Author Interview: Jerry Barrow

About the Author:
Jerome Brooke lives if the Kingdom of Siam. He is the consort of Jira, a princess of the lost Kingdom of Siam. He has written The City of the Mirage and many other books.

Interview:
What made you want to become a writer?
I have read F&SF since I was very young. I do not see much of the pulp fiction I used to see - so what was I to do? 

Where do you get your inspirations from?
I am a dreamer. Like in the days of the bards, the Muse whispers in my ear. She sings of the days of the sword, queens and of dragons. I record the histories of the worlds of the Multiverse, and men say they are only tles of fancy. 

Other than writing books, what else do you do in your free time?
I am retired, and live in the Kingdom of Siam. I have a daughter of 7, a child of my old age. She keeps Papa busy.

If you could work with another author, who would it be?
I like the old Conan series. 

What are major themes of your work?
In my the Dark Empire of Astarte series, I write of the Divine Astarte and her consort. Her world is one of wars and battles, ruled by the Divine Queen, the Destroyer of Worlds.

What do you think people look for in a book?
With pulp fiction, readers want to visit a fantasy realm of beautiful women and their consorts. They want to read of a life of adventure and romance.

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Revealed Book Cover of Tempted by a Rogue Prince

Synopsis:
An elf prince on the verge of losing himself to the darkness, Vail is maddened by the forty-two centuries he was under the control of a witch and forced to war with his brother. Now, he roams Hell seeking an escape from his terrible past and the heads of all who bear magic. When demons of the Fifth Realm capture him, he sees a chance to end his existence, but when he wakes in a cell to a beautiful female, he finds not death but his only shot at salvation—his true fated mate.

Captured by the enemy of the Third Realm when the war ended, Rosalind has spent months in the cells of the Fifth Realm with her magic bound, forced to heal the new king’s demon warriors, and haunted by the lives she has taken. When she’s brought to heal an unconscious man, she discovers her only hope of escape has come in the form of her worst nightmare and the first part of a prediction that might spell her doom—a devastatingly handsome and dangerous dark elf prince.

Unwilling to fall under the control of anyone ever again, Vail must escape before the Fifth King can use him as a pawn in a deadly game of revenge, but he cannot leave without Rosalind, the woman who looks at him with dark desire in her stunning eyes and awakens a fierce hunger in his heart. A witch who drives him mad with need even as the darkness within whispers she will enslave him too.

Can Rosalind escape her fate as they embark on a journey fraught with danger and resist the temptation of her rogue elf prince? And can Vail overcome the memories that madden him in order to seize his chance for salvation and the heart of his fated female forever?

Information of the Book:
Price: N/A
Links to buy/view book:
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About the Author:

Felicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.

If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Eternal Mates series.

Contact Information:
Website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/felicityheaton
Twitter: http://twitter.com/felicityheaton
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/felicityheaton

Book Promotion: Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch

Synopsis:
Perfection comes at a price.

As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella.  Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and all above, perfect, these "family companions" enter their masters' homes prepared to live a life of idle luxury.

Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman's bubbly young daughter, but she doesn't expect Penn, the congressman's handsome and rebellious son.  He's the only person who sees beyond the perfect exterior to the girl within.  Falling for him goes against every rule she knows...and the freedom she finds with him is intoxicating.

But when Ella is kidnapped and thrust into the dark underworld lurking beneath her pampered life, she's faced with an unthinkable choice.  Because the only thing more dangerous than staying with Penn's family is leaving...and if she's unsuccessful, she'll face a fate far worse than death. (Taken from Goodreads)

Information About the Book:
Author: Kate Jarvik Birch
Link to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630496-perfected
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Links to Buy (with price):

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Perfected-Entangled-Teen-Jarvik-Birch-ebook/dp/B00H0V0534/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1405001780&sr=1-1&keywords=perfected

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfected-kate-jarvik-birch/1118612252?ean=9781622662685

Average Rating (from Goodreads): 3.76
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Book Promotion and Giveaway: Frontiers by Jeff Horton

Synopsis:
FRONTIERS: BOOK TWO IN THE CYBERS@CE SERIES

* A Dream to Unite Humanity...*

 Scientists discover the technology to successfully construct Earth's first interstellar spacecraft, code named Frontier. Hank Reynolds, a gifted and courageous test pilot for the United States Air Force, is assigned to test pilot humanity's first interstellar spacecraft on a historic flight to Alpha Centauri. Under the command of the fledgling Earth Space Alliance the spacecraft will carry human beings to the stars, and beyond.

* A Plot to see it Fail...*

 Someone doesn't want to see this happen and will stop at nothing to see it fail--including murder... When Frontier is sabotaged, Hank is left stranded and alone to die in the Alpha Centauri system. With their dreams crumbling around them, will they be able to discover who is behind the plot to steal the alien technology, and to murder those closest to it?  Frontier, Earth's first starship built on alien tech, is on it's maiden voyage to Alpha Centauri. Someone wants him to fail, someone wants him dead.

A World Castle Publishing Christian Science-Fiction Novel 

Information About the Book:
Author: Jeff Horton
Link to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22015435-frontiers
Publisher: World Castle Publishing
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Links to Buy (with price):
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/mnlg6fr

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/frontiers-jeff-w-horton/1119390926?ean=2940149261710

Average Rating (from Goodreads): ----
Rating from EBR: ----

Information (about giveaway):

Start date: July 21, 2014

End date: July 30, 2014

Format of Prize: $25 Gift Card & 5 ebooks (Cybersp@ce (Book 1), or Frontiers (Book 2))

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Giveaway: Swag Pack Featuring Ashley Stoyanoff (Author of The Soul's Marks Series)

Information (about giveaway):

Start date: July 25, 2014

End date: August 15, 2014

Prizes: A keychain, a bookmark, a necklace (made by Stone Soup Designs (will be assorted with different book covers)), and an "Ashley Stoyanoff" tote bag

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Featured Author: Ashley Stoyanoff

About the Author:
Ashley Stoyanoff is an author of paranormal romance books for young adults, including The Soul's Mark series and the Deadly Trilogy.  She lives in Southern Ontario with her husband, Jordan, and two cats: Tanzy and Trinity.

In July 2012, Ashley published her first novel, The Soul’s Mark: FOUND, and shortly thereafter, she was honored with The Royal Dragonfly Book Award for both young adult and newbie fiction categories.

An avid reader, Ashley enjoys anything with a bit of romance and a paranormal twist.  When she’s not writing or devouring her latest read, she can be found spending time with her family, watching cheesy chick flicks or buying far too many clothes.

Ashley loves hearing from her readers, so feel free to connect with her online.

Other Information:
Books Written:

• Deadly Crush (Deadly Trilogy #1)
• Deadly Mates (Deadly Trilogy #2)
• The Soul's Mark: Found (The Soul's Mark, #1)
• Waking Dreams (The Soul's Mark, #1.5) 
• The Soul's Mark: Hunted (The Soul's Mark, #2)  
• The Soul's Mark: Broken (The Soul's Mark, #3) 
• The Soul's Mark: Changed (The Soul's Mark, #4)   

Link to Goodreads Account: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5890982.Ashley_Stoyanoff
Most Popular Book (by the ratings on Goodreads): 4.25 
Blog: www.ashleystoyanoff.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/AshleyStoyanoffTheSoulsMark

Email: ashley@ashleystoyanoff.com

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Giveaway: My Last Kiss by Bethany Neal

Synopsis:

What if your last kiss was with the wrong boy?

Cassidy Haines remembers her first kiss vividly. It was on the old covered bridge the summer before her freshman year with her boyfriend of three years, Ethan Keys. But her last kiss—the one she shared with someone at her seventeenth birthday party the night she died—is a blur. Cassidy is trapped in the living world, not only mourning the loss of her human body, but left with the grim suspicion that her untimely death wasn’t a suicide as everyone assumes. She can’t remember anything from the weeks leading up to her birthday and she’s worried that she may have betrayed her boyfriend. 

If Cassidy is to uncover the truth about that fateful night and make amends with the only boy she’ll ever love, she must face her past and all the decisions she made—good and bad—that led to her last kiss. (Taken from Goodreads)

Information (about book):

Author(s): Bethany Neal

Rating (On Goodreads): 3.77

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Link on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465608-my-last-kiss

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Information (about giveaway):

Start date: July 22, 2014

End date: August 5, 2014

Format of Prize: Hardcover

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• US Only

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Author Interview: Kate Jarvik Birch

About the Author:
Kate Jarvik Birch is a visual artist, author, playwright, daydreamer, and professional procrastinator.  As a child, she wanted to grow up to be either a unicorn or a mermaid.  Luckily, being a writer turned out to be just as magical.  Her essays and short stories have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review and Saint Ann's Review.  She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and three kids.  To learn more, visit her website here. 

Interview:
What made you want to become a writer?
I’ve wanted to be a writer since fourth grade when I wrote my first "novel”. It was written by hand in a dark blue, hardback journal (and illustrated too, I should point out). Whenever my teachers asked us to dream about where we’d like to be when we grew up, I always envisioned myself writing books.  
As a kid, I spent a lot of time practicing. I remember having play dates with friends where we just sat in my room and worked on our “Great American Novels”. I was always jealous of my friend, Anne, who came up with awesome lines like “The shot rang out across the Australian outback”. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to compete with THAT.

Where do you get your inspirations from?
I’m easily inspired. Almost anything can spark an idea: a magazine article, a line in a movie, a news article, or a conversation with a friend. Sometimes I feel like I’m a never-ending factory of ideas. This might be because the idea phase is one of my FAVORITE parts of writing. I adore brainstorming. I’ve contemplated getting the words “what if” tattooed on my wrist because those two words always fill me with excitement and the promise of a new story.
 
Other than writing books, what else do you do in your free time?
Anything creative! I’m also a painter and illustrator (which is actually what I got my degree in), so I love any chance I get to make art. I’m also a HUGE movie fan! I haven’t written a screenplay yet, but it’s definitely on my “to do” list. 

If you could work with another author, who would it be?
This is an impossibly difficult question to answer because I could fangirl over A LOT of writers: John Green, Kate DiCamillo, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Jane Hamilton, Lorrie Moore. They run the gamut of genres and styles. But I guess if I had to choose one, I’d have to say John Green would definitely be at the very top of my list. I adore his characters and their smart and witty dialogue.

What are major themes of your work?
First, I have to say that I often approach an idea for a book by thinking about a situation that makes me really angry. Nothing gets me quite so riled up as the thought of injustice and people being oppressed. So, it isn’t much of a surprise that this shows up in my writing. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman myself, but I often write about women being marginalized. Without being too overt, I hope my books touch on ideas of objectification and feminism. 

What do you think people look for in a book?
I don’t know what other people look for, but as a reader, I look to find myself within the characters. I want to be swept up in a story that feels both new and familiar (an odd equilibrium). One of my favorite quotes about reading is by James Baldwin, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
 
Are there any recent works you admire?
Lately, I’ve been eating up anything by Rainbow Rowell. I just finished FANGIRL and LOVED it. I’m currently reading SWAMPLANDIA by Karen Russell. The prose is astoundingly beautiful!
Questions About the Book (Perfected):
Which character in the book do you think you can relate to the most?
I tried to put a little bit of myself in all of them, but I probably relate the most to Ella. It’s an odd comparison, but as a mother, we sometimes forget about our own happiness, we put so much of ourselves into making others (our kids, our husbands, our extended family) happy. But I’ve found that to truly be able to make others happy, you have to fill yourself up first. 

How did you come up with the character's names?
Ella had a few names before we settled on naming her after Ella Fitzgerald. I wanted to give her a name that would link her to Penn’s music. The rest of the characters kept their original names. They just felt organically right (if that makes any sense). I do tend to stew over names A LOT! They have to convey a feeling about who the character is. Luckily my agent wrote a whole baby naming book, so I leaf through that a lot to find inspiration. 

What gave you the inspiration to write this book?
I’ve been an animal lover ever since I saw my first pony at the carnival when I was two and I’ve been a mini zookeeper ever since. At the moment, I have three dogs, two ducks, a bunny and a hedgehog. The dogs are like tiny shadows, constantly in my periphery (if not underfoot or on my lap). I’ve always assumed that they were happy (even lucky) to have me for an owner to shower love and affection on them, but the writer in me wasn’t satisfied with this assumption. She saw a story inside them. So in my mind, the next obvious step between having dogs for pets and wondering if they were happy with their lives was wondering what it would be like to be a pet. Bing! An idea was born. What if people were pets? What if I were given the choice between a life of idle luxury and freedom, which would I choose?
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Featured Book: Perfected by Kate Birch

Synopsis:
Perfection comes at a price.

As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella.  Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and all above, perfect, these "family companions" enter their masters' homes prepared to live a life of idle luxury.

Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman's bubbly young daughter, but she doesn't expect Penn, the congressman's handsome and rebellious son.  He's the only person who sees beyond the perfect exterior to the girl within.  Falling for him goes against every rule she knows...and the freedom she finds with him is intoxicating.

But when Ella is kidnapped and thrust into the dark underworld lurking beneath her pampered life, she's faced with an unthinkable choice.  Because the only thing more dangerous than staying with Penn's family is leaving...and if she's unsuccessful, she'll face a fate far worse than death. (Taken from Goodreads)

Information About the Book:
Author: Kate Jarvik Birch
Link to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630496-perfected
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Links to Buy (with price):

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Perfected-Entangled-Teen-Jarvik-Birch-ebook/dp/B00H0V0534/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1405001780&sr=1-1&keywords=perfected

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfected-kate-jarvik-birch/1118612252?ean=9781622662685

Average Rating (from Goodreads): 3.76
Rating from EBR: ----

Featured Author: Kate Birch

About the Author:
Kate Jarvik Birch is a visual artist, author, playwright, daydreamer, and professional procrastinator.  As a child, she wanted to grow up to be either a unicorn or a mermaid.  Luckily, being a writer turned out to be just as magical.  Her essays and short stories have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review and Saint Ann's Review.  She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and three kids.  To learn more, visit her website here. 


Other Information:
Books Written:

• Deliver Me
• Perfected

Link to Goodreads Account: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7159349.Kate_Jarvik_Birch
Most Popular Book (by the ratings on Goodreads): Deliver Me
Blog:http://katejarvikbirch.blogspot.com
Link to Author Interview:Coming Soon

Perfectly Percy by Paul Schmid

  Difficulty:

★★★☆☆ - Moderate

Illustrations:
★★★★☆











Thoughts:
Again, my cousins found this book enjoyable with the cute illustrations and the simple storyline.  They have enjoyed books from the same author, which got them excited to read this one.  Not only have they read this book once, but they have taken it off the book shelf several times to re-read this book.  Not only was it enjoyable for the two, but I have enjoyed both the storyline and the illustrations myself.  My cousins are looking forward to reading books similar to this.

*books with the label of "Kid's Thoughts" have been read and reviewed by two 8 year olds.  These reviews may not reflect on what your child/children may think about this book.

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