Jacqueline Levine's Blog - Posts Tagged "jack"
Spiral is On over 300 bookshelves!
It's so hard to believe and yet so incredibly exciting that 300 people are planning on reading my debut novel. This is the best way to end my week - and what a week it's been! The kindle version has been released, I received a stellar review from a very kind fan, and now the book has exceeded my expectations for the month. Thank you to the publishing gods, thank you to my reviewers, and thank you to my future readers! I look forward to sharing all of Jack and Cherie's adventures with you!
It's Time...
I'm ready to release the excerpt from Spiral's sequel, Twist. I think I've waited and edited and held onto it long enough...now it's ready.
But because I don't want any of my readers to experience this little bit of Twist without first having read Spiral, I just did the unthinkable. I promised myself I would never do this with my book, but I just had to. I want to share Spiral with the world. I know it's still a recession, y'all. I get it. I don't want you to have to choose between my book and a Starbucks. Why not have both?
That's right. I made Spiral free on Kindle. It's just for tomorrow, and it's just so that those of you who are going to go ahead and read the excerpt to Twist have a fighting chance at seeing where Jack and Cherie started. Let's do this, guys. Spiral
But because I don't want any of my readers to experience this little bit of Twist without first having read Spiral, I just did the unthinkable. I promised myself I would never do this with my book, but I just had to. I want to share Spiral with the world. I know it's still a recession, y'all. I get it. I don't want you to have to choose between my book and a Starbucks. Why not have both?
That's right. I made Spiral free on Kindle. It's just for tomorrow, and it's just so that those of you who are going to go ahead and read the excerpt to Twist have a fighting chance at seeing where Jack and Cherie started. Let's do this, guys. Spiral
In Memory of Paul Walker
Today, I am saddened by the news of Paul Walker's tragic death. I'll be the first to say I never knew him, he wasn't in my top five favorite actors, and I begrudgingly went to see the Fast and Furious movies with my obsessed friends. But the news was difficult to read nonetheless because already I see how inundated all of the channels and websites have become with the story. I keep thinking, "His poor family must be suffering."
Paul Walker's death hits a little close to home, too. I had written a very similar scene in the sequel for Spiral involving Jack and his friend. I feel terrible and torn now, and I do not know if I should include the scene. My husband said, "Art imitates life," but I don't necessarily agree in this instance. I will have to think long and hard about using that scene because no one wants to repeat such an awful tragedy for the sake of art.
When I wrote Spiral, and now as I write Twist, the other side of a celebrity's story is my goal. They're people, you know, just like us. They have families and friends and, in his case, children. I want my readers to find empathy for the famous and their families because what we call "news" are stories about their lives. How painful and difficult it must be to have to live through tragedy in the public eye.
Imagine you're Paul Walker's 15 year old daughter, and you have to not only face the fact that your father has died in a terrible way, but you won't be able to escape the images or the talk of it for days, maybe even weeks. Online, at the grocery store, in class, there will be whispers, pictures, gossip - constant reminders when all she will want to do is make it go away. Then there will be the careless, insensitive people who dare to say, "That's what you get for living your life like your films." For shame, people.
My heart goes out to Paul Walker's family and friends at this time. My prayers are with them as they try to navigate through this tragedy and move on without him. I hope the media can give them the space and time to grieve they deserve.
XOXO
Paul Walker's death hits a little close to home, too. I had written a very similar scene in the sequel for Spiral involving Jack and his friend. I feel terrible and torn now, and I do not know if I should include the scene. My husband said, "Art imitates life," but I don't necessarily agree in this instance. I will have to think long and hard about using that scene because no one wants to repeat such an awful tragedy for the sake of art.
When I wrote Spiral, and now as I write Twist, the other side of a celebrity's story is my goal. They're people, you know, just like us. They have families and friends and, in his case, children. I want my readers to find empathy for the famous and their families because what we call "news" are stories about their lives. How painful and difficult it must be to have to live through tragedy in the public eye.
Imagine you're Paul Walker's 15 year old daughter, and you have to not only face the fact that your father has died in a terrible way, but you won't be able to escape the images or the talk of it for days, maybe even weeks. Online, at the grocery store, in class, there will be whispers, pictures, gossip - constant reminders when all she will want to do is make it go away. Then there will be the careless, insensitive people who dare to say, "That's what you get for living your life like your films." For shame, people.
My heart goes out to Paul Walker's family and friends at this time. My prayers are with them as they try to navigate through this tragedy and move on without him. I hope the media can give them the space and time to grieve they deserve.
XOXO
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