Why did I put a giant papermache lady part in my story?
When Cass first arrives at her huge white mansion
‘family home’ she is horrified by its outrageous size. When they park in the
garage with stalls for ten cars, not one of them under a million dollars, she
is sickened by the waste of money. Then when it turns out they require a golf
cart to drive through the wide hall that leads to the main house, she’s
speechless. However, this is all forgotten when they enter the ballroom.
Here’s how it goes:
She
gasped when the elevator doors opened and they entered an immense and mostly
empty space with a glistening wood floor. Mostly…but not entirely, and the few
items occupying the thousand square foot room caused her intake of breath.
Before her stood what had to be the world’s largest purple and green
papier-mâché vagina. At the other end of the room was a twenty-foot twisted red
penis.
Her
father kissed her temple. “Glad to have you home safe and sound, kitten.” He
then turned and headed to the elevator.
Why on earth would I think of putting a giant vagina
in the ballroom? I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t go over well with the proper
socialites of the town. However as we discover along the way, Cass’s new mom,
Anne, has been shunned due to Casey’s past stunts. So balls are never held at
their house anymore because absolutely no one would come. Only one person in
the entire town has remained her friend: Margaret, the mother of the boy Casey
accused of raping her when she was twelve years old. Thus, Anne commissioned an
artist to create the giant vagina and the twisted red penis to symbolize the
anger she has for her husband, since he has also abandoned her, having fallen
in love with someone else.
And how did I think of such a thing to put in her
ballroom. The strangest of all my friends had a very large papier-mâché vagina
on her stairway. I recall it was larger than me. It’s possible they put it on
the stairs because it was actually taller than the first floor and the
stairwell had more ceiling space.
Why
did she have it all? She had been involved in a theatre production of The
Vagina Monologue and when the play ended its run, she took it home with her.
Saving Casey
By
Liza
O’Connor
Book 1 of the
Requires Rescue Series
Contemporary Suspense
BLURB
When
80 year old Cass Goldman learns she has inoperable cancer, she decides to end
her life, peacefully on her terms. So imagine her horror when she wakes to find
herself in a hospital with strange rich people staring at her. It’s not until
the doctor arrives to examine her that she realizes she’s no longer old. She’s
in the body of a seventeen year old teen named Casey.
Unfortunately,
her new body comes with some serious baggage. First of all, the kid has burned
every bridge imaginable. Secondly, those ‘people’ in her room are her
outrageously rich parents and while the Dad seems friendly, the mother wants
nothing to do with her. The moment they take her home to a horrifically huge
mansion, which she dubs Tara, she’s abandoned to the care of the butler.
While
Cass is determined to turn this train wreck of a life around, doing so is far
harder than she expected. In fact, without help, she’ll end up dead just like
the last occupant of this body. Thankfully, her dad has his hunky head of
security become her body guard. Between her eighty years of life lessons and
hunky Troy’s help, she just might live long enough not to be jail bait.
EXCERPT
He grimaced and kissed her hands.
“I’m sorry I taught you old math. This is no doubt my fault.”
Cass groaned at how wrong he was.
“Let’s just blame this one on God.”
“Don’t let your mother hear you say
that.”
“Why? Is she religious?”
He shrugged.
“Because I’m struggling with the
image of a religious woman placing a giant vagina and penis in a room that
otherwise might be useful as a roller rink.”
Evidently, she’d crossed the line
with her comment. He choked and buried his head. Once he recovered from coughs,
which sounded suspiciously like subversive laughter, he looked up. “Don’t
mention that to your mother either.”
“Which part? The incompatibility of
giant sex organs and religion, or making the room a skating rink?”
He covered his face, but not before
she glimpsed a smile. “Both,” his muffled voice replied.
SALES LINK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Liza
O’Connor is a nut.
Not a real nut,
but she is prone to being a smart ass at times, and not surprisingly her
heroines say odd and inappropriate things in her book, as well. So even in a
suspense novel you can expect to laugh along the way. That’s because Liza loves
to see humor in the crazy world around her.
Saving Casey was
actually the first book Liza published. Having recently reclaimed her rights to
the book, she is happily re-publishing it as her 18th book. And
because her books sell better when in a series, she using Saving Casey to kick
of a new series called Requires Rescue. It will be different from her other
series where the same characters show up in each book. This series will be
about strong women who are trying to go it alone, only when help is offered, they
have the good sense to accept the helping hand, because in all of our lives,
there will come a time you need someone else to help you. Being strong doesn’t
make us invincible. Book 1 is Casey/Cass’s story. Book 2 will be about an
entirely different young woman who desperately needs help before she’s murdered
on the streets of NYC. Book 3, well the plot is super unique, and more books
will follow.
You’ll be able to read
the series in any order you want, but in each case, you’ll have a strong young
woman, a guy stepping up to help when no one else does, and danger galore with
humor stuffed in anywhere I can.
I
hope you’ll come along with me so you can laugh, love, and get revenge.
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