Scary Modsters... and Creepy Freaks (Rock and Roll Fantasy Collection - Pretty Things)

Scary Modsters... and Creepy Freaks (Rock and Roll Fantasy Collection - Pretty Things)

WINNER 2017 Body, Mind, Spirit International Book Award for Visionary Fiction. "A fantastical Visionary Fantasy romance involving a woman, the music that fuels her, and her Ouija board." Rosalyn seeks acceptance, but is always ridiculed for her eclectic wardrobe and unconventional music collection. One fateful night, she bewitches Niles, a stylish man whose quirky character complements her own. Unfortunately, Niles has a secret flaw that ensures relationship suicide—and he can't hide it much longer. During a tango with a Ouija board, Rosalyn summons Rock and Roll legend Peter Lane back to life. Peter entices Niles with the key to saving his relationship with Rosalyn, but when Niles hears the price is avenging Peter's murder, he must decide how far he’ll go to secure Rosalyn’s heart. This is a standalone book in The Rock and Roll Fantasy Collection, a mystical world where Rock and Roll will save your soul. The collection begins with Scary Modsters ... and Creepy Freaks (accompanied by the novellas It's A Marshmallow World and Queen Midas In Reverse ), followed by Voices Carry , and Moonlight Serenade . WINNER: 2017 Body, Mind, & Spirit Award for Excellence in Visionary Fiction. The author is a master (mistress, should I say) at writing in different POV and incorporating them to where you don't miss a thing and the flow from one POV to the next is simply lyrical. - USA Today Bestselling Author, Jennifer Theriot "Diane paints her story in wild strokes of Day-Glo orange and red and makes sure to leave a bit of her characters etched on your heart - and in your soul..."- Agents of Romance "The suspense in getting to the end had me on the edge of my seat." - Up All Night Book Addict "Diane Rinella is definitely an author I will be looking for more of." - Eye Candy Bookstore Mod - A dedicated follower of fashion. Mobster - Some music industry insiders. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - A David Bowie album. Since I announced the release of Scary Modsters I've been repeatedly asked, "Why did you make deceased rock star Peter Lane a mod? Why not go more modern?" In the early 1960s we had just gotten out of the bobby sox and saddle shoes phase and were looking to Jackie O for style tips. Fashions weren't exactly risky. When Peter's popularity started all of that was changing. Mary Quant, a fashion designer out of London, created revolutionary styles, color combinations, and high hemlines that have never left us. The mod look propelled fashion forward and signaled that the world was changing. It was sort of the shot heard around the world. Working-class youth went out of their way to get the best possible fashion. There's a misconception that the scooter-loving mods were rich kids while their rivals, the motorcycle-riding, rockers, didn't have money for fancy clothes. In talking to a lot of 60s mods it seems that isn't true at all. The mods were just as working class as the rockers, but their priorities were different. They didn't believe in wearing something that they considered undesirable when they could to do better. I have a few hang-ups with modern fashion. It seems like everywhere I go people are wearing clothes that are so short and tight that their skin is popping out in an undesirable way or their clothes are so baggy that they are falling off. I know these are fashion statements, but they're not fashion statement that work for me. I have a hard time watching award shows. Some people are given great honors and they show up looking like getting out of bed was an inconvenience. It drives me crazy. It seems that every twenty years we revisit an era. The poodle skirts and saddle shoes of the 1950s came back in style in the late 1970s when rockabilly hit. 1960s fashions became popular again in the 1980s, during the new wave revolution. In the 1990s stores were flooded with bellbottoms and those big shirts that were all the rage in the 70s. In the first decade of the current century we saw an 80s, new wave resurgence. Now we are due for a 90s resurgence, which puts us at grunge. The problem is that grunge had a very casual look that never went away. Also the 90s weren't very interesting fashion wise. So where do we go from there? It seems only natural that we would look back to the revolution--the 1960s. Have you seem those amazing, mod commercials for Rimmel? Everything old is new again. Enjoying San Francisco as a backdrop, the ghosts in Diane's 150-year-old Victorian home augment the chorus in her head. With insomnia as their catalyst, these voices have become multifarious characters that haunt her well into the sun's crowning hours, refusing to let go until they have manipulated her into succumbing to their whims. Her experiences as an actress, business owner, artisan cake designer, software project manager, Internet radio disc jockey, vintage rock n' roll journalist/fan girl, and lover of dark and quirky personalities influence her idiosyncratic writing.