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Character Interview: Eve, the heroine of Hooked: A True Faerie Tale

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Michaelbrent Collings</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a true faerie tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>And like all true faerie tales, it is bloody, violent…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And there is no guarantee that good will win in the end.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Those words begin <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hooked:
A True Faerie Tale</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s a
book that has been described as “Twilight done right” – a book that has
vampires, love triangles, and teen angst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>But no sparkles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Today I’ve arranged for an interview with the heroine of the
book, a high school senior named Eve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Like most high school seniors she’s very busy, what with school and
homework and the whole “vampires trying to woo/kill me” thing, so our time will
be short, but we’ll do what we can!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Hello, Eve!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Hey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: First things first: no iPod?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Can’t afford one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I live in South Central Los Angeles,
and the only kids there who wear iPods are the ones who want to get killed on
the way home from school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Yikes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">school</i>
is safe at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In sorta the same way that East Germany
was safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Unless you did something
wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Or someone <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thought</i> you did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: So the administrators are
tough?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Who’s talking about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’m talking the kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Cross the wrong guy or girl in my school, you end up in a body bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Huh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Pleasant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How’s home life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[NOTE: at this point Eve begins
laughing semi-hysterically and the interview breaks for a few minutes.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Sorry about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Home is… complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Leave it at that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Let’s try a word association
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’m going to say a word,
you say the first word that comes to mind, okay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Sure, I’m game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[NOTE: Eve is silent, refusing to
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Let’s try another one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Vampire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Complicated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: You want to elaborate?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Not really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You wouldn’t understand, or believe it
if you did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Suffice it to say that
nothing – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing</i> – of what you’ve
heard about vampires is 100% correct, either for good or for bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They’re far worse than you know, but
not for the reasons you might expect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: But isn’t there good in
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’ve heard that some might
have feelings for – </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: This interview’s over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Wait!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Just one more question I have to ask!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: What do you think about
sparkly vampires?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[Eve laughs and leaves.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blog..." name="_GoBack"></a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And there you have it, folks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I tried to arrange a follow-up interview, but she’s since
dropped off the face of the earth, as it were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>A complicated lady.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Tough, but I think there was a lot of hope covered over by an armored
attitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Let’s hope that she can
find something to get through that armor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And that whoever it is… doesn’t just kill her.</span></div>
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Book Tour Blast: ST. CLAWS by Alan Nayes

 

St. Claws
Things are not going well for Matt Haskel. He’s lost his job and the chance at his dream home, and can't even buy the one Christmas gift his son desires. His marriage is teetering, and the last thing Matt wants to do is spend Christmas Eve with his wealthy in-laws.

But while driving there, the family SUV breaks down just outside a quaint little town called St. Claws, high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

This last mishap convinces Matt this will be his worst Christmas ever. Little does he know just how wrong initial impressions can be. Or how consequential one little, innocuous wish can become.

Happy holidays, Matt Haskel. You’re about to find out!

After St. Claws, read the introduction to Alan Nayes’ powerful new paranormal romance, THE LEARNER.



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Book Tour Blast: REDEMPTION by Rosa Lee Jude

 









Redemption (Legends of Graham Mansion)
Be careful what you wish for.

When the breakup of her family forces Grae White’s mother to move her two children from their privileged city life to her hometown in the mountains of Virginia, all Grae wants is to be invisible in her new life. But that’s rather hard when everyone knows that her father is the latest headline-grabbing white collar criminal, the most popular boy in school wants to take Grae to the prom, and then there’s that she lives in a haunted mansion. It would make anyone want to get away.



Grae soon learns that a simple wish can reveal an unknown ability.

Something more than curiosity spirals Grae back in time to seek the truth in the tragedy of a 200 -year-old murder. Along the way, she learns about history, happiness, and heartache in the lives of those who have lived on the property, including her own family. Her first journey reveals secrets that will lead Grae to further explore the legends of Graham Mansion.



REDEMPTION is Book One in the Legends of Graham Mansion series. Look for the second story in the series, AMBITION, in spring 2013.



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Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers

by David Gaughran




Simon & Schuster has launched a self-publishing operation, Archway Publishing, contracting one of the most disreputable players in the business to run the show: Author Solutions.

We’ll get to that distasteful link-up in a second, but first let’s have a look at what Simon & Schuster are offering prospective customers (i.e. writers).

Fiction packages start at $1,999 and go up to $14,999. If you have written a business book, prices are saucier again: $2,999 to $24,999.

While the upper end of the pricing spectrum is obviously shocking, some of you might think that $1,999 isn’t too bad if you are getting a proper edit and a decent cover.

Not so fast.

That price tag doesn’t include any real editing, just an assessment which – according to their own website – is “not a replacement” for editorial services but “a preliminary diagnostic tool.”

But what if you need proper editing? Fear not! Simon & Schuster is here to help. For just $0.035 a word, you can have a thorough edit of your book. Which sounds cheap until you realize that a standard 80,000 word novel would cost you $2,800. So, in actual fact, the cheapest package, plus their edit, will set you back $4,799 for a standard length book.

As if that wasn’t enough, Simon & Schuster will also take half of your e-book royalties – after Amazon and the other retailers take their cut – and pay pennies for print sales.

Not looking so reasonable anymore, is it.

“But wait!” I hear you cry. “Those Simon & Schuster editors might be pretty damn good.” Alas, Simon & Schuster won’t be lending any editorial expertise to this new operation; it will be run and staffed by… Author Solutions – the world famous repository of editorial talent.

In fact, the whole operation has been outsourced by Simon & Schuster to Author Solutions. In case you aren’t familiar with them, let’s go over a little history.

AUTHOR SOLUTIONS

Author Solutions is the umbrella for (and owner of) several seriously shady self-publishing service companies (or vanity presses, if you prefer) – such as AuthorHouse, Xlibris, iUniverse, and Trafford.

Each of these companies has managed to achieve disreputable status on their own, but together they have screwed over more than 150,000 writers. Going through the full history of their rip-off schemes would require a book, rather than a blog post, so I’ll stick to the highlights.

The formidable Emily Suess has been covering Author Solutions for some time:

The short list of recurring issues includes: making formerly out-of-print works available for sale without the author’s consent, improperly reporting royalty information, non-payment of royalties, breach of contract, predatory and harassing sales calls, excessive markups on review and advertising services, failure to deliver marketing services as promised, telling customers their add-ons will only cost hundreds of dollars and then charging their credit cards thousands of dollars, ignoring customer complaints, shaming and banning customers who go public with their stories, and calling at least one customer a ‘fucking asshole.’

Read the above list carefully. Take a moment to consider it. This is the company that Simon & Schuster has hired to run their self-publishing operation – a company which was purchased by Penguin in July for $116m.

If you are unfamiliar with the charges above, this post will give you a little more detail.



AUTHOR SOLUTIONS

Author Solutions is the umbrella for (and owner of) several seriously shady self-publishing service companies (or vanity presses, if you prefer) – such as AuthorHouse, Xlibris, iUniverse, and Trafford.

Each of these companies has managed to achieve disreputable status on their own, but together they have screwed over more than 150,000 writers. Going through the full history of their rip-off schemes would require a book, rather than a blog post, so I’ll stick to the highlights.

The formidable Emily Suess has been covering Author Solutions for some time:

The short list of recurring issues includes: making formerly out-of-print works available for sale without the author’s consent, improperly reporting royalty information, non-payment of royalties, breach of contract, predatory and harassing sales calls, excessive markups on review and advertising services, failure to deliver marketing services as promised, telling customers their add-ons will only cost hundreds of dollars and then charging their credit cards thousands of dollars, ignoring customer complaints, shaming and banning customers who go public with their stories, and calling at least one customer a ‘fucking asshole.’

Read the above list carefully. Take a moment to consider it. This is the company that Simon & Schuster has hired to run their self-publishing operation – a company which was purchased by Penguin in July for $116m.



Here's the link to the full article. It's well worth the time to read this:

http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/simon-schuster-joins-forces-with-author-solutions-to-rip-off-writers/



About the author:

David Gaughran is a 34-year old Irish writer, living in London, who spends most of his time travelling the world, collecting stories. He is the author of the South American historical adventure "A Storm Hits Valparaiso" and the short stories "If You Go Into The Woods" and "Transfection" as well as the popular self-publishing guide "Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should."

Book Tour Blast: Chasing the Witch by Jessica Gibson

 

Chasing the Witch
After the events of Mark of the Witch, Jilly at last begins to breathe easier though her powers are still growing. But can she harness them in time to confront a new chain of events that threatens to change everything?

Caroline has finally accepted her life as a witch, but when a stranger comes into her life she's forced to question her family loyalty.

The sisters are thrown together to protect a young girl from the enemy determined to hunt her down. Can they save her -- and themselves?

 



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Stefan vs Damon: What Camp Are You In?

 











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should not feed on people. He prefers animal blood. He wasn’t always this way.
As a matter of fact, he turned evil last season and became known once again as “The
Ripper.” But never fear, he was only evil because Klaus had compelled him. Once
Stefan was free of Klaus’ influence, he found his way back to his humanity and
learned to control his bloodlust. He also has Elena’s love and that keeps him
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kills to feed upon, but there’s so much more to Damon than this. Granted, he
does like fresh blood and he has killed many times on the show, but lately he’s
been getting his blood from a blood bank. He’s also fallen in love with Elena
and the sacrifices he makes on her behalf makes him even more appealing. Damon
is a bad boy with a heart, but he doesn’t get the girl. Well, can’t complain
too much about that. Damon gets all the best snarky dialogue and his smirks are
priceless plus those blue eyes of his are stunning. I’m definitely in Damon’s
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Book Tour Blast: ENLIGHTENED by Melissa Lummis

 

Enlightened: A Tale of Love and Light

Loti Dupree fears that when her husband died, she lost her soul. Harboring a painful secret, she flees her life in a small Appalachian town for the ashram, the spiritual retreat where she trained to be a yogini. But she is running from more than grief. An ominous nightmare the night before she leaves sets her on a dangerous path of self-discovery that challenges everything she believes – and threatens her life.





While dodging psychic attacks from an unknown assailant, she struggles with her growing attraction to a broody, handsome and completely frustrating vampire. Loti races to understand who and what she is before her anonymous enemy catches up with her.




Loti thought she couldn't survive her husband’s death, but among healers, witches, and vampires, she discovers not only a future, but a family.

 



About the Author

Melissa Lummis considers herself a truth seeker, a peaceful warrior, a paranormal and fantasy writer, an avid reader, a thru-hiker GAàME ’98, a wife, a mother, and a free thinker. She believes the universe conspires to help an adventurer. And if we live our lives as if it is a daring adventure (and it is!), then everything we need will find its way to us.

The author lives in rural Virginia with her husband, two children, an Alaskan Malamute and a myriad of forest creatures. The nature of her mind dictates that she write to stay sane. Otherwise, her fertile imagination takes off on tangents of its own accord, creating scenarios and worlds that confuse the space-time continuum. Namaste, dear friends.





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