1--What is the title of your latest release?
INSANE POSSIBILITIES
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Toby Kellerman spends a summer immobilized in a bed for a broken neck, having to reflect on who may have pushed him down a well. On family vacation, the only people with him were his younger sisters, ages 15 and 11. But local lore tells of an accused witch who jumped down the well to end her life.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I enjoy the intrigue of putting together things that don't seem to belong together. Hospitals are all about fact and science, so it is like me to set a potential haunting in one, to blend the supernatural with science, as this seems very natural to me. I don't see any line in the sand between what is factual and what is spiritual. I'd like to help others to slowly get rid of that line, too, if they are looking for that sort of worldview.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Of course. (I hung out with him for six months while writing his story).
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Searching for truth.
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
Being immobilized sounds icky enough for me to want to include it as an element of a suspense story. But it was great to jump into the shoes of someone every day who had nowhere to go and nothing to do. As Americans, most of us are way too busy.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I like to get one chapter close to perfect before moving on to the next.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Chocolate!
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I have an office with a desk that looks out a window into the garden.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Stephen King got caught in the "box" of horror such that the situation eclipsed his talents with voice, and understanding how to keep people's attention just with normal speak.
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Probably TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD made me aware at an early age how unfair the world can be. All my stories have been sparked by some cultural issue I thought was unfair.
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was around eight years old and never changed my mind or my major. Even when corporate, I was a staff writer!
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
Suspense.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
Probably FOREST GUMP
15--What is your favorite season?
Summer! We are total "beachies"
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Having everyone wait on me so that I don't have to do anything for once.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Oh my—too many. Michael Cohen's DISLOYAL is the one book that finally made me quit asking over and over, "How did this happen?"
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Shellfish—lobster, crab, shrimp, scallops
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Sleep!
20--What can readers expect from you next?
A great ride with people you will miss when the story is over
The night before his eighteenth birthday, Toby Kellerman fell ninety feet down a well. Seven weeks passed in what he describes as “suspension h***,” a rotating bed for spinal cord injuries compounded by bone breaks. Able to move only his arms and watch life through an adjustable mirror, Toby had plenty of time to think about how he got there. Somebody had pushed him.
He could clearly remember running footsteps as he stared into the black well with his two younger sisters. They’d been on family vacation. Nobody knew them. There was no motive.
An Anglican priest, on an evening stroll past the site, saw the brother and two sisters but nobody else. It had been dark. The police started to believe the attempted murderer could have been one of Toby’s sisters. Grace was a bouncy, bubbly 15-year-old with a ton of friends. Trinity was “special.” With a stratospheric IQ, the 11-year-old had trouble talking and was considered a cutter, thanks to a compulsive habit of scratching her face. But Toby had developed a special bond after she’d been mauled by a dog six years earlier.
With the help of a girl on his rehab ward, Toby begins to see that the accident smells of a haunting. He never paid much attention to local Lake Indor rot about a witch with a meat hook, but investigation has him realizing that the 18th century orphan likely died falling down a well...and likely the same well he went down.
It’s not a comfortable position, being totally confined, while things start to move around the room, drawers begin to open and shut by themselves, and someone or something keeps pulling off the sock in his blind spot and scratching his leg.
Where is the truth? Has he unwittingly picked up a malevolent spirit, or is he imagining it all to protect his beloved youngest sister?
Thriller Psychological | Mystery [Co-Pilot Publishing LLC, On Sale: December 3, 2024, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9798990854239 / ]
Carol Plum-Ucci is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci’s most famous work to date is The Body of Christopher Creed, for which she won a Michael L. Printz Award in 2002 and was named a finalist to the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Describing her subjects as "the most common, timeless, and most heart-felt teenagers," Plum-Ucci is widely recognized for her use of the South Jersey shore to set scenes for engaging characters embracing suspense themes.
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