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Blog Tour: The Keepsake by @suzy_vitello

Today we're joining the blog tour for THE KEEPSAKE by Suzy Vitello. Take a look at this young adult paranormal and be sure to enter the rafflecopter below.

The Keepsake
The Empress Chronicles #2
by Suzy Vitello

In this second Empress Chronicles book, Liz and Sisi continue their intertwined journey through time. On the heels of discovering a magical locket in the empress diary, Liz comes to understand its very special power: the wearer must speak the truth. Not only that, but it turns out that there are three lockets, each with their own magic and power.

Meanwhile, Sisi realizes that she’s communicating with a girl who lives 150 years in the future. A girl who knows what awaits her if she marries the emperor: lack of personal freedom and a legacy that will refer to her as the "reluctant empress."

With the world's future hanging in the balance, the two heroines must work together to thwart Lola, whose ambition to rule the Habsburg Empire will rewrite history, and lead to a terrifying new version of reality.

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Follow these two young women in the first two books of the Empress Chronicles Series – both TOP FIVE STAFF PICKS (2014 & 2015) at the infamous Powell’s Bookstore!

http://www.powells.com/book/empress-chronicles-9781626814134/1-1

http://www.powells.com/book/the-keepsake-9780996732505

About the Author

Suzy Vitello’s award-winning short fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review, Plazm,Tarpaulin Sky, various anthologies and other literary journals. She has been a prize winner in The Atlantic Monthly Student Fiction Contest, and has been a recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts grant.

She holds an MFA from Antioch, Los Angeles, and is a long-time coordinator and participant of an infamous writer’s workshop in Portland, whose members include Chuck Palahniuk, Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain, Monica Drake and others.

Her young adult novels include THE MOMENT BEFORE, THE EMPRESS CHRONICLES, and THE KEEPSAKE.

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Awoken (The Lucidites #1) by Sarah Noffke

Hmmm... What goodies do I have on my bookshelf today? How about this delicious morsel?

Awoken (The Lucidites #1)
by Sarah Noffke
Release Date: 11/24/14
312 pages

Around the world humans are hallucinating after sleepless nights.

In a sterile, underground institute the forecasters keep reporting the same events.

And in the backwoods of Texas, a sixteen-year-old girl is about to be caught up in a fierce, ethereal battle.

Meet Roya Stark. She drowns every night in her dreams, spends her hours reading classic literature to avoid her family’s ridicule, and is prone to premonitions—which are becoming more frequent. And now her dreams are filled with strangers offering to reveal what she has always wanted to know: Who is she? That’s the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. But will Roya live to regret learning the truth?

     

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Noffke writes YA sci-fi fantasy and is the author of The Lucidites Series.  She’s been everything from a corporate manager to a hippie. Her taste for adventure has taken her all over the world. If you can’t find her at the gym, then she’s probably at the frozen yogurt shop. If you can’t find her there then she probably doesn’t want to be found. She is a self-proclaimed hermit, with spontaneous urges to socialize during full moons and when Mercury is in retrograde. Sarah lives in Southern California with her family.

                 

Blog Tour: Riddle of Fate by Tania Johansson

Today we're joining the RIDDLE OF FATE blog tour by chatting with author Tania Johansson. Come take a look at this young adult paranormal story and get to know more about the author.

Hi,Tania! Welcome to We Do Write. Tell us a bit about yourself.  

Hi! Thank you so much for having me here. So, I am an author, of course, but writing is actually my hobby at the moment. I work full time as an optician. Writing is my absolute passion and I hope one day I’ll be able to do it full time. I’m married to an amazing Norwegian and I’m part of a fabulous Church. Just recently, I have taken the first steps in becoming involved with one of their charities called Restoring Hands and I will be helping out with activities for the elderly. I am really looking forward to getting stuck in with this!

Tell our readers a bit about RIDDLE OF FATE.

Being different is often not easy. Well, for Khaya it’s downright deadly. Employed by thesecretive Company, Khaya discovers she not only gets visions of the future, but she can also look inside objects, animals and even people, and manipulate the internal workings of her subject.

Having two abilities is rare. Very rare. Suddenly, the Company is treating her as if she is a disaster waiting to happen – in the form of losing her mind and going on a killing spree. Not only that, but it seems angels want her dead, too.

With danger closing in on all sides, she reluctantly puts her trust in Derrin. A mysterious stranger who seems to know more about what’s going on than she does. Is he worthy of her trust, though, or just someone else trying to manipulate and control her?

How did the idea of the story come to you?

This is a hard one to answer! I have a flow chart on my tablet called random ideas. These are things that occur to me while reading a book, watching a movie, recalling a dream, or even just walking to work. Whenever I am brainstorming a new story, I refer to my cache of ideas and pick a few that fit together. And once I start working on a project it tends to take on a life of its own. So, in fact, I can’t actually tell you exactly where this particular idea came from.


Are you a plotter or a pantser?

I find this is a sliding scale for me with each book being a bit different. With my first book, Book of Remembrance, I only knew where I was starting and where I wanted to end. The rest was a blank slate. My second book, Of Folly and Fear, I planned out chapter by chapter. This was not great for me though, as I felt constricted and suffocated by my so-called plan.

Since then, I’ve modified my techniques and try to have ‘road marks’ at various points through the story, but leave enough of it unexplored to keep me at my most engaged while writing.


What’s the hardest part of writing for you?

Editing. Coming up with the story, watching it take on a will of its own and being taken along for the ride is so exciting! Looking for spelling mistakes, continuity errors, grammar mistakes, etc. is not. At least, not for me. I have a wonderful editor, though, Janet Philip, who mops up my mistakes and keeps me sane during these times.

What do you absolutely have to have nearby when writing?

A cup of tea. Or, on my day off when I go to my local coffee shop, a coffee. There’s something comforting and familiar about it. It just feels right!


If you could have any super power, what would it be?

Mmm, tough one. In Brandon Sanderson’s series, Mistborn, some people are able to consume metal and ‘burn’ it. This gives them various abilities (it’s quite a complex magic system), one of them being that they can push off metallic objects and effectively fly, which would be so amazing.


What's the weirdest thing you've googled?

There are probably a few strange ones, and some that can be misconstrued, like poisonous herbs. I would say, though, if we are talking on the weird scale that searching for sheep shearing in the middle ages must be one of them. Not something I would have thought I would ever read up on.

Finish this sentence: If I'm not writing, I'm probably

...staring into people’s eyes. That’s not as creepy as it sounds if you look back at my ‘about me’ question.

Here’s the part where you thank the people who are supporting you. Let's hear your shout 

outs.

Thank you so much for hosting me on your wonderful blog!

You're very welcome!

I’d also like to take the opportunity to thank Giselle from Xpresso Book Tours for all her hard work in arranging this amazing tour. And also a big thanks to my editor, Janet Philip, without whom my novels would not be what they are and my husband who manages to peel me away from the screen from time to time.


Thanks for stopping by the blog!

Book Feature: Defector by Susanne Winnacker

Tomorrow, the second book in the Variants Series by Susanne Winnacker entitled DEFECTOR will be released! Check it out!

Tessa has finally made peace with her life as a Variant. She and long-time love Alec are officially a couple, and for the first time, she has everything she wants.

But the air is tense at FEA headquarters. An agent has disappeared, and rogue variant organization Abel’s Army is likely the culprit.

When Tessa is summoned for her second mission, she is unexpectedly launched into a massive conspiracy. Her best friend Holly is kidnapped and Tessa knows it was meant to be her. But who is after her? And more importantly, why?

When the FEA’s efforts to rescue Holly don’t yield any results, Tessa takes matters into her own hands. Desperate to save her friend and uncover the mystery behind Abel’s Army, Tessa launches her own investigation—but nothing could prepare her for what she finds. Everyone in her life is harboring secrets: Alec, her estranged mother, even the father she never knew.

The truth will take her out on the road and out of her comfort zone, with danger lurking everywhere. Summoning all of her courage and strength, Tessa must decide who can be trusted and what is worth fighting for—even if it means going against the life she thought she wanted. Her final decision will leave readers breathless.

          

Happy Book Birthday: The Looking Glass by Jessica Arnold @jess_s_arnold @month9books

Today we celebrate the book launch of THE LOOKING GLASS by Jessica Arnold, published by Month9Books. Check out this creepy-sounding young adult paranormal, and make sure to come back on April 24th to read an interview with the author.

The Looking Glass
by Jessica Arnold

Find the diary, break the curse, step through The Looking Glass!

Fifteen-year-old Alice Montgomery wakes up in the lobby of the B&B where she has been vacationing with her family to a startling discovery: no one can see or hear her. The cheap desk lights have been replaced with gas lamps and the linoleum floor with hardwood and rich Oriental carpeting. Someone has replaced the artwork with eerie paintings of Elizabeth Blackwell, the insane actress and rumored witch who killed herself at the hotel in the 1880s. Alice watches from behind the looking glass where she is haunted by Elizabeth Blackwell. Trapped in the 19th-century version of the hotel, Alice must figure out a way to break Elizabeth’s curse—with the help of Elizabeth's old diary and Tony, the son of a ghost hunter who is investigating the haunted B&B—before she becomes the inn's next victim.