Blair: Salem's Daughter
by April
Klasen
My guest this week is April Klasen .... Please make her welcome ! :-)
1 – Your book’s about
vampyre and a shape-shifting cat. Tell us why you like this genre.
I love adventure and fantasy stories, anything
could happen and anything could exist including a vampyre and a shape-shifting
cat leading a teenage girl into a strange land on a suicide quest. Which might
be why this story multiplied into a trilogy, the dragons are coming in the
second book.
2 – You started writing when you were seventeen.
What was the ‘trigger’ to start putting stories onto paper? (or the screen)
My writing trigger was one of my friends. When we were fifteen sitting bored
in class I started making up a silly story to tease her with (I think it was
something about her boyfriend doing a strip tease and being caught by her
mother, I think), once we’d finished giggling she told me “April, you should be
a writer when we grow up.” Two years later I still had nothing on paper, which
was frustrating especially when my friends were all working towards their
futures. But then I heard about National Writing Month. I knew, no matter what
I wrote (and it was horrible) that if I didn’t finish it I would never be a
writer and have to think seriously about finding a serious job. Luckily I
finished the story (and buried it deep under the bed).
3 – Tell us about your current project.
I’m trying not to procrastinate (ohh, shinny things) and start editing
(sniffle). Or maybe I’ll just write another novella and add it to my unedited
pile. Nope, I’m definitely editing my new-adult novella The Annual.
The annual hunt is very important to the fey, during the autumn equinox,
generally a mortal but in the past it has been fey creatures, someone is
selected to be hunted. For twenty-four hours the hunted must do all they
can to survive, they are always selected for some sort of strength or ability,
it makes for great sport. Grace Logan has to fight, even if she didn’t have a
chance.
I’m hoping to independently publish the story by the end of the year
Blurb:
Blair Fitzpatrick is an ordinary fifteen year
old who doesn’t chase a white rabbit in a waist coat down a hole. Instead she
follows an old man, a vampyre and a shape-shifting cat through a gate and into
a fantasy land.
Her mission is to reunite the hilt of the
Nameless sword with its broken blade buried within a sleeping dragon, learn to
control her dormant magic and not die in the process.
~
“Okay, now. No worries,” I whispered, even
though I felt like I was going to be sick and just wanted to run away because
something was wrong, something was going to be really wrong if I did this.
I slid the sword hilt into the crack.
Author:
April
Klasen is twenty-two, single and living at home (what a catch?!) she wrote her
first novel at seventeen and her brain hasn’t shut up since.
www.aprilklasenauthor.com
Purchase
Links:
Paperback
http://www.lulu.com/shop/april-klasen/blair-salems-daughter/paperback/product-21562492.html
E-book
http://www.amazon.com/Blair-Salems-Daughter-April-Klasen-ebook/dp/B00JTO2Z8I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398133567&sr=8-1&keywords=april+klasen
