Author Interview: C.L. Roman

Fantasy author C.L. Roman’s new book, Fire Candidate, will be available tomorrow on Kindle. In support of the release, I’m hosting a spot on her blog tour. Scroll down to read an interview with the author and an excerpt from the book. At the bottom of the page, enter to win a $20 restaurant gift card or one of three digital copies of Fire Candidate!

Sometimes learning to trust yourself is the hardest lesson of all…

Most girls don’t set their birthday party on fire, no matter how rebellious they feel. But Lila Stuart isn’t most girls, and she never has been. Now her brand of strange is attracting a very bad crowd. She and her family must relocate, leaving everything she knows behind. 

Tracked to her new home by a predatory demi-god, Lila is sold to a human trafficking cartel that specializes in people like her, first generation angel-human hybrids with powers that could make them heroes or deadly villains.

When the cartel threatens her family, Lila must choose: serve as an assassin or live as a slave. Will she find a way out, or is the cost of fighting back just too high?

The second installment in The Witch of Forsythe High series is a fast paced fire-storm about the choices life requires of us and the consequences they bring in their wake.

– I know authors hate this question, but I have to ask, where did the idea for Fire Candidate come from?

Not at all. In this case it’s kind of fun to answer that one. The idea came out of The Rephaim, a fantasy series that I started three or four years ago that is still in process. In the second book in that series, Sacrifice, the couple deals with infertility. So, I started thinking about, you know, what if these characters did have children? And what happens with the descendants in each successive generation? The next logical step was The Witch of Forsythe High: First Candidate and then, well, you know the rest.

– I know it’s not always in the author’s control as to what ends up being their cover. For Indie author’s that’s really changing, and there’s a wide variety of options out there now. What has been your favorite book cover from any author?

I really have a hard time with the notion of favorites!