The Cross Roads Blog Tour Day #7: Kiki Hamilton / Dawn Dalton

Welcome to Days 7 of The Cross Roads Blog Tour, hosted by author Judith Graves. 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. Don't forget find out how you can win a kindle! Today I'm thrilled to have Kiki Hamilton on the blog, and the chance to featured Dawn Dalton's books. 

What's the best part about being an author? 

Honestly, it’s the wonderful notes I get from readers who are excited about reading or loved my book.  People are so kind!!

What's your favourite book and what is the book on your night table right now? 

The Harry Potter series is by far, my favorite book(s).  I’m reading an ARC of THE BOOKSELLER right now, which is an adult novel by Mark Pryor, that I really like.

You often write about locations you've never travelled to. How much research do you do, and is there a thing as TOO much research? How do you know when to cap it?  

I enjoy the research and it’s astonishing sometimes how facts I discover researching tie in with parts of my stories I’ve already written. Weird, kind of. But sometimes, it is really hard work too. My editor on TFR insisted that all the historical aspects be accurate and sometimes it would take me 2 hours to write a paragraph!

Without giving spoilers, what can readers expect from The Torn Wing?  

It’s the next chapter of Tiki and Rieker’s lives as they get to know each other better and learn about their own pasts and that of the world of the fey.

Thank you Kiki!

Thank you so much for participating in the  Crossroads Tour and supporting our books! xo Kiki

You can visit Kiki via her Website | Twitter | Facebook. Be sure to kick up Kiki's books, The Faerie Ring, The Torn Ring, and you can pick up The Seven Year King in late Spring of 2013.

*Thank you to Judith for supplying the questions for today's tour stop.

Dawn Dalton wrote her first monster book at the age of eight when she discovered writing about them was way less scary than looking for the beasties under her bed. Since then, she's still leery of things that go bump in the night, but she'd like to think her creepy storytelling skills have improved. After earning a degree in Journalism, Dawn ventured into communications, marketing, and public relations. But her heart has always belonged to fiction.

Though she'll always be a BC, girl, Dawn now lives in Edmonton, Alberta with her husband, teenage stepdaughter and three bullmastiff hounds. You know, just skulking around. 

Dawn also writes adult thriller and paranormal fiction under the last name IUS.

You can follow Dawn on her Blog | Twitter | Facebook. Don't miss her most recent release, SPIRITED: 13 Haunting Tales, released earlier this year by Leap Books.

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!