Book Tour & Giveaway: My Dead True Love by Kim Pierce

GENRE: Women’s literature

BLURB:

When a newspaper reporter’s fiancé dies abruptly, she questions how he could just cease to be.

Dogged by unbidden thoughts, odd coincidences and unexplained phenomena, Ann Stewart becomes obsessed with finding out what really happens after we die and whether her beloved Gregory is still out there. She finds her answer, which takes her and a close-knit coterie of women to the edge of the cosmos—and the core of their own hearts.

Based on a true story.

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Excerpt:

“It was definitely Gregory,” Connie declared, forcing herself to return to the vision. “As clear as if he were standing next to me. Smiling.”

“If you saw him”—and I still wasn’t believing—“did he see you? Did he see me?”

It made no sense, but I had to know more.

“I don’t know. I tried to un-see him. I really did,” she said, turning to me, something akin to terror twisting her face. “This ‘seeing’ is a part of me that triggers so much shame—and reactivates the trauma. Like shell shock.” Red mottling creptup Connie’s neck and onto her cheeks.

She saw him. The words slid off my brain as if she were speaking in tongues. What did that mean?

“Could it have been your imagination?” I offered wanly, not wanting that to be the case. 

“Yes, I suppose it could.” 

Neither of us believed it.

I waited. 

“What would it mean for you to ‘see’ him?” I pressed. 

Tell me. Even if it makes no sense.

“That there’s something wrong with me,” came her acrid reply. “Deeply, terribly wrong. At least that’s what my father would say. And a lot of other people who make judgments about what I can do.” She slammed the car into park a little too aggressively. 

“There’s nothing wrong with you,” I said, getting out of the car. 

Connie shut down. 

“I need to go home for a while,” she said.

Tell. Me. More.

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INTERVIEW:

If you could apologize to someone in your past, who would it be?

Probably my first husband. There aren’t enough mea culpas to cover my sins. We married in high school—too young! But I was pregnant, and that’s what you did. I was terribly immature and did a lot of acting out over the four years till we divorced. Not a chapter in my life I’m proud of.     

If you could keep a mythical/ paranormal creature as a pet, what would you have?

It would be some sort of feline, maybe a telepathic one that could understand thoughts. Maybe even one that could fly.

How do you keep your writing different from all the others that write in this particular genre?

I honestly don’t know whether I do. I worked hard to find my voice and stay with it, without comparing myself to others. If my voice is different, then it’s different. If it sounds similar to someone else’s, so be it. It is my voice.

What are the best and worst pieces of writing advice you ever received?

I’m going to stick with the best because this one is so counterintuitive: Write the last chapter first. After you put new fuses in your brain for the circuits blown by this advice, let me explain why it’s so helpful. It provides a destination for your story. The chapter may change over time, but it helps you steer clear of rabbit holes and tangents that muddy your narrative.  

Are the experiences in this book based on someone you know, or events in your own life?

This novel began as my grief journal when I lost the love of my life quite suddenly, just as Ann does in my book. 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Kim Pierce is a former Dallas Morning News writer and editor who completed the Writer’s Path fiction program at Southern Methodist University. My Dead True Love is her first novel, inspired by events surrounding the death of her fiancé in 1998. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her partner and three cats.

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