About Split Decision
How was Natalie to know that the decision she was about to make between two potential dates, would forever be a pivotal point in her life? That it would mark the time where childhood innocence ended? How could she even imagine that the wrong decision would send her life spiralling into the stuff of nightmares from where she might not come out alive?
Life takes a cruel twist of fate when Natalie, a completely average [almost] 16 year old, is forced to make a split-second decision…a decision that will change her future and forever alter her perception of trust, love and the realities of life. A contemporary coming of age thriller.
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Author Bio:
Hi, I’m Carmen, a prolific writer and teller of tales.
To date I have written around 29 books and 100 film and TV scripts in every genre from psychological thriller to rom-com. Jigsaw Girl, for example, deals with teenage peer pressure, guilt, self-esteem issues and self harm. Split Decision deals with coming of age insecurities, pressures and dangers, and The Boy Who Rescues Pigeons deals with isolation, lack of understanding, loneliness and a social inability to fit in.
These are all things that most of us will encounter in one way or another during our lifetime. Life can be tough. My books are not self-help manuals, they are compelling stories that I hope help people make sense of the world around them; that let readers see that they are not alone; and that have the power to make people really stop and think.
I believe good writing is about going beyond the descriptive, to look inside not just the character’s head, but their soul. The reader should be able to understand the character, their desires and their motivations. Even if the character is despicable – and some of them are – you want them to feel real, for their actions and their words to resonate with real life. Even in science fiction.
Readers should feel they would be able to pick your characters out in a crowd, whether they liked them or not, so good writing needs to be many things at once – compelling, pacey, interesting and most of all, relevant. I hope my books are all of these things and that you will discover that for yourself.
Thanks for reading.
Carmen.