The Rock Star and the Outlaw 2: Double Visions– Day 3 Word Crafter Book Blog Tours

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I’m happy you stopped in at bookplaces.blog where The Rock Star and the Outlaw 2: Double Visions by Kaye Lynne Booth is the featured book today. I’ve read some of Kaye’s other books and anthologies, and I’m sure you will be entertained by this one. Don’t forget to visit the other stops on the tour for a chance to win a wonderful prize! 

 

Day 3 – Double Visions

Welcome to Day 3 of the WordCrafter Double Visions Book Blog Tour. Today, author Kaye Lynne Booth talks about the characters of Monique and Shaman Woman, and Werner’s Syndrome, the disease which afflicts both versions of this character. We also have a great giveaway, so leave a comment at each stop for a chance to win one of three free digital copies, and for U.S. residents, one signed print copy of The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double Visions.

The Giveaway

Follow the tour and leave a comment to let me know you were here and be entered for a chance at one of three free digital copies or one signed print copy of

The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double Visions.

Winners are chosen in a random drawing from my hat. You can visit any stops you missed through the links in the tour schedule below. So, get your comments in now.

Tour Schedule

Mon. – Writing to be Read – Amaryllis, Rock Star & The Pretty Reckless/Undawnted – Interview with the author

Tues. – Poetry by Mich, Hotel by Masticadores, and Masticadores Phillipines – LeRoy, Cowboy & Writing with Music & Review

Wed. – Book Places – Monique, Shaman Woman, & Werner’s Syndrome & Review

Thurs. – Carla Loves to Read – Nick, the Time Device & Writing in Multiple Time Lines & Review

Fri. – Writing to be Read – Catalina and Writing with Multiple P.O.V.s

Monique, Shaman Woman & Werner Syndrome

Monique is Amaryllis’ best friend. She came about in a college assignment back in 2012 to write a shaman scene; a scene where the protagonist consults the wisdom of the medicine man, witch or shaman for guidance. Monique is Amaryllis’ Shaman Woman, with the ability of looking into the future having been handed down from her grandmother. Although the character of Amaryllis was in this scene, my focus was on developing the character of Monique.

I wanted her to be an interesting and unique character, so I gave her a bold, self-confident personality, and I gave her Werner Syndrome, a rare birth defect caused by the mutation of the WRN gene, which cause old age to set in prematurely. Those with Werner Syndrome take on the physical characteristics of an old person at an early age, including short stature from childhood, and other attributes such as wrinkled skin, baldness, muscular atrophy and cataracts (https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/werner-syndrome). So, even though Monique is twenty-six, like Amaryllis, and they grew up together, Monique is small, and hunched and shriveled, looking more like a woman of sixty, fitting the role of an old croon perfectly.

Monique is a rock in Amaryllis’ life, her Shaman Woman. She’s who our heroine turns to for advice, the woman who thinks of everything, and Amaryllis knows she can count on her. That original scene, where Amaryllis asks her friend to throw the bones and gets a strange reading that neither woman understands, has undergone a lot of changes, but it ends up as the third chapter in the first book, “Witches Burn”, and Shaman Woman becomes a strong and memorable character.

At the end of Book 1, Amaryllis returns to a future where she isn’t herself and Monique is also a very different character from the Shaman Woman she knows and loves. Although she still has Werner Syndrome and a crone’s body, Monique is reserved and conservative, claiming that she doesn’t see the future or read the bones. Amaryllis is convinced that her Shaman Woman is in there somewhere and determined to make the two Moniques merge. Together the two women go back to the past to try and fix things that have been changed.

The question posed for Monique’s character: Will Monique find the Shaman Woman within her?

About The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double Visions

In 1887, LeRoy is stuck, bringing trouble down on those around him. Sissy is kidnapped and he’s the only one who can save her.

Amaryllis wakes up in 2030, in a future very different to the one she knows, one in which she may not have been born. She will stop at nothing to find LeRoy fix what went wrong in the past.

She and a version of Monique which is different from the one she grew up with travel back to 1887 to try and make things right.

Add two time travel regulators from the future who are after the time module, and things begin to get wild.

When the time loops are crossed, things change, but not the way Amaryllis intended and pretty soon, everybody is seeing doubles.

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The Kickstarter campaign for book 2 of Kaye Lynne Booth’s Time Travel Adventure Series is still in full swing until the 29^th of March, so pop on over to offer your support and check out all the cool rewards. You can get discounted digital copies, exclusive signed print copies, posters, goodie bags and more. I hope you’ll drop in and check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kayelynnebooth-wcp/the-rock-star-and-the-outlaw-2-double-visions

Reading from The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double

About Kaye Lynne Booth

For Kaye Lynne Booth, writing is a passion. Kaye Lynne is an author with published short fiction and poetry, both online and in print, including her short story collection, Last Call and Other Short Fiction; and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets; Books 1 & 2 of her Women in the West adventure series, Delilah and Sarah, and Book 1 in her Time-Travel Adventure series, The Rock Star & The Outlaw, as well as her poetry collection, Small Wonders.

Kaye holds a dual M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing with emphasis in genre fiction and screenwriting, and an M.A. in publishing. Kaye Lynne is the founder of WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services and WordCrafter Press, where she edits and publishes two short fiction anthologies and one poetry anthology every year amidst her many writing projects. She also maintains an authors’ blog and website, Writing to be Read, where she publishes content of interest in the literary world.

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That wraps up today’s tour stop on the WordCrafter Double Visions Book Blog Tour. Thank you for joining us. Tomorrow’s stop will find us over at Carla Loves to Read with Carla Johnson-Hicks, where we’ll explore the character of Nick and the time travel prototype, in another guest post, another reading, and a review. I hope to see you there, but until then, don’t forget to pop into the Kickstarter campaign to get your copy of The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double Visions.

 

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