About
Rebecca Ryals Russell has justrecently developed a craving for Hazelnut coffee around 9pm every night.Perhaps it has something to do with the fact she stays up until 2am writing, ordoing promo/marketing for her many upcoming books over the next couple of years(seven to date through June 2012, but there are plenty in the Working-On pile,so never fear). A fourth-generation Floridian, she has lived in every quadrantof the state except the Panhandle). She keeps busy by writing, raising her fourteens/young adults, running a Vacation Rental business and trying to sell the 1909Victorian house in which the family lives so they can move back toJacksonville.
Size Zero (Visage Book 1)
Description
<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>"A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style."</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>
Story Behind The Book
Odessa is the first book in a series that took nearly 30 years to bring to the page. After stops and starts over the years, between career and raising children, the story changed until it is what came out in six months time of marathon writing. The result was Odessa and the second book, Harpies, due out January 2012.
Reviews
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">--4.5 stars Wow, I just love being transported to another
world. Nicole at Books Complete Me</span><div><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height:19px;"><br /></span></span><div><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">--4 stars </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;">The world Rebecca Ryals Russell created is a very interesting one.
It has steam punk elements, with a Victorian twist. It also had supernatural
elements, and mythology played a big part. One of the things I liked most was
that Rebecca made the supernatural and mythology elements her own. She gave
dragons, one of my favorite mythological creatures, an interesting twist. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;">Aquaflame64 at Night Owl Reviews</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;">--4 stars </span><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;">Lovers
of fantasy are generally big on whether or not the world that is built in a new
story is vivid and sticks to its own rules. Rebecca Ryals Russell definitely
fills those two requirements! Dracwald has an amazing back story that emerges
as you read on, and the landscape that is shared with the reader is written in
gorgeous detail. As the entourage make their way across thick, dark
jungles and bleak, desolate plains, the world of Dracwald opens up beautifully.
The darkness that has surrounded the land oozes off the page. I was so happy! A
new fictional place to fall in love with. Jessica at Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;"></span></p><p></p><p style="margin:10.5pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;"></span></p><p></p></div>
