Monday, April 6, 2015

Interview: Author E.A. Stripling

Meet E.A. Stripling
Biography:
E.A Stripling is a novelist, screenwriter and inspiring actress who lives in sunny Florida with her husband and two children. She is the author of the Internal Conflict Series.  A steamy romance novel that is currently getting rave reviews on Amazon.  In addition she also is the author of a blog under the name “My2centsblogger”. The blog promotes giving her opinion on products in hopes to save your two cents and time on unfavorable items.  The blog also includes interviews with musicians and authors as well as recipes.  

Buy Links:
Amazon Kindle edition- http://www.amazon.com/Internal-Conflict-E-Stripling-ebook/dp/B00QR1BEM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426296906&sr=1-1&keywords=internal+conflict

Interview:
1.   What inspires your writing?
I often reference things I have experienced in my own life as well as dreams I may have. It really depends on what I am writing at the time. Sometime I will be sitting somewhere not really thinking of anything unparticular and all the sudden I have an idea. I am always saying that I have more ideas then time to get it all down. I couldn’t tell you how many first chapters and outlines I have done.

2.   Have you always wanted to be an author?
Writing has always been a part of my life ever since a very young age. I started off writing poems and lyrics then slowly moved to writing novels and screenplays. I have always been very to myself with my writing never thinking to let anyone read my work. However as I got older I knew this was something I really wanted to do with my life and start to slowly allow people to read my work.

3.   Who are your favorite authors?
Peter Benchley, Stephen King, Ann Rice, RL Stine, Alvin Schwartz to name a few. Along with writing I love to read.

4.   What would you say to someone who is just starting out as a writer?
Keep writing! No matter what people say or how you feel just keep writing and believe in your work.

5.   Do you ever put any part of yourself in you characters?
I usually do not however in my debut novel “Internal Conflict” I did put a little of my personality into one of the character. People that know me personally are still trying to guess who and all I can say it….it’s not who you would expect. 

6.   How old where you when your first book was published?
I just released my first self-published book this past December. It is still a dream of mine to be published by one of the larger publishing houses.

7.   How many books have you written? What are their titles?
I have written numerous but only released Internal Conflict as of yet, but there are many  to come.

8.   Do you have any more books coming out? What are their titles?
Internal Conflict is part of a 3 book series so those will be coming out soon. Other than that the list of projects I have is endless and I plan to continue to release them until I have nothing else to write about, which will never happen!

9.   What do you hope readers take from your books?
Entertainment, when I read it’s for enjoyment and as an escape. So I hope it is just that for my reads. They take a break from their busy life and meet these wonderful characters in some interesting situations. Currently there is a team vs team thing going on with Internal Conflict so it has been really exciting to see people fall in love with my characters.

10. What do you do to get ready to write?
Honestly not much, sometimes I will fix myself something to drink (usually coffee) and just write until I can to write anymore. I never force it. When the ideas stop it stop and come back to it. So sometimes I am writing for an hour or all day but I will say I write every day. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t. I wake up thinking about my writing (and family) and go to sleep thinking of the same thing.

11. Do you ever get writers block? What helps you get past it?
I don’t usually get writers block however recently I have. I have finished book 2 in the Internal Conflict series however I find myself stuck on book 3. I have the original outline done with everything I want to happen in it and then I have a few others I have thought up after reading feedback and emails from readers. I am so worried about upsetting or disappointing someone that I am just stuck. However at the end of the day I am sure I will go with my original outline. As for how I am trying to get past it, I have stopped writing and just trying to clear my head. I started working on some other projects but I always come back to it.

12. What is your favorite type of book to read? Does that type influence your books?
The type of books I read vary on the mood I am in but I do find myself reading more horror and romance novels. I don’t think it influences the books I write because when I write and when I read are two very different experiences for me.

Tell us about your new novella/novel:
Internal Conflict is based off of  early twenty something protagonist Olivia  Moore, a heart broken department store buyer, that is trying to find herself again after losing the love of her life.

Also dealing with loves loss, her roommate, Natalie drags Olivia bar to bar against her will trying to convince her that the cure for a broken heart is random hookups with the local bar hunks. As it usually goes love pops up where you least expect it and Olivia is faced with quick witted Victor Montgomery. However due to some poorly choice words on Victors part Olivia writes him off as another jerk.

Although Olivia continues to push Victor away he uses his sense of humor and bold sexual advances to finally get Olivia. Fueled by the intensity of their physical relationship and determination to finally get over her ex Olivia starts to learn how to let someone in. That is until a ghost from her past reappears. Now Olivia is stuck somewhere between her past, present and trying to find herself apart from being in love




Fun Facts:
1.   Favorite food: I don’t think I have a favorite food, I try to try something new at least once a month and I am always changing what I eat
2.   Favorite color: Red
3.   Favorite sweet treat: Anything with chocolate, especially dark chocolate
4.   Favorite mixed drink: Midori Sour, when I do drink which is extremely rare
5.   Favorite thing to shop for: Stationery, containers and clothes
6.   Lucky number: 265
7.   Favorite book:  I honestly cannot pick one!
8.   Favorite movie:  Jaws and Nightmare Before Christmas
9.   Favorite song: Pearl Jam - Black 
10. Favorite sport: MMA fighting

What is something everyone should know about you?
I drink my coffee black with Splenda…. Ha ha
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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Blog Tour: Spotlight

~AUDIO BLOG TOUR : SPOTLIGHT ~


Title: The Last Thing 
Author: Briana Gaitan 

SYNOPSI:
Plagued by past mistakes in both love and life, Quinn Bardot is in a bad place. With nowhere else to turn, she escapes to LA clinging to the promise of a fresh start.

Chase Crowley is known for being selfish and unbelievably persistent. All he's ever wanted is to become a successful actor. But now that he is about to have it all, he finds that something is still missing. Money and fame isn't what he expected.

After a fervent encounter, the two of them are thrown into a situation that neither is prepared for. Can Quinn extinguish her fears and let Chase in? Can Chase learn to put someone else's needs before his own?

An Amazon bestseller in romance, The Last Thing is a novel all about love, Hollywood, and accepting what life throws at you even if it is the last thing you want.




(This is a New Adult Romance novel & contains language & adult situations.)
Not recommended for readers younger than 17

***The Last Thing is a stand alone book with NO cliff hanger ending. It is book one in the series.***
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Cover Reveal: Captive Guardian

CAPTIVE GUARDIAN COVER REVEAL
By Paulina Woods


CAPTIVE GUARDIAN (M/M)

PUBLISH DATE: APRIL 2015

AUTHOR: Paulina Woods

GOODREADS:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2522736
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Blurb:
Marcus has lived his life in a small room of one type or another. Told he is only being
kept alive because of the value of his seed, he has resigned himself to a life of captivity.

Michael was born a warrior and lover. Never allowing any one male to capture his heart
he quickly moves from partner to partner, living for the chase.

Forced into the same cage, Marcus and Michael find what they were not looking for, a
mate.

 This is book 2 in The Witches Amulet series.

Bio:
Paulina is a small town girl with big dreams. She is the second oldest of three talented
siblings.

 As early as three she was directing her family around acting out whatever current story
was in her head. At four between her older brother and her a whole universe was created
which the younger siblings were introduced into as they were born.

 Her natural ability to tell a story took her down many paths. She wrote plays, poems,
small children books and short stories all before she went to high school.

When picking a career her councilor told her writing was a dying art and so she went to
school for veterinarian science. Three years later she dropped out of university and went
to a community college and took a journalism class, the rest is history.

 In 2008 she graduated with her BA in Communication/Journalism from Cal State
Fullerton.

 Life got in the way but in 2013 she started a review blog and November 2014 her first
book was published.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Interview: Author R.M. Simone

 Meet R.M. Simone

 Books and Covers:









R.M. Simone Links:
Secondary WEBSITE with MUSIC to BOOKS and Series.
E-Mail Contact: www.booksbyroshandra@gmail.com
  

Books and E-books:
AMAZON Author PAGE and 'e book   AUTHOR CENTRAL
PAPERBACK and HARD COVER COPY BOOKS

Lulu AUTHOR Central and ORDER LINKS

Social Media Links:
Facebook Gothic Gates BOOK page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512701642329851/  
Facebook Gothic Gates Venice BOOK page:
Facebook BOOK V Saga books and novellas:
Facebook Novella Alleandrea, His Beloved part of BOOK V Saga:


Teasers:






 Questions:
1. Why did you write The Epistolary?
2. Why did you write The Epistolary in an older form of literary book style? And how did this differ from some of your other work?
3. What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?
4. What do you like to do when you're not writing?
5. What does your family think of your writing?
6. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
7. What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
8. How does your V series differ from your Gothic Gates series?
9. What do you like to read?
10. What are you working on now? 

1 and 2. I wrote The Epistolary as a way for the reader to enter this world and story of BOOK V experiencing an introduction to the characters. The style of an ‘epistolary’ intrigued me to use. It is an old form of story book writing, it holds first person, journals,  letters, or papers from the various point of views of more than one character of a story. Since this is a novella, I felt this form would allow my readers in this vampire immortal saga a view into the minds of the key characters and the time of the past from the world of those characters.

I felt just the NAME alone gives a reader a sense that they are about to read something unique. It also has a ‘church’ feel like an EPISTLE. All of that just seemed to reflect the BOOK V Saga period of 1700’s and a literary style that would set the tone for opening this book into this genre’.

3. Well, in all my books, there seems to be a KEY Character that speaks loudly to me or has a story to tell me. I never outline my work, and I go with the FLOW of what inspires me and what the character is showing me. I will do ‘research’ even though my books are FICTION and Romance, but I set my stories in real places, art, history, cities, architecture and what is termed ‘energy’ grids. I work with feng shui and am a Sensitive, so I feel places I tune into. This is what goes into my books and often readers tell me that not only they FEEL energies through my books, but it gives them VISIONS or Visuals of a kind of magic or enchantment like seeing a moving. I am always surprised by the story­line that comes to me by way of a character that begins speaking to me.

Gothic Gates has Dante and the two key women. One is Samantha Devon, his true love and the other is her best friend Deanna. It is not your typical GOTH story but it does have a classic feel hidden in the back story of this series that weaves in and out. 

Book V Saga, Novella Alleandrea, His Beloved Novella The Swan and The Epistolary Novella all came from the one KEY male character, Edear Vallen Le Toussaint Athanase’ and his story about his France Royal Bloodline Mansion and being an immortal. He came to me when I was finishing my first four books when I began writing in 2008. Book II and Chapter II in New Orleans chapter, this character walked into my vision and introduced himself. He showed me a past life and a story he wished for me to tell. I am part of this story too. That was the most SURPRISING thing to me as I merely tend to FLOW and WRITE on. I am seeing a book as it writes itself so to speak.

4. I love movies, art museums and equestrian riding. I also love meeting friends that are very much other writers, entrepuerners and those in business, self made. I do charity and community work also which lets me forget myself and just help others and be of service. I also love doing the retreat groups I teach up at Sacred locations such as Mt.Shasta or Sedona, Arizona or Paris, France.

5. My family has all passed except for my daughter. She smiles.

6. I have always ‘written’, but not seriously regarding books. I have a dreamy nature and highly visual and very gossamer and poetic like. I also see into other worlds and love myths, fables and classic books including poetry. I began seriously writing when TWILIGHT short film trailer of the DEER, Haunting Music, and the Forest hunt triggered this to open up in me. I did not know this was a YA series, or a vampire romeo Juliet love story. I read the first book quickly and in 2 weeks saw the first film. Also joined a Fan Fiction sight and made some amazing good writer women adult friends. The rest ishistory. This Inspired me to do my own books.

7. I have a unique style in my writing. Often words are of another time, highly romantic and of the nature of a poetic soul. This QUIRK folks either GET IT or they don’t get it and those that do say that how I write is changing some way writing is viewed and the artist from the ‘feeling nature’ of the author. I just smile.

8. My Gothic Gates is a modern Goth Romance store of an immortal that happened through a stigma of pain he was in and meeting his spiritual mentor and moving swiftly  through Alchemy. This produced his change and his life waiting for his love. The story is  about how he uses his Shadow, his Goth business and sits in a Board Group of which this power he has and ability to see things brings more equanimity to the world of Cabal changes on earth now It is a game of strategy chess moves and power elite. It is also about a man finding himself, having power, control, spiritual intelligence and a heart for one woman. It is so romantic and it weaves the past and the present and is a story that I feel is UNLIMITED. The Genre was suggested to me from one of my readers and she MUSED me into doing this. Instantly what came to mind was DANTE’, his name. I am also observing how this story of star crossed loves may reflect Beatrice and Dante Alighieri. When I began doing Gothic Gates novella Book I, I did not realize that the history might reflect those Spiritual LOVES. An author friend in UK when she read my book mentioned this to me. As mentioned, I merely am telling a story I feel inspired to write, and work with the character speaking to me or that I feel. 

As to BOOK V. This came to me right after I formally began writing and did four books, which I did not publish that series. This BOOK V, came with the Character of EDEAR VALLEN Le Toussaint ATHANASE’, slowly introducing himself and only as “Edear’ ad a past life in Paris in 1700’s that we seemed connected on. This story I have waited since 2009 to move into edit form. It has 745 pages and the two novellas bridge into this Saga for the reader. The BOOK goes into a key France Royal vampire immortal bloodline, the history of it and other vampire planetary bloodlines. It also has a history of how two main vampire races came to be on this planet since Atlantis time. Also, that this race is awakening and changing in a time of a planetary transformation of sentience and higher dimensions so the shadows and life that abides in the dark is being influenced to transform. Edear is part of that and this long awaited moment of finding his Beloved and Twin Love also. The Saga will go into the background of vampires, how some become immortals, and then how this one becomes a SHINNING One and aiding his race and  those trapped her to change. He as a strong mission for his life and his role he plays among the vampire kind.

This Saga will go into a theory about vampires and 4 key bloodlines. The Merovingian and Carolingian bloodlines and how the Benficio Vampires do help MANKIND and their own reasons of this symbiotic relationship to humans or mortals. Also mortals now are moving into longer lives and immortality. There is a reason for this that the Saga goes into. BOOK V will move into BOOK VI also which is another HUGE Novel and his family, cousins, his business of the wine in France and how international world all over involves hidden areas where vampires are truly among us. Good ones and bad ones. It is a balance of light and dark and power and about Love. Alleandrea is his love. As the author, I am written into this book and it is near and dear to my own Heart. If past lives are real, this one holds something of myself in it as a character called Alexandria and the AUTHOR R.M.Simone of BOOK V. Alexandria is a cousin to ALLEANDREA his Beloved... BOOK V is most special I feel.

9. Poetry, Romance that is unique with challenges for the characters, anything on Angels, Paranormal with a real feeling of the supernatural, Art and History, Sci­fi. I love the CLASSICS. Also Game of Thrones, OUTLANDER, and NARNIA I re read often. Smiles

10. I am working on two series. ONE IS BBW. I get a lot of requests for readers that follow or like my writing style. BIG BOLD WOMEN, Bodacious women. I have a marvelous story line on this series. It is about VOYERISM and large curvy women that have a dreamtime experience of another alter ego life after taking a vampire blood called BLACK Stardust. It creates a love romance for each woman for her fantasy and her playing out this alternative life where she escapes the routine of her normal day life. Also, due to this magical stardust she does not need to sleep and can function as a mother or in her day job.

My Other series is called Le Club which centers around a magical fantastical world of 4 CLUBS in key city locations and an underground world where Eros Psyche Twin love mates must go through TESTS to be able to come together. It is a light dark world with plenty of unusual characters and themes for each CLUB is a supernatural environment. ALL ACES and comes with adventure, danger, warrior skills and a lot of sex...lol....adult stuff.
Everything is FAIR in LOVE and WAR.
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