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Abigail Keam

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What book(s) most influenced you as a writer?

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Any book by Raymond E. Feist

A Is For Alibi by Sue Grafton

What book do you read over and over again?

The classics of any genre. 

Thursday Trio-

1)      Movie- Gilda with Rita Hayworth

2)      Music- Sixties Rock

3)      Decadent Dessert- My mother’s Christmas fudge

What’s the most interesting or bizarre bit of trivia you’ve learned from researching for a novel?  There are scorpions in Kentucky. 

Novel on your Nightstand:

Who/what are you currently reading?

Wrath Of A Mad God by Raymond E. Feist

Whom would you cast as your Main Characters/Hero/Heroine if your book became a movie?  Summer Glau as Princess Maura  and Taylor Lautner as Dorak

Princess Maura is the beloved and spoiled daughter of Queen Abisola and her Consort Iasos, but an ill wind is blowing their way. From the distant east nomadic tribesmen known as the Bhuttanians have unified under the leadership of Zoar, a powerful chieftain who is bent on building a vast empire. Queen Abisola has little time to transform her peaceful, agrarian country into a fighting military unit able to take on Zoar’s experienced warriors.

Queen Abisola must sacrifice her daughter to the Dinii, a bird-like people who will adopt and train Princess Maura as a warrior who will lead her people against Zoar. For years, both the Dinii and Maura’s people train to withstand Zoar’s inevitable onslaught, but they never anticipated fighting the powerful black magic of Zoar’s evil Wizard.

Will Princess Maura lose the love of her life as she struggles to save her people? Will her country be able to survive where other countries have crumbled before the tyranny of Zoar? Or will the Dinii betray her county to the warlord Zoar?

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Taryn Raye Spotlights Shades of the Future by @suzannelilly #TMPress @FictionWitches

A Honey Creek Young Adult Novel

from Turquoise Morning Press

$2.99 on Kindle

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Mariah Davis loves animals, running, and her hunk of a boyfriend, Kevin Creamer. Everything looks bright for her until the day she finds a pair of sunglasses that allows her to see the future.

When she glimpses a disaster looming, she tries to avoid it but fails. She has a car accident that lands her in a wheelchair, smashing her hopes for a running scholarship to the veterinary program at Ohio State University. She pushes Kevin away, thinking he’ll want to end their relationship now that she can’t walk.

Will she ever learn to trust and love again? She could search for an answer in the sunglasses. But she’s afraid what they reveal might destroy her.

Reviews-
“Suzanne Lilly weaves an engaging world populated with charming and eccentric characters that readers will want to visit again and again.” ~Brenda Hiatt, Award winning romance and young adult author

“An absolutely wonderful read!” ~Susan Hatler, International bestselling author

#FFF- #Ariel by @gabrielmadison @FictionWitches #TMPress

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Angel Santos just wants to be an average seventeen year-old girl. That’s kind of hard for a reincarnated Archangel who’s hiding her powers. It gets even harder when God vanishes from Heaven and her old friends turn to her to find the last angel to see Him. Now all she has to do is stop the impending apocalypse and fend off her best friend’s attempts to make her popular. All in a week’s work.

Author Bio:

Gabriel Madison started writing when he was in high school, mostly short stories and poetry, and then developed a passion for screenplays. He attended a private art University in Atlanta, Georgia for Media Production. There he studied script writing and film making. He wrote a few screenplays, and made a few short movies, including a twelve-minute vampire movie he adapted from a short story called Midnight Diner. After leaving school, his passion shifted mainly towards writing stories, rather than shooting and directing them. He writes short stories, novellas, screenplays, graphic novels and full-length novels. He was once asked to define himself: he answered... ‘storyteller.’

You can find Gabriel online at http://gabrielmadison.blogspot.com/