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Exit
Shane
Filer
Genre: YA, General Fiction,
Contemporary
Publisher: Biblio Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-62249-142-1
Number of pages: 222
Word Count: 58,000
Cover Artist: Ekaterina Zagustina
Book Description:
"Did you know I spent the
whole of my fifteenth year in my room?"
Briar’s impromptu, mid-afternoon
confession stirs up distant memories of the lonely time she spent trapped in
her home; suffering agoraphobia — fear of open spaces.
Now it’s six years later.
She’s free, but the year's
isolation has left serious personality disorders; disorders which will
resurface as she relates her own story, and that of those in her orbit;
Melodie, a pretty valley girl who Briar desires to be, Justine, her oldest friend,
who has her own dark secret, and Dermot, a man who thinks he's the
reincarnation of Robin Hood — stealing from the rich to give to the poor.
Slowly Dermot begins to draw
Briar into his ever-so-exciting world, but who is leading whom on their slow descent
into crime? Duel periods of Briar’s life intertwine like a rope around her neck
as her lost year begins to overtake the present. It leads her to the answer to
one very simple question:
“Is it what I always feared — am
I losing my mind?”
Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wedQg_Y7dHE
Author Interview Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpANm1NRvkU
About
the Author:
Shane grew up in provincial New
Zealand, a small place where options are small, were people wear PJs to the
mall, a small place where dreams of being a writer or artist are not only
actively discouraged, they are actively quashed. Nevertheless he fell in love
with books, comics and writing at a young age and his early influences include
Oscar Wilde, Alan Moore and Dr Seuss.
After many years of trying to get
books, documentaries and films accepted in his own country, Shane gave up and
settled for working in the fairly creative world of video-making and
advertising.
A trip to Europe and the USA
rekindled his love of writing, and he wrote the American-based novel ‘Exit,’
submitted it this time to American publishers and immediately, received several
offers for the work. He chose one and ‘Exit’ will be released December 2nd 2013
in the USA as his first novel from Biblio Publishing.
It is the story of Briar Averill
who spent a year trapped in her room, suffering from agophobia. Six years on,
she’s free, yet ripples from the year's isolation still lap at the edges of her
life, and that of her friends: Melodie, a pretty valley girl who she wishes she
could be… Justine, her oldest friend, who has her own dark secret and Dermot
who thinks he's the reincarnation of Robin Hood — stealing from the rich to
give to the poor. Ripples echo down through the years, leading her to the
answer to one very simple question: Is it what she always feared — is she
losing her mind?
Shane has since had comic book
scripts accepted in the UK by DC Thompson, publisher of the long-running
‘Commando’ comic, fulfilling yet another dream for his child-self.
He lives with a very old and very
vocal Tonkinese cat, and they both dream of eloping together to the USA or
Europe.
He likes oranges, orange juice,
and orange furniture — in fact even the color orange. Why? Well, because it's
the best color, of course. While he believes that being a grown up is not all
it's cracked up to be, he still enjoys ruining his appetite before dinner, and
staying up past his bed time.
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