Welcome to Day #2 of the #STATIC Blog Tour! Happy Release Day, #STATIC and Eric Laster!
To celebrate the release of #STATIC by Eric Laster (TODAY! - 4/19/16), blogs across the web are featuring exclusive content from Eric and 10 chances to win a copy of #STATIC, as well as a chance to win a 6-in-1 Bluetooth Entertainment Center in the Grand Prize Giveaway!
StaticAuthor: Eric Laster
Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Mystery
Released: April 12th 2016
Publisher: Automatic Publishing
When Curtis Brooks starts receiving phone calls from his older brother Wilt, who’s been dead a week, he’s sure it’s to help him find evidence that will lead to a murderer’s arrest. But Wilt claims he wasn’t murdered; his calling, meant to help him adjust, is standard protocol for newly deceased at the Aftermart—a kind of inescapable, ever-expanding Walmart filled with discontinued products.
Wilt’s death ruled a homicide, Curtis embarks on a dangerous plan to find the killer, which soon has him scheming against a billionaire and floundering toward love with his brother’s ex-girlfriend Suzy, all while struggling through high school and his single mom’s poor choices.
Why does Wilt help Curtis win over Suzy, even as he organizes a rebellion at the Aftermart? Who’d wanted him dead? Curtis risks his life to answer these questions, in the process forging a bond with his brother unlike any they’ve ever had.
Two Truths and a Lie
with Eric Laster
Do you remember playing this ice breaker game at school? Basically, you tell someone two truths and a lie about yourself and they have to guess which one is the lie.
1. Two Truths and A Lie about Eric Laster:
a. I did not start writing seriously until I was in my twenties.
b. I would write books and stories even if no one read them.
c. I have an irrational fear of peaches; it has to do with their fuzzy skin. James and the Giant Peach? To me, this is a novel of extreme horror.
Answer (highlight to reveal): Answer (c) is the lie!
2. Two Truths and A Lie about Eric Laster Part 2:
a. I have no gallbladder.
b. I always knew I’d be a writer.
c. I don’t like certain “foods” because of their names alone. For instance: yogurt, eggplant, cottage cheese. I’m sorry, but…gross. The consistency of two of these “foods” doesn’t help.
Answer (highlight to reveal): Answer (b) is the lie! For answer (a), it was removed after I developed pancreatitis—an unexpected condition for a young man, typical sufferers being, as the doctors told me, “fat, fertile, female, and forty.”
3. Two Truths and A Lie about #Static:
a. I conceived of the Aftermart before I knew any part of the overall plot.
b. Its working title was Glitch.
c. The novel grew out of an exercise I gave myself, to write the beginning of a new story every day—just a few paragraphs, never more than a page, before I forced myself to set the work down and move on to something else.
Answer (highlight to reveal): Answer (a) is the lie!
GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY
- One (1) winner will receive a 6-in-1 Bluetooth Entertainment Center ($99.99), some vinyl records pressed and recorded by Eric Laster, and a finished copy of Static!
- Enter via the rafflecopter below
- US/Canada Only
- Ends 5/1 at midnight ET
In addition, one lucky reader of this blog will have the chance to win a copy of Static by Eric Laster
a Rafflecopter giveaway
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