What’s interesting about Shelly Lyons is the universality of her mind. She absorbs any fantastic concept with ease and creates a new vision in an instant.
LIKE REAL appeals to vanity, ambition and the bad decisions of a dumb protagonist. She mentioned to me in our interview that she had first thought of a girl playing that role, but that somehow she felt a male character could fall into place more comfortably.
The fact of a hand taking possession of a person’s will might be usual in concept within the walls of the paranormal but not common in a plot process kind of way.
Lyons is an agile, curious soul who has a solid, wide career as an author. Loving Sci-Fi and paranormal worlds, her books, in general, were born to succeed and be embraced by the audience.
Synopsis
“A hilarious bizarroid science fiction horror thriller, with great vivid characters, crackling first-rate dialogue, nonstop momentum and unguessable plot twists galore. Rarely does a book make me laugh out loud this often, while keeping me engaged in the delirious drama unfolding.” —John Skipp, Wonderland Award winning author of Don’t Push the Button
Cyborgs, self-improvement, and the horrors of the LA dating scene collide in Like Real. A side-splitting, ass-kicking, and oddly tear-jerking good time.” —Brian Asman, author of Man, Fuck This House
In Shelly Lyons’s debut novel, Like Real, Vic Moss—kenjutsu hobbyist and clueless Lothario—lets vanity dictate his decision to acquire an experimental new-tech prosthesis that promises to evolve into a seamless, realistic looking hand. Instead, it tears from his body, transforms into his clone, and pursues a relationship with the same woman Vic has in his crosshairs—forcing Vic to kill or be replaced.
This mind-bending body horror rom-com is a rollicking Cronenbergian gene splice of Idle Hands and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. It’s freaky. It’s fun. It’s LIKE REAL.
Mar Garcia
Founder of TBM - Horror Experts
Horror Promoter.
mar@tbmmarketing.link
