BIO: L.K. MADIGAN
Name: L.K. Madigan
’09 Book Title: FLASH BURNOUT
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Favorite Books: Dracula, by Bram Stoker; Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov; The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins; the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon; the Jacky Faber series, by L.A. Meyer; No Flying in the House, by Betty Brock; and all the Harry Potters. And about a dozen more, but I will spare you.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: This E.L. Doctorow quote gets trotted out all the time, but it’s true, and when I’m in the middle of a novel, it helps: “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
Random Info About Me: My first job out of college was at a record company. I love pie for breakfast. I went to school in England for a year. I’m addicted to my MacBook. My parents grow coffee beans. I have four pairs of Pikolino shoes, and I’m not normally a shoe fanatic.
FLASH BURNOUT Synopsis:
Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him.
When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. Blake’s participation in the ensuing drama opens up a world of trouble, both for him and for Marissa. He spends the next few months trying to reconcile the conflicting roles of Boyfriend and Friend. His experiences range from the comic (surviving his dad’s birth control talk) to the tragic (a harrowing after-hours visit to the morgue).
In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.
’09 Book Title: FLASH BURNOUT
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Favorite Books: Dracula, by Bram Stoker; Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov; The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins; the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon; the Jacky Faber series, by L.A. Meyer; No Flying in the House, by Betty Brock; and all the Harry Potters. And about a dozen more, but I will spare you.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: This E.L. Doctorow quote gets trotted out all the time, but it’s true, and when I’m in the middle of a novel, it helps: “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
Random Info About Me: My first job out of college was at a record company. I love pie for breakfast. I went to school in England for a year. I’m addicted to my MacBook. My parents grow coffee beans. I have four pairs of Pikolino shoes, and I’m not normally a shoe fanatic.
FLASH BURNOUT Synopsis:
Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him.
When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. Blake’s participation in the ensuing drama opens up a world of trouble, both for him and for Marissa. He spends the next few months trying to reconcile the conflicting roles of Boyfriend and Friend. His experiences range from the comic (surviving his dad’s birth control talk) to the tragic (a harrowing after-hours visit to the morgue).
In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.