Looking forward to a fun day because YA author Susan Royal and I are swapping blogs. She's visiting today and she's brought along a copy of her YA fantasy, In My Own Shadow,
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| YA fantasy, In Her Own Shadow |
Be sure and pop over to Susan's blog to visit me there. I hope I can keep things under control until Susan gets back! See you at the Susan A. Royal blog
If you haven't met Susan, or just want to learn more about her, here's what I can tell you...
Born in west Texas and raised in south
Texas, Susan makes her home in a 100-year-old farmhouse in a small east Texas
town that comes complete with a ghost who has been known to harmonize with her
son when he plays guitar.
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| YA Author Susan A. Royal |
She is married and the mother of six (she
counts her children’s spouses as her own) and five grandchildren who are all
unique and very special. Her family is rich with characters, both past and
present. Her grandmother shared stories of living on a farm in Oklahoma
Territory with three sisters and three brothers and working as a telephone
operator in the early 20th century.
She heard about growing up in San Antonio in the depression from her
father, and experienced being a teenager during WWII through her mother’s eyes.
When she isn’t writing, she still has a
day job working as a secretary in the public schools in east Texas. She also does
her best to keep up with her grandchildren. Music and painting are two of her
passions. Susan is a firm believer in getting what you want without breaking
the bank. She loves to bargain shop anywhere there’s a sale and began
repurposing long before it was popular. She paints, crafts and sews. Her
office/craft/sewing room is littered with her latest projects.
Susan loves to take her readers through
all kinds of adventures with liberal doses of romance. So far, she’s written
two books in her It’s About Time series, Not
Long Ago and From Now On. They
are time travel adventures with romance about two people who fall in love despite
the fact they come from very different worlds. In My Own Shadow is a
Fantasy adventure/romance. Look for her books at MuseItUp/Amazon/B&N. You
can also find Odin’s Spear, one of
her short stories featured in a Quests,
Curses, and Vengeance anthology, Martinus
Publishing, available on Amazon.
Want to know more? Visit Susan at the Susan A. Royal blog and Susan A. Royal's author site for a peek inside this
writer’s mind and see what she’s up to. You never know what new worlds she’s
going to visit next.
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Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. I just got a text that Susan is sending Lara, her main character from In My Own Shadow. What a treat to get inside the story with Lara.
A Visit from Lara from In My Own Shadow by Susan A. Royal
My name
is Lara, and I work downtown in the Metropolitan Building. I’m not really all
that good at talking about myself. Just ask my good friend, Carrie. She accuses
me of being a recluse, but the sad truth is I lack her social graces. Sometimes
I give in and let her drag me to some party, so she’ll get off my case for a
little while. Once we get there, she flits from one group to another, laughing
and having a great time, while I lurk around the edges of the crowd, looking
for a dark place to hide.
Carrie
and I have been BFFs for a long time, even though we are total opposites. She’s
cheerful. I’m sarcastic. She’s outgoing. I’m a loner. But she’s always been
there for me, especially after losing Dad. Mom died when I was born and left
the two of us trying to cope. Now there’s only me. Carrie’s been a great
friend. I just wish she’d quit trying to fix me up with some guy she thinks is
my Mr. Right.
People are
always telling me I should go into modeling, because I’m 5 foot ten and have
the kind of red hair everyone wants these days, but honestly, being in the
spotlight isn’t my thing. And, looking like a model hasn’t helped with dating
at all. My height seems to intimidate a lot of men. It’s funny. One of the
first things I noticed about Rhys is that it didn’t seem to bother him a bit
that we stood eye to eye. Not to mention his great body and rugged good looks
didn’t get my attention, along with his green eyes…
Honestly,
everything happened so fast the night we met all I remember is a blur. It
wasn’t until after Rhys dragged me through a portal into another dimension that
I realized he wasn’t the blind date Carrie set me up with after all. And he
really was out of this world.
Yeah, I
know…you’re probably thinking this sounds like your typical ‘guy rescues girl
from danger and takes her to another world, where they fall in love’ scenario,
but you’re wrong. Rhys treats me like an unwanted responsibility, nothing more.
Every time I tried to be nice to him, he clams and starts acting like commando
man. It goes downhill from there when I open my mouth and out comes the sarcasm.
I let the guy get under my skin. Why? Because even though I refuse to admit it,
I have feelings for the guy. There’s something about the quiet way he takes
responsibility for our little group of travelers. He takes his job
seriously…even to the point of blaming himself when things go wrong, the way I
felt when Dad died. If only he would open up…
The bad
thing is we’ve got to work together so we can locate the book of secrets before
it falls into the wrong hands and his world falls apart, that is if we don’t
kill each other during the process.
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In My Own Shadow-On an adventure to an alternate world
with a handsome stranger, Lara finds herself living in her own shadow.
Back of the book:
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Talk about the
worst day ever! Lara lets her friend Carrie talk her into a blind date, only it
turns out the handsome stranger waiting for Lara after work isn’t Carrie’s
cousin after all. And, when they’re chased through a portal to another world,
Lara realizes Rhys really is out of this world.
Lyra, her alternate in another dimension, has left clues to the
whereabouts of the Book of Secrets that explains the mystery of time travel in
Lara’s subconscious. Or so Rhys thinks.
Power-hungry telepaths pursuing them will stop at nothing to get it, even if it
means breaking Lara’s mind. To complicate
matters, Lara gets tangled up in her feelings for Rhys while exploring her
connection with Lyra.
With Rhys as her
guardian, a bear of a man named Azle to guide her, and the spirit of Lyra
haunting her dreams, Lara must find the Book of Secrets before it falls into
the hands of those who want its power.
Only then can she return
to her world safely.
BUY LINKS:
Available at MuseItUp Publishing and all major online sellers.
