Blog tour: Summoned (Summoned #1) by Rainy Kaye + excerpt, interview + giveaway
Welcome to this first day in April. We have a paranormal/urban fantasy title on tap for our readers today with the Summoned blog tour. There's an excerpt, author interview, and a giveaway for everyone to enjoy. Thanks for spending time with us.
Summoned (Summoned #1) by Rainy Kaye
Paranormal, urban fantasy
eBook, 237 pages
Published March 27th 2014 by Immortal Ink Publishing
Twenty-three year old Dimitri has to do what he is
told—literally. Controlled by a paranormal bond, he is forced to use his wits
to fulfill unlimited deadly wishes made by multimillionaire Karl Walker.
Dimitri has no idea how his family line became trapped in
the genie bond. He just knows resisting has never ended well. When he meets
Syd—assertive, sexy, intelligent Syd—he becomes determined to make her his own.
Except Karl has ensured Dimitri can't tell anyone about the bond, and Syd isn't
the type to tolerate secrets.
Then Karl starts sending him away on back-to-back wishes.
Unable to balance love and lies, Dimitri sets out to uncover Karl's ultimate
plan and put it to an end. But doing so forces him to confront the one wish he
never saw coming—the wish that will destroy him.
Summoned is represented by Rossano Trentin of TZLA.
Find out more at Summoned official website
Excerpt:
My boots
clunk down the stone floor of the mansion hallway. I have my head down, sorting
through the papers. My intel does a good job. I have a picture, an address, everything except the target's baby book. Hell,
I could probably get that too, if I asked.
But I have
all the information I need. The trickiest part will be getting him alone. I could try to find an in with the guy
and lure him off somewhere. Click of the trigger and problem solved. Or, I
could use brute force and break into his house. Unfortunately, that increases
the chances of the first shot fired being at me. Not a big fan of that idea.
See, most
people won't shoot to kill. They'll take out a knee or something. Personally, I
would rather die than what happens if I don't fulfill a wish.
Failure
isn't an option. Not for as long as I'm still breathing.
A familiar
voice says my name.
I look up
from the papers in my hand and stop short.
Silvia is
standing at the hall doorway, twirling her crimped black locks and eying me up
and down. She does that a lot. It's unnerving.
“Daddy
sending you on another mission?”
“Yeah.
Wanna take this one?” I offer the papers and envelope as I head toward her.
She laughs,
but it's also unnerving. Everything about her is unsettling, ever since we were
kids.
She pops
her gum. “Afraid not.”
I push past
her into the foyer, passing underneath one of the two massive white staircases,
and head toward a set of exit doors.
“Dimitri?”
I glance
back. She has her head tilted, still running her eyes up and down like she's
grooming me in her head. She probably is.
She smiles.
“Don't waste my inheritance, okay?”
I scoff to
hide the shudder, then let myself out. I expect Silvia to follow, but she
remains inside where she belongs.
A white
Honda Civic is waiting in the carport, engine idling. Low key. That's how I roll.
I slide in,
drop the file into the passenger seat, and pull out to head toward Phoenix.
Her
inheritance. That's what Silvia calls me.
If Karl
thinks of me as his guard dog, then Silvia considers me her puppy.
And she's
just itching to get her hands on me.
with author Rainy Kaye
What preconceived notions do people have about being an
author?
Some people seem to think coming up with concepts is the
hard part. Telling me I should write about a guy who does this one thing is
not, in fact, “half the work done already”. Now I just say “Great idea!” and
bust out with the plotting charts, scene outlines, and character development
papers. That usually stops the little hamster in its wheel mid-spin, and I can
go back to eating unhealthy amounts of chocolate and making weird faces at the monitor.
What is one piece of advice for aspiring authors?
Don't mistake terrible writing with “voice.” I would like to
elaborate on this, but that pretty much covers it. If nine of out ten people in
the critique group say they have no idea what's going on in your story, and the
tenth person is fascinated with their fingernail dirt, chances are you need to
pop open an energy drink and get back to work.
What process do you go through before writing?
Step 1. Do the dishes because that won't happen again for a
while.
Step 2. Stock up on caffeine like beer for a frat party.
Step 3. Apologize to the significant other that for the next
few weeks, he will be known as Person Who Doesn't Let Me Starve.
Step 4. Say farewell to the sweet bliss of sleep.
Step 5. Make an awesome playlist.
Did a character or plot in Summoned take an unexpected
twist?
Silvia Walker. She started out as just a logical piece of
the world building—of course the master would have an heir—but once she stepped
into her first scene, it was on. He role became so fundamental to the story, I
can't believe she wasn't part of the original outline.
How did you decide on the cover?
Ha, the cover. That's a topic all on its own. I actually
wrote a post about it, and it turned out two pages long. The short version: I
tracked down the model for the concept photo, then drove my graphic designer
insane until the cover was perfect. Hey, that was less than 140 characters! I
knew all that Tweeting would pay off.
Cover Design: Kris Wagner
Model: Adam Jakubowski
Photographer:
Marcin Rychły
Author Bio
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