About BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS by Lee Rozelle
A zany twist on the Southern Gothic, BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS is a wild and heartfelt tale of abduction and revenge, body shaming and media fame. Lee Rozelle’s debut novel is the story of overweight banker Jasmine and her kidnapper, the enigmatic reality TV mastermind Preston Price. Trapped inside an egg-shaped studio in the secluded backwoods, Jasmine is tortured with haute cuisine, brainwashed with self-help videos, and badgered with cardio exercise routines for her growing mass of livestream fans. Filled with flashbacks of adolescent nuttiness and ennui in the 1980’s, BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS goes bizarro to explore links between reality TV and the real, intervention and exploitation.
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Author Bio:
Lee Rozelle is the author of nonfiction books ZOMBIESCAPES & PHANTOM ZONES and ECOSUBLIME. He has recently published short stories in such places as SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY, HellBound Books’ ANTHOLOGY OF BIZARRO, and the SCARE YOU TO SLEEP podcast.