Saturday, 24 August 2013
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Author Spotlight - ShadowNinja21
The Boy In Suite 121
What happens if the one you love doesn't exist in your world? Eleonora Schneider is in her first year of college, determined to make a new life for herself after an unfortunate tragedy. While trying to start over, she meets Carlisle Evans, a sweet sophomore who is hell bent on befriending Eleonora and making her believe in true love. Just as Carlisle and Eleonora see hope, their relationship takes a big hit. One of them is trapped in a parallel universe and the other must race against time to save them. Faced with the possibility of death and much more, they both have to consider two very important questions. How far will they go to save the person they love? And which one of them is crazy?
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Monday, 19 August 2013
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BOTW - The Boy In Suite 121
The Boy In Suite 121
Teen Romance / Mystery
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
It'll be fun, they said. You'll make friends, they said. But what they didn't say, is why she was being sent to St. Anna's Academy. Seventeen year old "troubled" Chelsey Hastings finds herself in stranded with four strange roommates at a creepy boarding school. While trying to adjust, she crosses paths with Jason who opens her eyes to a whole new world. The more time she spends with him, the more memories she seems to have. Ones of a time she can't remember. In search for the truth, Chelsey learns who she is, why she's there, and why she can't ever leave.
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Saturday, 17 August 2013
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Author Spotlight - YammitTheSequel
Lionheart
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 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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
Monday, 12 August 2013
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
Book Blurb Wattpad
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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Saturday, 10 August 2013
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