Melissa is 1/2 of the Sassy Sisters who were kind enough to include me in their Summer Block Party Giveaway. I have to say, I can't wait to crack open Melissa's book to see what the fuss is about. But in the meantime, +2 to her for answering the .GIF question. /S.
Describe your book in gifs
It starts because King Corrin is generally kind of like this...
Which leads to a situation that causes Cait to be a bit like this...
When the powerful demigod Dante feels a supernatural draw to Cait, the direction seems to turn toward this...
Which leaves her newly bonded dragon guardian, Theo Pendragon, rather like this...
But then events come about leading more than one character like this...
And a few times along the way, readers may get a bit like this...
And it all ends like...
Wait. Did you think I was going to tell you?
But that's just the beginning, because BLOOD OF STARS AND GODS (Stars and Souls #2) has left my beta team like this...
Your main character is stuck on an island
Cait is going to be seriously pissed about this. She’s a city girl, born and raised in Boston. Camping and other outdoorsy pursuits are NOT among her hobbies and/or interests.
What 3 things do they bring?
Theo Pendragon, Claaron Graywyne, and Jaiteru Faerwyng. You didn’t say those things couldn’t be dragons, so she’d bring three of her dragons. Between protection, survival skills, entertainment, and magick, she’d be covering relatively all of her bases.
How long do they survive?
As long as it took for her to realize the dragons were just messing with her and could actually just fly her off the island… then the question is: how long do THEY survive?
Be completely honest: how much of your main character is really you?
The snark, preference for city life, and love for dance. However, I actually live in the country now rather than outside of Boston and have never taken a dance class. I just dance like a freak whenever I get the chance and have done Zumba
What do you tell yourself before you start writing?
That it’s okay if I can’t “get in the zone” because that just simply won’t happen every time you sit down to write. I also tell myself not to kill the first person to interrupt me if I do happen to get in the zone.
Look to your left, what's there?
A pile of notebooks, my Samsung Galaxy S5, and my custom made Celtic Pendragon green pen.
How long ago did you finish eating it?
I’ve never had a taste for notebooks, phones, or pens, but to my right is an empty Coke can because I’m too lazy to go to the kitchen and get another one at the moment.
What's your opinion on bad reviews?
You can’t please all of the people all of the time. Those people obviously aren’t my audience. They’re looking for something else, not what I write.
How do you handle receiving reviews?
I’m curious what people have to say, but as I said above, you can’t please all of the people all of time, so I know there will be good and bad reviews. The important thing to me is to pay attention to whether the reviews are primarily good or primarily bad and the quality of the review. A negative review that actually gives feedback and commentary on the book and provides useful criticism I can take with me as I move forward is fine. I sit and laugh at the ones who criticize FOSAD yet make a ton of errors in their reviews and obviously didn’t understand the book or pay attention. Those readers clearly aren’t the audience I’m looking for because the details and mythology were lost on them. This isn’t a light, contemporary romance. I can generally tell by reviews if the reader really enjoys FANTASY and/or deeper paranormal/supernatural romance as opposed to “paranormal light”. So far, reviews have been primarily positive with the really negative reviews being major outliers from the general review pool. That doesn’t bother me. Every book has some people who hate it.
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