Hi CoupleOfBees followers! I swear Becky and I are still at it, reading and prepping reviews. In the meantime, I hope this trailer for my new Southern Gothic novel (which I just found out is a finalist for the Claymore Award) makes you smile. Be honest, would you read this?
Here’s the summary:
Recently sober and on the verge of homelessness, Emma, a talented painter and recent art school graduate, is offered a sponsorship from the art world’s most famous critic, Jackson Wodehouse. The catch? She has to spend the summer building her portfolio in his strange family manor in Natchez, Mississippi. Since 1858, the enigmatic southern mansion Wodehouse, with its octagonal architectural style, has been collecting spirits—and not all of them within the eight walls play nice.
On the plus side, Jackson is surprisingly handsome, and spending time alone with him is certainly appealing. Even if it means dealing with disembodied voices and ghostly figures at the foot of her bed. But when Emma finds the hidden journal of Jackson’s dead sister, Briony—once a marvelously talented artist herself—she’s pulled headlong into the mystery surrounding the girl’s death. Why was she kept housebound like an invalid, when the diary reveals Briony was perfectly healthy? What was the deal with their erratic, possibly toxic mother? The more Emma learns, the more she feels the house’s poisonous secrets pulling at her too, from within the very walls she’s become perhaps too cozy inside.
Wodehouse by Elise Burke Brown is a Southern Gothic horror novel complete at 95,000 words. Told in a mixed-media format, it features segments from a podcast exploring the mansion’s history, as well as Briony’s journal entries.
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