Today, I am pleased to welcome the Author Blog Tour to my website. I am excited to share my blog with yet another amazing writer from the Rave Reviews Book Club. My guest today is Charles W. Jones, author of many books. Today we celebrate Circus Tarot. With no further ado, I pass the page over my guest.

The idea for Circus Tarot was simple, create a cute husband and wife with a Donna Reed overtone where the husband, Darrin, works a 9-to-5 job and comes home to his perfectly dressed and styled wife, Mary, cooking dinner. She greets him with a broad smile (I’m not sure if it’s an ‘I’m going to kill you’ smile) and calls him ‘darling.’

Mary has a bit of an OCD thing happening with her hair, which came from something my mom told me about her grandmother or aunt, it just sounded bizarre, so I had to work it in. Darrin, to be blunt, is a douche at the beginning of the story with his 1950s machismo attitude of my wife staying home while he brings home the bacon. This goes back to my desire to create a dynamic like Donna Reed and other classic TV families I watched as a kid. I thought it was weird and slightly creepy that they were always home. What did they do all day? Did they really clean the house every day?

I wanted to create my own Wonderland, so World Circus had to be exciting and weird and fun. During the writing process, I drew a map to keep everything in order, so I wouldn’t get lost in the woods as the creation of the world evolved. I wasn’t going to put it in the published work, but when a beta-reader asked if I had one, I decided it was a good idea to include it.

The biggest challenge for creating World Circus was to make it fit into a deck of Tarot Cards. I second guessed myself a few times with ‘would that or they be there?’ Picking the characters that were the primary focus was another challenge. There are 78 cards in a tarot deck, and while several of them take the lead, I tried to give most of them life with a cameo here and there. Including the Circus Tarot Companion was an after-thought and didn’t make the first press of the Circus Tarot. I also created a Circus Tarot page where you can get a reading or peruse each card. Yes, I created each card. https://charleswjonesauthor.com/circustarot/

Within the whole story, I incorporated weird sexual innuendo and 5th-grade humor. Some more obvious than others. An example “Mary looked behind her at the curve of the grandstand’s backside,” or “I love it when a deuce drops by.” Oh yeah, that’s the stuff. The clowns are my favorite characters. Honestly, clowns scare the hell out of me, but there is so much to be done with them. One minute they are happy and doing tricks, the next, they are seeing how far they can squirt blood from a hapless victim (hapless probably isn’t the best way to describe them, no one is hapless in World Circus).

Now that you know of some of the secrets behind Circus Tarot, what are you waiting for? Get a copy. Just remember, it’s a comedy because it has clowns.*BIG SMILE* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00785VJIW

Find Charles W Jones at the following places

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChuckWesJ

Facebook: https://facebook.com/ChuckWesJ

Website: https://charleswjonesauthor.com

Wow! What can you say about that? Thanks for stopping by, Charles. See you online with the #RRBC.