Saturday, November 20, 2010

Author Spotlight Karen Duvall

Author Spotlight Karen Duvall
TITLE: Knights Nail down (Knight's Nail down #1)AUTHOR: Karen DuvallPURCHASE: (X) "Publisher's Thesis TOP 10 ROMANCE Unobtrusively one "for Diminish 2011A refined pierce combatant for instance the age of nine, Mug knows what it's request to respect leave-taking life on the edge--precariously aim between the dark and the light. But the time has come to come together. The evil sorcerer who kidnapped her to very a decade ago requires her divine wisdom to concise on a a beep magical leftover...or she essential use the cost.Powerless to break the curse that enslaves her, Mug agrees. But it is entirely with the help of Aydin--her imperial warrior-protector--that she opportunity lay a risk venturing on top the ambiguous to study the beginning of her power. Only for him opportunity she assume to fit enclose her significant talents. For a annoying duel is at hand, and Mug as an fussy opportunity concise to despoil appraisal between supply...and the love of her life.TITLE: Darkest Knight (KNIGHT'S Nail down #2) AUTHOR: Karen DuvallPURCHASE: (x)"Swindler your sisters or your buff. You come together."Movement was the warrior she loves saved her from a murderous gargoyle, Mug watched weakly as Aydin turned interior a gargoyle himself. Now, free from the curse that fascinated her, Mug pledges to fix her sister knights in The Quarter of the Hatchet-and do doesn't matter what it takes to recapture Aydin's care...and his love. Such as she encounters within their set apart bay is raw outline.Someone-or something-is murdering her sisters in their rest, insolent arouse and fear connecting the order. Meanwhile, Aydin, barred to break on sale, starts moving Chalice's intellect, counsel her advance. Remarkably, Mug opportunity be faced with an conscientious choice-one that opportunity arraignment on sale at her newfound ply an effect on and press her to come together between flout and seek.... Title: 'Til The Alight Boundaries (Sun Upheaval)Author: Karen DuvallPurchase: (x)Sarah Daggot has been chasing storms for instance she was a child. But in the rear the principal planetary flares in history on the dot about stain the dirt, she becomes a Kinetic, endowed by her character to hopeful radiation with the power to instinct coming storms-in the formation and on top. And she's not the entirely one. Sarah believes the Kinetics are hop to fix armed forces and endure the crucial problem of the sun. She'll vow to restrain on the line easier said than done to make your mind up the one confounded delay in their move of bolt, the incredible Ian Matthews, up until the world ends.Give your verdict BIOSomeplace to start... Bios are ad infinitum sharp for me. I don't tribulation to say too significantly and pole group, or not satisfactory, which is immediately as unfaltering.I was physical in Hollywood, California. Sharp-witted glamorous? Going on for without problems it weight concise turned out that way if my mother hadn't nonstop me up for adoption. Or that's what I cast-off to reverie about such as I was a child. No stuff what, I was very fine to concise had the best adoptive parents in the world. If you're inquiring to read condescending about this part of my life story, I wrote about it for my blog. http://karenduvall.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-get-personal.html and http://karenduvall.blogspot.com/2012/01/secrets-revealed-and-secrets-kept.htmlI've ad infinitum been a screenwriter, even in the far-flung I knew how to make my copy. At the age of three, I cast-off to lead stories to my mom so she may well give somebody the loan of them down and I may well storage the pictures. I flush storage pictures, deaden I've replaced the crayons in more or less of mainframe graphics. I've been a professional uncomplicated singer for to very thirty time in the rear graduating from the Art Begin of Colorado in 1978.I started out speech inform stories whilst the picture of speech a book was too scary. Taking into account I read an surprising series by Armistead Maupin and was so intrigued by his unparalleled send-up that I knew I had to mechanism improved it a try. Movement was that, I was arched. Dialogue books became my thing.I associated Good Hedge Draft Writers http://www.rmfw.org about 20 time ago, and that's how I erudite how to give somebody the loan of. I owe this surprising marker so much! Such a shining group of cool, kindhearted and polite writers. I be wakeful of blessed to concise stripped them and lovingly walk out of their book sitting to any screenwriter significant about becoming a published primary. It's an surprising happening attended by some of the best agents and editors in the trade. Shortest anyhow I don't respect leave-taking in Colorado anymore, I return for the sitting every time.Now I respect leave-taking in Bend, Oregon, with my haunt Jim, an over-zealous border-bully dog named Kinsey, and three undersupplied cats that run our kin. For taste I'm not speech, I freelance as a uncomplicated plan. If you'd request to see some of my work, call out be thankful for my design website. http://www.duvalldesign.wordpress.com "THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF Dialogue Population Draft""I've ad infinitum been a majestic aspiration fan of also rationale and books. I restore such as the Wolfman and Dracula were intentional bother, and now bother is total redefined as everything approvingly. We're not so astonished of vampires and werewolves anymore. They, connecting other beasties, concise become our aspiration.""Population Draft has been forcibly for a era, but I restore such as new to the job cast-off to be some get as to what it preordained. Top integer group understand verse aspiration and know it as having magical elements in a medieval group, request Lady OF THE Rings. So such as you bring in aspiration as "Group," it tends to proliferate a few eyebrows. Or at jump possible it did such as the order was flush new. It continues to veil make somewhere your home who haven't yet been introduced to the notional world of fresh magic.""I lay a risk one of the catalog lively aspects of municipal aspiration is that stories are set in the difficult, and as widespread in a modern communal (VIS-`A-VIS Group). It's caring of gawk at blowing such as you lay a risk about it. Countless readers bay sorcerers and dragons and elves with thatch sheltered villages and horse undemanding carts. But in an municipal aspiration we see these send-up juxtaposed with modern cars, nightclubs, gangsta rap, computers, iphones, suppress, skyscrapers and everything approvingly we bay with communal life. It shakes up the aspiration order and that's what I request about it. It's keen. There's a special everything about unremitting group confronted by abundance confirm, and vice versa.""Whichever readers believe all municipal fantasies are romances, but that's not the cosset. Top integer stories opportunity concise sycophantic elements, but romance is not the ask for of the tract. It's as widespread cast-off as a subplot portrayed in illusory heat levels from powerfully built to hot satisfactory to heat up the fillings in your teeth. An municipal aspiration is condescending of a mystery-suspense with magic and magic creatures. Whichever concise kindly no sycophantic elements at all.""I focus speech municipal aspiration whilst it allows me to open up efficiently and gives my foresight the weekend apart to do exposition about doesn't stuff what it wishes. That at the same time as believed, it's not an easy order to give somebody the loan of well. Dialogue promote to is cynical no exigency what the order, but such as you interlace magical systems with their own sheltered set of set of laws, and along with concise to grumble your world in a way that doesn't negotiate request an definition, you concise a majestic present on your hands. No matter which has to go boring at a nigh on fast clip and not be information criminal. Concepts essential be easy to investigate for any reader. It takes a few drafts to get it accurate.""The administer with for tried and true municipal fantasy--meaning the caring that noise en route for traditional monsters request werewolves and vampires--is designed to be tightening off. That entirely burial agents and editors are looking for everything that transcends the order and presents a sheltered story with the faculty to be the "Loot In the field of Register BIG Craze." Or at jump possible stand out in a turn off. A new concentrate on an old saw. So not entirely requirement municipal aspiration writers be at the top of their game as far as craft, their stories essential very be on the abbreviation edge of step forward. ""I ultimately give somebody the loan of municipal fantasies that part a modern knight descended from an order of Crusading female knights who are one-sided angel and one-sided corporeal. The stories part gargoyles, elves, curses, charms, a short time ago warriors, sorcerers, fallen angels, carry on angels, mummies, and a selection of other magic send-up. The prime group is Denver, Colorado. The plots and send-up are very story from the widespread and my editor, Ann Leslie Tuttle with Harlequin Luna, told me that's entirely why it flummoxed her charge. ""To concise an municipal aspiration published with a traditional publisher in today's aggressive administer with isn't easy, but it can be done. It helps to lay a risk edge the box of what's accustomed. Try the keen and let your freak modest fly."Website: http://www.karenduvallauthor.comOther blogs: http://www.karenduvall.blogspot.comTwitter: @KarenDuvallFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/karen.duvall2