New YA Novel "Kills" With Dark Humor / Sleeping in the Morgue
What would you do to pay for college? That's the question raised in Sleeping in the Morgue, a dark comedy young adult novel just released. The novel's quirky setting in a family mortuary and protagonist's desire to achieve her dream of attending Harvard make for a fun read.
- (1888PressRelease) June 26, 2013 - Inland Empire, CA - The latest teen/young adult book to hit the market is not another fantasy sci-fiction adventure story, it's a dark comedy about how far one high school senior will go to pay for college. Written by new novelist Jennifer Tressen, Sleeping in the Morgue is both a dark and humorous look at small town teenage life and the desperation to escape it.
The book description: Paige Thorton, a sweet overachieving high school senior only has one month to come up with ten thousand dollars to pay for college, but her family mortuary has no business. Desperate to escape her little town and go to her dream school, she decides to take matters into her own hands and drum up some clients. Soon "accidents" begin happening to local residents. However when her boyfriend, Brock Harrington, the rookie hotshot cop begins to investigate things get hairy. Will Paige be able to pull it off in time or will she be doomed to forever sleep in the morgue?
"I wrote this story as a screenplay while studying screenwriting in college. Although it garnered some interest it was never purchased, so I thought it would be enjoyable to novelize," Tressen said. "It's just meant to be a fun read, nothing overly serious, just pleasurable reading."
Sleeping in the Morgue is available on Amazon.com as an ebook. It will be available for purchase as a print book in the fall.
Jennifer Tressen
A freelance writer, Sleeping in the Morgue is her debut fiction novel. The book is based upon a screenplay of the same name she penned while still in film school many years ago. She currently has several more novels in the works including Castle in the Air, a young adult thriller and But I Don't Want To Be a Girl, a pre-teen novella.
For more information about Sleeping in the Morgue, please visit Amazon.com and search "Sleeping in the Morgue" or contact Jennifer Tressen at jennifertressen.com.
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