This week YA Author Sharon Rose took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Sharon Rose is the author of Psychic (See YEM’s interview of Sharon Rose here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
Hi, I'm Shar Rose, one half of TS Rose, co-authors of Psychic. T Rose stands for Tammy. We're a mother and daughter team. Tammy is an English teacher, and is taking a parent evening session tonight, so you're stuck with me. I'm a Town Clerk. Boring! That why we write.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Tammy and I wrote Psychic together during lockdown. It's completely changed our relationship. No more of that awkward stuff grown children say to their dull parents. Now we're colleagues and friends.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Two writers writing the same book!
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Psychic is for Young Adults, and about young adults. Its also for anyone interested in Psi Fi or the paranormal. Try our quiz on our website https://t.co/M9RW53VCKD to find out if you're psychic.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
So Psy fi – it's so male oriented right? Wrong! Psychic breaks that stereotype – its Psy fi for all genders.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Psychic is real. It's set in modern day Britain with the terrorism threat near critical. These characters could live next to you – they could be you.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
OK so in Psychic the main character can make you completely change your mind. So what! So she can also make the President of the USA change his.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
But Sunday, the other main character of Psychic, is our favourite. He's small, just 9 years old, black, from Africa, he recently lived on the streets, and his greatest ambition is to become the best darned thief around.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
In Psychic, Alpha and Sunday form a bond. But to stop the worst terrorist attack in British history they must trust other psychics too. They can't – their group has been infiltrated.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Psychic scored 154 fantastic reviews on Inkitt, before it was accepted by a publisher. It comes out on June 7, 2022.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
So what's it like writing as co-authors? I write complicated plots, Tammy does dialogue best. We fight too, but our arguments actually improve the writing.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
With Psychic, I wrote the basic plot. Tammy examined the characters and promptly threw 1/4 of them out. One had a sex change. One got younger, two older. One became much darker, not in tan or colour, but in personality. Only Sunday survived without alteration.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
What inspired us to write Psychic? Actual terrorism all over the world, and governments everywhere who use psychics in one way or another, but pretend they don't.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Little know stuff about Psychics. The CIA had a big project going using psychic dreamers for predictions. The KGB employed a telepath with skills much like our heroine. The British Police often consult psychics on murder crimes when they are stumped. Who knows about the Chinese?
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Weird things about the authors of Psychic, TS Rose. T only drinks water – nothing else. S once accidentally floated into communist East Berlin by parachute and was arrested as a spy.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
Last weird stuff from the authors of Psychic before signing off. Tammy's seen ghosts. They're friendly. One sat on her bed. Shar fails her own psychic quiz. She has absolutely no psychic skills. Goodnight all. It's late here in the UK and I got up at 5 am.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) May 5, 2022
