Book & Author Details:
Chasing Prophecy by James Moser
Publication date: January 2nd 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Thriller,
Publication date: January 2nd 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Thriller,
Synopsis:
Mo
is a shy teen just trying to survive high school. He has
secretly fallen in love with a girl named Prophecy. Some people call
her family a harmless hippie community. Others call them a cult.
Desperate to keep their land, Prophecy’s family turns to the drug trade
and tricks Mo into smuggling. Prophecy flees the compound. She agrees
to testify but disappears. Mo is devastated. When he is called to trial,
the Family threatens to reveal his own drug trafficking. Mo commits to
speaking out, though doing so will destroy his future. Prophecy returns
to help Mo kill the monster that her family has become.
Purchase:
"I
closed my eyes. I opened my eyes. I saw sky and mist
kicked up by white water crashing into rocks.
I
closed my eyes. I opened my eyes. I looked down. I
was either going to just clear the boulder closest to the bridge or I
was getting an ambulance ride, or I was about to die.
I
screamed, “AAAAAAAAAAAAHH!”
The
bottoms of my feet smacked the water hard, then all of me was
underneath, then my feet hit the bottom. Knees and elbows on
rock. I looked up through ten feet of clear, freezing water.
Through the bumpy surface I could see the shapes of my friends, the
colors of their clothes. I pushed off the bottom and shot
through the surface.
Bloody.
Dizzy. Alive. Icy water—snow the day before—stretched
my skin tight.
I
squinted up at the bridge, saw Max and Kazzy jumping up and down,
arms over their heads, screaming. I pulled myself up to the
flat top of a giant rock. I stood and raised my arms to the
sky, the mist throwing little rainbows all around me. I held up
the three-fingered redneck honor salute. My friends threw back
their heads and laughed. They turned to Richard and Boo, showed
them three fingers. The bullies walked slowly to their car.
I stood on a rock but felt myself floating.
I
thought, So
this is what it means to fly."
AUTHOR BIO
The
author works with high school students because young adults inspire
him. As such, he wanted to write about teenagers transforming themselves
to overcome obstacles, which is what he watches them do every day. This
book's mission is to entertain adults while inspiring teens. The
result is "Chasing Prophecy," a story about love, loss, redemption, and
monsters.
Boo Radley is the author's all-time favorite literary character, which is how the Seattle-area legend of Bigfoot entered "Chasing Prophecy".
The author lives in Seattle with his beautiful wife and lively eight year old son. When he's not reading and writing, or talking about reading and writing, he's watching too much television and snacking on frozen treats from Trader Joe's. Man, those things are good.
Boo Radley is the author's all-time favorite literary character, which is how the Seattle-area legend of Bigfoot entered "Chasing Prophecy".
The author lives in Seattle with his beautiful wife and lively eight year old son. When he's not reading and writing, or talking about reading and writing, he's watching too much television and snacking on frozen treats from Trader Joe's. Man, those things are good.
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INTERVIEW
Q & A
Q:
How long have you been writing?
A:
All my life, really. I’ve always kept a journal, written
short stories, that kind of thing. Growing up, my mom drove us
around in a lime green Pontiac station wagon with a broken radio.
On long car trips, mom or my siblings would ask me to make up
stories, to replace the radio. I’d look at the scenery and
just start talking: “The dead body was found in the K-Mart
parking lot.” And “The vampire looked for fresh blood in
the Denny’s bathroom.”
Q:
How did you come up with this story?
A:
I always wanted to build a story around someone or something like Boo
Radley, my all-time favorite literary character. I love how he
dominates that book while remaining largely off-stage. I
looked around the Seattle area and the closest thing I could think of
was our local legend of Bigfoot. Once I had my own
version of Nathan Arthur Radley in place, I started thinking a lot
about monsters, especially monsters we make bigger in our
imagination. I also thought about Boo living in society without
being a part of it, which made me think of different separatist
groups turned into cults. My young characters are based
on bits and pieces of hundreds of former students.
Q:
Where is Boulder Creek, Washington?
A:
Like everything else in the book, it’s based on bits and pieces of
lots of things. There is no town called that. Boulder
Creek is where my wife and I hiked for our first date, in the
foothills of the north Cascade Mountains. The mountains in my
book look like the ones around Darrington, in Snohomish County.
The main street is like Arlington (where I had my first teaching
job). The log bridge is something I remember from a family trip
to Yellowstone National Park, 1,000 miles away. People
who have read Twilight will think Boulder Creek feels like Forks,
which it does, because that’s what every small town in Washington
feels like. The Bethlehem compound is the boy scout camp I
attended in northern Idaho, complete with the same wood carvings on
the fireplace.
Q:
What was your mission in writing this book?
A:
To entertain adults and inspire young adults. Teenagers inspire
the heck out of me, which is why I’ve been a high school teacher
for so long. I wanted characters who transform themselves to
overcome obstacles, which is what I watch them do, every day!
Q:
If you had to explain your book in one sentence, what would that
sentence be?
A:
Real monsters don’t always hide in the woods. Sometimes they
turn out to be people we’ve known all our lives. OK that was
two sentences, but not bad, right???
Q:
Nicely done. How about interests? Hobbies?
A:
Hitting refresh on Amazon’s sales ranking every 5 minutes.
That’s been fun lately! Also, walking around with a silly
smile on my face after our beloved Seattle Seahawks won the Super
Bowl last weekend. You should have seen the people running
around the streets of our neighborhood. It was
CRAZY!!! Hanging with my eight year old son,
Zachary, and my lovely wife, Laura. Reading and writing,
of course. Learning to ski. Starting to suck less at it.
Q:
New projects?
A:
Yeah, I have a couple of things going on. I don’t think I’m
done with young people and Bigfoot so I’ve been considering some
kind of epic quest trilogy with those characters. The other
thing I’ve been messing around with is a series of humorous essays
(a la David Sedaris) about growing up, family, etc.
Q:
What’s been most exciting about the book, so far?
A:
The fan reaction, both on my facebook page & e-mail. Got my
first couple of fan e-mails the other day—both from teens who know
each other in New Zealand, of all places. That’s where
my literary revolution is going to start, people: Down Under!
Thanks very much for such a beautiful and thoughtful presentation of my work! Good luck to everyone in the raffle & I hope you enjoy my book, Chasing Prophecy.
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