Spotlight on Author Mickey J Corrigan and Project XX

This week's Spotlight on author is on Mickey J Corrigan. She has a new book, Project XX. 

Mickey J. Corrigan lives in South Florida. She writes pulp fiction from a female point of view. Her novellas and novels have been released by publishers in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Poetry chapbooks include The Art of Bars (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Days' End (Main Street Rag, 2017). Project XX, a crime novel, was released in September by Salt Publishing in the UK.

Author website:  www.mickeyjcorrigan.com

Book website:  http://projectxxbook.com/

Goodreads:  www.goodreads.com/author/show/5828647.Mickey_J_Corrigan

Tumblr: http://mickeyjcorrigan.tumblr.com/

FAVORITES:

The beach at night or on a dark, rainy day when you have the hard-packed sand to yourself and you can walk for miles without getting hot or sunburned;

An unfamiliar novel you discover on a shelf somewhere and open to the first page, and the writing is magical, it just sweeps you up and away into a whole new world;

Old-fashioned independent bookstores with books piled up to the ceiling, large comfy chairs to lounge in, and fluffy cats that brush up against you and purr while you read;

Bars in strange towns with friendly bartenders, waitresses who call you honey, chatty patrons who know all about the town you're in and are happy to tell you stories about it.

Bookstore Bar, Seattle

FRUSTRATIONS:

Politics, especially now;

Dumb inventions and gadgets that make their way into our lives and become mandatory in order to function—but waste our time and money;

Greedy people who take more than their share of our resources;

Stupidity and ignorance and everything else that holds us back from being the beautiful world we have been given to care for.

FABULOUS:

Our planet's many diverse, beautiful environments—most of which I've never visited but want to one day.

Project XX 

In 2012, a deranged grad student dressed as the Joker shot and killed dozens of movie goers at a Batman film opening in Colorado. Gun violence is so out of control in America that it has become a cruel joke.

Unlike most of Mickey Corrigan's novels, Project XX made itself known to her at that time, demanding to be written. Usually she researches, prepares, then writes. In this case, she wrote first, then did the research on gun violence, female violent crime, and school/mass shootings.

Males are almost always the perpetrators of mass shootings. But females are fully capable of shocking acts of violence and, in the US, military-style weapons are as easy to access as a new hairstyle.

Publisher        Amazon       

Book Depository    (free delivery worldwide)