact the author via
email.
Hi,
I'm Edith. Often people forget
the 'h' when they
address me via email.
Edit, that's what I
do a lot.
My last name is
Parzefall, the name of
a famous fictional character
since at least the middle ages.
Chrétien
de Troyes called him
Perceval, Wolfram von Eschenbach
Parzival, and Richard Wagner
Parsifal. In English he's
commonly known as Percival.
Storyline:
A simpleton becomes King of
the Holy Grail. Sounds
quite promising, doesn't it? :-)
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, we
explored this long, narrow
country, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific
Ocean, mostly the Atacama Desert.
If I'd
seen our trip in
a movie, I'd have
commented a few times
on the symbols and
foreshadowing 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 police
stopped us to check
our papers, told us
to switch on the
light and drive safely.
When we crossed from
Region II to III,
a giant sandstone hand
rising from the desert
warned us to go
no further. Not to
mention the little altars
along the road commemorating accident
victims.
Next,
a huge truck transporting mining
equipment needed both lines
of the highway and
forced us onto the
dirt shoulder quite unexpectedly at
a crest. We saw
it just in time to get out of harm's way. Not for long
though...
Unfazed,
we drove on toward
La Serena, where the most amazing thing happened. We
were squashed between a
tomato truck and a liquid
gas truck. Battered but
uninjured, we stepped from
the 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
For a short time you can get 20% off this new release. Be quick the special won't last long.
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So raise your glasses and join us in celebrating the release of Crumple Zone. Congratulations Edith!
The lady smiled up at her, took the paper, and punched keys, while scrutinizing the computer screen. “Ah, yes. You'll get an upgrade to a Nissan X-Trail.”
