Explore a cool new book series called "Masters Mashups." Here you can improve your life by learning how other amazing people through time hold similarities that will surprise you.

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Masters Mashups
A Unique Cool Book Series

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The Concept
Last year I started thinking about writing a series of books that
would be able to capture the imagination of a lot of people who
liked to benefit from the wisdom of great people throughout
time.
I wanted the series to be fun, interesting and, most of all,
beneficial. I came up with the Masters Mashup series because I
believed that if we juxtaposed two seemingly different, famous
people together I might find similarities that would help me
learn about both of them. I was pleased to find that my
hypothesis was true.
I welcome you to check out these books. I hope you have just
as much fun reading them as I had writing them.

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First Book in the Series:
Shakespeare to Steven King

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Sneak Peak
What do William Shakespeare and Stephen King have in
common? More than you probably think. In the first of the mashup
series, author Melissa G Wilson, compares the two authors and
their works in an interesting and thought-provoking way. Consider
this: each author focused on humanitarian views, the notions of
good versus evil, and the inclusion of themselves in their own
characters. Not to mention that each set of works have endured
over many centuries, by alluding to the simplicity of human nature.
Melissa G Wilson illustrates her theory of their similarities by
comparing six works from each author.
Did the two authors have more in common than the love of the
written word? What Melissa G Wilson finds out will astound and
intrigue you.

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Sneak Peak
Imagine this scene: A writer sits down to pen a tale centered around revenge, trickery, and
the lobbing off of body parts to later be served for dinner. Most of the characters have gone
crazy and are overwhelmingly preoccupied with killing one another, which they eventually
do in a gruesome unfolding of events. Now the question arises: “who is the author?” In
perusing the works you might know to be among the most deranged and disturbing, one of
the more prominent authors that perhaps comes to mind is Stephen King, author of horror
books such as Carrie, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and The Shining.
Yet the above-mentioned plot is taken not from one of King's novels but from English bard
William Shakespeare, none other than the king of the sonnet. This particular scenario is
from his 16th century play titled Titus Andronicus, in which Queen Tamora is tricked into
eating her own sons whose bodies have been hacked up and plated just for her at a
dinner. While Shakespeare is honored primarily for his ironic comedies, gripping tragedies
and emotional soliloquies, the themes of violence and insanity that bleed through many of
King's novels are also often apparent in those of Shakespeare's, as well. It is not, however,
just the violence and the crazed characters that are shared between the two; both authors
made apparent their views on humanity, tending to praise the good at heart and punish the
wicked, while also invoking some of their personal experiences in writing their works,
leaving an almost autobiographical imprint on the plays and novels that the world has
come to know and love. Elements such as childhood innocence, tragic heroism, isolation
and familial tension make appearances in the repertoires of both men, thereby making their
works immediate and accessible to readers of all kinds. While seemingly worlds - not to
mention centuries - apart, both writers have more in common than what meets the eye.

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Sneak Peak Cont.
Why Should You Care? Because Mashups Create More to Ponder and Tickle Your Brain!
The word "mashup" has been widely used over the past few decades, yet it is not currently heard
in the arena for which it was originally used. Historically speaking, a mashup was used by citizens
of the British West Indies to refer to someone who has so intoxicated that he or she could not
function properly. It was also used as a general description for an object that was not performing
according to what it was constructed or intended to do. More recently, there have been two
realms into which the term mashup has made an appearance.
The first is used when speaking about a musical phenomenon in which components of two or
more songs are combined to create one song; this is a literal "mashing" together of the song
samples and has therefore since been christened a “mashup”. The first song in history to be
released in this category was the 1956 track entitled "The Flying Saucer". It was put out by artists
Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman who at that time classified it as a "break-in" song in reference
to the parts of the song that "broke into" clips of completely different songs. Buchanan and
Goodman were sued by more than two dozen times for their illicit use of songs from other artists.
However, the judge presiding over the cases stated that Buchanan and Goodie had created a
"burlesque"; a piece of new material that, although taken from the works of other artists, was
entirely theirs. "Burlesques", or what we now know today as the popular mashups that appear on
the radio and are performed at concerts, are completely protected under the United States
Constitution; this gives rise to their popularity with DJs, for example, who have the freedom to
create these mashed up tracks and use them as an expression of art. The song "The Flying
Saucer" eventually climbed the charts into the top 10 in the United States, a testament to the
popularity that it was back then and the phenomenon it would grow to be.

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Second Book in the Series:
Shakespeare to Steven King

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Sneak Peak
What do Marie Antoinette, former Queen of France, and
Madonna, the Queen of Pop have in common? These two
women are no stranger to the lives of opulence, royalties, and
public scrutiny, but how do their lives truly compare to one
another? Both governed by head-strong mothers and deep
religious upbringings, this mashup will examine the turning
points in their lives, the people that influenced them, and the
major events that occurred later in their biographies to paint the
fullest picture of who these Queens actually were.
Author Melissa G. Wilson explores how each woman was
inspired and molded by the cultural and artistic norms of their
times and how each struggled to break the barriers imposed on
them by the men in their lives.

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More Mashups?
What would you like to see in a Mashup series?
Are you a writer who would like to create your own mashup?
If you have an idea for a book and either want to share it or be
an author of a future mashup book, please send me an email
at:
melissa@networlding.com
To jump in and read the first book, go to:
http://amzn.com/B00PPR8SHK