Debut Authors Bash: Kate Karyus Quinn

Hey guys! I know GYDO (my own debut author thing) just ended, but when my friend at YA Reads said that she was hosting a debut author blog hop...well I had to join! And I hadn't managed to snag Kate Karyus Quinn on that, so...well. HERE SHE IS. With a rather epic post from a certain character's POV. 

My review of Another Little Piece goes up tomorrow (Spoiler: I LOVED IT.)
Oh, and there's a giveaway! 

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Thanks so much Nikki for having me on your blog and giving me such an awesome assignment for the YA Debut Author Bash! It was so much fun to dive back into Dex’s head after having spent so much time away from him. Anyone who’s read ANOTHER LITTLE PIECE can probably tell that I like the guy quite a lot. And for anyone who hasn’t read ALP, I have a quick warning that this is a teensy bit spoilery – so read with caution!

Nikki’s Question to Dex:

How did you feel when Annaliese came back?

And Dex’s answer:

Here’s the thing about watching someone die: it feels pretty final. Of course, when someone goes the way that Annaliese did: all screaming and covered in blood—you know you’ll be seeing them in your dreams, or nightmares to be more accurate, for years to come.

Since I have this little problem with seeing how people die, well I’d already been seeing that particular vision for years anyhow, so it wasn’t anything new to me… except that I no longer worried about trying to save her. I’d failed. And that’s a test you can’t retake.

Or so I thought.

So how did I feel when I saw Annaliese? I should have been overjoyed just like everyone else. Somehow she’d miraculously survived and was being returned home.

Except.

She was dead. I knew she was dead. And dead people come home in body bags or maybe even as ghostly spirits, but not the way Annaliese did.

She was alive, fully alive. Flesh. Blood. Breathing. Smiling in the same uncertain way she always did, peering out from behind her long hair. No, that’s not right. The long hair had been cut so that only a few spiky inches of hair were left. Still being dead should change more than your hairstyle. Generally it changes ones entire lifestyle.

So what was the deal? I didn’t know. I didn’t want to know.

The truth is: I was scared. I guess somewhere along the line I’d gotten used to seeing the different ways that people might die, but this was the first time I’d seen someone come back to life and I did not really care to know exactly how that sausage got made. I didn’t want any part of Annaliese’s miracle.

I decided to stay as far away from her as possible. But seeing as how I lived next door, that wasn’t nearly far enough away and soon my curiosity got the better of me. And then I got to know Annaliese and then I started thinking the most dangerous thing of all: Maybe I wanted her to keep being whatever weird and totally wrong thing she’d come back as.

And worse yet… Maybe I liked her better this way.

Another Little Piece Blurb
On a cool autumn night, Annaliese Rose Gordon stumbled out of the woods and into a high school party. She was screaming. Drenched in blood. Then she vanished.
A year later, Annaliese is found wandering down a road hundreds of miles away. She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know how she got there. She only knows one thing: She is not the real Annaliese Rose Gordon.
Now Annaliese is haunted by strange visions and broken memories. Memories of a reckless, desperate wish . . . a bloody razor . . . and the faces of other girls who disappeared. Piece by piece, Annaliese's fractured memories come together to reveal a violent, endless cycle that she will never escape—unless she can unlock the twisted secrets of her past.

Author Bio

Kate Karyus Quinn is an avid reader and menthol ChapStick addict. She has lived in California and Tennessee, but recently made the move back to her hometown of Buffalo, New York, with her husband and two children in tow. She promised them wonderful people, amazing food, and weather that would . . . build character. Another Little Piece is her first novel.

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