Today, I’d like to turn the spotlight on an amazingly talented author. Morgan Parker, the author of Textual Encounters I and II, is releasing another hot read! Non Fric-tion is an incredible story that I highly recommend to all of my fans and friends. And, I’m just in the middle of reading it! Morgan took no time at all to hook me in with his incredible talent for writing. I’ve read so many books, I can’t even count, and there are only a few that I would read more than once. I can tell you already that Non Fric-tion is one of those books. I cannot wait to finish this super sexy read! When I do…I will post my review here. I’m sure a 5 Star Rating is on it’s way!
His fame brings him the lifestyle of a rockstar, and he has the fan mail (i.e. female undergarments, probably clean) to prove it.
But seeing his fame, his wife suddenly believes in marriage counseling. Their homework: to create something beautiful for each other.
So he writes Our Story, his literary secret-weapon that will win his wife back. But in the process he discovers that true love is more than just ticking the right boxes on a checklist. It starts with… well… }i{ .
Excerpts with Author Commentaries:
1) Here, Morgan (the MC) and Emma are having a “moment.” Emma is fighting their attraction and evident feelings, for good reason. Morgan just keeps pushing harder and harder, trying to crack through her shell and get to her tasty core. Yes, in more ways than one!
Holding her always felt perfect, but at that moment it felt like pure heaven. She fit in my arms, she fit against my chest, she fit into my soul. When she breathed, I breathed (okay, neither of us had stopped breathing, but I swear if she had stopped, at that moment, I would have died right along with her).
“Emma,” I said, using my chin to nudge her and force her eyes toward mine. I didn’t want to use my hands to guide her because that would mean releasing her, and I refused to do that, I refused to let go.
2) After having rejected Morgan, Emma has travelled across the country to win him back.
“I wasn’t wrong about us,” she said, her voice hard and determined. But because there were words attached to that voice of hers, I didn’t place a whole lot of trust in them. “Hey, I love you. No matter what happens, whether you hate me and never speak with me or see me again, I will always love you and the moments we shared. And because of this love, I’ll always be waiting for you, just like Olivia waits until the end of time for Oliver. I’ll be there, always waiting, always for you.” She smiled at that point, and the sadness and doubt from earlier was gone.
3) It’s the first time Morgan (the MC) meets Emma and her real-life beauty eclipses any pic she ever sent. He immediately envisions himself spending his entire life with her… dying with her.
…she had these smile lines around her mouth that promised she’d make an amazingly hot senior citizen, the kind of gal you’d just
pray would have her walker break down before siesta time, and you’d have to give her a ride home on your electric scooter.
Yes, she was that perfect.
4) Morgan (the MC) has carried Emma up to his hotel room and thinks he’s going to drunk-fuck her. This scene demonstrates that something more than physical chemistry exists between the two of them
“I’m not fucking you,” she told me.
I didn’t believe the words because her eyes told a different story; sure they were closed, but that didn’t mean anything. I placed her gently on the bed, made sure her head was cozy on the pillow, then told her I’d be right back.
“Don’t leave me,” she slurred. She spoke slowly, the alcohol running thick through her veins by now.
So I cozied up on the bed beside her.
“Hold my hand, Morgan.”
I slid my fingers between hers (they fit perfectly), watching her while the alcohol slowly robbed what was arguably my best and only chance at getting laid before flying back home tomorrow.
The Dream Cast of Non Fric-tion…
Morgan
Forced into a mid-life crisis when Jennifer, his wife of 12 years, walks out on him,
Morgan decides to do what most guys his age do – try to get laid.
He sees opportunity in that department when he writes Sextual Encounters,
a romantic novella that introduces him to Emma.
Jennifer
Morgan’s wife. He calls her Princess Bitch.
One day, Jennifer packs her and her daughter’s stuff up and leaves Morgan.
Although she is emotionally and physically finished with her marriage,
she proposes marriage counselling, where she gradually discovers that
Morgan isn’t such a bad guy.
Emma
Having almost burned through her second marriage,
Emma takes an immediate liking to Morgan when she reads his “brilliant” novella.
She allows their relationship to get a little too cozy and despite her obvious
feelings for Morgan (and his for her) she tries to help him win his wife back
by supporting his literary endeavours.
Anyway, it’s a challenge to write one-sided love stories… less of a challenge to write difficult two-sided love stories. So I wrote Non Friction, which is a difficult two-sided love story, with a dip of one-sided here and there because I like a bit of a challenge, but not too much of one .
Before we get into your writing, tell us about yourself.
What are your favorite hobbies?
Life is probably my most favorite hobby, but a close second is watching people. I’m not talking about being a voyeur – although I guess I can’t knock it until I try it – but seeing how people socialize with one another has become a huge interest of mine recently. Just today, I watched a fairly pretty girl flirt with a guy who was uglier than I am; she was way out of his league. That sort of interaction always amazes me because life doesn’t always make sense and people prove that time and again.
How and when did you get started in writing?
Too young. I should have enjoyed more of my childhood; I wouldn’t be such an immature freakshow today if I had. Although I started writing as soon as I understood how to use words, I started taking it a lot more seriously once I learned just how much money Stephen King earned 1986. It was a lot.
What genre(s) do you write? And, if more than one, which is your favorite?
I like to think that I write for the General Fiction crowd, but people keep telling me that my stories are difficult loves stories. Oh, and they’re hilarious – yes, that really strokes my ego. In reality, I love writing about people. Love messes people up, so there’s always an element of that in my stories.
Who is your intended audience?
What a great question. A knee-jerk response would be that my intended audience would be people who know how to read and appreciate a good, difficult love story, but I bet illiterate people would like my stories a whole lot more than those who know better. I should clarify that – illiterate people who like to spend a lot of money on books are my ideal audience.
What inspires you the most?
As corny as it sounds, love inspires me most. There’s always something beautiful in a love story, no matter what the genre or style might be. If love doesn’t inspire me, food certainly does. If people throw peanut M&M’s at me, it’s amazing what I will do for them.
Do you have a job outside of writing?
I have several. My first job is to be a parent to two awesome children who laugh at all of my jokes because that is how I trained them. My second is to be a husband to a great, loving wife. That second job is a lot more difficult than any other job I have because marriage takes work. In fact, one of my mentors explained: love is easy but relationships take effort.
Tell us about your latest release.
My latest release, Non Friction, is the story of a middle-aged man who has to deal with being single again when his wife walks out on him. Having spent most of his adult life in a relationship, he doesn’t know how to be alone. So he writes a book and once he realizes that he has a bit of talent, he decides to write the best love story ever… with the intention of winning his wife back. Except that exercise teaches him about love and what it really means.
Who designed the cover and what does it mean?
I take full credit (and blame) for that cover. The symbol was inspired during a textual encounter (yup, that’s my shameless plug) with a dear friend of mine, someone I trust and love like I would a big sister. Anyway, we were chatting late one night and got into this pissing contest about who could create the most-inappropriate emoticon. I might not have won with }i{ (big sisters always win, even when they’re wrong or stupid, right?) but I decided to put mine on the cover of a book and introduce it to the rest of the world. No, I don’t take losing lightly.
How did you come up with the name of the title?
So much of the story involves the main character trying to get laid (and failing at it) that I really had no choice but to call it Non Friction. I also wanted something unique, something poetic and something that alluded to that “non-fiction” feel of the story.
Can you give us a little taste of the next part of the story?
The main character, Morgan, clearly has some issues he needs to work through. When he befriends Emma, he realizes that maybe he was wrong about a lot of things, including the marriage he has been working so hard to save.
Have you written other books, published or not?
I am often referred to as “Mr. Textual Encounters.” While I don’t exactly believe it’s meant as a compliment, it is nice to see that people appreciated my first novellas as much as they did. No, I didn’t attract any heavy hitting agents or publishers, but that was never the point.
What are you working on now and what are your plans for future writings?
My next novel, Sick Day, will have a Charlie Kaufman feel to it. Although I haven’t started writing it, the outline paints the picture of a guy who let go of the wrong girl, regrets it for years, then takes one final stab at winning her back. Over the course of one “sick day,” he tries to convince her to say 4 words to her husband when she goes home that night: I am leaving you.
We’ll see how that turns out for him.
Being a new published author, how does that feel?
I think it will always feel like I’m new, like my cherry still needs to be popped so to speak. Writing a story and exposing so much of yourself to a bunch of strangers is always daunting and despite the pain and bleeding, it ends up being well-worth the sweat and tears.
What authors have inspired you and what books are your favorites?
I really love Colin Harrison’s works – he’s a literary genius in my view and someone I admire. Also, I love how Dennis Lehane’s stories challenge my view of social morality, and how Ian Rankin captures my attention for 400-plus pages. On the Indie front, Leslie Fear’s mind scares me (perfect last name), AL Zaun has the freshest voice I have ever come across and she writes about perfectly flawed characters that make me feel human. Lastly, I can’t wait for the December release of Tarryn Fisher’s Mud Vein – the small amount of information I’ve found has had my mind spinning since day one!
I know when I published my first book, so many fellow authors helped me along the way. Have you received support from others in the community and how have they helped you?
I have received so much support from others that I won’t even begin to try and list them! That support has been anywhere from technical in nature (how to write a steamy love scene) to trivial (how to use Facebook for more than just flirting with people – in fact, I’m told you shouldn’t even flirt at all, which is boring but alas a good policy to follow) and everything in between. They are now among my closest friends.
Do you have any advice for first time writers?
Enjoy the process. Take risks. Embrace this world that the bloggers and readers have created for Indie authors.
Morgan Parker is the pen name for a shy and introverted former banker.
Because he could never balance his cash at the end of the banking day,
he made up stories in order to keep his job. None of those stories was
Textual Encounters, which is great because readers will discover a truly
unique and original romance that has never been told before.
Morgan is the author of Textual Encounters and Textual Encounters II.
As a self-diagnosed hypochondriac, he recently survived
a terrible STD (which turns out to have been mis-self-diagnosed
as an over-consumption of water) and is battling Adult ADHD
(definitely not misdiagnosed… not even close).
Katie discovers an unlocked iPhone in the back seat of a taxi. But instead of turning it in to the driver as lost, she decides to keep it for herself.
Outside of the usual clutter you would expect to find on a smartphone, what captures Katie’s interest is the single conversation she finds on the phone’s secure text messaging service, a three-month dialogue between a woman with an uncertain past named Christine and a single, eligible man named Jake.
From Strangers to Soulmates in 90 Days
What starts out as a message intended for someone else ends up being the beginning of a relationship more powerful than anything Christine or Jake have ever experienced.
But nothing ever turns out to be as good as it initially seems and their histories slowly reveal details and past lovers that threaten to derail their humble quest for love.
Forgotten In The Back Seat of a New York City Taxi
Can Christine and Jake overcome the seemingly insurmountable obstacles, doubts and secrets that endanger their love?
If so, why would such a relationship get forgotten in the back seat of a New York City taxi?
Presented in a Format Unlike Any Other You Will Find
Follow Katie as she reads through the 3 months of conversations that form The Christine + Jake Affair and provide the foundation for the Textual Encounters Trilogy.
Having found a white iPhone in the back of a New York City cab,
Katie orchestrates a “chance” meeting with Jake, the man of her dreams.
Knowing more than she lets on, Katie develops a relationship with Jake
that ultimately gets captured in text form. And those texts are passed
along to the married woman that just lost Jake’s baby.
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