Title: BONESEEKER
Publication date: June 17, 2014
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Author: Brynn Chapman
Arabella Holmes was born different and raised different. After it became apparent she wouldn’t fit the role of a proper 1900′s lady, her father, Sherlock, called in some lingering favors, and landed her a position at the Mutter Museum. The museum was Arabella’s dream; she was to become a purveyor of abnormal science. What her father called a BoneSeeker.Henry Watson arrives at the Mutter Museum with a double assignment–to become a finder of abnormal antiquities and to watch over and keep Arabella Holmes. An easy task, if he could only get her to speak to him instead of throwing knives in his general direction.But this is no time for child’s play. The two teens are assigned to a most secret exploration, when the hand of a Nephilim is unearthed in upstate New York. Soon, Arabella and Henry are caught in a fight for their lives as scientific debate swirls around them. Are the bones from a Neanderthal … or are they living proof of fallen angels, who supposedly mated with humans according to ancient scrolls?
Sent to recover the skeleton, they discover they are the second team to have been deployed and the entire first team is dead. And now they must trust their instincts and rely on one another in order to survive and uncover the truth.
Now on to the guest post/interview! (There'a a link for The Mutter check it out it's pretty cool)
Why use
The Mutter Museum as part of the story?
The Mutter seemed the perfect place for Arabella. Where would
Holmes put her?
Her level of genius was such that she had to stay occupied. She
did not wish to marry, become a mother…and science. She was obsessed with
science?
What would’ve been his options in early 1900? The Mutter, that
is where.
She could indulge in her atypical obsessions with little
interaction with society outside of her scientific colleagues.
Why write
about Sherlock Holmes' daughter and what was your inspiration?
Sherlock Holmes was human, and therefore had feelings, no
matter how little we ever see of them in the Holmes canon. Society tolerated
him because of his genius. I wondered would they be so tolerant of a woman in
that time period?
The story
is about finding Nephilim bones will we see any Nephilim in the books?
Nope. Just their possible remains.
What about
L'uomo Delinquente? Was it a real secret society and if not how hard was it to
figure out all the details?
Yes, L’uomo Deliquente the concept, was real. As for a secret
society—nope.
My spin on it, total fabrication. Here is an example, and I
included the link for the full article.
Lombroso was influenced by French positivism, German
materialism, and English evolutionism. In particular, he was influenced by
Auguste Comte; Charles Darwin; Bénédict Morel, the French alienist who
developed a theory of degeneracy; Bartolomeo Panizza, the Pavian comparative
anatomist; Carl Rokitanski, the Viennese pathologist; and Enrico Ferri, his
principal younger colleague, who suggested to him the term “the born criminal.”
Although Lombroso was aware of the importance of social and
psychological factors in the causation of crime, his primary emphasis was on
the concept of the atavistic criminal. He believed the atavistic criminal to be
a biological throwback to an earlier stage of evolution, since inborn
delinquency was not natural to contemporary mankind but peculiar to primitive
races. The atavistic criminal could be identified by various anatomical,
physiological, and psychic stigmata, different kinds of inborn delinquency
being identifiable by different patterns of stigmata.
Lombroso later modified his ideas about criminal typology.
Because in the first edition of L’uomo delinquentehe had focused
his attention so exclusively on such anatomical and anthropometric data as
skull measurements and facial asymmetries, he had been led to an excessive
emphasis on one type of criminal and one theory of criminal causation,
atavistic criminality. In later editions he expanded his investigations and
consequently his theory, adding degeneracy as a cause of criminality and
considering atavism to be a form of degeneracy. Although his theoretical
linking of atavism and degeneracy was challenged by biologists, it did widen
his original narrow concept of the born criminal, which had been the primary
point of attack of his critics. Lombroso’s investigations also revealed that
the born criminal had pathological symptoms in common with the moral imbecile
and the epileptic, and this led him to expand his typology to include the
insane criminal and the epileptic criminal. The insane criminal type includes
the alcoholic, the mattoid, and the hysterical criminal. Further additions to
the typology include the criminaloid—a criminal qualitatively similar to the
born criminal but differing quantitatively from him —who had become a criminal
more from precipitating external factors than from predisposing internal ones;
the pseudocriminal; the habitual criminal; and the person who commits a crime
of passion.
Although Lombroso did not believe that all criminal behavior is
of organic origin, there is no doubt that he never completely relinquished his
belief in the existence of the born criminal type. However, in the fifth and
last edition of L’uomo delinquente in 1896–1897 reduced his
estimate of the proportion of this type to 40 per cent of the total criminal
population, and in his introduction to his daughter Gina’s summary of his work,Criminal
Man (1911), he reduced it still further. In response to suggestions by
friends and attacks by critics he also came to give more attention to factors
in the physical and social environment of the offender. For example, in Crime:
Its Causes and Remedies (1899) he not only revised the estimate of the
born criminal to 33 percent of the criminal population but also discussed
social circumstances which might be partially responsible for encouraging a
variety of transmissible biological anomalies that in turn would function
within and affect the social structure.
Thanks so much Brynn for stopping by! I can't wait for book 2!
Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Brynn Chapman is the
daughter of two teachers. Her writing reflects her passions: science, history
and love—not necessarily in that order. In real life, the geek gene runs strong
in her family, as does the Asperger’s syndrome. Her writing reflects her
experience as a pediatric therapist and her interactions with society’s
downtrodden. In fiction, she’s a strong believer in underdogs and
happily-ever-afters. She also writes non-fiction and lectures on the subjects of
autism and sensory integration and is a medical contributor to online journal
The Age of Autism.
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