Three cheers for three things from our favorite authors
Welcome to another of HEA's new Three Things posts! What's this, you ask? Check out the very first one for an introduction.
Today's Three Things authors are Lynn Viehl, author of Disenchanted and Co., Part 1: Her Ladyship's Curse, and Louise D. Gornall, author of In Stone, sharing three things about themselves that might surprise readers, and Christine Klocek-Lim, author of Disintegrate, sharing three things on her bucket list.
Lynn Viehl, author of Disenchanted and Co., Part 1: Her Ladyship's Curse (steampunk/urban fantasy)
Three things about me that would surprise readers:
• I'm a magnet for lost dogs, and I've reunited every one I've found with their owners.
• I gave up watching television 20 years ago in order to write and read more books.
• I went to high school with Johnny Depp.
Here's the blurb about Her Ladyship's Curse, which comes out Monday (Aug. 12):
In a steampunk version of America that lost the Revolutionary War, spunky heroine Kit Kittredge makes her living investigating magic crimes and exposing the frauds behind them. While Kit tries to avoid the nobs of high society, as the proprietor of Disenchanted & Co. she follows mysteries wherever they lead. Lady Diana Walsh calls on Kit to investigate and dispel the curse she believes responsible for carving hateful words into her own flesh as she sleeps. While Kit doesn't believe in magic herself, she can't refuse to help a woman subjected nightly to such vicious assaults. As Kit investigates the Walsh family, she becomes convinced that the attacks on Diana are part of a larger, more ominous plot—one that may involve the lady's obnoxious husband.
Sleuthing in the city of Rumsen is difficult enough, but soon Kit must also skirt the unwanted attentions of nefarious deathmage Lucien Dredmore and the unwelcome scrutiny of police Chief Inspector Thomas Doyle. Unwilling to surrender to either man's passion for her, Kit struggles to remain independent as she draws closer to the heart of the mystery. Yet as she learns the truth behind her ladyship's curse, Kit also uncovers a massive conspiracy that promises to ruin her life—and turn Rumsen into a s supernatural battleground from which no one will escape alive.
Find out more at pbackwriter.blogspot.com.
Christine Klocek-Lim, author of Disintegrate (YA contemporary)
Three things on my bucket list:
• I'd like to go to Santa Fe, N.M. It's the opposite of anywhere I've ever lived. It's semi-arid, its elevation is much higher than I'm used to, and it experiences a monsoon in July. I have no idea what that would be like! I'm used to hot summers and cold winters here in Pennsylvania.
• I'd like to go to Sequoia National Park. More than anything, I want to touch a tree bigger than a house with my bare hands. I love trees and I've never seen one that large in real life. I expect it will make me feel very small.
• I'd like to go somewhere on the West Coast and dip my toes in the Pacific Ocean. As an East Coast girl, I've been to the Atlantic Ocean a hundred times. I would love to be able to say that I've touched water on the other side of the continent (although I suppose I've probably drunk bottled water from California, but that doesn't count!).
Here's the blurb about Disintegrate:
Emily just wanted a normal life: a boyfriend, college, two parents who loved her. Instead, her dad disappeared when she was fourteen and her life at college is anything but ordinary.
When you can manipulate matter like putty and you have no idea why, how do you pretend to be like everyone else? What happens when you meet a guy who has the same powers? Do you trust him to help you find the answers you need?
Emily desperately wants to believe that Jax can help, but the stakes grow higher than she'd ever expected: someone is after them and they're not afraid to use violence to get what they want.
Find out more at christinekloceklim.com.
Louise D. Gornall, author of In Stone (YA paranormal)
Three things about me that might surprise readers:
• I'm a born and bred Brit. My book is set in America and my main character, Beau, is an American, but I'm British. I like to think I've done a good enough job with her character that you guys won't notice when reading.
• I'm agoraphobic. Writing found me because I can't go out. I mean, I can go out, but when I do, it's a whirlwind of panic attacks and passing out. I'm working on fixing that because I want to head to a writer's conference in London next year.
• I only started reading, hardcore reading — a-book-a-day type stuff — in my 20s … and I'm 27 now. I know, I know, it's shocking! What can I say? I was a late-comer to the book world, but now I'm here — and there's no getting rid of me.
Here's the blurb for In Stone:
Beau Bailey is suffering from a post-break-up meltdown when she happens across a knife in her local park and takes it home. Less than a week later, the new boy in school has her trapped in an alley; he's sprouted horns and is going to kill Beau unless she hands over the knife.
Until 18th-century gargoyle Jack shows up to save her.
Jack has woken from a century-long slumber to tell Beau that she's unwittingly been drafted into a power struggle between two immortal races: Demons and Gargoyles. The knife is the only one in existence capable of killing immortals and they'll tear the world apart to get it back. To draw the warring immortals away from her home, Beau goes with Jack in search of the mind-bending realm known as the Underworld, a place where they'll hopefully be able to destroy the knife and prevent all hell from breaking loose. That is, provided they can outrun the demons chasing them
Find out more at bookishblurb.com.
