Books

What is Tangled Minds, anyway?

Tangled Minds is the umbrella title for a series of serio-comico-tragico-wackio books documenting the lives, loves, and assorted fortunes and misfortunes of the serio-comico-tragico-wackio citizens of the fictional town of Westview, North Carolina.

So they’re novels?

Sort of.

What do you mean, “sort of?”

Well, they’re fiction, and they’re books. That’s the novel part. The novel part (See what I did there?) is the modified script format. Each book contains twenty-five chapters –“episodes,” if you will–and each ends in an exciting cliffhanger which will have you drooling in anticipation of the next volume.

Drooling, huh?

It is my fervent hope, yes.

Exactly how many volumes are there, and how long are they? I’m a busy person. I don’t have time to read War and Peace in bed every night.

My plan is for twenty volumes.

TWENTY?!

Calm down, they’re an easy read… under three hundred pages each.

It still sounds like a lot.

Time flies when you’re having fun.

You’ve been pretty vague so far. What are these books actually about?

See answer to question number one. If you’re asking about specific plots, well, there’s a little bit of everything: Love, hate, infidelity, crime, revenge, murder, mayhem… you know, typical sleepy Southern small-town stuff.

Sounds like a soap opera.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Is there cussing?

Well, yeah. I never said these books were appropriate for the kiddos.

Sex?

Not until we know each other better.

No, I mean is there sex in the books?

We’re talking about a soap opera. Of course, there’s sex. But it’s implied (mostly). I’m not a heaving-this-and-thrusting-that kind of writer.

There go your sales. So, it’s a soap opera. Kinda sorta in script form. In a book… twenty of them, yet. With cussing but without heaving and thrusting. And they’re funny (according to you). You don’t have the slightest idea what you’re doing, do you?

What can I tell you? I’m a rugged individualist. I do my own thing.

Do I have to read them in order?

You don’t have to. It won’t take too long to get in the swing of things if you don’t start at the beginning. But really, why would you do that to yourself?

I’m a rugged individualist. I do my own thing.

Touché.

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