Blog Tour: Broken Branch Falls by Tara Tyler

A great big THANKS to Katie Teller for hosting me at her blog today!

People often ask what inspired me to write. Well, it's been a combination of reading and life experiences. I want to share with others to educate, encourage, and entertain. I try to relate my experiences in a fictional format and hope to leave readers feeling pumped at the end.

My first novel, which is sitting in a drawer, would now be considered NA (I always called it chick lit) It's about a group of girls from the 90's figuring out how to make it on their own and all the comedy/drama that goes with it rolled into one amazing night on the town – remember when there were no cell phones? (JACKS & JILLS & JEZEBELS) Inspired by: my crazy life and wild friends… remember when?

The next novel came after kids, and after 9-11. Inspired by several things: I don't like to fly. I wish teleportation was commonplace. I'm not one to try new things (I still pay my bills with checks). But, if everyone else was used to it, I'd do it! So, teleportation taking over air travel sounded great, why not write a story where it's the norm of the future, but here and there travelers mysteriously disappear and there's a huge cover up. Enter our hero, reluctant, noir detective Cooper and hello, POP TRAVEL!

While POP TRAVEL was in query phase, I couldn't sit still. Waiting at my son's football practice, watching little guys do well against the big linebackers, I thought how great that is. A little goblin running circles around a bunch of ogres. BROKEN BRANCH FALLS wrote itself (don't you love when writers say that?). It was a blast and the quest was a nice surprise, not part of the original outline, but the characters needed it!

And here are a couple more, future works…

SIMULATION is the second book in the Cooper Chronicles techno-thriller series. Inspired by: my number one fan and nephew, Christopher Ogburn who asked for more! The story is a spin-off from POP TRAVEL and its android guards. In SIMULATION – illegal clone androids are being used to impersonate officials.

Then, in DISPOSAL, mobsters unite with terrorists to spread a new drug made from garbage recycling biproducts. Inspired by: the growing garbage problem!

BBF has two sequels in the works too. I have many ideas waiting to be transformed into stories with new sparks popping into my head all the time. It's wonderful! I just wish I had more time to write them all.

Thanks again, Katie! Where do you all get story ideas from? What's your favorite inspiration?(And be sure to enter the giveaway below!)
BROKEN BRANCH FALLS (MG Fantasy)
by Tara Tyler
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Publisher: Curiosity Quills

Gabe is an average fifteen-year-old goblin. He’s in the marching band, breezes through calculus, and gets picked on daily by the other kids at school, especially the ogres. He's tired of being a goblin – he’d like to try other things. And he has his eye on the new ogress at school. It’s against all beastly rules, but there’s just something about her.

When a prank goes wrong, Gabe is forced to join the football team as punishment, but finds a way to make it work. Soon the whole school is getting in on the fad of mingling with other species. Too bad the adults decide to step in and ruin things, threatening to destroy the school and split up Broken Branch Falls. And Gabe is their scapegoat. With help from other outcast friends, Gabe sets out on a quest hoping to saving Broken Branch Falls. After all this trouble, it better work.


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Tara Tyler has had a hand at everything from waitressing to rocket engineering. After living up and down the Eastern US, she now writes and teaches math in Ohio with her three active boys and Coach Husband. Currently, she has two series, The Cooper Chronicles (techno-thriller detective capers) and Beast World (MG fantasy) She's an adventure writer who believes every good story should have action, a moral, and a few laughs!
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Also by Tara Tyler, techno-thriller detective series,The Cooper Chronicles, Book One: POP TRAVEL

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