I have been asked many times in my life
what inspires me as a writer. I am a keen observer of people, for one
thing. I can sit on a barstool and easily converse with a person who
might diametrically oppose everything that I believe politically or
religiously, and yet we can get along. We can communicate. I know how
to listen, and I pick my words carefully. I enjoy seeing how people
interact with others, how they cope with what life deals them. Bits
and pieces of what I have observed and heard appear in both the
dialogue and scenes that I have created.
I have always been fascinated by the
human brain. I like to try to reconstruct what must have been going
through a person’s mind at the moment of some great tragedy or some
wonderfully unexpected event. What must have General Custer been
thinking the very second he saw his own death? What went through
Captain Smith’s mind the second he realized that his Titanic was
doomed? I like to imagine shouting out to historical figures way
before tragedy strikes and tell them, “No, don’t forge ahead! No,
don’t ignore the ice warnings!” The very act of creating people
and being in complete charge of their thinking processes, and then
putting them into a situation where they must act—this sort of
thing appeals greatly to me, and, thus, I am a writer. The characters
and events in my Caribbean thriller DEADLY EYES are people and
situations that I have created, and yet they seem so real to life to
me. Even now, when I reread my own work, I find myself judging their
actions, and empathizing with their plights.
I enjoy being alive. I am inspired when I see a small dog born
with only three legs, hobbling around and having the time of his
life. I am inspired when I see a small plant sticking its head out of
a crack in a boulder, when I see a small ant carrying twice its
weight to who knows where. Inspiration is all around us. And when I
see evil, or hear of it, I am inspired in another way: I would like
to destroy it. Often my imagination is the only way to do so, and
that brings me to my own need to write.DEADLY EYES is filled with characters, both good and evil, who inspired me in one way or the other as I created them. Some of them I greatly empathize with, while others I detest, the way of the world. And that is precisely what DEADLY EYES is: a worldly novel, an international thriller whose birth came about through my own inspiration.
Title:
Deadly
Eyes
Author:
Michael
Meyer
Publisher:
Self/Amazon
Kindle
Length:
225
Pages
Genres:
Mystery/Thrillers/Suspense
(Non-Romance)
Available
at:
“DEADLY
EYES” is a semifinalist for The Kindle Book Review Best Indie Books
of 2012!!
Blurb:
A
HAUNTING CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
James
Cuffy, better known as Cuff, is living in paradise with his
girlfriend, on the small Caribbean island of St. Croix, where the sky
is as blue as Cuff's eyes, the ocean as pretty as Rosie's cheeks,
where the gentle lapping of the waves is a lullaby, and the swaying
of the palm trees is a dance. The sandy beaches are as white as
sugar, and the horizon is a world away. St. Croix indeed is paradise,
the perfect place for living, laughing, and loving.
But
the sandy beaches and the turquoise sea can provide no cover from the
deadly eyes of the unknown stalker pursuing Cuff. Murder leads to
murder as he attempts to untangle the terrible web in which he has
suddenly become entangled.
The
twists and turns are relentless, the roads of the fast action leading
in all directions, but time is running out, and Cuff, his faithful
Rosie at his side, knows it.
Excerpt:
These
were not naked eyes, for the distance between these eyes and the
beach bar at Cathy’s Fancy was too great for the naked eye to
discern who was who. No, these eyes had planned meticulously. The
eyes were glued to a pair of terribly expensive and unbelievably
powerful Swarovski Optik binoculars. The balcony on which they now
worked, taking in the scene before them, was the perfect place to see
but not be seen. The powerful binoculars saw to that.
The
distance, the palm trees, and the rays of the sun all helped. The
position had been hand picked, after careful consideration. Every
angle had been considered, and, one by one, they had all been
discarded for one reason or another until this very spot, the perfect
place to observe while not being observed, had been selected.
Yes,
the eyes had seen it all. The eyes had seen precisely what they had
hoped to see. They were like a master puppeteer. They planned,
controlled, and observed, but from a safe distance. They did not miss
a trick.
The
eyes. The deadly eyes of St. Croix.
About
the Author:
I
have resided in and have visited many places in the world, all of
which have contributed in some way to my own published writing. I
have literally traveled throughout the world, on numerous occasions.
I have lived in Finland, Germany, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands, on the island of St. Croix, where DEADLY EYES is
set. I gained the wanderlust to see the world, to experience other
cultures, at an early age, and this desire has never left me. If
anything, it has only gained in intensity as I have aged. I try to
travel internationally at least once a year. In the interim, I spend
lots of time traveling around both my home state of California and
other nearby states.
I
spent my early years in the small town of Lone Pine, California, the
home of almost every western movie, in addition to a wide variety of
other genres, made in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. In
fact, Hollywood still films parts of big-time movies there today. My
dad, the town’s lifeguard at the time, personally knew John Wayne,
Lloyd Bridges, and Lee Marvin, all of whom came to the town’s pool,
the Memorial Plunge, at times to cool off after a hectic day of
working in the sun. I was even an extra in a movie filmed there in
1957, MONOLITH MONSTERS, a B-cult favorite even today. I was ten
years old at the time. Even though I resided in a small town hours
from the big city, I was exposed to the excitement of action and
heroes at a formative age, and, thus, my interest in writing novels
of suspense such as DEADLY EYES was born.
As
a recent retiree from a forty-year career as a professor of writing,
I now live in Southern California wine country with my wife, Kitty,
and our two other cats.
Amazon
author’s site:
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Meyer/e/B005E7M8CW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Goodreads
author: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/674626.Mike_Meyer
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