Friday, September 4, 2020

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Author Spotlight: M.C.V. Egan-GUEST POST


Death of a Sculptor in Hue, Shape and Color 
by M.C.V. Egan 
Genre: Suburban Women's Fiction 


Color coded love stories and revealing female anatomies lead to the murder of world renowned sculptor, Bruce Jones.
In life, the artist loved women, almost as much as women loved him. Adored for his art and colorful personality, Bruce is mourned by the world at large. The tale is launched with the multifaceted perspectives of four ex-wives, the current wife, and his new love interest and their children.
Mary , Bruce’s wealthy first love, is always in perfect pink; the color of love. Mother of Clair the famous actress and Aaron the corporate lawyer.
Leslie The Second’s color is yellow for her sunny nature as much as for her fears and insecurities. Her only son Bobby is vulnerable and lost. Mourning his father’s death, he finds himself.
Petra The Third, is outstanding in orange, representing not only her native Holland but also her love of the fruit. Cherished her freedom and had no children of her own.
Toni The Fourth is a vibrant passionate Italian red and part of the eventual glue that creates and solidifies this dysfunctional Jones family. Her teenage daughters Tina and Isa are as different as night and day.
Brooke The Fifth a gold-digger. Green, her color, reflects the color of money and envy. Her young son’s Kyle and Caleb are too young to understand why their world has been turned upside-down.
Mara, as blue as the ocean was the last woman to steal Bruce’s heart. Mother to newborn Baby Peter is the unexpected gift and surprise.
Bruce Jones’ eight children speak out, too. They are as distinctive as the women he loved, their mothers.
Loose ends are tied up by the insights of Sylvia, Aaron’s wife and a trusted keeper of secrets; Scott, the private investigator and family friend; Nona, the quintessential grandmother everyone loves but to whom few are truly related; and Detective Jim Miller who will not rest until he discovers Bruce Jones’ murderer. 





Defined By Others 
Defining Ways Series Book 1 
by M.C.V. Egan 
Genre: Suburban Women's Fiction 


A word, a single word defines a moment for Anne. She needs to find a new one when her spouse, Frank, leaves her at the age of forty-seven, coming out of the closet literally in a closet. 

She finds herself back in her hometown of Skvallerby, Connecticut among her high school friends which she had left in her past. 

An inheritance from a frenemy leaves her with the means to meddle and spy on the lives of mutual acquaintances. 

In an attempt to run from her reality Anne becomes engrossed in a game of fun and flirtation with her friend and fellow sufferer Connie. 

Their fun games turn into a deadly reality. It is no longer a game. Life, death and not even a defining word can stop the reality of manipulation. 





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The Bridge of Deaths 
A Love Story and Mystery 
by M.C.V. Egan 
Genre: Historical Mystery 


On August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed in Danish waters between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There were five casualties reported and one survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler invaded Poland. With the world at the brink of war, the manner in which this incident was investigated left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two towns and the newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust. The Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery. Fictional characters travel through the world of past life regressions and information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources to solve "one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on true events and real people, The Bridge of Deaths is the culmination of 18 years of sifting through conventional and unconventional sources in Denmark, England, Mexico and the United States. The story finds a way to help the reader feel that s/he is also sifting through data and forming their own conclusions. Cross The Bridge of Deaths into 1939, and dive into cold Danish waters to uncover the secrets of the G-AESY. 





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The Bridge of Deaths (Revised Edition) 
A Love Story and Mystery 
by M.C.V. Egan 
Genre: Historical Mystery 


On August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed in Danish waters between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There were five casualties reported and one survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler invaded Poland. With the world at the brink of war, the manner in which this incident was investigated left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two towns and the newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust. The Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery. Fictional characters travel through the world of past life regressions and information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources to solve "one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on true events and real people, The Bridge of Deaths is the culmination of 18 years of sifting through conventional and unconventional sources in Denmark, England, Mexico and the United States. The story finds a way to help the reader feel that s/he is also sifting through data and forming their own conclusions. Cross The Bridge of Deaths into 1939, and dive into cold Danish waters to uncover the secrets of the G-AESY. 





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M.C.V. Egan is the pen name chosen by Maria Catalina Vergara Egan. Catalina is originally from Mexico City, Mexico. Catalina has lived in various countries and is fluent in four languages; Spanish, English, French and Swedish. 

Her first book The Bridge of Deaths revolves around her maternal grandfather's death in 1939. A true-life pre-WWII event. It has over 200 footnotes with the resources of her extensive search through Archival materials as well as the use of psychometry and past life regressions. It is more fact than fiction. 

The revised edition of The Bridge of Deaths; A love Story and a Mystery focuses on the story-line as opposed to fact, but all footnotes and facts are available through the website for any curious minds. http://www.thebridgeofdeaths.com

Defined by Others taps into the dark quirky side found even in the best of people. With the 2012 American elections as a backdrop and the fearless reassurance that the world might end on December 12, 2012, as predicted by the Mayan Calendar. 

Death of a Sculptor; in Hue, Shape, and Color is a novella written in sixteen different voices. It is a murder mystery. She is currently working on a sequel; Bruce (title subject to change). 

M.C.V. Egan lives and works in South Florida. She loves cooking and crafting. She is married and has a son. Aside from writing Astrology is one of her passions and careers she pursues. 

You can find M.C.V. Egan everywhere online 


GUEST POST

The Balancing Act between Hate and Love

© M.C.V. Egan

To keep readers interested, as writers, we always need to move a story forward. We need conflict, twists, and turns and the unlikely but not impossible to surprise our readers. I am very fortunate to live in South Florida, where it is said we boast more writers/authors per capita than anywhere else in the U.S.A. Big names are very generous with their techniques and knowledge, and I have had the privilege and pleasure to attend numerous workshops on a wide variety of subjects.

To me, the biggest hurdle is remembering that balance between love and hate. The characters I grow fond of, I love, well, it is hard to hurt them. If I give them an easy-breezy life, I will bore my readers to death; well not death, but to slam my book shut! And my villains, those icky guys that we hope in real life we never encounter, well we cannot hate the, not wholly, we have to give them qualities that make them well rounded and remember that even the most horrid villains had a mother who loved them.

So, when I am in a mischievous mood, I write a list of terrible things that could happen to a character I love. It was hard to hurt one of my main characters in Defined by Others, I mean, they had suffered enough in life. But I wrote my list… and even considered killing her, but I simply could not say goodbye.

The same with villains, in Death of a Sculptor, my killer is logical, although most cannot guess who did it. I wanted to give it a more evil nuance but remembered that balance, your villain needs qualities to keep the reader invested.

In The Bridge of Deaths, as it is far more fact than fiction, I stated with five very real corpses. One of whom was my maternal grandfather, a man I never knew but always missed; I added love to the story, the passionate love between Bill and Maggie, as well as the love and curiosity of uncovering the past and uncovering truths.

That was a love I understand well; every time I had the time and money, I traveled to locations where I could research dusty old archives. I am also very blessed to have a good marriage and know love, so Bill and Maggie were a smooth flow.

Happy reading, and thank you for welcoming me to your blog.



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2 comments:

  1. Thank you for hosting me and with a guest post. We cannot hate them... them, somehow I swallowed the m! But I am sure your clever readers added it! Best wishes for great success. Thank you again.

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  2. Thank you for hosting me and with a guest post. We cannot hate them... them, somehow I swallowed the m! But I am sure your clever readers added it! Best wishes for great success. Thank you again.

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