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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Book promo stop for dark fiction writer Lisa Binion

Softly and Tenderly

by Lisa Binion

Author - Lisa BinionAbout The Author:
Lisa Binion is a writer, editor, and wife. She makes her home in the beautiful state of Kentucky. Her two children are now grown, but she has been blessed with two beautiful grandchildren, Tyler and Zoey. Her family also includes four dogs, four cats, and two goats.
As the Fiction Writing Editor for BellaOnline, she writes articles, reviews fiction books, and interviews fiction authors. She is also an editor for Silver Tongue Press and Edit 1st. In her spare time, she attempts to clean house and relax. You can find her at https://www.facebook.com/pages/BellaOnline-Fiction-Writing/125143070846792., http://www.silvertonguepress.com/, and http://edit1st.com/.

Genre: Horror Short Story
Horror Short Story
Publisher: Silver Tongue Press

Description:

 “Mom died in her sleep last night.” Those are terrifying words for a child to wake up to. The beetle that falls off the stretcher and stares at her is only the beginning one of the strangest and most frightening times in Lori’s life. Death is not a pretty thing, especially not when the funeral is to be at the Lights Out Chapel and Crematorium. Once she walks into the funeral parlor, she experiences things that no little girl should ever have to experience. No one is acting normal. No one can see what is going on. Is Lori the only one who sees the blood oozing from the pictures of Jesus on the cross? Doesn’t anyone else see the beetles? Is Lori hallucinating when she sees her mom sit up and hears her speak? There is absolutely nothing soft and tender about what happens to Lori. From her overly morbid piano teacher to the creepy preacher and a father that just isn’t acting like himself, Lori is surrounded by people and things that hint of something bizarre. Once she leaves the Lights Out Chapel and Crematorium, things will go back to normal. Or will they?

 Excerpt 1:

“Lori, it’s your turn to say bye now. You need to tell her that you love her and how much you will miss her.” Daddy put me down next to her coffin and placed his hands on my shoulders. He pushed me so close to her death box that I felt the white satin that overlapped to the outside. It rubbed against my hands. At least it was soft for Mommy. She would be comfortable in there.
I decided to speak out loud this time. Maybe no one else would bring me back up here again if I spoke my goodbyes out loud. “Mommy,” I began, but then I started crying so hard I couldn’t speak. Daddy rubbed my shoulders until I quieted down and could begin again. “Mommy, I love you. I don’t want you to leave me. Please come back. No one, not even this Jesus, is worth leaving me over.” I opened my eyes and looked at her. She hadn’t moved since Mrs. Minuet had dragged me up here. But then her eyes opened, and she stared at me. She was staring at me! I sucked my breath in and felt my legs grow weak as my head began to spin. With one hand I grabbed on to the edge of the coffin, while with the other hand I grabbed hold of Daddy’s arm.
“Daddy! Daddy! Mommy’s not dead! She looked at me!” I screamed as I jumped up and down. “She was still alive when they took her out of the house. I saw her trying to get out from under the sheet.” I pulled on his arm and shook it. “Please, Daddy. You’ve got to save her.”
Daddy was beginning to sound a bit mad. He picked me up and held me over top of Mommy. “Maybe if you give her a goodbye kiss you’ll understand she’s dead, and believe me when I tell you she isn’t coming back.” I was so close to Mommy’s cheek that I could see the makeup was beginning to cake in her pores. There was no warmth rising up from her body, only icy coldness.

 Giveaway:

5 eCopies of Softly and Tenderly

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Interview with YA fantasy author Haley Fisher

Today’s guest is young adult novelist Haley Fisher to tell us a bit about Rising Calm.

Haley is giving away 5 copies of Rising Calm, to lucky winners. US/Canada residents have a choice of paper or e-book. International winners will receive an e-book. Use the rafflecopter form below to enter for a chance to win. You can increase your chances of winning, by visiting Haley’s other tour stops and entering there.

Bio:
Haley was born, lives, and is a student in Kansas, where she goes to college and is majoring in English. She has worked a number of odd jobs over the last few years including childcare, kennel staff in a veterinary clinic, and is now employed at a local restaurant as she tries—and often only succeeds through late nights, early mornings, and odd spots of free time—to find the time to write. She has always loved reading, so it seemed only natural that writing should follow. Rising Calm and its sequels are her first novels. When she isn’t reading or writing or working (which is rare), she spends her time with friends and family, catching up on her favorite TV shows, on vacation—or at least wishing she was—and buying books for her never-ending collection.

Welcome, Haley. Please tell us about your current release.
I had a whole list of story ideas that I started in middle school that I wanted to write someday. The general plot for Rising Calm came from one of those ideas, but it became so much more than that when I actually started writing it. It was my favorite idea, this thought that the fate of an entire world rests on the shoulders of a young girl who never asked for the job and sees herself as ill-equipped for it. Like all YA books, the Rising Calm series is very much a coming-of-age story. It’s about growing up and becoming a part of something bigger than yourself, and being brave enough to do so. But it’s also about finding your place while everyone else is trying to tell you what needs to be done. It’s about staying true to yourself when it seems that everyone around you wants you to be something a little different.

What inspired you to write this book?
Everything I’ve ever read! I don’t think there is any one thing that I can say inspired me above all else. Being a reader is what made me want to become a writer, and the books I love, the music I listen to, the movies I watch—all played a part in my book becoming what it is. I knew I wanted to write something in the YA genre, because those are the books I read most often. In middle and high school I would find myself reading a book and when something would happen I would start thinking “What if this had happened instead…?” And a new story would start taking shape in my head. Because of that, I’ve had an ongoing list of things that I thought would make good books since I was in middle school, and the idea for Rising Calm came out of one of those ideas. It was my favorite, even though all I knew was the most general of ideas: I want a girl from earth to be destined to save another world.

What exciting story are you working on next?
Well the sequel, Gathering Clouds, is currently in progress, though going a little slowly. The beginning is giving me no end of trouble. Other than that, though, I have a couple works in progress. I can’t give too much away about them, but I can say one is the beginning of a dystopian trilogy and the other is a stand-alone book about a girl who meets the characters in her own stories as they teach her how to live. I’m excited about all three!

When did you first consider yourself a writer?
I still hardly consider myself a writer! It’s still such an odd thought, to think other people think of me as a writer. I guess it never felt quite right using that term until other people were reading my story. Putting it up on Goodreads was kind of step one, but it was when people starting reading and commenting and giving me feedback that I really felt like a writer. It all kind of compounded from there, with me printing off the pages for a friend to edit, finding a publishing company, etc.

Do you write full-time? If so, what's your work day like?  If not, what do you do other than write and how do you find time to write?
I don’t write full-time. I would love to someday—that’s the dream—but right now I’m actually a college student with a part-time job as well, and I volunteer work and have a social life and homework, and in between all of that I babysit, read, watch TV, and write… I’d like to say that I whatever free time that leaves writing, but even that probably isn’t true. I squeeze it in the gaps of my day. Between classes, I’m editing. Before classes start, I’m scribbling scenes in my notebook. When I’m watching a show, I’ll probably have my laptop in front of me. Before I go to bed, I try to get full scenes fleshed out and in place. Honestly, my writing schedule is mostly late nights and long evenings, not planned blocks of time and word counts. I write when I’m inspired.

What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
I write better when I have something to eat or drink next to me. It doesn’t necessarily matter what it is (though cookie dough is always a nice call) as long as it’s there. Other than that, I’m not sure I have any. I can write anywhere, with any kind of noise or without, on my computer or in a notebook.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Coincidentally, when I was little I wanted to be an author! So that worked out nicely. I’m sure I went through the little kid stages of wanting to be a princess, and an astronaut, and a doctor, and whatever else my child mind could come up with, but I kept coming around to author. Like I said, I’ve always had a thing for books!

Anything additional you want to share with the readers?
Just a quick thank you to everyone who picks my book up! I know that the authors people already know and love are coming out with new books left and right, so taking the time to read anything by an unknown author is hard. I understand and usually agree. But I love that people are willing to give Rising Calm a chance and read something a little new!

Thanks, Haley.

Readers, don't forget about the giveaway!
Haley is giving away 5 copies of Rising Calm – US/Canada have choice of e-book or paperback, International Winners will receive an e-book.


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