I am very happy to introduce you guys to Alma Katsu, author of The Taker Trilogy.
The Path to Writing A Supernatural Trilogy
First,
let me congratulation Book Reader Addicts on its two-year anniversary!
It’s hard to build a blog from thin air, put in the time writing reviews
and gathering an audience day in and day out, and so I’d like to
commend you on doing such a great job.
Next, I’d like to tell your readers a little bit about myself. My debut novel, The Taker, came out in September 2011. Like
all of the people reading this post, I grew up a reader. And, when you
love to read, chances are that at some point, you try your hand at
writing. I did, as a teenager, and was hooked. My major in college was
writing, I wrote for newspapers and wrote short stories on the side. I
was convinced that I’d make my living as a writer.
Then
a funny thing happened. I got sidetracked by a career, one that I never
expected: I was hired to work in intelligence. I ended up having a
29-year career with CIA and the National Security Agency. It was a
fabulous career but it’s hard to write “on the outside,” so I stopped
writing fiction for about 15 years. Then, in 2000, decided I return to
writing, to see if I could learn how to write a novel. I spent 10 years
writing my first novel, The Taker.
I’m
often asked why I didn’t write a spy novel, why I chose to write a dark
fantasy series. The answer, of course, is that this is the story that’s
inside me. My writing is a jumble of the types of stories I grew up loving: Gothic tales, Edgar Allan Poe,
Nathaniel Hawthorne. I wanted to write a novel that had was
heartbreaking, that would sweep you up and carry you away, and had
characters you couldn’t stop thinking about. I wanted to write an epic
supernatural love story—and that’s what you have in The Taker Trilogy.
It’s the story of a young woman who makes a deal with the devil, so to speak, to win the heart of the man she loves. This man enables her to not only have the man she loves, but to be with him for eternity. Like all deals with the devil, it’s one she cannot win: she’s put both the man she loves and herself in terrible peril. And now this horrible, devilish man with whom she’s made the deal has fallen in love with her.
What
the series is really about, though, is the nature of love. What does it
really mean to love someone? Love demands a lot from us. Sacrifice.
Devotion. Romance is sweet but love is difficult. Like all of us, the characters in The Taker books are flawed, and they are challenged to their limits to overcome their flaws. To become better people in the name of love.
If that sounds like your cup of tea, you can find out more about the book and the second book in the trilogy, The Reckoning, at my website ((http://www.almakatsu.com)) and you can even read the first chapter here ((http://www.almakatsu.com/the-taker-chapter1.pdf)).
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Alma thanking you so much for stopping by!!!
On
the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke
Findley is expecting a quiet evening. Until a mysterious woman arrives
in his ER, escorted by police—Lanore McIlvrae is a murder suspect—and
Luke is inexplicably drawn to her. As Lanny tells him her story, an
impassioned account of love and betrayal that transcends time and
mortality, she changes his life forever. . . . At the turn of the
nineteenth century, when St. Andrew was a Puritan settlement, Lanny was
consumed as a child by her love for the son of the town’s founder, and
she will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is
steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for eternity.
Alma would like to giveaway a copy of The Taker!
This is US only. If you are International and have an address you can use please enter.
All giveaways this month end on October 7th.
Trust.
ReplyDeleteLoving takes flexibility, honesty and service -without sacrificing ones self.
ReplyDeleteThe willingness to open up your heart.
ReplyDeleteFlexibility, trust and honesty!
ReplyDeleteThe desire to put someone elses needs and wants equal to your own.
ReplyDeleteI think it takes a lot - trust, vulnerability, and honesty.
ReplyDeleteLove takes honesty, time, and acceptance of all flaws.
ReplyDeleteI think it takes thinking of that person's feelings and well-being and accepting them for who they are.
ReplyDeletetrust, acceptance, unselfishness, and willing to take the risk.
ReplyDeleteYou have to know the person, there has to be trust, respect and honesty. Then, only time will tell if that love it will last.
ReplyDeleteRespect and acceptance!
ReplyDeletecommunication, trust and much more.
ReplyDeleteTrust, Respect, Honesty, and to only have eyes for them.
ReplyDeleteSelflessness -- because to love someone, you have to put them before yourself.
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