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Norelle Done from Seattle Wrote posted her 4 star review review on Amazon and Goodreads today. The review will also be posted on her website. Here’s an excerpt of what she had to say.

Thanks, Norelle! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Painted Black is easy to follow, interesting, and gets you hooked. . . Borys depicts the street life and struggles in an engaging, interesting way that draws you in and helps give a little perspective into the lives of the homeless. Maybe the next time you see someone huddled in a door frame or sleeping on a park bench, they won’t be quite so invisible.

via Amazon.com: Norelle Done’s review of Painted Black.

Suspense Magazine gave me a chance to share two “postcards” of real people I knew on the streets of Chicago and reflect on how they impacted my writing. I hope you will click through to read the entire post and get a glimpse of Chris and John. These people influenced my portrayal of Cry and Samuel Walker in Painted Black.

In my years of meeting street people in Chicago and Seattle, I was struck by how their lives could seem like fiction, their world some dystopian underworld, if you didn’t actually experience it physically like they do. We prefer it that way. We enjoy being readers and observers of the dark and scary, but prefer them in the form of a noir detective novel, perhaps, or a gritty action movie. By doing that, we can remain, for the most part, untouched by the reality of the darkness.

via Suspense Magazine’s Blog Site » Blog Archive » Guest Blogger Debra Borys “Postcards From the Streets.”.