And I've always wanted to write a time travel story but had never really thought out the logistics. And besides, I felt the genre eventually became overused. So when I had this vision of a rock star who traveled in time, my mind immediately latched onto the mechanism on how to get him to the past. I wanted something organic and came up with him falling into a coma.
Music is often a theme in my books. It was the backdrop for my characters in "In a Chord" and it was the profession of Emmarie in "Star Mates". So I had two songs in mind when I began to develop Dicen's story. The first was "Scars" by Colton Dixon and the second was "If I Could be Where You Are" by Enya. "Scars" became Dicen's anthem and the other became his love story. I've always wanted to write a man who was full of fear and addiction and have love redeem him, so I pictured him as this drugged out asshole who goes too far and almost dies. The coma lets him explore a world quite unlike the one he's used to, and I sent him the Roaring Twenties. It's a time period not often written about in time travel and I just loved the frenetic energy of then, the whole "Live Like We're Dying" mentality. The book is entirely from his POV, but I wanted it that way because this is his story, his redemption.
I just got the cover today and I'm not sure how I feel about the girl. I had in mind a different type of Flapper, so please give me your opinion. The book is set to release on October 2nd and I hope you enjoy Dicen as much as I enjoyed writing him.
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Blurb:
Dicen Burke had it all. As lead singer in the world famous rock band, Dark Army, the world lay at his feet. But the path to super stardom warred with a painful past and during a performance the demons haunting him finally descended. Unable to stop the self destructive path of alcohol and drugs, when he fell, he fell hard.
He wakes up in a world he doesn’t know. The Twenty-first century rocker is now in the
1920’s, lost and bewildered. He’s taken
in by Juliet Fox, a beautiful woman trying to be a positive influence in her
brother’s wild lifestyle among the Hollywood Motion Picture elite.
Dicen does his best to adapt, and with Juliet by his side,
he discovers a world that offers him a clean slate. But when he’s pulled back to the present,
separated by time from the one person that gives him a reason to live, will he
find a way to push past his demons as well as find Juliet again?
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