Kelly Martin-- Saint Sloan

When You Write the ‘Hard’ Topics

I want to thank Jessie for having me on her blog today! I’m going a one day blog tour

(13 blogs!) to get the word out about my new book, SAINT SLOAN.

I’m a big fan of Jessie’s book, AT WHAT COST. If you haven’t read it, you so should! It deals with a very hard subject: abortion.

Writing ‘hard’ subjects is well… hard. You have to get into your character’s mind and sometimes that’s not a pleasant place to be. I had the topic of sexual assault in SAINT SLOAN (which is always a fun thing to write about). Come to think of it, in CROSSING THE DEEP, I had to write about child molestation from a guy’s point of view (not in detail, but I had to work it out in my mind so I had to *see* it even if it’s just implied in the novel).

Hard topics like abortion, sexual assault, and molestation aren’t fun or easy to write about, but they are important. If we all wrote about sunflowers and daisies, it wouldn’t be an accurate representation of the world around us.

And in these novels, we can still bring out the courage and fight in our characters. They may be flawed, but they are still human, still try to do their best in a very difficult world.

Here’s the back cover blurb from SAINT SLOAN:

When Sloan Bridges is seventeen years and three hundred, sixty-four days old, her dream of having a perfect birthday is shattered. Home alone after spending the afternoon working on a science project at the new boy’s house, Sloan is brutally attacked in her kitchen by a man she can’t recognize. The only clue she has to go on is what he whispers in her ear, “You deserve this.”

The police have one suspect—Aaron Hunter, older brother of ‘the new boy’, who picked Sloan up a few nights before as she ran from a party. Adamant that he didn’t do it, Aaron begs Sloan to believe him. For her part, Sloan doesn’t know who to trust. She never saw her attacker’s face, and when she does picture it, it’s Aaron’s face she sees standing over her.

Trying to move on is impossible with a former best friend who taunts her and gives her the moniker, “Saint Sloan”, an ex-boyfriend who doesn’t understand why she changed a few months before her attack, and Aaron’s brother, Ray, who makes Sloan smile but has a side she doesn’t understand.

With her attacker ready to strike again, Sloan has to figure out who would hurt her and stop him before he finishes what he started.

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Want to read more? Buy the book from any of the links below:

AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Saint-Sloan-ebook/dp/B00BMQ9E9O/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1

BARNES AND NOBLE: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/saint-sloan-kelly-martin/1114723748?ean=2940016377308

SMASHWORDS: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/290677

ASTRAEA PRESS: http://www.astraeapress.com/#!/~/product/category=662245&id=20839143

KOBO: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Saint-Sloan/book-wNrqosRRB0i2jU9ym34izg/page1.html?s=4Xoj6XizzUOFvTfhOsZ87Q&r=1

Thank you so much for having me here today!

Author bio:

~Kelly Martin is a best selling author of young adult fiction. She has two books: Grace Award nominee CROSSING THE DEEP and Amazon Best selling in Teen/Religion SAINT SLOAN. She has several short stories published and loves to write ‘twitter fiction’ when she’s bored. Kelly loves God, is addicted to chocolate, and would rather write than sleep.

You can find her on twitter (she tweets a lot): @martieKay

You can find my author page (blog tour central): at www.kellymartinstories.com