Trust
in the Unseen
by
Seth Mullins
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BLURB:
Following
the rigors of their self-made tour of the West, the members of the
groundbreaking and volatile band Edge of the Known - "hands
down, craziest band on Earth" - have an unprecedented chance to
finally expose their music to the world. Unfortunately,
singer/guitarist Brandon Chane, founder member and erratic genius of
the group, is weathering a spiraling trip through an abyss of
heartbreak and despair.
His
personal pain threatens to derail his band's progress even as it
fuels some of its most incendiary songs. To further complicate
matters, his mentor, Saul Mason, is weathering his personal crisis
and no longer seems to be the all-knowing spiritual savant that
Brandon first perceived him to be.
The
road ahead looks bleak; and once more, he turns to the one thing that
has sustained him throughout the course of his wounded, conflicted
and inspired life: His Muse.
"We'd
all thrown our fates to the wind, trusting in the unknown - in the
Unseen, as our EP so proudly proclaimed - and that leap had thus far
landed us in a place where we couldn't even grope our way forward in
the dark anymore."
Discovering
his voice was only the first step of the journey. Now he must somehow
learn to trust the depths from which it comes, and the unknown
horizons that it may sweep him away to, even as every part of his
personal world seems to be falling apart.
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Excerpt
Love
was the most ruthless force in our universe. That’s
what I’d believed, that I’d sooner endure the ravages of hate any
day. Hate wielded the honest pungency of a fist full to your face.
Love eviscerated you where you stood and yet still left
you standing.
I
remember the moonlight on the little window box balcony. Janie was so
nervous that she’d stolen occasional drags off of my cigarette.
This had been her idea in the first place: The two of us “getting
away”, booking this room in the Latore Motel.
“I
thought I was braver than I am,” she told me.
The idea
– insofar as I’d believed I’d understood it - had been to
pretend we were on vacation, perhaps try and resuscitate the amorous
mood that had characterized our rendezvous in New Mexico months
before, when everything had seemed to open up and flow. I stared back
into the motel living room, which bore witness to the scalds and the
warm patches of love’s dying embers, as if its solidity could
somehow refute what was happening, what could not be happening.
I’d
played deaf amidst all of the whispered warnings.
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Seth
Mullins first conceived of his dream to write novels in his early
teens, and this one desire has stayed with him throughout all the
other myriad twists and turns of life. His inspirations include
methods of inner exploration such as dream-work and shamanism and his
experiences as a songwriter and performing musician. He studied
creative writing at Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico and Lane
Community College in Oregon.
Seth has
lived in Connecticut, New Mexico, Oregon and (currently) Vermont.
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GIVEAWAY
INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Seth
Mullins will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn
winner via rafflecopter during the tour,
a Rafflecopter giveaway
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