Sometimes love...can drive you crazy.
Adelaide Carmichael and Damien Allen couldn't be more
opposite.
Adelaide's mother abandoned her when she was ten years old,
leaving her to be raised by her abusive and alcoholic father.
Damien on the other hand came from a wealthy family, was a
local celebrity, and seemed to have a bright future ahead of him.
Despite their differences, Adelaide and Damien were young,
wild, and fiercely in love.
And they had a plan.
They were going to run away.
Be together forever.
And their plan was set in motion, until tragedy struck and
for some reason, Adelaide wound up in The Oakhill Institution for the insane.
Adelaide has no idea what she did to wind up at Oakhill, but
she knows one thing for sure...
She wants out.
And after Damien follows her there to aid her in escaping,
Adelaide slowly begins putting together the pieces of her memory that are
missing.
And it doesn't take Adelaide long to figure out that
sometimes...
That one true love never dies.
Excerpt~
Shoving my feet off the side of the bed, new surroundings
burn my eyes. Tan plaster walls instead of thick white padded ones. One oblong
barred window. Two dressers. Two closets. Two beds.
They've moved me to a different room.
A gentle squeaking noise bounces off the walls and my eyes
avert to my right. Oh crap. They put me in a room with a nut job.
They say I'm a nut job.
But not like this.
Not even close.
She rocks back and forth on her cot, knees to her chest,
twisting a piece of her wiry, red hair between her fingertips. Her freckled
arms are trembling. She sings with vibrato.
I am slowly going crazy. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.
Switch.
Crazy going slowly am I. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.
Switch.
I think about screaming again. I think about plugging my
ears. Somebody turn her off.
She lifts her head slowly, a maddening look in her big,
brown eyes, an eerie smile crawling across her pale, freckled lips. “Shh,” she
whispers. “They're coming for us.”
“Who's they?”
She shakes her head and lets out a cackle laced with the
deepest kind of crazy. I think they put her in here with me purposely. They're
trying to break me. They think if they put me around truly insane people that
I'll accept my place here.
Well...They are wrong.
The Interview
1. What was the first book that you remember reading as a pre-teen or
teen?
Well,
this is a tough one because I’ve been reading since before my pre-teen years.
The first book I ever read aside from school books was Little Women. I was
seven or eight years old. Pre-teen years, hmm, I was in the Accelerated Reader
program at school in the 7th grade. I read Gone With The Wind. It’s
one of my all-time favorites.
2. Is there anyone that inspires you?
Most
of my books revolve around characters that are in love and I think that roots
from the fact that true love is out there. It’s real. I’ve witnessed it my
whole life. My grandparents inspire me in that aspect. They only knew each
other three weeks and have been married over sixty years. My grandfather can’t
even say my grandmother’s name without getting emotional.
3. How did you choose the names of the characters for INSANITY?
Honestly,
they just kind of came to me out of the blue, lol. I can’t really explain it.
But…I will say that Adelaide kind of stemmed from my niece’s name which is
Addison.
4.
How would you describe
INSANITY in three words?
Mind-blowing, heart-wrenching, and beautiful.
Thanks
again for having me!
If
you get a chance check out Insanity!
About Lauren:
It all began with a dinosaur, a T-Rex to be exact. He was
the main character in my very first short story. Me and T, well, we went
places. He is the reason I won my first essay contest at age ten. And he is
probably one of the number one reasons, I pursued a career in writing.
Throughout highschool, I was what you would call a rebel.
Someone who had convinced herself that she had life figured out at age sixteen.
Still, writing was my only safe-haven during that time. I wrote notebooks full
of poetry, even writing fellow classmates papers for them.
Unbeknowest to me, creative writing, seemed to be my one,
true calling, my passion in life.
At age twenty, I began writing my first novel. After that,
everything seemed to fall into place.
I won Best Poets and Poems of 2007, and The Editor's Choice
award for my poem, Summer Days.
Also, during that time I wrote or co-wrote fifteen different
screenplays, some which earned me finalist spot in various screenplay
competitions.
In 2010, I've come full force, with my novel Love Sucks,
that was released by Punkin House Press, in August of 2010. On top of Love
Sucks, I have six novels that are slated to be released through the next five
years. Also, doing some various marketing work for authors and publishers.
I pride myself in telling fellow writers to always follow
their dreams. Who knows where I would be if I would have given up.
This book sounds really good. Thanks for the great interview and excerpt.
ReplyDeleteOoh, the excerpt is really interesting. Thanks for hosting the interview. :)
ReplyDeleteOhhh, sometimes love ...can drive you crazy. LOVE IT! Very catchy!
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