He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, My Dirty California, and reported the following:
Page 69 of My Dirty California features a character named Tiph who's at an activist rally in Downtown Los Angeles. Her husband, who's stoned at the time, is not pleased to be there. But he pops out of his stupor and comes to her defense when Tiph gets in a fight with a group of men.Visit Jason Mosberg's website.
Reading this page alone is a nice tease into Tiph's storyline in the novel. However, Tiph's storyline is just one of four storylines that interweave across the whole book. And Tiph's is the fourth to be introduced. There's nothing on page 69 that indicates Tiph's storyline is not the main one. Each of the four storylines has a different protagonist, hook, engine, and even tone.
If readers bought this book based on page 69, I think some would find it thrilling to dive into the other three storylines, and I think others would find it jarring. One part features a thirtysomething woman who's looking for proof we're living in a simulation. One features a man who traveled to Los Angeles from Pennsylvania to solve the murder of his brother. And the other storyline features a young Mexican immigrant who is trapped in a house with no idea how she got there. The stories are linked through a video log by one character called My Dirty California.
My Book, The Movie: My Dirty California.
Q&A with Jason Mosberg.
--Marshal Zeringue
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