The Next Big Thing...continued

12/3/12

The Next Big Thing...continued

          Some of you know the talented Linda Joyce, author of Bayou Born  (the first book in her Fleur de Lis trilogy), and on lindajoycecontemplates.wordpress.com. Well, she invited me to join The NEXT Big Thing Blog Tour and I happily accepted. If you've been on her site then you've already seen our answers but I wanted to post it here for those of you that haven't caught onto this tour yet. She was tagged and posted her answers before inviting other authors to do the same. Well. here's my answers and I hope to see the same from the following:

M.v. Freeman                                Virginia James                              Sally Kilpatrick

Nicki Salcedo                                                      Rie Warren 

Ten Interview Questions for the Next Big Thing:
Okay, I’m answering this based on the book I currently have coming out and not on my current WIP. With my fourth book being written, the voices (hehe, characters) get a bit muddled.

What is your working title of your book?      Andromeda

Where did the idea come from for the book?      Can I say that I might have a vampire fetish? Giggle.

What genre does your book fall under?      Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?      Kate Beckinsale as Andromeda Ortiz, even if she already has her foot in the door with Underworld. Oh, maybe William Levy as Persues and Jason Lewis as Justin Storm.  

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?      Andromeda Ortiz is a 400 yr old psychic vampire who has to fight off her maker with the help of her twin brother while she falls in love with the man destined for her bed and his grave because of his love for her.

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?      Secret Cravings Publishing will release this March 2013

How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?      I wrote and started editing it all within a year. I was lucky to have had that kind of time, back then.

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?      Maybe a smidge of the Uber Talented Sherrilyn Kenyon with her Dark Hunter Series.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?      I’ve always had a thing about vampires and I felt compelled to get this story out of my fantasy world and into the “print” world.

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?      As you read about Andromeda’s life, you fall in love with her twin brother, Perseus, and he’s going to have his own book in the coming years. This story touches on psychic powers, voodoo and my own views of the myths surrounding typical vampires as you get wrapped up in Andromeda’s choice to be with the man of her dreams.