Friday, June 01, 2012

What is Keith Brooke reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Keith Brooke, author of Harmony.

His entry begins:
My reading tends to be quite diverse, with several things on the go at once.

One book I've had on the go for ages is J. Randy Taraborrelli's The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. It looked interesting, and is - crammed with fascinating stuff - but somehow it just hasn't come alive for me, so I've been battling through this one for months now, a few pages at a time. I love to read a fairly random selection of non-fiction. Not only is it interesting in its own right, it gives me all kinds of snippets that inspire and feed my work. Yes, my latest novel is about aliens, but Marilyn Monroe's story if full of mystery, tragedy, political machinations, human rivalries, human failings and triumphs - all the ingredients of any...[read on]
About Harmony, from the publisher:
The aliens are here, all around us. They always have been. And now, one by one, they're destroying our cities. Dodge Mercer deals in identities, Hope Burren has no identity and no past, but she does have a multitude of voices filling her head. In a world where humans are segregated and aliens can tear worlds apart, Dodge and Hope lead a ragged band of survivors on a search for sanctuary in what may be the only hope for humankind.

The aliens are here, all around us. They always have been. And now, one by one, they're destroying our cities.

Dodge Mercer deals in identities, which is fine until the day he deals the wrong identity and clan war breaks out. Hope Burren has no identity and no past, but she does have a multitude of voices filling her head.

In a world where nothing is as it seems, where humans are segregated and aliens can sing realities and tear worlds apart, Dodge and Hope lead a ragged band of survivors on a search for sanctuary in what may be the only hope for humankind.
Learn more about the book and author at Keith Brooke's website and blog.

The Page 69 Test: Harmony.

Writers Read: Keith Brooke.

--Marshal Zeringue