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Thursday, September 3, 2015

HUNTER By Mercedes Lackey / Blog Tour: Author Interview



Hello and welcome to today's blog tour stop for HUNTER by Mercedes Lackey.
I'm so thrilled to have Mercedes on the blog today to talk about her new release. This is a book fantasy fans are going to enjoy reading. I loved it! First, here's a little bit about the first book in The Hunters Series:


ABOUT THE BOOK


By: Mercedes Lackey
Published by: Disney-Hyperion
Released On: September 1, 2015
Series: Hunter Series #1
Purchase from: Amazon | B&N
Add It To: Goodreads

Centuries ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were slashed open allowing hideous fantastical monsters to wreak havoc; destroying entire cities in their wake. Now, people must live in enclosed communities, behind walls that keep them safe from the evil creatures constantly trying to break in. Only the corps of teen Hunters with lightning reflexes and magical abilities can protect the populace from the daily attacks.

Joyeaux Charmand is a mountain girl from a close knit village who comes to the big city to join the Hunters. Joy thinks she is only there to perform her civic duty and protect the capitol Cits, or civilians, but as cameras follow her every move, she soon learns that the more successful she is in her hunts, the more famous she becomes.

With millions of fans watching her on reality TV, Joy begins to realize that Apex is not all it seems. She is forced to question everything she grew up believing about the legendary Hunters and the very world she lives in. Soon she finds that her fame may be part of a deep conspiracy that threatens to upend the protective structure built to keep dark magic out. The monsters are getting in and it is up to Joy to find out why.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW



Hello Mercedes. Welcome to Mundie Moms! Congratulations on your new release. Hunter is described as a mix of The Hunger Games meets Divergent. How would you describe your book?
Well I would describe it the same way I pitched it; as a post-apocalypse series where the apocalypse broke open the world to powerful magic and allowed terrible things to entire into it.  In fact, it’s partly inspired by the myth of Pandora’s Box.  Humankind opened the box and horror rushed out, but in the bottom of the box was Hope.

What was your favorite element to create?
I like playing around with different systems of magic.  I created a brand new one for this series, especially with regard to the Hounds and the Hunters.

What's one thing you admire about your character, Joyeaux?
Her dedication.  She’s very much one of those people who are practically born with a powerful need to protect and serve.  That really underlies her entire personality.

What authors inspired you as a young readers?
Andre Norton, Zenna Henderson, T.H. White, Elizabeth Goudge, Thomas Burnett Swan, Vera Chapman, Theodore Sturgeon, Tolkein, Fritz Leiber.  Those are the main ones.  I used to write what you’d now call “fanfiction” in Andre Norton’s worlds from about the time I was ten, I think.  

What are some of your writing must haves?
My computer obviously!  My zero-g chair.  Classical instrumental music or soundtracks.  I do listen to lots of other sorts of music, but I find non-instrumental is distracting.  And coffee in the “morning.”  I work at night, so “morning” is actually about 4 in the afternoon.

Do you have a favorite quote from Hunter that you can share with us?
There is nothing—nothing—that is more important in a Hunter’s life than protecting the Cits without Powers. And that wasn’t something that had just been drummed into me by the monks and the Masters. That was something I felt just as bone-deep as I did my love for my Hounds and theirs for me.

Which of your characters would your teen self been friends with?
Joy, I hope!  Probably not Knight, because I would never have dared approach him, and not Josh, my teen self was very dorky and wouldn’t have been cool enough for him.  I don’t think I was self-confident enough to have been friends with Armorer Kent or Karly, but I would have looked up to both of them.  I probably would have had a couple friends among the other Hunters back where Joy came from, and a couple among the regular folk there as well.  Not a lot of friends, probably a total half a dozen all told.
Although I make the joke about all my characters that if they ever met me in real life, because of all the grief I put them through, they’d beat me with a baseball bat.
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Thank you to Mercedes for stopping by Mundie Moms today! If you haven't already, I'd recommend adding HUNTER to your TBR lists!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Mercedes Lackey is the acclaimed author of over fifty novels and many works of short fiction. In her “spare” time she is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Mercedes lives in Oklahoma with her husband and frequent collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots. 

Find Mercedes via: her WebsiteTwitter | Facebook | Goodreads

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