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 One:
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
Seth Mullins
will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter
during the tour, and a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host.
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