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BOTW - List #14

BOTW Week 14:

Author Spotlight - YammitTheSequel

Lionheart

 

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Interview

1. Please tell the readers a bit about yourself.

The pen name I usually use is S.R. Miller, but you can find me throughout the internet as Werewulf14, Wherewulf14, and YammitTheWherewulf.
 

The username I have here is actually based on a joke my friend made when she saw my account name, which because I signed in with Facebook, arbitrarily chose to use my name but with a 2 at the end. My friend responded to this with "There was a Sequel?" And so that's what I called my account. YammitTheSequel.

2. What types of books do you write?
 

I started out just writing fantasy adventure stories, but I've started writing scifi too. I love both of those genres because you are not limited by reality; I love thinking that anything can happen. With those two genres I can build the world as I see fit. Reality bores me.

3. How many books have you written?
 

Well, if you mean finished, the answer is 1. I have a really rough manuscript from last year's Nanowrimo that needs some serious editing called Cain's Clan. The second closest is
a novel I started 5 years ago that was my first honest attempt at novel writing, called Reality with Black Cat. I currently have several ideas I'm currently working on, and several more ideas that need to get translated into manuscripts. I have a story on Figment.com called Beautiful Machines that has quite a few chapters, it's about a 4th of the way written. My main project right now though is Lionheart.

4. What movie and/or book are you looking forward to this year?
 

The second Hobbit movie! I loved the first, and I love Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberpatch; so I can't wait to see Smaug. I love all the Lord of the Rings movies, but Ironically, the Hobbit is the only book by Tolkien I've actually read.
 

5. What type of books do you enjoy reading?
 

I almost exclusively read fantasy and scifi, even though I know that's a bad habit for a writer to have. The first books I read by myself were Brian Jacques Redwall books and that's part of the reason I write in third person. I loved Suzanne Collins Gregor the Overlander series, and Jim Butcher's Dresden chronicles. 

I adore Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak and Demonata series for their gore and action I mostly read books from the teen section but no exclusively, and I really love Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic and Beka Cooper series. My all time favorite authors are Douglas Adams, Dan Wells and David Wong, and my favorite book is probably John Dies At The End and it's sequel, This Book is Full of Spiders. I love the sarcastic narrator style like Lemony Snicket, Douglas Adams and David Wong have. 

There's really too many to say so here's a quick list of the rest: Holly Black, Brenna Yovanoff, Chris Wooding, Amelia-Atwater Rhodes, Philip Pullman.
 

6. If you were stranded on a desert island what 3 things would you want with you?
 

1. A Swiss army knife

2. An enormous roll of duck tape

3. A block of magnesium with a bit of iron for starting fires.

7. Are you considering a sequel?
 

Yes, but we'll see where I am when it get's finished.

8. What inspired you to become a writer?
 

Actually it was meeting my friend Sam in junior high that started it off; I'd been dabbling with stories before but had never really written more than a page. We were both avid readers and loved discussing the books we read. We kept hearing about a book called Twilight and after reading it we decided we could write a better story; so we started to work on that. 

That summer Sam showed me a writing site she'd found called Booksie, and we both agreed we didn't want to put our joint story on there for fear someone would steal it, so we both thought up new ideas and got to work. We still have the joint story we were writing, but we agreed to put it on the backburner until we got good enough to do it justice. We've both been writing ever since.

Excerpt 

You were a lion born man.

You were a King as well. Although you had no crown or septer, you were a king if I ever saw one. Regal, distinguished. It was written in your measured gait and your hard bronzed eyes. You demanded respect without question, without command. You answered to no one, and few tried to make you. Some men are born dogs, barking and biting to make any effect, but you were a lion in your kingdom, uneffected by the yapping and nipping smaller creatures tried to phase you with. You were born a King in a shed, like the carpenter from Nazareth, and the dogs born in castles and called 'kings' are pale slurs on your name. I know so, for I have seen Kings throughout all ages, watched them rise like the sun and fall in blazes of glory. I loved your golden frame and hard bronze eyes, you King of kings.

But how I loathe you now, Golden One. There is no blaze of glory awaiting you-- your blazing zenith goes out like a self-snuffing candle, like a soft whimper in the dark. I loathe how you cast away youself like Lucifer out of heaven, how you forfeit without a thought what other men would kill and die for. How far you have fallen, Lionheart.

But you don't remember any of this, do you? You forfeited memory as well as Kingship. And your doom is all you will ever have to show for it. I laugh at your pain. Fallen, Outcast, Pariah, and not even knowing why. But I know, for I have loved and loathed you. And I will tell you how you inflicted all this upon yourself, little lion man.

Because I love your pain.     

BOTW - Lionheart

 

Lionheart

Teen Fantasy

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BOTW - Playing With Fire

 

Playing With Fire

Teen Fan-Fiction

Book Blurb Wattpad

Kate and Harry have known each other their whole lives. They've been best friends since they were kids and now, almost a decade after, Kate reunites with Harry and meets Niall, Liam, Zayn and Louis, all new chapters of his life. With two of the fantastic five crushing on her, who will she choose? Play with fire and you might get burned.

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BOTW - Subjugated

 

Subjugated

Teen Historical Fiction

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Maura lives in Middle Ages Ireland with her oppressive, extremely religious father and her two brothers. Her father has arranged a marriage to a boy who is crude, rude, and above all, hates her. When Maura hears that her family is going on a pilgrimage to England's Canterbury Church, she sees an opportunity to break away. Will she succeed? Or will her plan go down in flames?

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BOTW - Just Maybe

 

Just Maybe

Teen ChickLit

Book Blurb Wattpad

People talk. 

Sometimes all people do is talk. Not many listen or are even there for you when you need them. 

After always being dependent upon and never having anyone be there for her, all Megan feels is alone.But finally, in a place a hundred miles away from home, will she realize that sometimes all you can do is go back to the place that you once knew and hope that it remembers you too? 

This is not a story about growing up. 

This is a story about living in the moment, finding that one person and maybe, just maybe finding yourself.

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BOTW - Relationship Suicide

 

Relationship Suicide

Teen Fiction / Short Story

Book Blurb Wattpad

Love. She always yearn for it but will she get it or will she die without it?

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BOTW - A New World

 

A New World

Science-Fiction / Adventure

Book Blurb Wattpad

Gallia, once a beautiful and vibrant world is now no more, it's own people the reason for its death. The Gallians have been forced to leave the, now uninhabitable, planet and find a place more suitable for survival. This place is found in the form of a planet known as Halek. 

This story follows Dax Slade, a young man, with a yearning to go back to the planet they all once called home. With differing views from his fellow people, he is not one to let his future go as it has been planned for him. With an adventure waiting to happen, the only thing that can hold him back, is himself.

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BOTW - Being Recruited

 

Being Recruited

Teen Action / Romance

Book Blurb Wattpad

Emma Lamark, a normal teenager, was living a normal life. But as everyone has problems in life even she had. Betrayed by her boyfriend she was completely broken. She didn’t know what to do or how to handle herself. 

Gradually she started forgetting what had happened. But again her life took a stupefied turn. One night while coming home from a party she was attacked by a stranger. 

He was tall and muscular with broad shoulders. Emma could not notice anything much in the darkness of night except his sparkling blue eyes. 

She was about to scream but her mouth was quickly been covered. The stranger leaned down to her ear and whispered something that had Emma frozen to the spot. The words struck her as lightening. 

Those words kept replaying in her mind.... 

“You are being RECRUITED.” 

By the tone of the stranger she knew that this was no kind of joke and there was no escape. But why was she being recruited? 

She couldn't understand any of this. 

Recruitment? Her? WHY?! 

Will this recruitment change her life? Or will it be for the worst? 

This, only time can tell.

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BOTW - List #13

BOTW Week 13:

Cover Reveal - Pick and Choose

As there was no BOTW this week, here are a selection of book covers from the Pick and Choose list that were randomly chosen for a showcase.

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Saturday Current Reads

2017:

Our Kind of Love by Shane Morgan
The Empty Room by Sarah J. Clemens
Laura Monster Crusher by Wesley King
Written in Bones by James Oswald
Agoraphobic: Inside Out by Sara Secora
Annabelle and Aiden: Oh The Things We Believed! by JR Becker
The Magician's Workshop by Christopher Hansen
Can't Buy Forever by Susan Laffoon
We Thought We Were Invincible by Michelle Lynn
Into a Blue Moon by R.A. Desilets
Dalysian Hope by Jamie Summer
Alpha Kaden by Midika Crane
Kissing Max Holden by Katy Upperman
The Brothers Three by Layton Green


2016:

The Cilantro in Apple Pie by Kimberley Nadine Knights
Supremacy by Christin Lee

Infinite Time by HJ Lawson
The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
Lost Amidst the Cosmic Storm by Mike Phillips
Black Water Tales: The Unwanted by JeanNicole Rivers
Blood Symmetry by Kate Rhodes
As Wings Unfurl by Arthur M. Doweyko
4Ever Girl by Marian Cheatham
Deliverance by Kristy Centeno
Stormwielder by Aaron Hodges
Wucaii by Pembroke Sinclair
Dream Faces by Steve Shanks
The Ascension by Lauren Hudson
Membrane by Michele Corriel
A Character in Reality by Nicholas Bridgman
Hydro (Aurelia, Book 1) by A.C. Waltower

BOTM - Wake Up Call by Victoria Ashley

Wake Up Call

Avery Hale had spent her whole childhood abused by her drunken, hopped-up parents. Broken from a lifetime of hate and pain she grew up realizing that trust and love just didn't exist. Not in her world at least.

At the age of eighteen, she packed up and moved far away determined to escape her hurtful past and start a new life. Once on her own she comes to the conclusion that the emptiness still exist. Doing what she had to to survive she found herself mixed up in exotic dancing, drinking and meaningless sexual relationships unable to feel anything, for anyone. She was sure that her life was worthless and there was nothing left for her. On the other hand, so she thought.

After meeting a beautiful stranger, Jace, her life suddenly is turned upside down. Everything that she truly believed suddenly gets questioned and then she is left to figure out if there is really more to her than she could ever have imagined. Can the love of another broken person be enough to help Avery, or is she already too far gone?

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Interview

1. Please tell the readers a bit about yourself.

My name is Victoria, and I’ve been writing for about 2 years now. I’m working on publishing my story Wake Up Call and am looking forward to writing my next big romance. I live in Rockford with my boyfriend, Will, and our two cats, Ace and Puma. They are little brats, but I love them. My boyfriend included. I work at a hardware store and in my spare time, I enjoy reading and writing. I’m a huge fan of “The Vampire Diaries”, “True Blood”, and “Teen Wolf” and I try my hardest to be sure that I never miss an episode. Oh and I’m obsessed with chicken. It’s my favorite. Well, mostly the chicken skin, so if anyone eats chicken around me, I steal their skin when they’re not looking. I almost always get caught.

2. What types of books do you write?

I enjoy writing romance. It seems to be the easiest for me. I’m working on a fantasy story, but of course it will be full of romance. Can’t live without it.

3. How many books have you written?

I’ve written about 11 books, but only five are completed. Wake Up Call is my only completed book that I feel is written well. The others were kind of written in a rush. I’m going to change that with my new stories. No more writing rushed stuff.

4. What movie and/or book are you looking forward to this year?

I’m looking forward to reading “Wake” by Amanda Hocking. I just ordered it and I’m waiting for it to come through mail. I’m in the middle of reading her Trylle Novel now and they’re really good. She was a self-published author and just got picked up by a big company. And for movies, pretty much anything that involves Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Statham or Alex Pettyfer. I love them.

5. What type of books do you enjoy reading?

I really enjoy reading Fantasy, Vampire, and anything that has to do with Romance. For a while there I was stuck on only Vampire books. I couldn’t get away from them, but then I started reading on Wattpad and started writing my own romance stories.

6. If you were stranded on a desert island what 3 things would you want with you?

If I were stranded on a desert island, I would have to have

1. A book, of course.
2. Some chicken or else I’d die.
3. And…this last one is hard. Probably my computer so that I could write, although, I suppose it wouldn’t work on a desert island. Can’t I just count paper and pen as one item, then?

7. Are you considering a sequel?

I don’t believe that I will be writing a sequel. I would only write a sequel to Fantasy work. Probably not for any of my Romances.

8. What inspired you to become a writer?

Actually, Wattpad inspired me to become a writer. I downloaded Wattpad so that I could read free books and I saw that you could upload your own work. I thought, why not? Therefore, I wrote my first story called “Some Roommate” and it got a lot of attention. It inspired me to keep going even though I didn’t think it was all that great. So thank you everyone for standing by me and inspiring me to become a writer and to keep writing. If it weren’t for you guys, then I wouldn’t be self -publishing my work.


Excerpt

My heart stopped and suddenly it was hard to breathe. His voice always had that effect on me. It was like poison slowly running through my veins killing me bit by bit. Like a drug that I couldn’t get enough of even though I was almost down to my last breath.

Jace took a step forward and grabbed my hand. He slowly trailed his fingers over my face and backed me into the wall. My heart stopped again, if that was even possible. “You can’t leave,” he whispered. “I need you.” His warm breath kissed my lips as he bit his bottom lip and placed both of his hands around my face. They were warm and soft to the touch. Too big for my fragile face, although I wanted to bury myself in them. “Breathe. There is no one here except the two of us. Breathe,” he whispered.


Wake Up Call Scavenger Hunt

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