Author Zoey Sweete

Please welcome Author Zoey Sweete onto the Road to Hell. Zoey Sweete is the author of Blood Vengeance The Draven Witch Series Book 2 Other books written by Zoey Sweete are Blood Magic The Draven Witch Series Book 1.

Now, it’s time to create a little hell and get to the good stuff by revealing all of Zoey Sweete’s wicked secrets while on the Road to Hell. LOL  Yeah, you wish! ;-D 

Grab your favorite drink, sink your teeth into something decadent, sit back, relax and enjoy getting to know Zoey Sweete…

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GRACEN:  Tell me three things about yourself that we cannot find on the internet or in your bio?

Zoey Sweete: I am extremely hard headed and stubborn as my fiancé would tell you, and can be a handful at time, but says I am worth it. I call it sweet disposition he calls it bitchiness…LOL..I originally didn’t want to write the paranormal genre, I was more into poetry and psychological thriller type writing, but once I got the idea for this series in my head it just wouldn’t go away. I had to write it. I was also a salon manager and lead master stylist for close to 10 years before I decided to pursue my passion which is writing and publishing.

GRACEN: What hobbies and interests do you participate in when you’re not writing?

Zoey Sweete: I have a 4 year old daughter that takes up a lot of my time, but she is the reason I push myself so hard. I also own Mystic Press, which is a small press publishing company, along with Mystic Marketing and Public Relations. I find that helping authors achieve their dreams of being published is the greatest feeling in the world. I also love making book trailers and helping fellow authors get the exposure and credit they deserve. I didn’t have a lot of help when I first started from the publishing house I was with before I took over Mystic, so I relied on the help of fellow authors such as yourself to get the word out. It was a huge help. I am very close with my authors and try to form very personal friendships with them as well as a business partnership. I think it is very important. I also love spending time with my fiancé whether its snuggling up watching a movie or just talking. He has been so supportive with my writing that I try to make sure I spend as much time with him as possible.

GRACEN: Do you have any writing quirks or certain things you MUST have or do before beginning the writing process?

Zoey Sweete: I wouldn’t say I have quirks, but music is a huge inspiration for me. Book 1 I did a ton of research with a detailed outline, but with book 2 I just flew by the seat of my pants and screwed myself royally. I got stuck with a huge ass case of writer’s block for 4 months. So what did I do? I decided to start a novelette back story series kind of like a guide for this series and I be damned if the same thing didn’t happen. So, there will definitely be a process now. I may not research for a year, but some outlining will be a must. Give me some Seether, Manson, Three Days Grace, and some ear buds and I will be just fine. Like I said music is a huge inspiration for writing.

GRACEN: If you were plotting to take over the world, how would you do it?

Zoey Sweete: Zoey Sweete to take over the world…hmmm…I don’t know if I would want to take over the world. I would definitely seek help from my fellow mischievous authors, which will remain nameless to protect their wicked ways..lol…and definitely seek the skills of my fiancé, who was a Marine and one of the best snipers. He has a unique set of skills that might come in handy. 

GRACEN: If you could make one statement that the entire planet would hear and remember, what would it be?

Zoey Sweete: Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

GRACEN:  What genre do you write and why that genre?

Zoey Sweete: I am currently in the paranormal genre, but I don’t want to be just classified in that one alone. I have poetry coming out in the anthology Misery Loves Company, I am writing dark erotica for the anthology, for Dark Desires, and a horror story for In the Darkness When Light Fades, a dark paranormal/horror anthology. I will also be actually taking a leap of faith and publishing my psychological thriller, and possibly a romantic tragedy. So I’m not just about one particular genre, I have a whole world open to me.

GRACEN: For those who are not yet familiar with Zoey Sweete, can you please give us some details about the book and/or series?

Zoey Sweete: The Draven Witch Series starts out with Blood Magic which centers around Renee Draven a witch/vampire hybrid coming to terms of having the world set on her shoulders. Her family’s bloodline has been sought out and hunted by Damaskeos, who has found by draining the witches he can take in their power. It introduces the set of main characters who follow in Blood Vengeance book 2. Renee has failed, and must learn to deal with her past as well the secrets of her family and take in what is about to occur for the future. People who think they know what is going to happen will be left with their mouths open. I am also working on The Draven Dynasty, a novella series that tells the back story of the Draven Witch Series. The first one Blood Destiny explains how the bloodline came to be and gives the readers a look into the past. The second book Blood Lust will be all about Damaskeos and how he came to be and his first kill of the bloodline and finding out that Renee is the one foretold to end him. I plan on having five books total from the Draven Witch Series, and at least four books in the novella series. I am also planning a Demon Hunter Series, because Tristan is just that type of character. He deserves his own series.

GRACEN:  Do you have any new stories in the works and can you tell us a bit about it/them?

Zoey Sweete: I have Wicked Love a book that I have been working on since I was about 14, but never had the guts to publish it. But I think it’s time to introduce my readers into other works other than things that center around the Draven Witch Series. As I mentioned I have plans on being in three anthologies. One will feature my poetry, Misery Loves Company, Dark Desires will allow me the chance to finally write an erotic short story, In the Darkness When Light Fades, will show people the darker side of my writing with a short horror story. Of course the wheels are always turning and I am not going anywhere for a long time.

GRACEN: If you could describe your writing with one word or brief phrase, what would it be? Please delve into the core of your writing to tell us what word or phrase you want readers to take with them when they’ve finished reading your story.

Zoey Sweete: I want them to be taken away to another world, or let it have an impact on them that others do not. With my paranormal writing it would to be taken away, let them feel the sorrow or fear the characters feel. With my other work the impact, feel the way I did when I wrote it as a lot of my future work will be taken from experiences I had or traumatic occurrences I went through.

GRACEN: What, in your opinion, makes your story unique and what makes it stand out from other stories in your genre? Think of this as a pitch to convince readers to pick up your books.

Zoey Sweete: I think every story in unique in their own way. I don’t want people to think that I feel as if my book is better than anyone else’s book it is different. I’m sure there are others that have the some sort of characters but I have rarely seen them all combined in one book. I have the witch/vampire hybrid, I have the demons, I have the demon hunter, the slayer, I have higher beings, I have werewolves, I have, werelions, I have the vampire, and I think it makes it quite diverse to have all of them in the same series. There is even ancient Druid magick that is brought into it.

GRACEN: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?

Zoey Sweete: I went on a paranormal movie kick when I first started my series outline. I would say some of them were pretty rotten movies. I wanted to make sure mine stood out. I looked up demons, went to bookstores bought demon lore and witchcraft books, and some of the looks I got made me feel weird. So I have done it all.

GRACEN: Of all your books, which character did you have the most fun creating and why?

Zoey Sweete: That is an easy one. It would be Tristan. He is the British comic relief. He is such a sarcastic smartass and says the things no one else has the guts to say. He always has an answer for everything whether he is the one being asked. I absolutely love writing him. He is a blast. I think that’s why he deserves his own series.

GRACEN: If you had the opportunity to meet just one of your characters in real life, who would it be and why?

Zoey Sweete: Again it would be Tristan. I think it would be such an entertaining time to be in his company. I am sure there would a few interesting things pop up.

GRACEN: Which of your characters would you never want to meet under any circumstance and why?

Zoey Sweete: I don’t know about meeting but I definitely wouldn’t want to piss her off and that would be Demya, as for now. She is probably the darkest character I have but that will change at the end of book 3. Then there will be a whole new evil brought in or resurrected per say. Of course a whole new villain will be born at the end of the series and not so sure I’d want to be in their company.

GRACEN:  If you were interviewing yourself, what is the one question you would ask yourself and please give us the answer to that question?

Zoey Sweete: What is it really like being an author? A lot of people don’t understand what’s like being an author. My fiancé had a hard time dealing with it when we first got together. He didn’t understand that when I say I have to write it means get off the computer so I can write. He also didn’t understand that my mind is always going. I have sometimes 10 characters at once in my head and of course he likes to playfully say I’m crazy or I have multiple personalities, but it’s the truth. Other authors understand that but I don’t think “normal” people really get it. Our minds never shut off, we are always thinking and plotting. He has always been supportive but really ‘gets’ me now. Which I am thankful for.

GRACEN:  Thanks so much for joining us, Zoey Sweete!  It’s been a treat getting to know you better! 

Website: http://www.sweetesinz.webs.com/

Buy Link:

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Any other links/sites you wish to offer readers so they can find you on the world wide web, such as buy links for other books, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc.

http://www.facebook.com/ZoeySweete

http://ww.facebook.com/TheDravenWitchSeries

http://www.facebook.com/TheDravenDynasty

http://www.thesweeteness.blogspot.com/

zoeysweete@gmail.com

Twitter: @Zoey_Sweete

Blurb for Blood Vengeance Book 2 of The Draven Witch Series

There is an evil rising that wishes to seek havoc….Renee Draven believed her battle was over but her nightmare is just beginning. There is a darkness lurking seeking vengeance; with vengeance comes loss and family secrets will be revealed. Renee will question her lineage and her power; while other Evils play on her doubts she must determine truth from lies. Or will the lies be enough to rip the light from our heroine’s soul? With the past revealed the future holds a shock conclusion. New heroes will be found and new allies will be made…lives will be lost and hearts will be broken…are you ready for the ride to hell and back?

EXCERPT

Lily had disappeared and she stood alone, and cold with the Evil One. He smiled at her, motioning for her to come closer. Renee did not hesitate. Something pulled her to him. They were only inches apart, when Damaskeos pushed her against the alleyway wall, with one hand making its way up underneath her shirt, flickering over her nipple, his wicked smile growing, while the other moved her hair from her neck. His tongue ran down the length of her neck from her ear downwards. Renee shivered underneath his touch and something foreseen stirred inside her. His fingertips moved around to the back of her shirt and there was a power to them that she had never felt before. She shuttered at the thought, she almost liked it. Renee could feel his lips on her ear, “Do you remember how it felt Draven? When my fangs entered your flesh, you let me take you willing, as she did, no fighting. It will happen again, I will have all of you. Our destinies are intertwined. Remember that Draven. I always win, always.”

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Welcome author Brian McKinley on The Road to Hell

Please welcome Author Brian Patrick McKinley onto the Road to Hell. Brian is the author of ANCIENT BLOOD: A NOVEL OF THE HEGEMONY.

Now, it’s time to create a little hell and get to the good stuff by revealing all of Brian’s wicked secrets while on the Road to Hell. LOL  Yeah, you wish! ;-D 

Grab your favorite drink, sink your teeth into something decadent, sit back, relax and enjoy getting to know Brian…

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GRACEN:  Tell me three things about yourself that we cannot find on the internet or in your bio?

BRIAN: I’m a role playing geek, I have acted in and directed community theater, and I compulsively watch HGTV and Food Network.

GRACEN: What hobbies and interests do you participate in when you’re not writing?

BRIAN: I have a regular Dungeons & Dragons game that I play on Fridays with friends. Other that that, sadly, most of my time is spent either working or doing writing-related things. Most of my hobbies work toward my writing in some way.

GRACEN: Do you have any writing quirks or certain things you MUST have or do before beginning the writing process?

BRIAN: I like to write to music in someplace that’s private, but that’s just my preferred method. I’ll sneak a few paragraphs while I’m at work if I can or anywhere else, so I don’t really have any rituals or special quirks. I do prefer privacy, though, because sometimes I’ll speak dialogue aloud while I’m working on a scene and act things out, so I get embarrassed if someone catches me doing it.

GRACEN: If you were plotting to take over the world, how would you do it?

BRIAN: My vampires already have. (laughs) But if I really wanted to take over the world, I’d support the Republican Party and get their help to use obscene amounts of money, blackmail, and influence to increase people’s dependence on corporations here and around the world. Eventually, when a few of the largest corporations have bought all the smaller ones, they merge, and you’ve got a tiny corporate board of directors essentially controlling everything. Everyone worries about the government becoming too powerful, but they forget that modern mega-corporations completely transcend world governments and some have more money than most governments!

GRACEN: If you could make one statement that the entire planet would hear and remember, what would it be?

BRIAN: Stop letting governments and corporations take more and more of our freedoms away from us. Fight back!

GRACEN:  What genre do you write and why that genre?

BRIAN: I’ve been told that what I write is Horror, but I’ve often had difficulty accepting that label because my goal isn’t to scare people. I like to make people think, but I suppose some of my ideas are frightening and the consequences they lead to are often horrible, so I guess it fits. I suppose I write the type of books that I like to read. I like stories that involve interesting characters confronting aspects of themselves. For me, writing is an intensive and difficult process, so I need to make it worthwhile. I want my stories to be entertaining, but I can’t write fluff. Others do that better than me, so I need to concentrate on giving voice to the characters in my head.

GRACEN: For those who are not yet familiar with Ancient Blood, can you please give us some details about the book and/or series?

BRIAN: Ancient Blood is intended to be the first book in a series featuring the Hegemony, which is what I call the council of vampires who secretly control the world. In the first book, we meet Avery Doyle who is a modern guy that is totally into the current trend of vampires. He reads vampire novels, watches shows like Buffy and Angel, loves vampire movies, and has researched the folklore. So, basically, he thinks he knows everything there is to know about vampires and, secretly, wishes that he could be one. He’s kind of a loser and vampires are the epitome of everything he thinks he’d like to be: mysterious, slightly tragic, seductive, beautiful, and powerful. As luck or irony would have it, he meets a real vampire named Caroline and falls hard for her. Eventually she makes him into a vampire, too, but they get captured by Caroline’s Creator Sebastian and taken back to his private island estate. This is where Avery discovers that being a vampire sucks. (laughs) Pun intended. The vampires of the Hegemony already have all the blood they need, so they worry about feeding as much as we worry about what we’re having for dinner. They’re rich, they have people to do the dirty work for them, so they spend their time building up and holding onto their political power because that’s what protects them from their fellow vampires. See, in my world, the biggest danger a vampire faces is their fellow vampire.

GRACEN:  Do you have any new stories in the works and can you tell us a bit about it/them?

BRIAN: I have three stories coming out in the Mystic Press anthology Misery Loves Company in December. Two are about a character named Faolan O’Connor, who is the protagonist of my next book, Drawing Dead, which I’m finishing up now. The other is a story called The Chermasu which features a new take on werewolves and is from a novel I intend to go back and finish soon. There will be a sequel to Chermasu called Monsters in another anthology from Mystic called In the Darkness … When the Light Fades.

GRACEN: If you could describe your writing with one word or brief phrase, what would it be? Please delve into the core of your writing to tell us what word or phrase you want readers to take with them when they’ve finished reading your story.

BRIAN:  I like the sound of “Paranormal Realism.”

GRACEN: What, in your opinion, makes your story unique and what makes it stand out from other stories in your genre? Think of this as a pitch to convince readers to pick up your books.

BRIAN: I’d like to think that a major aspect that separates my work from others in the same genre is the level of believability I strive to put in every story. I try to deal with the world as we know it, rather than create a fantastical setting that justifies my story. To me, a story with fantastical elements that is grounded in the reality that I see every day is more effective. I did scientific research to try to create a vampire that was as biologically plausible as I could; granted, a real scientist or doctor could probably poke holes in my concepts, but it was important to me that they hold up an intelligent reader. I don’t discount the possibility of the extraordinary, but it still has to be grounded in some kind of realism for me. I want readers to be able to believe that the events of my novel have actually happened.

GRACEN: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?

BRIAN: I wish I had a really cool story to share, but I don’t! I do most of my research through reading books or looking stuff up on the internet. I was going to say that I drank blood, but no, nothing bizarre. Sorry!

GRACEN: Of all your books, which character did you have the most fun creating and why?

BRIAN: Probably my current protagonist, Faolan O’Connor. I love that classic gangster period of the 20s and 30s, so the chance to create my own gangster was irresistible. He started off as a villain in another story, but he was so charismatic and funny and likeable that I couldn’t keep him contained to one story. I was also afraid that the reader would start to like him more than my heroes, so I created a series for him. There’s a little of my late father in his attitude, my grandfathers, and various other older people I’ve known and respected throughout my life.

GRACEN: If you had the opportunity to meet just one of your characters in real life, who would it be and why?

BRIAN: It would probably have to be Avery from Ancient Blood. He’s a lot like me and we have a lot in common, so I know we could hang out and watch movies or talk and we’d have a great time!

GRACEN: Which of your characters would you never want to meet under any circumstance and why?

BRIAN: (laughs) Probably any of the others! Most of my characters are manipulative assholes and sadistic, bloodthirsty psychopaths! They’d kill me or worse!

GRACEN:  If you were interviewing yourself, what is the one question you would ask yourself and please give us the answer to that question?

BRIAN: Wow, that’s probably the toughest question you’ve asked. There’s so many funny or silly questions I could use … I’m going to ask myself: What is my favorite novel? And my answer is: That’s a very tough choice, but I’m going to say Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It’s a fantastic read and there’s not a wasted or uninteresting character in the entire novel. I found the main character fascinating and what can you say about a novel in which the author makes you cry for a man who murders whole families and wish he could have a happy ending? Not to mention that it’s Hannibal Lecter’s first ever appearance. It’s a brilliant work!

GRACEN:  Thanks so much for joining us, Brian!  It’s been a treat getting to know you better! 

BRIAN: Thank you. It’s been great!

Website:  http://brianpatrickmckinley.webs.com/

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BLURB: Avery Doyle loves vampires; when his first one-night-stand, Caroline, turns out to be a true vampire on the run, he jumps at the chance to leave his ordinary life and join her as a "child of the night." The honeymoon ends, however, when Caroline's brutal Creator Sebastian enslaves them on his island estate and Avery must confront the dehumanizing reality behind his dreams. 

In order to survive, Caroline and Avery take their place as servants in Sebastian's household during a gathering of the most powerful vampires on Earth, the Hegemony, and soon find themselves involved in the myriad schemes, plots, and revenges that form the night-to-night existence of The Order. Sebastian, however, has a plan that will change The Order forever and shatter human civilization. A fast-paced thriller that both re-imagines and pays tribute to the traditional vampire, Ancient Blood is a story of love, ambition, sacrifice, and betrayal that is frighteningly human. 

EXCERPT: (any heat level as this is an 18+ site)

Wilkes smiled and went to the cages, dragging a ten or eleven-year-old girl out and bringing her back. The girl squealed through her tape and squirmed in her bonds and I felt my heart sink as I noticed something else.

A sharp pang of hunger.

Wilkes snickered as he set the girl down in front of us. “Best watch yourself, boy, looks like this one’s a fighter!”

“Well, though one begins moderately, Major, one must still learn.” Sebastian smiled and Wilkes laughed like a good little flunky while he cut the bonds on the girl’s wrists and ankles. She scrambled away from him and into Caroline’s waiting arms.

I kept my eyes away from her as much as possible. When I used to see moments like this in vampire movies, they always seemed overdone and melodramatic, but this was the first time I understood what it meant to feel a deep, predatory hunger for another human being. The fact that she was a young, naked girl was the worst part; it made me feel like a child molester on top of everything else.

Sebastian closed the gate to the passage and then he, Wilkes, and the rest of the soldiers went back upstairs. Caroline made soft, reassuring sounds for the girl while she wept and I tried to look at other things or just closed my eyes and wished fervently that I couldn’t smell the girl so near, so clean and young and soft.

I could resist it, of course, and somehow that was the worst part. I think that if a Vampyr’s hunger for blood was the kind of irresistible supernatural compulsion you see so often in books and movies, it would be easier to live with. Something that’s honestly beyond your control doesn’t cause you as much shame as something that you know you can fight if you’re strong enough. Most modern Americans have never actually starved; we can be hungry at times, but food is usually easy to come by. So we eat, often to the point of excess. Like I did when I was human.

It’s a hard habit to break as a Vampyr.

I imagine that the hunger is similar to how addicts feel when confronted by their substance of choice. The more you try not to think about it, the more aware of it you are. You can have every good reason not to do it, but if you don’t have something physically keeping you from the object of your desire, then it all comes down to willpower. When was the last time you were so thirsty your throat burned and you didn’t take a drink from a glass of water sitting on the table in front of you?

“My insurance didn’t scare him,” Caroline said. “He’s planning something … something big.”

I just nodded. I didn’t trust myself to speak because I could feel my mouth watering and my canines pushing down again. As my injuries healed, my body cried out for fresh energy to feed it. Energy it knew was readily available.

“Avery, look at me.”

I didn’t want to; I knew it would make it worse to see the little girl lying there against Caroline’s chest, but after a deep breath, I turned and tried to stare into her eyes—only her eyes, because there was safety there.

Caroline looked worried, but with an underlying sadness that could only come from understanding. She nodded and said, “Give me your jacket.”

I slipped out of the denim jacket I’d been wearing and gave it to her, grateful for something else to think about. Caroline wrapped the little girl up in it and gently settled her sleeping form down onto the floor beside her. With the temptation removed from my view, it was a little easier to concentrate on what she was saying.

“Now do you understand that physical force and bold attempts aren’t going to be enough to get us out of here?”

As much as I still wanted to entertain fantasies of pumping Sebastian full of machine gun fire, I’d realized by that point that it wasn’t gonna happen. I nodded.

“Good,” she said. “Because I do have a few ideas about how we might, but they depend on both of us playing The Game, as they call it. We have to make Sebastian believe that we’re submitting to him. We have to be allowed to move around when the Gathering occurs. I can’t go into much detail now, but I need to know that I can count on you to follow my lead even if it’s difficult.”

I think I sensed, even then, that this wasn’t a small thing she was asking. So I didn’t just toss off the immediate “of course” that was my first reaction. Instead, I looked into her gorgeous green eyes for the love that I knew was there and, when I found it, I leaned forward and kissed her. “You can always count on me. I swear.”

Even concentrating on Caroline’s scent as we held each other, I still felt the smell of the girl’s skin tickling my nose and the throb of her tiny heart teasing its way into my ears. Caroline sensed this somehow and removed one of her earrings. Vampyrs should always carry multiple items that will allow them to draw blood if they don’t have their canines sharpened (as neither Caroline nor I do). You’d be surprised what you can use, if push comes to shove.

She gave me the earring and, as delicately as I could, I pierced one of the smaller arteries at the bottom of her neck. I handed the earring back to her and bent to drink. While I did, she punctured my neck in the same way and put her lips to the wound. This is probably the one major advantage a starving Vampyr has over a starving human, this mutual-cannibalism we can perform. I guess it’s a little like having sex while freezing just to generate bodily warmth, but among Vampyrs, this is considered the purest form of lovemaking. It didn’t have the climactic intensity of sex, but it was a warmer plateau, like riding that pre-orgasmic moment forever. Or, for those of a more gastronomic bent, imagine eating the best chocolate sundae you ever had and never reaching the bottom of the dish and never losing your appetite for it. It made me feel close to her in a way that was impossible with any other form of verbal or physical expression. At that moment, we were literally one being, one system circulating its life between our separate halves.

We fed and kissed and comforted each other for the rest of the night. When sunrise came, we fell into our daytime hibernation coma holding each other. We never touched the girl.

But I would have, except for Caroline. I know in my heart and in my soul that I would have broken sometime during those hours and torn into the flesh of that beautiful, innocent child to get at the blood I wanted. I’ve lived with that every night since.

I suppose that was Sebastian’s first lesson.

His second, I’m sorry to say, came the next night when we woke: the girl lay on the floor just as we’d left her, but the blood from her slit throat had soaked into the fabric of my jacket and pooled on the stones around her. Caroline wept with a visible fury. I was pissed off and sickened, of course, but I was also still hungry and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that a secret, cowardly part of me was relieved to have the option taken from me.

I try to live with that, too.

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The Road to Hell series welcomes author Lindsay Anne Kendal

Please welcome Author Lindsay Anne Kendal onto the Road to Hell. Lindsay is the author of the Bloodlines Trilogy. Other books written by Lindsay are Torment and Leticia.

Now, it’s time to create a little hell and get to the good stuff by revealing all of Lindsay’s wicked secrets while on the Road to Hell. LOL  Yeah, you wish! ;-D 

Grab your favorite drink, sink your teeth into something decadent, sit back, relax and enjoy getting to know Lindsay…

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GRACEN:  Tell me three things about yourself that we cannot find on the internet or in your bio?

LINDSAY: Oh that’s hard because I’m so open. Let me think, I have an obsession with Tattoos, I can’t walk into a clothes shop and not walk out with new lingerie. I have far too much, but hey it’s gorgeous. I check Ann Summers regularly to look at the new toys lol.

GRACEN: What hobbies and interests do you participate in when you’re not writing?

LINDSAY: I love photography and spending time with my 14 month old niece. Doing both together is fantastic. We go out to some beautiful locations. My sister comes along too. It’s very relaxing.

GRACEN: Do you have any writing quirks or certain things you MUST have or do before beginning the writing process?

LINDSAY: Oh yes! There must be chocolate, Pepsi Max and access to tea at all times. Also, my Ipod goes in my ears and doesn’t come back out.

GRACEN: If you were plotting to take over the world, how would you do it?

LINDSAY: Conjure up a few demons and have them help me. It would be join me or meet your demise mwahahahaha. Plus, I would love to see people’s faces if a big scary demon dude walked up to them.

GRACEN: If you could make one statement that the entire planet would hear and remember, what would it be?

LINDSAY: Love yourself for who you are, not what people want you to be. Natural and honest is true beauty.

GRACEN:  What genre do you write and why that genre?

LINDSAY: I write Urban fantasy/romance/horror. It’s the only thing that truly interests me and hold my attention. I love being able to escape everyday life and enter a world of fantasy. I would love my readers to be able to do the same. You can have so much fun with these genres, you don’t have to follow set rules or patterns. The possibilities are endless.

GRACEN: For those who are not yet familiar with Lindsay, can you please give us some details about the book and/or series?

LINDSAY: Of course, Bloodlines is the first in a trilogy of novels and follows Keira, a young woman in her twenties who is heir to an awesome power. After the death of her beloved grandfather, Keira starts to experience strange dreams, hears voices calling to her while she is awake. She learns her family was one of five bloodlines and sets off in search of the others. What she finds turns her world upside down and everything she believed impossible, became part of her everyday life. Keira learns more about her lineage and then… things get interesting. 

The story is full of twists and turns, it’s very dark and puts a new twist on all things stereotypically classed as good and evil.

GRACEN:  Do you have any new stories in the works and can you tell us a bit about it/them?

LINDSAY: I’m just finishing off the last book of my trilogy, Revelations and the second part of my newly released series Leticia which is a paranormal romance. I have a secret project I’m working on, it’s definitely going to be an adult book and is multi genre, Urban Fantasy/Crime/suspense and its bringing back some classic demons that don’t seem to have been written about for a long time.  I can’t tell you anything else because, well, it’s a secret lol.

GRACEN: What, in your opinion, makes your story unique and what makes it stand out from other stories in your genre?

LINDSAY: I would have to say, the storyline itself. It’s something different to what’s out there at the moment. It turns things on their head and has people thinking… shouldn’t that be evil… how can that be…. Nah that’s not right…. BUT, what if?

A lot of the characters are also unique, they appear in certain religions and they have very interesting backgrounds.

I do have messages hidden in the books, especially in Torment. A lot of people have picked up on it and it caused quite the discussion on rather large blog site last year. But I don’t want to say what it is, I want to see if people pick up on it.

GRACEN: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?

LINDSAY: Faced off with an entity in the middle of Saddleworth Moors. I have a strong sixth sense and I can see and hear things others can’t. While I love being like this, when you get an evil son of bitch trying to attack you and you are the only one that can see it. It’s not to good. However, I don’t frighten easy and I go back to the places I know are haunted, I love that feeling when all the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. If you experience things like this, it makes it a lot easier to write. Also, what better inspiration can you get when you write in the paranormal genre?

GRACEN: Of all your books, which character did you have the most fun creating and why?

LINDSAY: Eligos. He’s based on some religious and mythical, for lack of a better word, facts. But I also put my own twist on him. I had to read into demonology which was good fun, I’ve always been interested in the darker side of this and some of the texts I read we’re mind blowing.

GRACEN: If you had the opportunity to meet just one of your characters in real life, who would it be and why?

LINDSAY: Again that would have to be Eligos. Just to meet a real demon would be awesome. Plus he’s so old. Can you imagine the things something that age would have seen and experienced. I love history, so I’d have to tie him to a chair and make him tell everything he possibly could. I’d never get bored.

GRACEN: Which of your characters would you never want to meet under any circumstance and why?

LINDSAY: That would be Marimay. Simply because she is a nasty piece of work and if she did to me what she does to my character Keira, the bitch would have to die!

GRACEN:  If you were interviewing yourself, what is the one question you would ask yourself and please give us the answer to that question?

LINDSAY: Err that’s a good question isn’t it! I would ask myself if I’m really as dark as I make out?  The answer to that is yes, but I do go a darker. Anything paranormal, evil, sinister, even the dark arts, black magic; they all fascinate me and I’m crazy enough to play with it all. The darker the better. If I were a fictional character I would be soooo evil lol.

GRACEN:  Thanks so much for joining us, LINDSAY!  It’s been a treat getting to know you better! 

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BLURB: Bloodlines.

Keira Jameson used to lead a normal life, she just had a gift, passed down through the generations of her family.

Now, after hearing voices, having strange dreams of others calling out to her, and her grandfather's last words haunting her, she sets out to find other families like hers. Along with her best friend Lily, the only person outside her family to know about her gift, Keira begins a hunt for her ancestors. A chance meeting with a young man, Lucian Turner, sets them on the right track, but their discoveries change the way Keira will see herself for ever more.

Fear, superstition and heritage are shaping Keira's future and she must face her enemies, even if this could mean losing her life. Through loss and love her destiny becomes inescapable.

Part Buffy-style horror, part tender romance, Bloodlines will have fans of the genre on tenterhooks waiting for the next installment of this gripping and hell-raising tale.

EXCERPT: 

I sat on the steps of the front porch with another cup of coffee. I had so many unanswered questions and they were driving me insane.

“So many questions,” I heard an unfamiliar male voice say.

When I turned around nobody was there.

“Hello,” I shouted as I got up and looked around the sides of the house, but there was no reply.

I thought I’d imagined it until I turned to face the porch again. He was sitting on the step close to where I had just been, looking out towards the gardens. I froze on the spot.

“Who are you?” I asked warily.

“Don’t be afraid,” he said.

“I’m not.”

“Then why don’t you come and sit down?” He quizzed, still staring ahead of him. “Or would you prefer to stand there like a statue?”

I slowly made my way to the steps and sat across from him. Finally he turned to look at me. I nearly choked on the air. He took my breath away – he was even more beautiful in the daylight. His eyes weren’t the bright red they had been last night. Instead they were an intense dark blue, like deep-blue sapphires. His skin was pale and without a single blemish. His perfect black hair was shorter than it had looked in the dark – it went to just below his chin, parts of it spiking outwards a little, with half a fringe, quite long, falling lightly over his left eye and cheek. He looked young too, only a little older than me, dressed in dark-blue jeans, a black shirt and black-leather steel-toecap boots.

“Who are you?” I eventually asked again.

“A friend,” he said before turning away from me.

“Why were you here last night?”

“Hmm, inquisitive, aren’t we?”

“If you haven’t come to tell me anything, then why are you here?”

“I wanted to meet you.”

“Why?”

“Questions, questions and more questions. Can you actually hold a conversation with someone without asking them questions?” He asked sarcastically.

“I can if I actually want to speak to the person,” I replied coldly.

“Well, all you had to do was tell me to leave,” he said, standing up.

“Wait!”

“I thought you didn’t want to talk.”

“At least tell me your name,” I said.

“Ha, I’ve got a better idea,” he grinned, taking off a silver ring. “You tell me,” he dropped the ring into my hand and walked down the steps. “When you find the answers you’re looking for, call my name,” he said, turning to face me. “And don’t lose that ring; I want it back.”

He smirked at me for a moment before fading away in front of me. It was as though he had dissolved into thin air. I stood up and walked into the house with the ring. I sat at the kitchen counter studying it for a moment. It was big and heavy, with a circular display. Carved into the silver was a picture or symbol of some sort. It looked like a rectangular box, only the lid was an arrow pointing east. Spiraling along the arrow was what seemed to be the carving of a snake, and, at the bottom of the box, five circles put together to form a ‘plus’ symbol. There were no words or numbers anywhere, just the carving.

“What am I supposed to do with this?” I said out loud, as though he could hear me.

Then it dawned on me. He was a demon, and what do almost all demons have? – A seal. I put the ring in my pocket and grabbed my car keys.

Torment Blurb

Keira has been through Hell, literally..... But now she's back, and stronger than ever!

In this second gripping installment of the Bloodlines trilogy Keira and her friends - Lily, Lucian, Tyler, Jake and Danny - continue to try and understand their elemental powers, and protect themselves from their enemies, whose ultimate goal is to destroy them.

This time, the stakes are higher - what seems to be a demon rebellion has broken out in hell and the Earth is plunged into chaos. Their problem is, no one - not even Lucifer himself - knows who the rebel leader is.

It seems only Keira, her frightened but determined friends, and a new ally - a demon named Eligos - can find out who this person or thing is, why they are suddenly causing so much bloodshed, pain and upset for everyone, and destroy them.

Leticia Blurb.

Leticia has a dark secret, and somebody somewhere knows what it is.

After being tormented and brutally attacked, it becomes obvious they want her dead. A mysterious group come to her aid. They want to fight by her side and help her win the war someone has declared on her. Together, they present a force to be reckoned with.

Love, loss and longing put strains on the alliance. Not only must they fight their enemies, but their own fears and desires.

Leticia must also face a harsh reality. If she wants a happy future, she must first confront her past.

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Leticia

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