I'm so excited to introduce you guys to this weeks' guest on K.B.'s Author's Korner! I met her on Facebook this past Summer, and I'll be meeting her in person at this years' UtopYA convention. She and I have become very good friends, and I absolutely adore her. Want to see why, me the queen of mean loves this chick? Well read her guest post below, and fall in love with my friend too! **BUT, be warned... I don't share well ;)
Hmmm . . . I am supposed to
tell you a bit about me . . .
One
of the most inspiring things for me when I write is music. Even when I’m not
writing it helps to keep me grounded in that creative side of my mind. I have a
deep affinity for music, and hope to put some of the lyrics I have written to
music on day. So . . . what are some of my favorite artists to listen to when I
write? Here is a sample from a very large and very diverse list of my faves:
Alexadre Desplat ~ His contributions to the Twilight Saga.
Florence + The Machine ~ Anything that woman does I listen
to . . . she’s brilliant.
Lana Del Ray ~ Born to Die CD
Muse, Muse, and more Muse
Olafur Arnalds ~ It’s all brilliance . . . all of it.
Sarah McLachlan ~ Seriously . . . I can listen to everything
she’s done a million times.
Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and techno/industrial/dub-step
songs that have a hard edge to them ~ For when I’m writing edgier scenes.
Mazzy Star ~ She’s great for moody scenes.
Ed Sheeran ~ Love him.
Howard Shore ~ The Lord of the Rings Trilogy scores.
The Civil Wars ~ Everything they’ve done, which
unfortunately is not a lengthy list.
Basement Jaxx ~ Scars . . . this song is sooo the theme song
for The Reaping Chronicles. It fits the mood well.
I have 676 songs on my
writing playlist, so what you just read barely scratches the surface. If you
ever want to know more of them, just ask here or message me on one of my
Facebook links and I will be happy to share more!
My
top three movies would be . . . ugh . . . that’s a hard one, but I think they
would be The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Aliens, and the Bourne movies. I
already want to continue to add to these because there are so many, and books
are going to be just as bad if not worse.
Top
three books in no particular order and I am already having anxiety because of
only having three to pick from which is the reason for this run-on sentence and
why I still haven’t gotten around to beginning that list for you because it is
impossible to pick my top three I feel heart palpitations coming on and the
room is growing darker as the edges of my world are starting to close in on me
oh no I don—
Okay
. . . darn it, sorry about that. I blacked out for a minute. Let me get these
out of me before I begin to have another panic attack:
Graceling
~ by Kristen Cashore
Mists
of Avalon ~ by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lord
of the Rings Trilogy ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Favorite
TV shows: The Walking Dead, Destination Truth, So You Think You Can Dance,
Haven, Ghost Hunters and GHI, Once Upon A Time, American Horror Story/Asylum,
Big Bang Theory.
Person
I would most like to spend the day with? Well, that one’s easy . . . Johnny
Depp. Why? Well . . . so he would fall
in love with me and then I could have his babies, of course! That, and I find
him very interesting.
So
. . . enough of me assuming what you want to know.
What
would you like to know? Would you
like to know who would be on my zombie apocalypse team if I could pick them, why
I quit high school or why I’ve always felt like an outsider, who has been most
influential in my life, which superhero I most identify with, what I think is the most important thing to remember as
you walk your path in life, or would you like to know about the things I’ve seen since I was a little
girl? Don’t be shy . . . ask away. :}
Teal Haviland lives in Tennessee with her daughter and her four-legged friends. She enjoys photography, travel, reading, music, cooking, daydreaming, writing (of course), and above all spending time with her family and friends.
Teal grew up with a love for anything fantastical or outrageous. After years of dreaming of worlds where fairies, angels, demons, and shape shifters (to name a few) exist, she finally decided to begin writing her stories down. Inception, book one in her series The Reaping Chronicles, is her first published novel.
The world is in danger. Mankind is sinking deeper into
darkness it cannot understand.
Demons are easily capturing souls as they lead men and women
down dangerous paths from which there is no return, while Javan, one of the
Fallen, seeks an ancient book and the power it promises. If he succeeds, humans
— and the world as they know it — will be destroyed.
There is someone who is capable
of stopping Javan . . .
If she discovers
him in time.
Gabrielle
is one of the most powerful angels ever created, her job one of the most
important. She has come to Earth to learn more about humans and what influences
them, and to fight evil she sees growing at an alarming rate. She soon finds
herself carelessly distracted with one human in particular, however. Lucas
Watkins holds a promise of peace and love for
Gabrielle that she never believed she could have again.
As feelings between her and Lucas become more than she can
deny, so do the dangers mounting against him. After discovering who Lucas is,
and the choice he faces, she realizes Darkness will come for him through demons
and fantastical beings he thought only existed in his imaginings — forcing
fairytales to become his reality.
Caught
between her new mortal ties and ancient immortal responsibilities, Gabrielle
must race against what seems to be an ever-quickening clock to learn what she
needs to know, protect Lucas, uncover Javan’s plan, and find a way to stop him
and all who live in Shadows.
Things become more complex than she ever anticipated, her
decisions more critical, and what begins as a quest for information rapidly
places her in an even more crucial position within the longest and most
important war ever waged.
Join Gabrielle and her allies in a story of love – past and
present – fantastical beings, hidden realms, magic, fate, loss, and the fight of
good versus evil.
If you would like to read the interview my main character in
The Reaping Chronicles, Gabrielle, did on me, or her incarnation scene, you can
find them both in my Goodreads blog. The interview turned out really
interesting. I am what’s called a pantser when I write. If you don’t know what
that means, it simply means I write by the seat of my pants. The scenes I write
aren’t planned out, so I am as much in the dark about where things are going as
a reader reading the book would be. I love to write that way, it’s a kick.
Anyway, because of that I didn’t know what to expect when I sat down to write
the interview and I found out something by the end of it that completely took
me by surprise. It reads more like a story than an interview, and you get
insight into how I came up with Gabrielle, the Angel of Karma and The Reaping
Chronicles.
Stalker Links
Website
The Reaping Chronicles Fanpage
The Silver Rift Fanpage
Author Fanpage
Goodreads
Twitter
As always, until next time... Twitchy Witchy Kisses,
Love, K.B., xoxo
