Abardseyeview now has its own Shakespeare-themed novel(!)

In order to bring the bard to people and people to the bard, I spent the last year writing We’ll Always Have Verona. It’s a comic novel that takes place in present-day Charlotte, North Carolina, and that brings Shakespeare’s Juliet not only to life, but a little too much to life. It’s a fun take on Shakespeare, and I’m proud to have it take its place among our other titles. So without further ado, here are the cover and blurb.

Here’s the cover:

 

And here’s the blurb:

When visiting aliens become drunk on human culture, they set out to see what Shakespeare’s greatest characters would be like in person. But after they re-create Juliet as an advanced A.I., they need a body for the tragic heroine. And that’s where Denny’s waitress Remy Martin comes in.

“Wherefore art – I?” was Juliet’s first question. The answer was, slinging hash in Charlotte, North Carolina. After the Veronese heiress gets used to her new job, and century, Juliet’s compulsion to find Romeo leads her to attend a performance of her own play, where she soon finds herself on stage portraying – herself. This places Remy on stage as well, locked inside her own mind while Juliet is controlling her body.

In We’ll Always Have Verona, which begins with this performance, Remy is given the chance to review her own life and marriage from the perspective of Romeo & Juliet as it is being performed all around her, Each scene conjures a parallel to her own life; the lovers’ poetic meeting is interspersed with the conversation Remy had with her husband when he first asked her out; Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech reflects a bittersweet seduction that befell her best friend Belle; the lovers’ parting at daybreak reminds Remy of the day her husband was called up for deployment to Afghanistan…

In the process, Remy sees what she, and we, and our relationships, look like through the eyes of Western literature’s foremost romantic heroine.

The link to the paperback is here, and the link to the ebook is here.

I’ve reduced the price for the first month, and let me encourage those of you who take a chance on it to also leave a brief review on Amazon. That will go a long way toward lifting it in the rankings so that more people can get a pleasant and easily digestible taste of Shakespeare, which is the purpose of abardseyeview.