Why did I chose this book cover?

Why did I choose to use this special woman as my book cover?

Simple! I love the art! After more than ½ years of searching for what I imaginary had in my head, I found the Mexican Airbrush artist Daniel Esparza from Los Angeles, California. He has enjoyed painting since he was a child. As soon as I saw his art, I fell in love with his creation. Amazing. I just knew; this is it! What he had created was exactly what I had fantasied about for my book cover. He specializes in Dia de Los Muertos (Day of Dead). This ancient festival is rooted in Mexico's pre-Hispanic past. It is celebrated every year on November 1 (All Saints 'Day) and November 2 (All Souls' Day). 

Daniel Ezparza Art

So, why chose that theme? Daniel Esparza’s female creation had the fire I needed. She had the sparkling in her eyes and expression of what I felt my female character represented. The Burning Desire for love and yet she was living among the dead and lost souls. 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/top-ten-day-of-dead-mexico

The first time I was intrigued by Dia de Los Muertos, was when I saw Frida Kahlo many colorful paintings. Frida died in the mid-fifties and first became famous 50 years after her death. I subsequently learned that Frida Kahlo is enjoying something of a cult status now among those of Mexican heritage. The heart of the holiday is the honoring of deceased relatives. Still, why then use this theme? My characters in the book are not dead. The story is not about honoring the dead. As a catholic, I somehow do believe in welcoming back the souls of lost love ones for a brief visit.

Watch the video below:

This is Day of The Dead Parade in Mexico City (Dia De Los Muertos)

Then I kept on having this picture in my head of; La Catrina who has come to symbolize El Dia de Los Muertos. La Catrina is created in 1800 by Mexican José Guadalupe Posada, portrayed as an elegant well-dressed woman, with a wonderful face and she refers to rich people. She has the ace of spades which is a perfect symbol to represent the ambivalence between life and death and considered both a symbol of good luck and the opposite. Well, my character Mary has some good luck and also the opposite. She is also rich and elegant, yet Mary thinks everyone is equal in the end.

Later, the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, husband of Frida Kahlo, who painted her on a mural in Mexico City, giving her a new body and identity, La Catrina. Now she is famous and often used among tattoo artists. I subsequently realized I had some special feelings regarding my love for Spain and Mexico. Their Spanish culture and the language. Strangely and by coincidence, all the artists where somehow all the sudden linked to each other in my imagination for the book cover. This was without me having that specifically in my mind. I often have had some kind of Deja-vu experiences regarding Spain and their culture and have always felt magically drawn to it since I was a teenager.  

Daniel Esparza had captured all the important things I needed for the book cover. The Catrina women, the rose in her hair, the spider web, the floral ornaments to the religious and the sophisticated elements with his stunning art of the women, representing the Burning Desire. Great work, without making it over-dramatically deadly.  

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1st Edition of Burning Desire - The Psychopath and The Girl in Black Prada Shoes - Part 1

I'm so proud. 1st Edition with boxes full of books has just arrived. Now it's a reality. The book is out.

BURNING DESIRE -  The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes

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How did I come up writing this book?

How did I come up with writing this book?

Having been a victim myself, made me realize how
little help and understanding I got during my period 
of being trapped by a psychopath and living in my 
own Hell. I was dealing with the worst and most drawn-out suicide of my life. The 
struggles to survive inspired me to write about similarities of my emotions and 
experiences of the living Hell. 

A story that needed to be told to the public, especially women who have been abused
by a psychopath. I feel it's a major suppressed theme in our daily life, but it's also a 
massive taboo people don't want to talk about, especially from abused and scared women. 
I believe too few in our society don't understand or know what the abused women are 
subjected to and don't know about the danger the victim is living in. Many don't know 
what the can do for the victim to help them. 

I wish Burning Desire Part 1 and Part 2 can give the reader more insight and inspiration
for what is going on emotionally for the victim. Get the feeling of how malicious the
psychopath truly is to Mary.

Have you read the book? Did you like it?
Others have rated or comment on it. Do you want to rate my book? Ist much appreciated.
I hope you will enjoy reading.

Top review

5.0 out of 5 stars 
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020

• AMAZING! Must Read!! This is an amazing story that keeps you wanting more. can’t wait for part 2!
• It sounds like a book I’d probably not put down till I finished it!
• It seems like an excellent book and I am certainly interested in reading it! Thanks for sharing!
• I’m not a fiction reader but it sounds like your book keeps people on the edge of their seat! Writing is so therapeutic!!
• .....I've read it. It is very exciting reading. It is interesting to read how a psychopath gains power by doing safe/unsafe in an interaction. And his seduction is so cunning that it is more than enough. His behavior goes beyond normal limits and is a means of power and is so well unfolded in your text. Personally, I'm not that much for such books, but I think there are many who will read your book with great interest. Good luck with the authorship. ❤️ By the way, I also think that your vignettes with quotes work incredibly well.   - Line Geertsen - Danish journalist and TV host at DR

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Mary is an established woman. Her lifespan is a petrifying mess.

About the Book

Mary is an established woman. Her lifespan is a petrifying mess. This is about dating a truly creepy sociopath, one who swindled others throughout his entire life. A self-absorbed, lying person using people.

He presents himself with a public persona of normalcy. She could not see what lay behind the dark shade of Drake Lucifer Bates. He was inappropriately flirting with her; he was a doctor and she was his patient. During a treatment session, he goes too far. Does he get hard when he treats patients? It was too late for her to escape.

Unintended she becomes captured in his mean spider web. Drake won her compassion with his enormous intellect and glimmering charm. Something vastly magical happened around him. She begins a passionate love affair with him. Their life seemed blissful on the outside. Behind his malicious plan, it was chilling.

Trusting him with her fragile life, she doesn’t see he is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Believing him was fatal. Swindle wealthy patients, was his primary target. His manipulative behavior and scams end disastrously for Mary. She is a character in his horror movie. He sinks into his mania of deceives and lies. He is a predator! She doesn’t know anything about psychopaths. How does she figure out what she can expect from such people? Her life was never the same, but she learned from his evilness.

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How did I come up with writing this book?

How did I come up with writing this book?

Read about Drake, the villain, who bears all the classic markers of a classic psychopath, and it is indeed painful seeing the protagonist fall into his various schemes and traps, while he is clearly using her and double-dealing.

A great number of female readers will sympathize with her actions. The frankness with which the narrator describes her own thoughts and feelings, even when they do not portray her in a positive light, will endear the reader to this character, as we trust she is giving us the honest story-warts and all.

Being a victim myself, made me realize how little help and understanding I got during my period of being trapped by a psychopath and living in my own Hell. I was dealing with the worst and most drawn-out suicide of my life. The struggles to survive inspired me to write about similarities of my emotions and experiences of living Hell.

A story that needed to be told to the public, especially women who have been abused by a psychopath. I feel it's a major suppressed theme in our daily life, but it's also a massive taboo people don't want to talk about, especially from abused and scared women. I believe too few in our society don't understand or know what the abused women are subjected to and don't know about the danger the victim is living in. I have the feeling that many don't know what they actually can do for the victim to help them. Be there for them and listen, even you have heard it hundreds of times. 

I wish Burning Desire Part 1 and Part 2 can give the reader more insight and inspiration for what is going on emotionally for the victim. (Mary). Get the feeling of how malicious the psychopath truly is to Mary. How alone she feels after being completely isolated from friends and family. 

Have a lovely day.

Some appreciated comments from others.

.....It sounds like a book I’d probably not put down till I finished it! - Lea Ann Hannum


.....It seems like an excellent book and I am certainly interested in reading it! Thanks for sharing! - Noel Rhodes.

.....Thanks, Stark! I’m not a fiction reader but it sounds like your book keeps people on the edge of their seat! Writing is so therapeutic!! Thanks for the friend request. - Nicki McFarland 

.....I've read most of it. It is a very exciting reading. It is interesting to read how a psychopath gains power by doing safe/unsafe in an interaction. And his seduction is so cunning that it is more than enough. His behavior goes beyond normal limits and is a means of power and is so well unfolded in your text. Personally, I'm not that much for such books, but I think there are many who will read your book with great interest. Good luck with the authorship. ❤️ By the way, I also think that your vignettes with quotes work incredibly well. - Line Geertsen - Danish journalist and TV host at DR

Welcome to my Blog

Welcome. My name is M. L. Stark, author of Burning Desire: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here.

I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Burning Desire: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes, expanding on some of the topics in it and blogging on some of the ideas related to my book. This is a great place for you to get to know me, and I’m looking forward to getting to know you, too. What did you think of Burning Desire: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes?

What questions do you have for me? How do you relate to my book?

You can watch the book trailers here.

BURNING DESIRE

BURNING DESIRE FADES PART 2

I’ll be returning here frequently with new posts and responses to feedback from you. Until next time, tell me a little bit about yourself.

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It will obsess you and you want more of it.

                                                                                  

RELEASED 14TH FEBRUARY 2020

PSYCHOPATHY IS THE ONLY MENTAL DISORDER WHERE IT IS NOT THE PATIENT, BUT THE ENVIRONMENT THAT SUFFERS. 

                                                                               - SANNE UDSEN, PSYCHOPATHS IN SUITS.

The Psychopath and The Girl in Black Prada Shoes.

This is part one of the Burning Desire trilogies. It will obsess you and you want more of it.

Mary is an established woman. Her lifespan is a petrifying mess. This is about dating a truly creepy sociopath, one who swindled others throughout his entire life. A self-absorbed, lying person using people.

He presents himself with a public persona of normalcy. She could not see what lay behind the dark shade of Drake Lucifer Bates. He was inappropriately flirting with her; he was a doctor and she was his patient. During a treatment session, he goes too far. Does he get hard when he treats patients? It was too late for her to escape.

ONLINE BOOK STORES:

Xlibris Bookstore                      AMAZON                       Barnes / Noble

Copyright © 2020 · All Rights Reserved · M. L. Stark