Blog Tour: Defy by Sara B Larson

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Hey guys! I've been super excited to read DEFY for a while and Sara is such a sweetheart! For this tour stop I have a character interview with the two love interests of the story! Introducing Rylan and Damian!

FF: What do you think of Alex...?

Rylan: I’ve known Alex for three years, and I’ve always been incredibly impressed by Alex’s determination and ability to fight. Alex and Marcel’s relationship is also pretty remarkable. Sure, they’re competitive with each other, but ultimately everyone knows that they  would do anything for each other.  I consider Alex one of my closest friends, aside from my own brother.

Damian: Alex has been on my guard for just about a year now. Alex’s abilities and dedication to my safety are quite admirable.

FF: How do you feel in your position at the palace?

Rylan: Considering I began as an orphan in the army, I am proud that I’ve been able to work my way up to being guard to the prince. Even if he is spoiled, entitled, and rude.

Damian: Who wouldn’t want to be a prince? It’s a position of power. Everyone has to bow to my whims. Why would I ever feel any discontent about being the son of the king? Why, indeed.

FF: What do you think of your King? This war?

Rylan: I hate King Hector and what he’s done to Antion. He started this war to avenge his wife, which I understand, but all of his actions since then have been horrific and unconscionable. There will be no winners by the time this war ends.

Damian: My father and I are not close. In fact, we often avoid each other as much as possible. As a member of the royal family, I am not really at liberty to discuss my opinions about the war.  Suffice it to say that part of why I am not close with my father is because we don’t exactly agree on how he is ruling Antion.

                                                                                     

FF: What is something you like to do in your extra time?

Rylan: I don’t have any spare time. If I’m not on duty or training, I’m probably sleeping or eating.

Damian: I enjoy riding my horse when I have the chance.

FF: If you could change something about your life, what would it be?

Rylan: I would wish to be guarding over someone more worthy. Someone in whom I could actually place hope for creating a better future.

Damian: Why would I want anything to change? Yes, my people are all suffering and my father’s war is driving this kingdom into the ground. But I have all the parties and attention a man could ever dream of. Isn’t that what’s truly important in life—being entertained? Isn’t that how everyone expects me to feel?

FF: What do you think of each other?

Rylan: I think I’ve already made my feelings about the prince clear.

Damian: Rylan is an excellent swordsman and an asset to my personal guard. I can tell he doesn’t like me, but why would that bother me? A prince is expected to not care what anyone thinks of him.

FF: You two clash rather loudly a lot, but what's something you agree on?

Damian: I think Rylan would agree with me when I say that Alex is an invaluable member of my guard.

Rylan: Yes, I’ll definitely agree with you about that.

FF: What is a memorable moment in your life?

Rylan: I’ll never forget the day our village was attacked and our parents were killed in the fighting, leaving Jude and me orphans. But I will also always remember the day Jude and I tried out for the prince’s guard and both made it. That was one of the proudest days of my life.

Damian: There are many moments in my life I wish I could forget. You might be surprised if you knew what a spoiled , entitled, and rude prince like me has been forced to endure.

Defy Synopsis

Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory.

The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alex finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and steady Rylan, who has always cared for her, and the dark, intriguing Damian. With hidden foes lurking around every corner, is Alex strong enough to save herself and the kingdom she's sworn to protect?

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Sara loves writing, reading, and dessert--but the order varies by the day. She wrote her first book in second grade about a woman who had a premature baby, complete with a "to scale" drawing of the baby's size--while her mom was pregnant. To say she was a bit precocious is putting it lightly. Now that she’s an adult, she writes books for teens that have magic and romance and kick-butt girls (and very few premature babies). She lives in Utah with her husband, two young sons and baby girl. She writes during naptime and the hours when most people are sleeping. Her husband claims that she should have a degree in "the art of multitasking." On occasion you will find her hiding in a bubble bath with a book and some Swedish Fish. 

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12/30/2013- A Book and a Latte-  Interview

12/30/2013- Book Nerd Canada- Review

12/31/2013- Primrose Musings- Review

12/31/2013- Fictitious Delicious- Guest Post

1/1/2014- Jessabella Reads- Review

1/1/2014- Dark Faerie Tales- Interview

1/2/2014- Curling Up With A Good Book- Review

1/2/2014- IceyBooks- Guest Post

1/3/2014- The Demon Librarian- Review

1/3/2014- Tales of the Ravenous Reader- Interview

1/6/2014- She Dreams in Fiction- Review

1/6/2014- Two Chicks on Books- Guest Post

1/7/2014- Bookish- Interview

1/7/2014- Hannah Reads Books- Review

1/8/2014- Fiktshun- Guest Post

1/8/2014- Crossroad Reviews- Review

1/9/2014- Fiction Freak- Interview

1/9/2014- In the Best Worlds- Review

1/10/2014- Reading and Writing Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, and Romance- Review

1/10/2014- The Cover Contessa- Guest Post

Blog Tour: Unhinged by A.G. Howard

Hey y'all! SUPER excited to be on this tour! Anita always comes up with the most fun tours, so I definitely recommend checking out the other posts! (You can find the schedule at the end of this post)

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Thanks for dropping by tour stop #2! 

Today, Alyssa is tweeting with Wonderland’s enigmatic wisdom keeper, Morpheus, about the meaning of Thanksgiving in the human realm.

Splintered Fan Art by Rivka http://rivkast.com/gallery/

A moment ago, she explained how humans celebrate the holiday. Now let’s drop in on their tweet-versation, already in progress…

If you ask me, they'd better keep their eyes on Red. I don't think she's bluffing.

That's it for today. If you're up for leaving a comment, let us know what's on your list of things to be thankful for this year. Also, be sure to enter the rafflecopter below for a chance to win one of 12 UNHINGED ARCs.

Tomorrow on the third stop, rumor has it Morpheus plans to smuggle in an excerpt of UNHINGED. ;) Hope to see you there!

About the Book

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of.
That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs.
As prom and graduation creep closer, Alyssa juggles Morpheus’s unsettling presence in her real world with trying to tell Jeb the truth about a past he’s forgotten. Glimpses of Wonderland start to bleed through her art and into her world in very disturbing ways, and Morpheus warns that Queen Red won’t be far behind.
If Alyssa stays in the human realm, she could endanger Jeb, her parents, and everyone she loves. But if she steps through the rabbit hole again, she'll face a deadly battle that could cost more than just her head.

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A.G. Howard was inspired to write SPLINTERED while working at a school library. She always wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland taken center stage, and she hopes her darker and funkier tribute to Carroll will inspire readers to seek out the stories that won her heart as a child.

When she's not writing, A.G.'s pastimes are reading, rollerblading, gardening, and family vacations which often include impromptu side trips to 18th century graveyards or condemned schoolhouses to appease her overactive muse.

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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.)
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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.

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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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GYDO: Amanda Sun

Amanda Sun, Author of Ink

Tomo’s Tips on Controlling the Ink

Domo. I’m here to save your life. You’ve heard about the moving drawings, haven’t you? That what I sketch becomes real? Only there’s something darker that seeps into the sketches, and if you aren’t careful, it’ll take your life—or someone else’s.

You think the worst part of puberty is zits? Just wait until your drawings try to kill you. In case this starts happening to you, here are my tips for surviving being marked by the ink. No, not surviving…prolonging your life. I’m not sure there’s an escape for any of us.

Don’t use Calligraphy Ink

If you’re in Calligraphy Club, drop out now. Throw out all bottles of ink, cartridge pens, sumi-e brushes and inkstones. You might as well open a vein if you’re going to let the demons out to play. You think you can control it—you’re wrong. You won’ t last a minute when the ink takes over. Your drawings will attack before you even know what’s happening. Stick to pen ink, or pencil.

Mess up your Drawings

When you write kanji with radicals that flick to the side, draw shortened edges. Your teachers will probably give you crap for bad handwriting, but I can live with that. Better than being eaten alive by a mouth of sketched teeth.

You think I’m joking. I’m not. Scratch out every drawing that starts to move on the page. Chain it to the page with X’s, or scribble it into a cage of ink. Ink drawings can’t be killed, but they can be contained.

Don’t Stop Drawing

At this point you’re thinking you’re clever, right? If it’s so dangerous, just avoid it. But you can’t. You’ll draw in your sleep. You’re going to have to write exams at school. What are you going to do then?

Anyway, if you stop drawing, you block the ink like a dam on a river. And that dam’s going to burst, and the consequences will be messy. Keep drawing—you’re only hope is to learn how to control it.

You can’t stop the ink. You can only try to keep others safe from it. You can only buy time.

Don’t Sleep In

Ah, the nightmares. They’re part of the package. If you’ve had them, you know what I’m talking about. Otherwise, they’re better left unsaid. I don’t want to invoke those kind of things in the daylight.

You’ll try to avoid sleep, but that could kill you too. Never mind how I know. Sleep as much as you have to, and no more. Sometimes my heart’s beating so fast when I wake up—if you sleep in, you might not wake up.

Don’t Let Others In

Avoid friendship. Avoid attention. Wear long sleeves and wristbands to cover the scars. They can’t know—even if your friends beg you to spill your secret, they don’t know what they’re asking. Showing them could kill them if you lose control.

If you have some control—don’t trust anyone. People are easily corrupted. I know I sound cynical, but I have my reasons. You’d be jaded too if you lived with this ability.

Being marked by the ink is lonely. But it’s better than hurting others.

Except…it’s too much sometimes. Katie showed me that. So, I take this back. Keep your circle of friends small, but…some people will be there for you. You’ll know when you’ve found one of the special ones.

That’s all I the wisdom I can impart. If you are marked like me, then I’m sorry. You know none of this advice will do much to help you. The best advice? Just survive.

Ganbatte ne. Good luck.

Ink Blurb
On the heels of a family tragedy, the last thing Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks, and she can’t seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.
Then there’s gorgeous but aloof Tomohiro, star of the school’s kendo team. How did he really get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t prepared for the answer. But when she sees the things he draws start moving, there’s no denying the truth: Tomo has a connection to the ancient gods of Japan, and being near Katie is causing his abilities to spiral out of control. If the wrong people notice, they'll both be targets.
Katie never wanted to move to Japan—now she may not make it out of the country alive.

Author Bio

Amanda Sun is the author of The Paper Gods, a YA Paranormal series set in Japan. The first book, INK, is a USA Today Top 10 YA Summer choice, an Indigo Top Teen Pick of 2013, a Junior Library Guild selection and a Summer 2013 Indie Kids' Next List selection. She has also been published in the Aurora-nominated Tesseracts Fifteen by EDGE Fiction and in Playthings of the Gods by Drollerie Press. She currently lives in Toronto, where she keeps busy knitting companion cubes, gaming, and making elaborate cosplays.

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Blog Tour: Black City by Elizabeth Richards

Hey guys! As part of the Black City tour (LOVED the book by the way! You can find my review here and my interview with Elizabeth Richards here) I'm interviewing Beetle and Day from Black City, Ash and Natalie's best friend, respectively. 

FF: Describe each other in 10 words MAX. And seriously.

Day: Beetle is ‘messy, lazy, gorgeous, brave, and a great kisser’.

Beetle:Cheers babe! Day is ‘a geeky, caramel goddess, and the love of my life’.

FF: Now, describe Ash and Natalie. In as many words as you need.

Day: Natalie is generous, kind, fierce, a little spoilt, and my best friend. Ash is tall.

Beetle: Ash is a really decent mate. He’s cool, loyal, and has always got my back. Plus he doesn’t mind sharing his smokes with me, which is handy since I can never afford any. Natalie’s blond.

FF: What do you think would’ve happened if you two had never met?

Day: I would’ve moved to Centrum, to pursue my dream of becoming an Emissary. Then probably married a smart, handsome guy like Chris Thompson.

Beetle:  Hey! I’m right here.

Day: Sorry. But he is cute.

Beetle:*glowers*

Day: You know I only have eyes for you, Matthias.

Beetle: Well, okay then.

Day: You haven’t answered the question.

Beetle: If I hadn’t met Day, I’d probably be wasting my life away in a Haze den somewhere. Being with her has made me want to be a better guy.

FF: If you could change one thing in your world, anything at all, what would it be?

Day: More opportunities for Workboots.

Beetle:Equality between humans and Darklings.

FF: Are there any tips you’d give a Black City newbie?

Day: Don’t go out after curfew.

Beetle: And always carry a can of Go Away Wrath Spray! You do NOT want to meet one of those down a dark alley.

Short Author Bio

Elizabeth Richards is an award-winning journalist, who spent her early career reviewing videogames before making the bold (or crazy) move into travel writing, despite suffering from terrible travel sickness. 

In her spare time, she ran a successful lifestyle website aimed at teenage girls, where she got to interview many of her favourite bands, go to gigs and basically blag loads of free swag all in the name of ‘research’.

Elizabeth lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her husband. Black City is her debut novel.

Fun facts

·    She's an identical twin. (No, they don’t have psychic powers, and yes she is the evil one.)

·    She's a little bit in love with Daniel Radcliffe.

·    Her favourite book of all time is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

·    Her second favourite book is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

·    Her third favourite is Harry…oh, you get the idea.

·    Her ambition is to see 10 volcanoes before she dies. She's already seen Stromboli, Vesuvius and Mt Etna. Just 7 more to go!

Black City Blurb

A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war. In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable--they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash's long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they're caught, they'll be executed--but their feelings are too strong. When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.

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Blog Tour: Renegade by J.A. Souders

The process of creating an underwater world was both incredibly easy and impossibly hard. I absolutely loved writing about a city that rests along the ocean floor, but it was probably the hardest thing I’ve done to date. Worldbuilding itself is hard to get right. Too much detail and you bore readers (and yourself). Too little? And everyone is confused.

The single most important thing I did, before I even started writing was to figure out what my city would look like. So I drew up a rough draft map of my city. Granted by the time you see that map, it’ll have changed completely, but it was a starting point. It was during this phase that I used a lot of research. I had a pinboard filled with picutres of different underwater concept cities.  Some are even real world designs that are currently in use! Specifically a hotel in Dubai (http://travel.msn.co.nz/middleeast/dubai/117655/atlantis-dubais-underwater-hotel.slideshow) And I spent a lot of time at this website (http://www.ustream.tv/aquariusreefbase#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=337026&utm_medium=social) which is from the Aquarias reef base, an underwater research facility in the Florida Keys.

After all that, I did even more research on technology that would be needed to make a facitily completely self-sufficient. And to do that I asked myself some questions, starting with the important ones: How do they get fresh air? Fresh water? Food? Then working to the less important. How do they stay entertained? Then I went on to important for the story items. And this was the fun part. I needed to spend hours and hours doing weapon research. Which weapons could my characters use that would do the most damage without creating more problems than I wanted to write about? LOL. And the most important question to that? What weapons would they use in confined spaces with lots of glass. AND if a window (glass) did break, what safety precautions would be in place to prevent a major catastrophe? And also would my characters even be able to use the weapons in the first place?  So that meant hours and hours of time at the range. 

After all that research—and time playing with kick ass guns--I finally wrote a bare bones rough draft that included almost no world-building, but using my map to determine how my characters would move around and remembering what I learned. I wanted to get the story across without it being loaded down with all the world-building. 

After a few weeks break, I went back in and spent hours adding and removing pieces of world-building, using my crit. partners and beta readers as guinea pigs to determine what was necessary, what was too much, and what parts needed more explanation.

The hardest part was making the city feel like it was taking place underwater instead of in a cave or some other enclosed place, but doing it in a way that wasn’t intrusive to the character’s narrative. A character that has lived her entire life in this place and has no way to compare it to the Surface and where most things are common place to her and she doesn’t even think about it anymore. 

That was, of course, easier said than done, and required a lot of tweaking of character narrative between Evelyn and Gavin. I used Gavin for a lot of these world-building pieces, because it’s ALL new to him.

After all that tweaking, I finally sent it to my agent, who had her own notes about the world-building and when we sold it to Tor, my editor had even more questions and notes about it.

Even after all that, there are TONS more I know about Elysium that never made it into the story. Some is just waiting to be used in further installments, while some will probably never make it into any part of the series, but all of the hours of research and writing and rewriting was worth it, because I’m fairly certain that the world-building is the strongest part of Renegade. And I’m extremely proud of how it all turned out.  J

Renegade Blurb

Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law. 

But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster. 

Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb... and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.

 
 Author Bio

J.A. Souders was born in the heartland with an overactive imagination and an over abundance of curiosity that was always getting her into trouble.  She first began writing at the age of 13, when she moved to Florida and not only befriended the monsters under the bed, but created worlds for them to play together.

    Because she never grew up, she decided she’d put her imaginary friends to work and started writing.  She still lives in the land of sunshine and palm trees with her husband and their two children and is an active member of the RWA, CFRW, YARWA and SCBWI.  

    She is represented by Natalie Lakosil of the Bradford Literary Agency.  Her debut book, RENEGADE, surfaces Fall 2012 from Tor Teen.



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Blog Tour: Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

Hey! As part of the blog tour, I'm THRILLED to say I'll be
interviewing the *coughs* sexy *coughs* Kaidan and Anna, the heroine of Sweet Evil!

1) So what were your first thoughts when you a) first saw each other

and b) first introduced?

K: I thought she was a cute assassin who’d been sent to kill me.

A: (laughing) Shut up. You did not.

K: Alright then, but I didn’t trust you. I didn’t know what game you

were playing with your colors

showing, pretending you didn’t know anything.

A: Yeah, that whole meeting was weird. I thought you were a cocky jerk

with no emotions.

K: Ha! Not far off.

2) Kaidan, have you ever felt bad about what you and your friends do to humans?

K: From time to time. But mostly I don’t let myself think about it. I

think it’s the same for the others

as well.

3) What do you think is in your near-future? In romance and other.

K: (chuckles and mumbles) I can barely keep up with what’s happening

this moment.

A: (glances at Kai and blushes) I really don’t know. Romance...it’s

sort of off the radar right now.

4) What has been the weirdest moment in your life? As in,

can't-believe-that-just-happened

weird?

K: Well, there was this one time when I was snogging this bird and she

made me stop. That was

bloody strange.

A: (blushing fiercely) For me the strangest moment was when I

discovered I could smell

pheromones. Actually, it’s still weird to me...don’t look at me like

that, Kaidan.

5) A friend wants to know (and I'm curious myself), you have a lot

of...talents right, Kaidan?

K: *grins* That’s what I’m told.

Well exactly how many accents/languages can you do?

A: (giggling) He’s terrible at accents.

K: Okay, fine. Accents aren’t my thing. But I speak three languages:

English, Spanish, and

French.

6) Anna, how does it feel, being tugged in both ways?

A: I don’t mind being tugged in the angelic direction—it keeps me safe

and keeps my mind open to

how others feel. But when I’m tugged toward the darkness I feel like

I’m losing myself, and the

only way the panic will end is if I give in. It’s scary and exciting

all at once. I hate it.

7) Ok, so say some author (hypothetically, let’s say her name was

Wendy Higgins) decided to       

write about your story (in Anna's POV!) so far, would you read it? Why/why not?

(Anna and Kai look at each other)

A: That’d be weird, but I’d totally read it.

K: I would as well. Just to see what Anna’s thinking.

A: No fair.

K: *laughs*

8) Anna do you ever regret meeting Kaidan and discovering your heritage?

A: Sometimes. The whole “ignorance is bliss” thing, you know? But once

you have the truth, it’s not

really something you’d ever want to give back. The truth is always

worth knowing, as long as

you’re willing to face it and do what’s necessary with it.

9) If there was one thing, just one, you could change about

yourself what would it be?

K: I’d be taller.

A: You’re already, like, six feet.

K: I know. But I could stand to be taller.

A: Hm. Well, I would choose to have tougher skin—not to let everything

affect me so strongly,

emotionally.

10) Worst thing you've ever done. Which is going to be pretty bad isn't it?

K: No comment.

A: Er...I told a lie about Kaidan once. It was stupid. And then there

was the hotel room...but

anyway. What’s the next question?

11) Anything else to say to your fans and soon to be fans?

A: Don’t let Kai fool you—he’s not as bad as he seems.

K: Don’t let ANNA fool you—she’s much worse than she seems!

(Anna smacks his arm and rolls her eyes, blushing again.)

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you guys again!

A: Thanks for having us!

K: Yes, cheerio and all that.

BAHAHAHAHAHA. I couldn't stop laughing (or giggling) over these! And hey, you all want to read that hypothetical book that's hypothetically titled Sweet Evil, right?

 Sweet Evil Blurb
Embrace the Forbidden
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?
This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She’s aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but Anna, the ultimate good girl, has always had the advantage of her angel side to balance the darkness within. It isn’t until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He’s the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.
Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?

Short Author Bio

After earning a bachelors in Creative Writing from George Mason University and a masters in Curriculum and Instruction from Radford, Wendy taught high school English until becoming a mommy. Writing Young Adult (YA) stories gives her the opportunity to delve into the ambiguities of those pivotal, daunting, and exciting years before adulthood.

She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, daughter, and son. Sweet Evil is her debut novel.

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