Back at you today with another cover reveal! Today I’m doing a cover reveal for an author I’ve worked with before, MultiMind! If you don’t remember, make sure to check out my Book Review: Dreamer by MultiMind. Dreamer was a stunning novella so when MultiMind reached out to see if I could do the cover reveal for Kinetics I was overjoyed to be able to share it with you today.
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Kinetics by MultiMind
Twins Ava and Tyrone have always shared everything, but when Ava discovers she has abilities that Tyrone doesn’t have, Tyrone wants nothing more than to make her powers his own… whatever it takes.
📔 Novella 🪄 Unique Magic😱 YA Horror 🌳 Family Focused
- Genre: Horror, Young Adult
Interview with MultiMind
Amanda: Tell me a little bit about the cover
MultiMind: The cover is something that was more of a morph of my idea from my artist Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. She takes all my skritchy sketches and turns them into brilliant art! This is a horror work but I didn’t want a stereotypical horror cover because I don’t want to exactly let the story on for the readers at a glance, especially what makes it horror. I wanted to emphasize instead the psychokinetic abilities shared between the twins Ava & Tyrone.
Amanda: What inspired Kinetics?
MultiMind: Kinetics is what I would call, for myself, a “legacy work”. “Legacy works” are what I call any work I personally make that are around 20+ year old ideas. Dreamer falls under this label as well. I got the idea for Kinetics when I was a teenager – just like Dreamer – because I was, and still am, into occultism, metaphysics, and psionics. I think I got the 1st idea for Kinetics when I was in my Latin class in high school.
Originally, the story opens with Ava in class and she has a pen frozen to her desk but doesn’t know exactly why. I changed it for better dynamic, to hide & hint at what she can do, because she’s a bit clueless herself. I still have the original gel-pen excerpts that I wrote when I was a teenager – as well as the original typed copy that was made on an electric typewriter I still have. I still remember how the typewriter would shake the glass dining room table, even with a cloth placemat underneath it and how it rang throughout the apartment, letter strike by letter strike. To not irritate my mom, or the neighbors below us, I couldn’t type at night. So instead I would spend a Saturday while I was in high school typing Kinetics.
There also was a computer version but I didn’t have stable access to a computer like I do now so that’s why there was a longer typewriter version than a typed computer version. It was a big gap of years before I would pick up Kinetics again because of life and having a disorder interrupting things. What kept me remembering Kinetics, besides all the notes and excerpts I had, was one particular scene: the closet scene between Tyrone and Ava. I just wanted the story to make it to paper in whole so I stitched it a journal and wrote it from start to finish in about less than half a week.
I also do bookbinding, thus I handstitch all my journals so they’re exactly to my specification. This is so I can finish a story without interruption from indecisiveness on journal picks or my disorder. Writing Kinetics while older really helped flesh out the story where it needed it when I was younger, such as the use of technology and how people interact with it. By the way, the online social network XinBo in Kinetics is inspired by LinePlay and Kakao, two social networks I always liked and used for years. Kinetics is a bit on the short side because, well, Tyrone is a very driven character, to put it frankly. I hope others will like the work as much as I did in writing it.
Amanda: How does this differ from your previous work? How does it relate?
MultiMind: For one, Kinetics is a lot bloodier than Dreamer. I usually call my measurement for gore and violence a “blood budget”, because it makes me think how much blood would be needed if it were turned into a film – I think I picked up the term from being a fan of My Chemical Romance and hearing them talk about their works a lot and having a close friend who is a film major. Where Dreamer would have a definite “blood budget” of about a bucket and a half or so, Kinetics would have to be pretty drenched! It’s a lot more brutal than Dreamer in terms of “blood budget”.
Dreamer has its loveliness and gentleness, Kinetics doesn’t. Kinetics doesn’t really relate to Dreamer much, except for the fact we’re all still in the world of metaphysics, which is my primary wheelhouse of creation. If anything, Kinetics has more in common with a future work called The Harlequin than it does with Dreamer. However, I hope readers can enjoy both works individually!
The Cover
