THROWBACK: Bookbed's interview with me about CHROMA HEARTS, my romantic psychological thriller.
✴️Here's a snippet:
BB: What made you want to write romantic thrillers? What is it about them that excites you?
MC: I was inspired to write a romantic thriller because there are so few available, especially locally.
When I was writing Chroma Hearts, I wanted to prove three things: (1) a unique story where true love triumphs against extreme odds; (2) emphasis didn't have to be on the actual heinous act like the usual norm, but instead on the power of the human spirit; and (3) create a whodunit crime story where the reader will be kept guessing until the end.
It's funny, really, because I was kept guessing, too! I had a different villain in mind originally, but the story kind of created its preferred bad guy. I myself was surprised who it was.
Thrillers, be it a book, a movie or a TV series like Criminal Minds, have always been exciting to me because they stimulate the mind.
You need to focus on every detail, every character, every scene to be able to know who-killed-who, how-did-that-happen, where-did-he-do-it. You don't want to miss anything because once you do, you wouldn't be able to solve the puzzle.
While it's a nice feeling to find out in the end that your guess was right, it's more challenging to be proven wrong because you get to engage your mind again by reviewing everything until you realized how the writer came up with it.
✴️ CHROMA HEARTS will go on to be awarded 2019 Best Published Story by Penmasters Community of Publishers, Authors, and Aspiring Writers.
✴️ Support Filipino authors! You can buy Chroma Hearts here: https://forms.gle/6Qs7xbWqJwLpYWTs8
✴️ Also available on Amazon: http://mybook.to/ChromaHearts
Free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers until January 2021.
✴️ Full interview here: https://bookbed.org/2018/09/17/chasing-the-thrill-an-interview-with-author-mayumi-cruz/
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Chroma Hearts (NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK & DIGITAL EDITION)
Mystery / ThrillerChroma Hearts is my Romantic/Drama/Psychological Thriller Novella. Chroma Hearts is a dramatic story of how true love triumphs over the horrid, debilitating effects of catatonic depression. Unlike other stories which focus on the heinous act of rape...
