Welcome to Day #6 of the #STATIC Blog Tour!
To celebrate the release of #STATIC by Eric Laster (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!
Two Truths and a Lie Part 2
by Eric Laster
1. Two Lies and A Truth about Eric Laster:
a. My family and I lived in one house from my birth until I was eighteen years old.
b. When I worked as a ghostwriter, I would dress for the part before sitting down at my desk every morning.
c. I prefer to write with a pencil, after which I enter changes into my computer, print up the work, and revise the printed pages (again, with a pencil). Then I enter these revisions into the computer and the
pattern repeats until a book or story is done.
Answer (highlight to reveal): Answers (a) and (b) are the lies! For answer (a), we moved around a lot, though after I was in seventh grade, we did manage to stay in one city.
2. Two Truths and A Lie about Curtis
a. He’s disgusted by animal cruelty, as every right-thinking individual should be.
b. He shows rare initiative as a kid who turns out to be good at piecing together clues to solve a crime.
c. When alone in his apartment, he sometimes dances around to Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream.”
Answer (highlight to reveal): Answer (c) is the lie!
3. Two Truths and A Lie about Wilt:
a. He finds being dead a tad depressing.
b. He knows why his dad doesn’t tell anyone what he does for a living: the man’s a spy.
c. When alive, he never felt quite as self-confident as he appeared to Curtis, his younger brother.
Answer (highlight to reveal): Answer (b) is the lie!
*****
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.
A New Yorker by birth, Eric Laster lives in Los Angeles. After a successful stint as a best-selling ghostwriter, Eric re-launched under his own name with the middle-grade novel Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior. Whenever he’s not scribing, he records punk rock and presses it to vinyl.
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Love the looks of it; would be great to have. Thanks for the chance to win it 🙂
Really interested in reading static
This would be so great to own and use, thanks for the chance to win!
Pencil are cool, the best part you can erase parts xD with pen nop, I only stains paper
the Bluetooth Entertainment Center is so cool thanks
I just have to know how this character finds his brother. I want to experience through this author’s writing how it feels to have your “dead” broher call you. This sounds really good!
I am totally loving the vintage looking Entertainment Center.
This books sounds like a page turner and very suspenseful. Thank you for sharing.