About
Fact One: I like corny jokes. If you have any good ones, send them my way!
Fact Two: My favorite color is purple, but my writing is gray. Life is not black and white.
Fact Three: I'm weird. I like being weird.
Email me at yllek_q@yahoo.com. I'd love to hear from you.
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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
"Strange Bedfellows" originally had a different plot. It was supposed to be a story about the widow of a senator who is assassinated. She finds out he had an illegitimate daughter (he left a bunch of stuff to her in his will). The widow and the daughter would eventually end up together. Then it kind of transitioned into an ex-gay group leader who has a one-night stand with someone who doesn't know who she really is – and who later finds out and blackmails her. Then it transitioned into a story about an artist wanting to paint the portrait of an ex-gay group leader. Obviously, none of these attempts quite gelled, and I wish I could remember how I finally got on track with the plot I did. "Strange Bedfellows" does have some elements in common with the very first idea. There's a politician with an illegitimate child. And, uh… ;-)
The important thing is, the plot finally gelled!
Reviews
"Strange Bedfellows" has been getting great reviews, so I've put
together a collection of links to the various reviews (in no particular
order). I'll post more links soon and as they come.<br /><a href="http://affinityebooks.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=62&chapter=1"><br />Review on Affinity E-books</a><br /><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/204204502">Goodreads review</a> (Goodreads page for "Strange Bedfellows <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12445178-strange-bedfellows">here</a>)<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Bedfellows-ebook/dp/B005J7K3WO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314569145&sr=8-1">Amazon reviews</a><br /><a href="http://jaefiction.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/review-strange-bedfellows-by-q-kelly/">Jae's review</a>
