crime investigative podcast The Girl with the Same Name, as well as the hilarious podcast about side hustles, Make That Paper. Stickle lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and fur babies.
She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Vicious Cycle, and shared the following:
This is fun! Reading page 69 out of context was so enjoyable! It drops you right into the brain of our protagonist Corey. I think the test absolutely works. Corey is a brand new mom suffering from mental health issues, postpartum anxiety and panic attacks. She is a former investigative reporter turned spin instructor who finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.Visit Jaime Parker Stickle's website.
No one is better at compartmentalizing jobs, people, and her own will, then Corey and we get a good glimpse of that from the interior of Corey’s brain on page 69.
The page jumps from the memory of an old story she covered about a Peeping Tom, to lying to her husband about where she’s going, to the site of a murder. It moves compulsively and that is the definition of Corey.
“Peeping Toms are just junior murderers and rapists. It’s a natural evolution from voyeurism to break-ins. Peeping is a test to see how far a perpetrator can push into someone’s personal space. I can evolve too.”
I want to give a few snaps for Corey here. Her bold call out and identification of a problem that can be often overlooked—the growth of a perpetrator!
Additionally, there is a strong sense of place, which was incredibly important to me in writing the book. The setting of Vicious Cycle is a character in the book and on page 69 we get the iconic the Northeast LA craftsmen homes, the Dodgers, and Debs Park—all three elements are iconic Northeast LA.
I love this test!
My Book, The Movie: Vicious Cycle.
--Marshal Zeringue
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