My guest this week is author, Tessa Stockton.
Tessa’s new novel, The Unspeakable, was published by Wings ePress and has just been released. I’ve asked Tessa to tell us about herself:
Bio: A veteran of the performing arts and worldwide missions, Tessa Stockton also contributed as a writer/editor for ministry publications, ghostwriter for political content, and headed a column on the topic of forgiveness. Today, she writes romance and intrigue novels in a variety of genres.
Here is her book blurb, and a short, but enticing excerpt:
Blurb:
When a furtive conflict is pitted between violent leftist guerrillas and a rightwing paramilitary group in Colombia, a North American woman mistakenly gets caught in the middle.
“I spent four months, one week and two days in a clandestine prison referred to as The Water Cave. Every day I stared hell in the face, and each day I wanted to die. I don’t want to share too much too quickly. To understand fully, you must join hands with me, fasten your heart to mine, and course through my book. Stumble over the incomprehensible human rights journey with me. I’ve pondered it to the brink of questionable sanity, and it is the only way. It’s the only way to explain. I suppose I should consider myself lucky I survived at all—for many did not—yet, perplexingly so, that’s not the premise of this narrative.
He altered my life, marked me forever.
But it’s not how you might imagine.
This is a story involving Horacio Botello, my torturer known as Puma.”
Two Paragraph Excerpt:
The silence I met caused me to slide further inward. The dull sound of particles shifting underfoot, as the rubber soles of my tennis shoes grated against something, caught my attention. I lifted my foot. That’s when I noticed the shards of orange glass from a vase, which used to sit on the entry console table. It lay in fragments on the brown tiled floor.
My stomach did a flip. Proceeding into the main part of the house, the open kitchen and living room, I found things strewn everywhere, tipped over things, broken things.
Thank you for allowing me to be a guest on your very cool blog, Evelyn. : )
Tessa, your novel sounds fantastic. I hope to read it soon. Congrats!
Thank you, Carole!
For such a short blurb and excerpt, this was absolutely gripping. Excellent post, and thank you for sharing. I look forward to the book.
Marja, whenever I’m asked for an excerpt in the length of something like two paragraphs I break into a sweat. My paragraphs tend to run short. Well…my blurbs do too, for that matter. So I really appreciate your comment. Phew! : )
Tessa, I got a verbal comment from one of your blog readers, Cleo Lampos. She asked me to tell you, well, in her own words: “her (Tessa”s)story almost made made heart stop. Would reading the whole book do that? Great photo of author and great writing. Compelling.
How wonderful! I mean, not about the heart stopping, lol, but that I just might be doing my job as the novelist of a suspense/thriller. Great words of affirmation. Thank you for conveying that message.