Blog Tour: EXTRATERRESTIAL NOIR by Rich Leder

 

EXTRATERRESTRIAL NOIR

Rich Leder

 

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GENRE: Sci-Fi

 

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BLURB:

 

A PSYCHO-CRIMINAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL ON A SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC

 

A FAMILY ON THE BRINK OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING INSOLVENCY

 

A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD UBER-GENIUS DAUGHTER IN THE LINE OF FIRE

 

CAN SHE SAVE THE FAMILY, NOT TO MENTION THE PLANET?

 

An extraterrestrial crashes into a suburban cul-de-sac Colonial, absorbs every binary bit of information ever chronicled in all of human history, rearranges its molecules and presents itself as a couple of late and legendary film noir superstars, then immediately displays an appetite for debauchery, depravity, decadence, and destruction, seducing the family into its psychopathic criminal orbit with irresistible Hollywood panache, alluring sexual charisma, and inconceivable intergalactic powers.…all in the name of saving the family from their emotional, marital, and financial ruin.

 

But uber-genius-daughter Mike Devine figures out fast that the extraterrestrial’s principal plan is to employ its unfathomable interplanetary muscle and implode the planet. Which leaves the fate of her family, not to mention the world, in her twelve-year-old hands.

 

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Excerpt Three:

 

“Forget the meteor,” Peter said. “Where’s the hole?”

 

“There it is,” Lazlo said. But he was pointing at the ceiling, at the same size and shaped hole that ran in a line at a forty-five-degree angle through the house. The cul-de-sac husbands all looked up at the hole, through the dining room, the master bedroom, and the attic to the sky. Only Maggie followed the path down to its conclusion.

 

“What in the world is that?” she said.

 

And then the room went silent, as if all the air had been sucked out of the house through the succession of small rectangular holes.

 

Connie and Maggie had decided on white oak floors when they’d finished the basement, and then covered them with colorful Karastan rugs. Lying on a deep-red-and-brown rug, five feet in front of the giant flat-screen television, surrounded by debris from the various ceilings and floors that followed it down as it smashed through the house, was a silver box. 

 

It was, like the holes it created, the size and shape of a Frye cowboy boot box, but smoother along the edges. Perfectly smooth, in fact. It wasn’t particularly polished, more matte finish than shiny, and was completely unmarked. There was simply no evidence whatsoever that it had burned through the atmosphere and smashed through a suburban Colonial at a million miles an hour.

 

“It’s like somebody bought a pair of boots and left the box on the floor,” Bill said.

 

“Doesn’t look like it came crashing down,” Peter agreed.

 

“Looks like it came in for a landing,” Maggie said.

 

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 INTERVIEW 

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

Coffee chocolate chip. Followed immediately by pretty much every other flavor.

Which mythological creature are you most like?

Phoenix. Rising from the ashes of the mess I make of things.

First book you remember making an indelible impression on you.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hooked on books for life.

How do you develop your plot and characters?

I learned how to tell stories in Hollywood, where page count is a thing. So a beat sheet is essential. And even though page count isn’t the same sort of sword over your head when writing a novel, I am who I am and so have never wavered in this approach. While beating out my stories, I take plenty of time to think about the people scampering to and fro inside these stories, plenty of time to create the characters or, rather, sit back and watch as they create themselves. You put people in peril of some kind and they evolve in ways you weren’t expecting. That is one of the joys of storytelling.

Describe your writing space.

I live in a factory loft. The building is 100 years old. They used to make crackers here back in the day. Thirty years ago, they turned it into residential lofts. Original brick walls. Fourteen foot ceilings. Massive windows. Kind of swell, come to think of it. One windowed corner of the loft is my writing space. I’m flooded by light when it’s sunny and cloaked in mood when it’s not. Also kind of swell. I can write anywhere, but this space has been quite nice for me.

 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than three decades. His credits include eight novels for Laugh Riot Press and 19 produced movies—television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films.

 

He’s been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding consultant (it’s true), a PTA board member, a HOA president, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the UNCW Film Studies Department, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.

 

WEBSITE: https://www.richleder.com

 

BUY LINKS

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBLKSK2W

https://bookshop.org/p/books/extraterrestrial-noir-rich-leder/22774708

 

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