'A Beautiful Disaster' with Talese Nicole

As we are in spooky season, I would like to welcome a wonderful psychological thriller author, Talise Nicole. Talise, how are you? Hey, I'm good. How are you? I'm doing great. So you have quite a couple books under your belt that really get you thinking when it comes to love, a little bit of killings, you know, here and there, you know, the psychological aspect of it. So before we kind of take a look at your work, tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from and what really sparked your interest into becoming an author and specifically a psychological horror author okay okay yeah um well I'm Talise Nicole I am an author of psychological thrillers I'm from Lansing Michigan but I live in Dallas Texas now so what inspired me to write thrillers um I love the mystery of not knowing something and trying to figure it all out I don't know i just i've been a puzzle girl since i was little um i just love suspense and being scared and and uncertainty so i like to write it and i think that topic and genre it gets you like you said it gets your brain going and i feel like it kind of opens another side of your brain that we don't typically use in everyday life which i think is why a lot of people go to like fiction or psychological thrillers or horrors because it really makes you think it kind of plays detective a little bit because you're slowly trying to piece you know different things together and sometimes you're right sometimes you're not because it's plot twist after plot twist right right that's exactly what i go for with now are you a reader as well yeah yes i am now are you a psychological thriller reader or do you kind of read all genres to get different ideas for your books i'm definitely a mood reader um but thrillers psychological thrillers have my heart but yeah i'm definitely a mood reader um i love romance too sometimes like if i'm in that mood you know valentine's day probably no other than that i'm killing people like all the other days you know that's that's what we're doing 364 we're killing people and so like i said you have quite a few different books that is under your belt but one of the books that i wanted to talk about um was a beautiful disaster and so for anyone that's not familiar with this book give us a little synopsis um of the story and what would you say was the best part about writing this okay um well the book is about a lady who has experienced heartbreak after heartbreak um she gets sick of it and the men who break her heart end up missing and there's a detective that is on the case looking for one of a missing man and he runs into her he runs into nicole and they kind of fall in love so now he's investigating and he's not sure who she is what he got into um and she has these plants that look very suspicious and very healthy and green looking he's like why are they so healthy right now what was the motivation behind the story was like there any like little maybe little tidbits of real life experiences you know not the the weird parts but you know that kind of inspired this storyline oh yes yes definitely um i originally wrote this as a short story and um i was upset i was very upset with with somebody that i was dealing with and and it just it came from there it was just a bunch of rage it was a bunch of just hurt I was pouring my heart out and then I got mad I was like no forget that so I just went took that twist and turned it into thriller like thank you for the motivation yep that's exactly what I said and so even though this is a psychological thriller you know false story what would you say is maybe one lesson that you would like readers to take away if not just from this book from any of your other books I want readers to when they hear my name or know that I'm writing something I want them to expect the unexpected I want them to come in with the open mind and try to understand why people do the things that they do you know morally gray I always say this is my favorite color um it's always a motive behind somebody's action um whether it's intentional or not intentional so I like to explore the what ifs so just expect that and expect crazy twists and turns yeah because people always know what they're doing they try to act innocent or they try to act like oh my god you knew yep and so when the consequences come fafo i mean to each his own right right and so Talisa as we are in spooky season um even though i celebrate spooky season year round no matter what the read is the movies whatever would you have any final words for fellow book lovers um for spooky season just expect the unexpected just sleep with both eyes open maybe a little nightlight you know here and there right right and so Talisa before i let you go is there um are you working on anything else like can readers expect more of you somewhere down the line oh yeah definitely i'm working on something right now it's another thriller um expect more thrillers expect more thrillers expect more plot twists and twists and turns and um keep being scared yeah well you'll always have a real reader out of me because i like i said i read thriller and anything spooky year round so Talisa thank you for what you're doing in the book community and for taking the time to come and chat with me and fellow book lovers out there. We greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for having me.