Release Date: July 20, 2021
Publisher: Little Brown Dog Press, Pinehurst, NC USA
Carli Morris is looking forward to a quiet retirement. Earning billions from the sale of her Madison Avenue ad agency, she dreams of spending her golden years painting and giving back to society. But the heartbreaking discovery of a homeless woman poisoned to death reopens the wounds of Carli’s own tragic loss.
Realizing her busy career turned her away from the vulnerable, she throws herself on a mission to get the defenseless off the streets. But as she sacrifices her own needs to support others, her new colleague’s mental illness and Carli’s unresolved grief collide in a staggering sequence of events that will alter her life forever.
Can Carli dig deep and make a powerful, personal impact?
Clean Sweep is a dynamic literary novel. If you like moving revelations, gut-wrenching decisions, and life-affirming transformations, then you’ll love E. B. Lee’s enlightening tale.
Immerse yourself in this heartfelt journey today!
What is
the hardest part of writing your books?
E. B. Lee: One of the hardest parts is not thinking
about the book every minute of the day. When I am in writing mode, I am
constantly thinking through scenes, dialogues and sticking points. I often
write out several paragraphs at a time in my mind as I am walking my dog, gardening,
or doing house chores. The trick is remembering, or recreating, what I have
written out in my mind. I have considered trying dictation, as many other
authors do. Sometimes, I am ready to sleep but my writing brain is still awake and
I have to jump out of bed to write something down.
What
songs are most played on your Ipod?
E. B. Lee: I listen to talk radio shows, and I often
listen to classical music on a very, very, very low volume when I am writing,
so I really just have it playing for background music. I grew up with music of
the ‘60s and ‘70’ so rock and roll and also country are natural to me. iHeart
Radio has seemingly endless options for livestreams and recorded shows, which
are fun. I am a longtime fan of professional sports in New York, and also have
added other cities’ teams to my teams of interest due to family moving to
different parts of the United States, so I listen to games a lot. In addition,
I am always happy to go outside and listen to birds, insects, wind in the
trees, water in ponds or rivers, rain falling, snow falling, all the natural sounds.
It is so alive outside.
Do you
have critique partners or beta readers?
E. B. Lee: I have a few beta readers, and I am
looking to ask a few more for my next novel. I currently do not work with other
writers as critique partners, but rather with people who are interested in
reading, and who will give feedback, ask questions, and notice things that I
either would not notice, or see things from a different point of view. It is valuable
to open myrself up to new ideas and perspectives, and it is valuable to not
take my writing personally. It is all about the story.
What book
are you reading now?
E. B. Lee: I have several going, which is not
unusual. It is so difficult to not grab a few at the bookstore, or download a
couple at once. At this very moment, I have A Gentleman in Moscow started, which
I am loving. The Chanel Sisters is also in process, along with Carnegie’s Maid.
I just read All the Light You Cannot See, A Single Thread, and The Lions of Fifth
Avenue, all literary fiction. I whizzed through The President is Missing, one
of the James Patterson/Bill Clinton mystery thrillers. I have a long list of
books to read, and I never have enough time to read them.
How did
you start your writing career?
E. B. Lee:
Writing has been an
important part of many of my jobs throughout life, but that did not make
writing my career. It simply made it a valuable job skill. Ever since high
school, I have kept a journal on and off, so writing is a very natural outlet
for me. Writing stories, creating characters, and working through the entire
process of writing a novel started a number of years ago on this very novel,
Clean Sweep, but I shelved my drafts when I immersed myself in flower farming. In
2020, with the world turned upside down, I knew it was time to focus again on
writing. The result of this, you know.
Tell us about your next release.
E. B. Lee:
My next release will
share some similarities with Clean Sweep: A Novel, but will also be strikingly
different. For starters, it is set in a rural area of the western United
States, a dramatically different setting than Clean Sweep’s streets of Manhattan.
I am playing around with a very different format, but I am keeping the details of
this under wraps for now ... I guess you will have to read it when it comes
out! Similar to Clean Sweep: A Novel, my next book will be serious fiction,
highlighting a particular issue of importance to me. Similar as well, it will
have a female protagonist. Finally, like Clean Sweep, I am adding a shocking twist.
Like Clean Sweep, I am toning down the twist from what I originally envisioned so
readers don’t put the book down when they read it.
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