General News
17 December, 2023
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AUTHOR Mickey Martin added Inglewood to her celebration of towns on Saturday. The third in her Victorian series of novels, A Chilling Summer in Inglewood, was launched before more than 50 people. And the audience could grow with Mickey in talks with...
AUTHOR Mickey Martin added Inglewood to her celebration of towns on Saturday.
The third in her Victorian series of novels, A Chilling Summer in Inglewood, was launched before more than 50 people.
And the audience could grow with Mickey in talks with Queensland screenwriter Michelle Worthington. to turn the books into movies or a television series.
Her first novel, Soul Keepers of Glenormiston South was based in Glenormiston South where she grew up, followed by Obsidian Soul and now A Chilling Summer in Inglewood, set in the town her family has lived for five generations.
“My books are my way of celebrating the towns I have lived in,” said the Frankston-based author.
“We know it’s never chilly in Inglewood in summer ... but there’s the spine-tingling paranormal.
“I feel blessed to write these stories - eight titles in four years.”
The latest novel centres on the Harper family moving to the quiet town of Inglewood, Victoria, living in the ancestral home and looking forward to the year ahead.
Mickey said she had started pitching Soul Keepers to a production company, only for creatives to take additional interest in Chilling Summer. “Inglewood will be connected to the screenplay. There’s a lot of work coming up next year.”
Mickey’s sister Leah compared Saturday’s launch where sales of the new book were brisk.
Members of the Mornington Writers’ Society also travelled to Inglewood for the launch.
WIN WIN WIN
YOUR Loddon Herald has a special Christmas competition where our readers have the chance to win a signed copy of Mickey Martin’s A Chilling Summer in Inglewood.
Simply send an email to loddonherald@gmail.com or pop us a line at PO Box 1188 Kangaroo Flat 3555 and share your chilling Christmas yarn in 50 words or less.
We’ll select the most entertaining entry at 5pm next Tuesday and announce the winner in the Loddon Herald on Thursday.
The lucky winner will have a great read over the Christmas-New Year break, devouring the words and twists in Mickey’s latest novel, part of her Victorian series.
Scary or cooling, get the Christmas crackers cracking with your favourite chilling yarn.