We haven’t checked out the book yet but it sounds pretty interesting. Apparently, crime came to the author and changed her life, and the result is she got into writing crime fiction. “I’d always written shamelessly about my wicked ways, flaunting my survival of a misspent life,” she says. “I was brutally honest about the deeds but there was this veil of bravado. Then, one night a man came into my yard after I’d put my son to bed. I was outside on my little gazebo. It was dark but I could see he had an iPod pumping in his ears and a knife pumping in his fist. He came at me but luckily, I saw him first. After that, something shifted in me. I felt a new kind of courage, one I didn’t know I owned.”
The album is the musical counterpoint to the book, recorded by the author under the name A Brokenheart Pro. “It’s the same story using different media,” says Kantzalis. “As a songwriter it was natural for me to add an album and videos to this grand vision. But the lyrics aren’t excerpts from the book. They’re written from a different perspective. Having music underneath helped set the tone and the feel so the characters could speak in a simpler voice.”
Watch this trailer for the book, which comes out next month.
