Author Interview: Megan Tayte

What do you like to do when you're not writing?

With two children, a busy business and several books to edit/publish/promote, I don’t get a lot of down time in an average day, but I try to chill with my kids before their bedtime – stories, games, bathtime, snuggles. Then later in the evening, after another session at my desk, I get stuck into whatever boxset I’m working through, with, if I’m being good, chocolate-coated rice cakes or, if I’m not being good, just chocolate! Then I read until late in bed, which is my ultimate way to unwind. I plan regular breaks from the routine too – walks in parks, meals out, holidays by the sea.

If I’m feeling stressed, I go to the university campus near my house. Years ago, when I was a student there and lived on campus, I’d walk around it daily – it’s huge, and green, and full of flowers and benches with great views, plus there’s a large lake and a cafe that serves up great cream teas. These days, I try to go at least twice a month. Some days I write there, in the library. Some days I hole up in the hotel, which is arty and very calming. Some days I take the kids and we go exploring – we found a great secluded summerhouse once that you get to by climbing a rockery, and now we go there for biscuit-and-orange-squash picnics.

Do you plot out your stories first or just start writing to see where it goes?

A mixture of both. I plan books pretty carefully, but then I give myself permission to go with the flow as I write as well. Sometimes I end up discarding the material I write on a deviation (I cut a full chapter from Death Wish in which I killed off a major character because when I read it back it felt all wrong – and too harrowing); sometimes I love the new course and follow it all the way. The Ceruleans series is twisting and turning – some of those were planned, some were gifts of the muse.

What has been the most rewarding part of being an author?

For me, the writing itself is ultimate reward – I love writing; I feel like I’m most myself when writing. But I also love connecting with readers. And I really love the little launch parties my family throws when I release a new book. Sounds swanky, right? Not at all! I let my son (age six) plan everything, which results in cake, candles, balloons, indoor sparklers, cheesy party tunes and (essential launch party kit) animal masks. I don’t think publishing gets more fun than trying to ingest chocolate cake through a penguin mask. 

What is a challenging part about being a writer?

The way it consumes me. When I’m in the concept, first draft and rewrite stages, the story takes me over. I love the feeling, but it can make focusing in other areas of my life tricky. The day job becomes more challenging, and at times I find I’m washing up/cooking/building Lego towers/finger-painting with the kids in a dreamy haze. At its worst, that can mean slightly charred dinners and Technicoloured children. Thankfully, my family is very understanding!

Are you currently working on any projects?

I just published the second book in the Ceruleans series, Forget Me Not, and I’m busy editing the remaining three books for publication. Then I’ll be starting work on my next novel. I intend to repeat the process ad infinitum; I learnt many years ago when I wrote my very first book that there will always have to be a next one. It’s a way of being for me, and a very happy one.

If you could be any animal for a day what would it be and why?

A tapir. It’s been my favourite animal since I first saw one at a zoo in my early twenties. I’m slightly obsessed with this much-overlooked animal, to the point that I just had to work one in to the second Ceruleans book, Forget Me Not. I guess I can’t help rooting for the underdog – in this case, undertapir…

About the book:

IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF DEATH, SHE’LL FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE.
The Ceruleans: mere mortals infused with power over life and death. Five books; one question: If
the might of the heavens were in your hands, would you be sinner or saint?
Seventeen-year-old Scarlett Blake is haunted by death. Her estranged sister has made the ultimate dramatic exit. Running away from school, joining a surfing fraternity, partying hard: that sounds like Sienna. But suicide? It makes no sense.
Following in her sister’s footsteps, Scarlett comes to the isolated cove of Twycombe, Devon, with grand plans to uncover the truth. Alone. But she hasn’t reckoned on meeting two boys who are determined to help her. Luke: the blue-eyed surfer who’ll see the real Scarlett, who’ll challenge her, who’ll save her. And Jude: the elusive drifter with a knack for turning up whenever Scarlett’s in need.
As Scarlett’s quest for the truth unravels, so too does her grip on reality as she’s always known it. Because there’s something strange going on in this little cove. A dead magpie circles the skies. A dead deer watches from the undergrowth. Hands glow with light. Warmth. Power.
What transpires is a summer of discovery. Of what it means to conquer fear. To fall in love. To choose life. To choose death.
To believe the impossible.

Author Bio:

Once upon a time a little girl told her grandmother that when she grew up she wanted to be a writer. Or a lollipop lady. Or a fairy princess fireman. 'Write, Megan,' her grandmother advised. So that's what she did.

Thirty-odd years later, Megan writes the kinds of books she loves to read: young-adult paranormal romance fiction. Young adult, because it's the time of life that most embodies freedom and discovery and first love. Paranormal, because she's always believed that there are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. And romance, because she's a misty-eyed dreamer who lives for those 'life is so breathtakingly beautiful' moments.

Megan grew up in the Royal County, a hop, skip and a (very long) jump from Windsor Castle, but these days she makes her home in Robin Hood's county, Nottingham. She lives with her husband, a proud Scot who occasionally kicks back in a kilt; her son, a budding artist with the soul of a paleontologist; and her baby daughter, a keen pan-and-spoon drummer who sings in her sleep. When she's not writing, you'll find her walking someplace green, reading by the fire, or creating carnage in the kitchen as she pursues her impossible dream: of baking something edible.

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Author Interview: Oliver Sparrow

1. When did you first know you wanted to write?

I’m not sure that the question is meaningful: when, after all, did you first know that you wanted to walk, to dig in the garden?  Utilitarian things become recognised as pleasures through gradual steps, and it is the refining of those steps which point up the pleasures. I must have written several million words before I began on Dark Sun, Bright Moon, chiefly on analytical, technical matters: should we invest in Colombia? Please explain the new Russia to us, the Chinese economy, India. The audience for this thinks very well of itself, but it doesn’t know what it needs to know, is impatient with attempts at academic education and, in general,  has the attention span of an amphetamine-saturated gnat. This imposes its disciplines, with harsh penalties if you step off the invisible line drawn by their tolerance for you. 

 The liberty that writing fiction brings does not at all free one from these disciplines: the requirement of narrative precision, of careful context building, of gradually extending the cantilever of the reader’s understanding further out over the dark river of ignorance that they must bridge. And it is this, of course, which is the creative challenge, and it is from satisfying that challenge that the pleasures of creativity flow. In a commercial audience, it is the palpable illumination of light bulbs over heads, in fiction it is the look of dreamy disconnect in the reader, as they move from their world to the one your are building for them. 

2. Which authors inspire you the most?

I have struggled to analyse what pleases me. I greatly enjoy Big Picture fiction – not least, some science fiction – but then there’s Jane Austen, Barbara Pym; roman a clef texts that put a veneer of elegant rhetoric between the reader and the writer’s quotidian reality. I read a great deal of history, and long narrations that sit in their period context – here, I am thinking of the O’Brien Aubrey and Maturin series as an example – can keep me riveted to the page. But so, too, do readings from several angles around complex events – the origins of world war one, for example, a tale of institutional failure and elite incomprehension of the changed world that they inhabited. I trained as a scientist and have decades of immersion in the social sciences, and it is that anatomisation of complex situation that get to the trunk nerves, the very essence of the issue that still delights me. 

3. How did you get the inspiration for your novel?

Dark Sun, Bright Moon is set in the utter social and political isolation of the Andes as they were a thousand years ago. After millennia of separation, the Quechua people had developed a complex society that had very little in common with the rest of the world, and which would, four hundred years later, give rise to the Inca empire. The Spanish conquest did its best to eradicate this culture, but perhaps the best preserved of the remnants is the utterly alien metaphysic which they developed.

I have lived in Peru, but I still retain commercial interests there and have, of course, visited all of the accessible parts the country, often many times. The landscape, the enigmatic peoples of the Andes, their beliefs and aesthetics have always fascinated me, and I have spent some time researching and disentangling their metaphysics. Under a cap of syncretic Catholicism is to be found a set of views which amount less to a religion than a technology. It offers a worldview in which the individual counts for little in comparison with the community, and in which community harmony is of overwhelming importance.

There are stark reasons for this. Our daily world is sandwiched between two other domains, neither of them heavens of hells but rather alien and self-contained universes. A given community – indeed, everything tangible – is reproduced continuously by one of these domains at the direction of information that is stored in another. This information is extremely important. Infidelity in the reproduction of the community leads to further disharmony, sickness, its ultimate collapse into oblivion.

The domain of information is inhabited, and one such vaguely sentient entity is the apu. Apus form around communities and “farm” them for these flows of information, managing people’s attitudes and behaviour to ensure harmonious flows. Apus communicate amongst each other by means of what we would call ley lines, and if an apu goes to the bad, becomes greedy, if it over-exploits its community, then there exists the possibility of a chain of collapse that spreads out into the wider population. The book opens with just such a plague spreading across the Huari empire, resisted by characters who become central to the books’ story.  

4. What is your favourite part about being an author?

The many acts of creation that bring about the whole. 

5. What is your least favourite part about being an author?

Proofing, editing, marketing. 

6. Could you write a bit about what your publication process was like?

I have a number of friends who are literary agents. They advised me that publishers had, as a group, hunkered down in the face of Internet-based rivals, of low economic growth and of falling margins and heightened risk. What books that were being published in 2014 were by well-known authors who had placed themselves in middle ground of taste and around easily defined subjects. In brief, if your genre was contemporary romance and your hero was not a tennis professional with a tousled love life, and if your heroine did not focus on suntan products and handbags, then your chance of conventional publication was essentially nil.

That, of course, brought me to consider the alternatives. Amazon’s CreateSpace offers an service which, if you are capable of managing proofing, editing, layout and cover design, will let you go directly to print. I was able to let some of these activities to third parties and did the rest myself, being modestly proficient in the relevant Adobe packages. It proved necessary to buy a professional PDF editor, which proved a steep gradient to climb but which delivered the end product. All of that cost, I suppose, several thousand dollars and a couple of months of my time.

Physical publication is, of course, the least of the necessary steps to a commercial success. Holding your new book as it gleams between its silky covers is as emotionally overwhelming as acquiring a new puppy. All those months, distilled into this elegance! Yet the bulk of the work lies ahead. Worse, it is work that you as the author are ill-fitted to undertake. You need help, and help can be expensive. Your budget must be there, and the more you spend the more connection you will make with the book retail and reputation network. 

7. Do you have any upcoming projects?

I have been rather ill, and am currently as full of tubes as a set of bagpipes, so plans are on hold. I have, however, been turning over the extraordinary events of 1532 in which the illiterate Pizarro with his lightly-armed 167 thugs felled the highly militarised Inca empire of eleven millions. Unlike Cortez in Mexico, he did not have subject tribes to fight for him – or as they would have seen it, the Spanish to fight for them – and unlike Cortez, success was essentially instantaneous until the Spanish began fighting each other and the puppet Inca Manco staged his revolt. Incomprehensible, although seen through the filters of the victors’ pen. Nevertheless, there were only around a million indigenous left, a hundred years after the conquista. 

8. Describe in three or fewer sentences what makes your book unique and why a reader should buy it.

The book combines a strong narrative with strong personalities, taking the reader from the pretty, unchanging Andean village communities through the murderous, slaving societies of the coast to the remote Amazonian jungle. However, the true plot engine is the metaphysic, and our heroine Q’ilyasisa comes into an uneasy partnership with an embodiment of this, a figure determined to establish a tyranny of controlled minds and rigorous, unchanging social practice. She defeats him, but only after he has placed his stamp on the far wider world, creating the societies from which Pizarro – and probably you, reader – have arisen. It is a big book with very big concepts indeed and, if you like that sort of thing, then Dark Sun, Bright Moon is for you.

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About the Book:
In the Andes of a thousand years ago, the Huari empire is sick. Its communities are being eaten from within by a plague, a contagion that is not of the body but of something far deeper, a plague that has taken their collective spirit. Rooting out this parasite is a task that is laid upon Q’ilyasisa, a young woman from an obscure littl
e village on the forgotten borders of the Huari empire. This impossible mission is imposed on her by a vast mind, a sentience that has ambitions to shape all human life. Her response to this entails confrontations on sacrificial pyramids, long journeys through the Amazonian jungle and the establishment of not just one but two new empires. Her legacy shapes future Andean civilisation until the arrival of the Spanish.

Dark Sun, Bright Moon explores the unique Andean metaphysic: not one of gods and heavens, but a cosmology developed over millennia of isolation, developed over generations by its practitioners but at constant war with the various state religions. It has been systematised from current beliefs, but is essentially authentic to them. As described in the book, therefore, this cosmology is a concrete thing, neither magic nor religion but a technology with a logic of its own that drives the story line. However, this is above all an adventure story in which credible people undertake rational if desperate acts in the face of extreme threat.

Dark Sun, Bright Moon is illustrated with over a hundred images (B&W, engravings and maps) and consists of around 170,000 words set in 40 chapters and an appendix, which last gives extensive background material. The author knows modern Peru very well, and has visited all of the physical sites that are described in the book.

Oliver Sparrow was born in the Bahamas, raised in Africa and educated at Oxford to
post-doctorate level, as a biologist with a strong line in computer science. He spent
the majority of his working life with Shell, the oil company, which took him into the
Peruvian jungle for the first time. He was a director at the Royal Institute for
International Affairs, Chatham House for five years. He has started numerous
companies, one of them in Peru, which mines for gold. This organisation funded a
program of photographing the more accessible parts of Peru, and the results can be
seen at http://www.all-peru.info. Oliver knows modern Peru very well, and has
visited all of the physical sites that are described in his book Dark Sun, Bright Moon.

To learn more, go to http://www.darksunbrightmoon.com/

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Press Release: Angels at the Gate

ANGELS AT THE GATE
By T. K. Thorne
Publisher:  Cappuccino Books/ Midpoint
Publication Date:  March 5, 2015
Price:  $22.50/hardcover
ISBN:  978-3-906-196-02-2
E-Book ISBN:  978-3-906-196-03-9

“A masterpiece of historical research, interweaving history and theology in a re-visioning of an ancient story from a woman’s perspective. Thorne is a dazzlingly gifted writer.”
–Sue Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama, 2003-2012

“Thorne unspools an ancient adventure with crackling undertones of our contemporary lives.  Lean, polished action sequences render a young woman’s life with both intensity and nuanced truth.”
–Dale Short, public radio commentator and author of A Shinning, Shinning Path

MASTER STORYTELLER T.K. THORNE DELIVERS AN INSPIRING AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL BASED ON THE BIBLICAL FIGURE, LOT’S WIFE

ANGELS AT THE GATE Brings The Ancient World To Life Through The Eyes of An Extraordinary Woman

Little is known about Lot’s wife, the unnamed biblical figure who was turned into a pillar of salt as she fled the destruction of Sodom.  But for writer T.K. Thorne, just one reference was enough to ignite her imagination and form the basis for her dazzling new novel, ANGELS AT THE GATE (Cappuccino Books, March 2015). Like Noah’s Wife, Thorne’s highly praised debut, this book brings the ancient world to life through the eyes of an extraordinary woman.

Based on historical, biblical, and archaeological research, visits to the Middle East, and a large measure of creativity, ANGELS AT THE GATE is the story of Adira, destined to become Lot’s wife.  A daughter of Abram's tribe, Adira is an impetuous young girl whose mother died in childbirth.  Secretly raised as a boy in her father’s caravan and schooled in languages and the art of negotiation, Adira rejects the looming changes of womanhood that threaten her nomadic life and independence.

But with the arrival of two mysterious strangers – Northmen rumored to be holy or possibly even “Angels” – Adira’s world unravels.  Raiders invade the caravan, and she loses everything she values most – her father, her freedom, and even the “Angels.”

Caught between her oath to her father to return to her tribe and the “proper life for a woman” and tormented by an impossible love, she abandons all she has known in a dangerous quest to seek revenge and find her kidnapped “Angel.”  Now, Adira must use the skills she learned in the caravan to survive the perils of the desert, Sodom, and her own heart.

ANGELS AT THE GATE is a story of adventure and the power of love, exploring themes about choice – the importance of asking the right questions and walking the fine edge between duty and personal freedom.

Based on a simple mention in the Bible, T.K. Thorne has developed a complex and full-bodied character in the wife of Lot, a woman both ancient and modern, who will touch readers’ hearts, and live in their memories for years to come.  As Dianne Mooney, founder of Southern Living At Home says, “For all those whose curiosity is piqued by how it might have been in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, this is a must read!”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
T.K. Thorne’s childhood passion for storytelling deepened when she became a police officer in Birmingham, Alabama.  “It was a crash course in life and what motivated and mattered to people.” When she retired as a captain, she took on Birmingham’s business improvement district as the

executive director. Both careers provide fodder for her writing, which has garnered several awards, including “Book of the Year for Historical Fiction” (ForeWord Reviews) for her debut novel Noah’s Wife. Her first non-fiction book, Last Chance for Justice, was featured on the New York Post’s “Books You Should Be Reading” list. She loves traveling, especially to research her novels, and speaking about her books and life lessons.  She writes at her mountaintop home, often with two dogs by her side and a cat on her lap.

Spotlight: Jet Lee: Dragon Warrior

Blurb:
Born in the year, month, day and hour of the dragon, JET LEE DRAGON WARRIOR, is destined for karate-kicking greatness. Too bad he’s such a loser. Bullied on a daily basis and working in the Wu’s fish shop to earn his allowance, twelve-year-old Jet thinks things can’t get worse. He learns how wrong he is, when a beast-man attacks his mom and vows to take over New York City.

Saving the city is tough for anybody, but its nearly impossible when you’re in sixth grade. Bullies, detention, principals and girls… friends keep getting in the way. It’s a whirlwind week of subway chases, demon spit and samurai swords.

And time’s running out.

Jet must connect with his mysterious inner animal before Friday’s field trip to save his friends, family and the world.

Bio: PAMELA K WITTE is the author of the debut novel Jet Lee Dragon Warrior, a thrilling, magical, action adventure for middle grade readers who love karate-kicking excitement and all around ninja awesomeness.

A former psychiatric nurse and adrenalin junkie, Pamela is really a thrill-seeking kid who never grew up. She enjoys skiing (is a professional instructor), martial arts, yoga, hiking, sailing, exploring and spending time with her husband and two children. She lives and writes in a cabin in the middle of the woods in southeastern New Mexico. Visit www.PamelaKWitte.com to learn more about Dragon Warriors and the mystical powers of friendship.

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Spotlight: Hearts on Fire

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A warrior, a prince, a legend…

An unknown story of two sisters and how fate entwined them both to love the same man.

His name has been whispered into legend as Impaler. Before he was the legend, he was Vlad conquering more than Turks but hearts. He unexpectedly met and fell in love with two sisters. What he didn’t realize was that he would not be able to live without either of them.

A story of love, passion, war, betrayal, and murder.

When twin sisters, Erdenia and Erzsébet meet Vlad Drakul, they would never  realize how their world would be turned upside down. Vlad wants to find a bride, but how will he choose between the sisters when he has fallen in love with them both? Could it be possible for him to fall in love with both women equally? Would the sisters be able to live with his decision? Watch as this love triangle spins a new story about Vlad and the two women he loved.

KCL Publishing is a small Indie Press and they are the publisher. www.kclpublishing.com

Genre: Romance 

Sub-genre: Romance/Historical

Sub-genre: Romance/Historical/Medieval

Length: 73410 words or 296 pages

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Publisher link: www.kclpublishing.com

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Rayna's Bio:

Rayna is a resident of South Carolina. She lives with her daughter, sister, and their cats. She has been writing poetry and lyrics for over 20 years. She is currently a graduate student at Ashford University where she is obtaining her Master’s in Education focusing on English Language Learners, Special Education, and Culturally Responsive Learning. She has one published poem she wrote about her daughter. Hearts on Fire: The Story of Vlad the Impaler and the Women He Loved is her first professionally published work. She has poetry and novel projects in the works to be released at a later date.

Helena's Bio:

Helena Lancaster is a twenty-six year old native of the upstate region of South Carolina, where she still lives with her sisters and their cats. She has been writing since she was a child, and poetry became a major focus of her writing in her teenage years. She is currently a student at Southern New Hampshire University working on completing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Creative Writing. Her first professional publication was a poetry anthology titled Behind the Mask. She has co-written Hearts on Fire: The Story of Vlad the Impaler and the Women He Loved with her close friend Rayna Kingston. She has several other novel projects in the works with plans to release more poetry in the near future

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Author Interview: Ana Franco

How long have you been writing? 

I’m not sure. Professionally? [Meaning working on my series of books] A year or so. But I write since I was a little girl – I think I created my first story when I was five (something about a girl who fell in love with a volcano). 

What is your favorite part about being an author?

 I love everything about being an author. I love having the ‘power’ to create new stories and worlds and deciding the fates of characters. But I think that what I love most about being an author is that I get to read a lot. Even if it’s reading my own stuff – you’d be surprised to see how much you can learn by reading and re-reading what you wrote for the fifth time. *giggles*

If you could jump inside the world of your book, what would you be and what would you do?

 I think I would be one of the orphan girls, no one really important to the story. I would love to just watch the main characters doing their stuff and I would love even more to start wondering what the hell they were plotting. I would be just like any reader, actually – watching the scenes happening and being confused and eager to understand what was really happening. I really think that it was how the secondary characters on the orphanages felt when living with gods and goddess undercover for so long. You would be stupid if you didn’t suspect them a little. And as I said, I would love to stay up at night with another orphan gossiping about what was that all about.

What has your experience been like going from blogger to author?

 I was actually an author for far longer than I was a blogger. The blog ‘Ana is the Bookworm’ started last year, just a little before I finished the first draft of ‘Down the Wormhole’ and decided that I wanted to get it published. I thought about making a blog to tell people – whoever they were, wherever they came from, whenever they decided to read that silly blog – how I got – IF I managed it, of course, which I wasn’t sure I would at the time – my novel published. Then people just started appearing out of nowhere and reading what I was writing! This was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had! And the blog just… grew up. I indeed managed to tell how I published my book and even started talking about the book’s sequels. I managed to get to write my own opinions on some issues and got quite a few interesting discussions (my favorite one being when we talked about anti-heroes) and then, finally and to my utmost happiness, I started being contacted by people I judged important and was asked to talk to them about my opinions on things. It was just SO amazing!

Could you talk a bit about your publication process?

 Sure thing. Like many authors, my first thought was to publish ‘Down the Wormhole’ with a traditional publisher – what meant I firstly started going after (read: online-stalking) literary agents and querying them with what I judged was my best. *sighs* It apparently wasn’t good at all, because my answers were depressing. But then I thought about skipping those agents and going after publishers myself – and THAT was when I discovered the existence of the indie publishers, people that I today admire and support with all my being. Of course I started querying them and seeking for their opinions that were slowly becoming really important to me. I have absolutely no idea how many indie publishers I queried, to be honest.  But then everything when one day, when I was almost asleep, I received an email from my editor asking for my full manuscript.  It was then that everything truly started for me. I had to wait weeks to get an answer from her – which was positive by the way, hehe – and then we started working on my book. Yup, WE. Because this editor valued having her authors being independent and so she taught me a lot of things about the publishing world – and I slowly became able to walk with my own legs, looking for reviewers, guest posts on other blogs, talking with lit mags and other things. I will be forever grateful that I found my editor, because I most certainly wouldn’t be here now had she decided not to give me a chance.

Are you working on any other projects?

When isn’t an author working on new projects? I have a project for a stand-alone book that I’m very excited about, but now all my energy is being put into marketing DTW and my job. You see, my editor was such an angel that she didn’t just give me the chance to publish my book – she gave me a job. I am now her assistant editor of Fantasy, SciFi and Paranormal genres and this is something I’m very proud of. And oh, yes, I also have to take care of my blog. And go to college. So I DO have a project, but I’m not fully working on it yet.

(Finally, I would like to thank Larissa for giving me the opportunity to be interviewed by her – it was my honor to answer your question. If you ever need anything, please don’t hesitate to contact me! I will go to you as fast as I can!)

 
Author Bio:

Ana Franco was born on a small town on the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. She is known as a blogger under the name of “Ana the Bookworm” and her Young Adult novel, Down The Wormhole, will be coming out in 2015 through French Press Bookworks. Ana attends to college of Literature and Teaching in her country as well as she has taken courses in areas of Children’s Literature, Literature in schools, influences of the world wars at the world’s cultures and in writing for a global market. She also works as Assistant Editor of the genres Fantasy, SciFi and Paranormal in French Press Bookworks and Pen Name Publishing.