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Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Cross Roads Blog Tour Day 5: Jackie Morse Kessler / Judith Graves

Welcome to Day 5's tour stop for theThe Cross Roads Blog Tour, hosted by author Judith Graves. You can check out my other 4 tour stops for this year's tour here. Be sure to stop by the tour blog page HERE to check out the awesome line up of authors who are apart of this year's tour, as well as the bloggers who will be hosting each author. 

Mark your calendars for Monday, October 29th, as MM's will be hosting the Cross Roads author chat on Twitter! Trust me, you won't want to miss it. More info that will be posted soon.  I'm excited to have authors Jackie Morse Kessler and Judith Graves on the blog tour. 


Your books have gorgeous covers! Though you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, how much does it factor into your book buying habits?

Thank you! A good cover tends to make me pick up a book, at least enough to read the back cover copy, maybe even skim the opening pages. I don’t buy a book because of its cover, but it can be a first step. 

If we gave you an elephant, where would you hide it?

Why would I want to hide it? I would flaunt my elephant proudly!

What is one book and one movie that have influenced your writing.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; Memento (directed by Christopher Nolan).

 Mmmm...chocolate. We love it, too. What's the one chocolate bar you'd hate to see taken out of production?

One? ONE? CHOCOLATE SHOULD BE ITS OWN FOOD GROUP!!! In particular, I’m a food for Australian Tim Tams. (And I totally blame Keri Arthur for it!)


You can find Jackie on her Website | Blog  | Twitter . Don't miss her her books, Hunger, Rage and Loss. The 4th book in the Riders of the Apocalypse series, Breath will be out this coming spring. 




*Thank you to Judith for supplying the questions for this portion of the tour stop.




Hi Judith! Welcome to MM's today. How would you describe your most recent release in 5 words or less? 

SKIN OF MY TEETH is: Buffy meets Magic: The Gathering

What advice would you give to aspiring authors?

I have a lot of advice, hard earned from my own mistakes. ;) Here goes:

Take the time to do it right and enjoy the process of learning the craft of writing (which, by the way, never freaking ENDS).

Make mistakes, take risks, be brilliant, but never fall into the trap of believing a first draft is a finished book.

Seek out blunt, but constructive critiques from fellow writers and critique their work in the same manner. It’s from those kinds of (often painful) experiences that you’ll learn what works, what doesn’t, and what everyone is writing to death – including you.

Which of your characters (out of any of your books you've written) do you feel most connected to?

Since I seem to write a lot of series fiction, I hang out with my characters – a lot. At times, we get along just fine, but then they’ll start messing with my neat and tidy plot structure, and all hell breaks loose. That’s usually when I think fondly of another main character from a completely different series and can’t wait to dive into their story instead.

As I’m working on the finishing touches to Eryn McCain’s third book, Skin of My Teeth, and fleshing out the final installment in her SKINNED series, Hour of the Wolf – my steampunk character, Amelia Strangeways beckons in the distance.

That being said, I know I’ll be leaving Eryn’s world soon and….I’m going to miss it.


 SPEED ROUND:

* Favorite thing to do at Halloween? Watch scary movies.

* Scary Movie or Scary Book? A scary book made into an equally scary movie.

* When writing do you prefer to have music or no music? TUNES!

* Where's your favorite place to read? Wherever there are words to be found.

* What's your favorite childhood book? Anne of Green Gables

* All time favorite fictional character? Buffy

* Who's one of your favorite authors? Ray Bradbury

* What's one book that made an impact on you either as a child, a teen or as an adult? Save the Cat by Blake Snyder.

* Favorite thing about Fall? The colours and NO BUGS!

With it being almost Halloween I have to know, are you team werewolves, zombies, vampires, mummies, headless horsemen or unicorns?

Is there a team everything? Cause I love them all.


Don't miss following Judith via her Website | Twitter . You can pick up the first two books in her Skinned series, Under My Skin and Second Skin. The third book in her series, Skin of My Teeth will be out sometime in 2013.



The Tour:



Each day of The Crossroads Blog Tour, a new research question will be revealed on The Crossroad Blog Tour main page:http://judithgraves.com/events/the-crossroads-tour/crossroads-2012/ and each day the answer to that question will be found within one of the different blog posts by Crossroads Tour authors. Your job is to get the question, read the blog posts, and collect all answers by the end of the tour.

Answers are to be emailed to judithgraves @ ymail dot com by October 28th at MIDNIGHT. Winner of the grand prize will be announced on OCTOBER 31st – HALLOWEEN.

The Giveaway:




The GRAND PRIZE you’re vying for? A brand new KINDLE, preloaded with a title from each of the participating Crossroads Blog Tour Authors. That’s right folks, a free KINDLE and 13 free EBOOKS!

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