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romance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sci-fi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"SF Romance"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Guest - Marie Lavender"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EGood morning! We have a great author, Marie Lavender, visiting today so grab one of the comfy chairs. Snag a coffee and a scone and enjoy the days post.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgXhnauKnb8P-JLY4SnMS3J4Ujp7VwjdZZrRlyHzehkiMU9WtvCRBuzN-ZrYNWNPtYdhrmN_7WT94DKhnECqVjH3XrL_YR-tyoE3pGKCD3kgO_6_LSO5jZdo3C9xiEvZUVGUYFk\/s1600\/Mariepic2+-+small.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgXhnauKnb8P-JLY4SnMS3J4Ujp7VwjdZZrRlyHzehkiMU9WtvCRBuzN-ZrYNWNPtYdhrmN_7WT94DKhnECqVjH3XrL_YR-tyoE3pGKCD3kgO_6_LSO5jZdo3C9xiEvZUVGUYFk\/s1600\/Mariepic2+-+small.jpg\" width=\"182\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EBeing\nDifferent\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EAs writers, I think most of us have felt like the\nodd man out. We are not like other people because we tend to observe humanity\nand store information in our memory banks, process it and spit out our\nimpressions on the page in the form of characterization. We hear voices in our\nheads; they tell us what to do. LOL. We often wake up in the middle of the\nnight with story ideas or can’t fall asleep because of it. We plot whole books\nin the shower. It makes for an interesting ride, to say the least.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EIn the range of sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal\nstories, the characters are often different from the rest of society. They\nbreak the mold; they are our heroes. And sometimes a completely normal\ncharacter can be heroic as well, using the resources at hand to solve a problem.\nI think people are that way too. Anyone has the potential to be something more\nin the work of a moment.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EIn my paranormal romance, \u003Ci\u003ESecond Nature\u003C\/i\u003E, Desiree is a woman who has lived a fairly normal and\nquiet life. When she meets Alec, she wakes up to the idea that the world is\ncompletely different than she thought. And she learns a lot about herself in\nthe process. In fact, the entire Blood at First Sight Series was created around\nthe theme of people “being different”, or coming to terms with their new abilities.\n\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EMost writers or readers of these genres have open\nminds. They are open to the idea that the world is mysterious, that there is so\nmuch we don’t know about it. And for some, maybe it is the escape from the\ndilemmas in our current society which has the most appeal. Reading a book is an\nadventure, though. That fictional realm is enticing, so wonderful that it is\nhard to step away from, even for a moment. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003ESo, what if these things were possible? Just think\nfor a moment if our world was the world of fiction. Space would be so much more\nthan something you see in a movie or learn about on the NASA channel. These\nfantastic stories would be more true to life than we ever thought. Creatures,\nboth horrendous and beautiful, would abound. Might we have to fear for our\nlives on a daily basis? Perhaps. Maybe not. But, the idea of it appeals on some\nlevel or I think we wouldn’t enjoy reading about it so much. We find the\nunknown exciting, the unexplained wonderful. We are thrilled by horror movies\nand television shows about the supernatural. Even dystopian stories are\ninteresting because they make us wonder how things might be if that ever\nhappened in our society. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EI think these books also show us that it’s okay to\nbe different. Whether you have special talents or well, you simply like to\ndance or dye your hair in wild colors, it is quite all right if you don’t\nalways conform to society. Fitting in is overrated sometimes. As human beings,\nwe were born to be individuals, to be completely unique from one another. Of course,\nwe are tied by our humanity and if we don’t recognize the human condition on\nsome level, that is bad. Community is important, even I know that. But, it’s\nalso acceptable to be yourself, to be the person you know is just dying to come\nout. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EAnd I think these kinds of stories show that. Every\ntime I pick up a paranormal romance or a piece of fiction in general, I am\nreminded that we all have personal demons. We all have dreams, things we want\nto do in this life, goals we have to reach. And having some people behind you\nwho understand your individuality and respect it, that actually helps too. But,\nit’s okay to make that journey fearlessly, even if it’s alone. Because you are\nhonoring who you are inside, what makes you unique. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EI am reminded of the movie Divergent. At one point\nin the story, Tris has to throw off her fears that people will find out her\nsecret, that she is different from them. Because doing the right thing is more\nimportant than conforming to the standard. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003ESo, rejoice in who you are. Every one of us has\ncertain beliefs, different backgrounds, and a specific take on how we view the\nworld. Love your differences. Celebrate your individuality and your passions.\nIt is okay to be different, to be something more than normal.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EThanks for your time, readers. Now I have to get\nback to writing about characters who love to be different as well. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout Marie:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBestselling author of \u003Cb\u003EUPON YOUR RETURN\u003C\/b\u003E\nand 19 other books. 2014 BTS Red Carpet Review Nominee. Finalist and Runner-up\nin the MARSocial's Author of the Year Competition. Honorable mention in the\nJanuary 2014 Reader's Choice Award. Liebster Blogger Award for 2013 and 2014.\nTop 50 Authors on AuthorsDB.com. Winner of the Great One Liners Contest on the\nDirectory of Published Authors.\nMarie Lavender lives in the Midwest\nwith her family and three cats. She has been writing for over twenty years. She\nhas more works in progress than she can count on two hands. Marie has published\ntwenty books in the genres of historical romance, contemporary romance,\nromantic suspense, paranormal romance\/fantasy, mystery\/thriller, literary\nfiction and poetry under the various pen names of Marie Lavender, Erica\nSutherhome, Kathryn Layne and Heather Crouse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLavender just released \u003Cb\u003ESecond\nNature\u003C\/b\u003E, a paranormal romance\/urban fantasy, in December of 2014. She released\n\u003Cb\u003EMagick \u0026amp; Moonlight\u003C\/b\u003E, a romantic fantasy, back in March. \u003Cb\u003EUpon Your Honor\u003C\/b\u003E, released\nlast April, is her second historical romance. Her current series are The\nHeiresses in Love Series, The Magick Series and The Blood at First Sight\nSeries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003ESecond Nature\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuoDjLVvDLQPi_MFJU70ToDowibBgBmK3QYL7YMhwG0hivASntIt9NAwJsFgkebLL0jJZ3UVtRGJtpSj-hihEzmPRXiTyCr0HSK6ADlOiM33zgAKI0IJCBXNL37csUPf6O24pg\/s1600\/SecondNature-final+cover.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuoDjLVvDLQPi_MFJU70ToDowibBgBmK3QYL7YMhwG0hivASntIt9NAwJsFgkebLL0jJZ3UVtRGJtpSj-hihEzmPRXiTyCr0HSK6ADlOiM33zgAKI0IJCBXNL37csUPf6O24pg\/s1600\/SecondNature-final+cover.jpg\" width=\"243\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nShe never expected it…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;Desiree Edwards has a problem. She’s\nbeen attacked, kidnapped and forced to get along with a vampire of all things.\nIt’s something right out of the story books she reads, or her worst nightmare.\nBut, sometimes he’s not the monster he appears to be. He seems so humanlike\nthat she can’t help it when her emotions betray her, when her body betrays her.\nTo make matters worse, she finds out more about herself than she ever wanted to\nknow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;Alec has a problem. The animal in him\nwants Desiree. But, so does the man. The more he learns about her, the harder\nit is to deny what he wants. But, he’s a freak, and she’s just a human. The two\nspecies don’t mix that way. Then an old enemy surfaces and Alec is forced to\nmake a choice. His life or hers. \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nCan Alec’s soul be saved by this\nunique human? Or will it be far too late?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EExcerpt from Second Nature\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt the park entrance, she felt a\nstrange tingling on the back of her neck and paused in mid-step. She looked\naround, but the place was empty. As it was growing dark, people didn’t usually\nfrequent the park at that time. She fingered the mace in her pocket, just in\ncase. She had learned to be prepared. She couldn’t see anything, though. Maybe\nit was nothing? Then the tingling sensation came again. It wasn’t quite like\nthe feeling of being watched, but something else. Something more. She was sure\nof it when the tingle moved through her body.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;Instinct forced her to move forward.\nSomething was wrong. She remembered Alec telling her about powers meeting powers,\nabout the physiological response she might have. To what? The dread made her\nnauseous. What if it was just a psychic sensation like what she’d had with the\nman that was murdered? She didn’t want to go through that again. Suck it up,\nshe scolded herself. She couldn’t just ignore it either. She couldn’t allow\nsomeone to get hurt.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZ5kShzakA0tU67pqsq7bdtDWXrsZu0K_6Cqy79jcOtwwXiSCJCTMWA9KWd5xygUJPhXmsQME68DD76FQas4ZjRnvMTtASUkjIVIwrrcmG6Q9s6H6ybb7LBTt4TVsIgygrHNqh\/s1600\/Magick+and+Moonlight.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZ5kShzakA0tU67pqsq7bdtDWXrsZu0K_6Cqy79jcOtwwXiSCJCTMWA9KWd5xygUJPhXmsQME68DD76FQas4ZjRnvMTtASUkjIVIwrrcmG6Q9s6H6ybb7LBTt4TVsIgygrHNqh\/s1600\/Magick+and+Moonlight.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ECheck out this light-hearted romantic\nfantasy also by Marie Lavender:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EMagick \u0026amp; Moonlight\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\nMessing with free will is always a bad\nidea… \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nEthan Hamilton moves to a lazy little\ntown in Oregon, hoping to escape his demons. But, instead he discovers a woman\ndancing nude in the moonlight. This woman who claims she is a witch dazzles him\nwith her sensual presence. He thinks she’s crazy, but what if she’s not? \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nJessie Anderson has been taught that\nher kind hides who they really are. And she has a problem on her hands. Someone\nknows her secret and she has to do all she can to protect herself. What other\nchoice does she have? Jessie casts a love spell on a good man, a man with whom\nshe can’t fight her attraction. The spell doesn’t work quite as planned – she\nends up falling for Ethan. \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nTo top it off, Ethan’s treatment of\nher, his “love”, is so addictive. Deep down, she knows the spell will wear off,\nand yet his feelings seem genuine. 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font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EThe\nfirst book in my Rider universe, \u003Cb\u003ERIDING\nTHE ODDS\u003C\/b\u003E, is out today! \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EAn act of desperation\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; and the beginning of seduction...\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003ESpaceship\ncaptain Tara Rowan has her secrets. One is her Rider, Zie—an organic symbiote,\nlike a living tattoo—that enhances Tara's physical abilities. But Zie is no\nordinary Rider, and Tara can never risk anyone discovering Zie's true origins.\nEspecially not the sexily dangerous stranger who appears out of nowhere and\nmakes Tara's pulse race...\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EExcept\nthat “Trace Munroe” isn't exactly who he says he is. He's in fact a Holy\nKnight, who does everything by the book, and Tara is his only lead in tracking\ndown a kidnapped princess. And Trace will do whatever it takes to get that information—including\nblackmail. But a blazing attraction to Tara is definitely complicating\nthings...especially when Trace realizes that following his code of honor means\ndestroying the woman he's falling for.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EAmazon\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/m6l5wzu\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/m6l5wzu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EBarnes\n\u0026amp; Noble \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/nzalaos\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/nzalaos\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EEntangled\n(for other formats) \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.entangledpublishing.com\/riding-the-odds\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.entangledpublishing.com\/riding-the-odds\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EPrice\nSteal! Money pinching Tara Rowen would love this because RIDING THE ODDS has a\nspecial introductory price of $1.99 this week only. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiWjSgndQGCoAcq7-J8fltcEkq30GZodfVbHfs1pGoJJez3Ov8WBrH77ws25gJTwbjTtMiDEblKvG6YNWo2xwVgfweoM7xnF6eWt46ckXgOkIcBMMa_tKRivAc6xrmmvF9nSrR7\/s1600\/RIDING-THE-ODDS.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiWjSgndQGCoAcq7-J8fltcEkq30GZodfVbHfs1pGoJJez3Ov8WBrH77ws25gJTwbjTtMiDEblKvG6YNWo2xwVgfweoM7xnF6eWt46ckXgOkIcBMMa_tKRivAc6xrmmvF9nSrR7\/s1600\/RIDING-THE-ODDS.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EHere's\nwhat reviewers have said: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E\"There\nwas never a dull moment.\" --Book Sniffers Anonymous\nhttp:\/\/booksniffersanonymous.com\/?p=3907\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E\"This\nwas a fun and enjoyable read...I would love to read more books set in this\nworld.\" --Lola's Reviews\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E\"Would\nI recommend this book? Absolutely! For those who love romance novels, or even\nsomeone who is looking for something new to read. Riding the Odds isn't jammed\nback full of romance, there is a lot of mystery, action and interesting\ndetails\" --Books Galore\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EThe\nending is beautiful \u0026amp; poignant (I cried) with the depth of love between\nTara \u0026amp; Trace. -- Linda\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Georgia\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EIt's\nEntangled SciFi Week! 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We'll be celerbrating the release of some Very Good books.\nNina Croft, Melissa West, Lynda K Scott, \u0026amp; Jess Anastasi will be playing\nalong.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1398074173829518\/?pnref=story\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1398074173829518\/?pnref=story\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1398074173829518\/?pnref=story\" style=\"color: #336699; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.15;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eebook.com\/events\/1398074173829518\/?pnref=story\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/star-crossedromance.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6303666364530908427\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=28436164\u0026postID=6303666364530908427\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/28436164\/posts\/default\/6303666364530908427"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/28436164\/posts\/default\/6303666364530908427"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/star-crossedromance.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/riding-odds-is-available-now.html","title":"Riding The Odds is Available NOW"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiWjSgndQGCoAcq7-J8fltcEkq30GZodfVbHfs1pGoJJez3Ov8WBrH77ws25gJTwbjTtMiDEblKvG6YNWo2xwVgfweoM7xnF6eWt46ckXgOkIcBMMa_tKRivAc6xrmmvF9nSrR7\/s72-c\/RIDING-THE-ODDS.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28436164.post-3817630399643923461"},"published":{"$t":"2010-07-23T18:25:00.005+07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-07-24T00:42:05.901+07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anderson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"faery"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"magic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"realms"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sci-fi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tolkien"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Star Light, Star Bright...Interstellar Interview with R. J. Anderson"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikQ5vZ_OLJTfV8fITeXZcQFpA7GwLY_awZRuHQrAKKGMuugefyfxt5yJlGOWbArTwvLKS1U-8Pje-V2jDDTMJj2hZHaY94KvrosHrFYp8sPm1QkmIJBXa5PBfp0Q2LR32PELx-\/s1600\/starlight_interview+graphic.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496534044406453026\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 337px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 131px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikQ5vZ_OLJTfV8fITeXZcQFpA7GwLY_awZRuHQrAKKGMuugefyfxt5yJlGOWbArTwvLKS1U-8Pje-V2jDDTMJj2hZHaY94KvrosHrFYp8sPm1QkmIJBXa5PBfp0Q2LR32PELx-\/s400\/starlight_interview+graphic.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EForget everything you think you know about faeries...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd enter the fantastical realm created by R. J. Anderson! Born in Uganda, she was raised in Ontario, and went to school in New Jersey, yet she's spent much of her life dreaming of other worlds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring childhood R. J. immersed herself in fairy tales, mythology, and the works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and E. Nesbit. Later she discovered contemporary authors like Ursula LeGuin, Patricia A. McKillip and Robin McKinley, and learned to garner as much pleasure from their prose as the details of the stories they told.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarried, and living in Stratford, Ontario, she's a mother of three who reads the classic fantasy and sci-fi that enlivened her childhood to her sons. In her YA and childrens novels, she strives to engender a similar sense of humor, adventure, and timeless wonder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496527543573317410\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj6GgGbntc5g-e4VpbbVpHlNIg4rYg3Upf5co7HlQ_YTNqIQ5chbR0h1GXdhgMlxchfraYxe2k98yo7Ol5maCCuHKrD1OGjryBRgfni1qgoxhHov0FK3ri8qc9guXDAryQU2xZ8\/s320\/Rebecca6x9_300finSt.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003EWhat prompted your use of faeries in your YA novels? Is there a reason you chose to have heroines as the main faery characters, with a supporting human “boy”?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EWell, there have been plenty of folk stories and fantasy novels which show faeries and faeryland from a human's point of view, with all its strange beauties and mysterious dangers. But I couldn't help wondering what a faery raised in such an environment would think of the human world on seeing it for the first time. Might we humans not seem just as surprising (and unsettling) to faeries as they would seem to us? So the idea of writing a book from the faery's point of view, and using that to cast light on all the things about human relationships and society that we tend to take for granted, really appealed to me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI also liked the idea of adding to this culture shock with another kind of shock -- a girl raised in an all-female environment encountering a male for the first time, and all the confusion and fascination that generates. He's not just human, he's a BOY. Gasp! Of course, by the second book the faery girl \/ human boy encounter isn't nearly so startling from the faery's point of view, but then Timothy and Linden have a very different sort of relationship from the one between Knife and Paul in the first book, and I wanted it that way.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#66ffff;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEioTsR5UDaUGYlTtRq0WDNWP-1vv1tA62XUZd0020eBA_vwOc39mL9vo7_NEXAkythVC5_H6_Mf8VcCu1SW3-iVoHt_nR8V_DFBhdoX0YJiYPJ_vhZZDvv2341KGr0xs06UDIhy\/s1600\/spell+hunter.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496531114894248562\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 349px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEioTsR5UDaUGYlTtRq0WDNWP-1vv1tA62XUZd0020eBA_vwOc39mL9vo7_NEXAkythVC5_H6_Mf8VcCu1SW3-iVoHt_nR8V_DFBhdoX0YJiYPJ_vhZZDvv2341KGr0xs06UDIhy\/s400\/spell+hunter.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003EWhy did you choose the young adult sub genre to make your mark on the literary world?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EI didn't, at least not at first. KNIFE was originally written for adult fantasy readers, and in the first draft, the characters were adults as well. It wasn't until an editor friend asked me if I'd consider submitting it as YA that I stepped back and realized the elements of the story -- which is a coming of age story, a story about finding one's identity and purpose in life, and also a first love story -- were perfectly suited to a teen audience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the time, my library consisted of a lot of classic \"juvenile\" fantasies like the Narnia books and the Chronicles of Prydain, and then jumped straight into adult epic fantasy and mysteries. However, in the process of trying to get a handle on the YA genre I fell in love with the amazing range and depth of YA literature that exists today and now I read YA almost exclusively. Maybe one day I'll come up with an idea for a certifiably \"adult\" novel, but at present it seems as though all the ideas and themes that interest me most fit very nicely into the YA spectrum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwSGjm3K1S0KYuV-kvReY2jeFkCcYntBoj-VU18yP59qJoxSR05IXkV4Xrw0rXfzV3tNZ-R7011c5OPh7-yWixIGXZ0uY5u_8aZp64UI_rNl3pquvgDRPquK3JXPepRss7x782\/s1600\/wayfarer+large.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496531329003308738\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwSGjm3K1S0KYuV-kvReY2jeFkCcYntBoj-VU18yP59qJoxSR05IXkV4Xrw0rXfzV3tNZ-R7011c5OPh7-yWixIGXZ0uY5u_8aZp64UI_rNl3pquvgDRPquK3JXPepRss7x782\/s320\/wayfarer+large.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003EWhat’s the biggest downfall in having two sets of releases—one in the UK and one in the US ?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EIt's unfortunate that because the two editions have completely different covers and titles, US readers sometimes get all interested and excited over a review of KNIFE or REBEL and go looking for them, without realizing that they're published here as SPELL HUNTER and WAYFARER. I fear I've lost quite a few potential readers that way. But it does seem to be quite common that things turn out this way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther than that, all the effects have been really positive. I love that my UK releases come out six months or more earlier than the US ones, because the books are bestsellers in the UK and that's always a great emotional boost for me before I tackle the North American promotion. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003EHow have adventurous tales inspired you to write…and if you could take one real life journey what would it be?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EWhen I was a young teen, I read Susan Cooper's book THE GREY KING and fell in love with her description of Wales. I had the opportunity to visit the north of Wales in 1993, and it absolutely did not disappoint -- surely one of the most beautiful places on earth. I returned there, to the west and south of the country this time, to do some research for WAYFARER in 2008, and now my upcoming book ARROW involves a journey through Wales as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut apart from making endless return trips to Wales (which I would gladly do), if I could go anywhere at all in the world, I'd love to visit New Zealand and\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EAustralia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003EIf you could’ve done one thing differently on your way to becoming a published author what would it be?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EWhen I was shopping my first manuscript to agents and editors, I became discouraged very early in the submission process and gave up for months or even years at a time whenever I got rejected. I realize now that I was actually getting some great feedback on how to improve the manuscript from those rejections, and if I'd been bolder about revising the book extensively instead of just twiddling and tweaking and polishing my prose, I might have been agented and\/or published a lot earlier. But then, the market was very different back then and the book might not have done as well as it has. So I think it all worked out the way it was meant to, in the end.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#33ff33;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhut8lksc5EbLXCDGpnU6caduWqhccecHx9pMYuhXcHdOSu_ddK6WYJ6o8rYdiHQ-dcHu6FA8uopDTP6Hs1YxUbxV6VqBHMnHvyxwKEbZ_eql8oFj_TEiOstlWGBHmbCtXz1W8C\/s1600\/arrow.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496531855148786082\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 215px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhut8lksc5EbLXCDGpnU6caduWqhccecHx9pMYuhXcHdOSu_ddK6WYJ6o8rYdiHQ-dcHu6FA8uopDTP6Hs1YxUbxV6VqBHMnHvyxwKEbZ_eql8oFj_TEiOstlWGBHmbCtXz1W8C\/s320\/arrow.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EDo you have any other releases or appearance that fans (old and new) should know about?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff66;\"\u003EMy third faery book, called ARROW, will be coming out in the UK on 6 January 2011 -- I'm quite excited about that one, especially now that I've been allowed to publicly share the cover. Later in 2011 I've got a paranormal thriller for older teens coming out, the story of a 17-year-old girl who ends up in psychiatric care after confessing to the murder of a schoolmate -- it's called TOUCHING INDIGO at present, but I believe the UK title is going to be changed to ULTRAVIOLET. I'm really looking forward to hearing what readers think of that story as well!\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you'd like to learn more about R. J., her novels, or check out her extras visit her delightful \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rj-anderson.com\/\"\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/star-crossedromance.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3817630399643923461\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=28436164\u0026postID=3817630399643923461\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/28436164\/posts\/default\/3817630399643923461"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/28436164\/posts\/default\/3817630399643923461"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/star-crossedromance.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/star-light-star-brightinterstellar.html","title":"Star Light, Star Bright...Interstellar Interview with R. 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Anderson"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikQ5vZ_OLJTfV8fITeXZcQFpA7GwLY_awZRuHQrAKKGMuugefyfxt5yJlGOWbArTwvLKS1U-8Pje-V2jDDTMJj2hZHaY94KvrosHrFYp8sPm1QkmIJBXa5PBfp0Q2LR32PELx-\/s72-c\/starlight_interview+graphic.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28436164.post-6664120402921557262"},"published":{"$t":"2010-06-25T18:30:00.003+07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-06-25T18:40:11.952+07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alien Affairs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Close Contact"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Eos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Katherine Allred"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"RT"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sci-fi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Top Pick"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Star Light, Star Bright...Interstellar Interview with Katherine Allred"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEivVfbyibQjTL0yvFXtWN_rQJhAV0uIFgvojPWAdfuJN7S-1VkMxnvnRAWToc5vKTxBPwg7A1yaLiBS14Q4OvtVveNd0aQVGsxfGMjgK4SyeINX__5UdPrnWjsK9geXlv8vFQHj\/s1600\/starlight_interview+graphic.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 113px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486525609927096850\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEivVfbyibQjTL0yvFXtWN_rQJhAV0uIFgvojPWAdfuJN7S-1VkMxnvnRAWToc5vKTxBPwg7A1yaLiBS14Q4OvtVveNd0aQVGsxfGMjgK4SyeINX__5UdPrnWjsK9geXlv8vFQHj\/s400\/starlight_interview+graphic.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBorn in Arkansas, Katherine Allred spent her childhood learning to love books from her grandfather. At five, her mom remarried and they relocated to Michigan. Ten years later they were on the move again...back to Arkansas, and she's been there ever since. Except her jaunts as an army wife to other countries and states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter earning a BS in journalism at Arkansas State University, she began writing. To date, she's had nine books published with CLOSE CONTACT, which hit shelves earlier this month!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatherine is an RWA member, and has achieved many awards including the 2006 EPPIE award, the PASIC Book of Your Heart in 2002, and Best Book of the Year by Romance Reviews Today in 2005. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 197px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486525407671635282\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg-CSZYx-TOuLT_g7LoVUvyTvASSAk9ABIkFaqOwE5mm7yASE1dkdWEBjcpsTn9kBoPTBkSPKwlaoScU6q_EuKLqbgpRG_hXgH9rdMoXk6O_eouACAFimJJDx_qa2HzJhbUDUvp\/s320\/kathy.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#cc66cc;\"\u003EWhen did you decide that fantasy\/sci-fi would be your break out sub-genre?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003EI think it would be easier to explain when I *didn’t* know. Science fiction was always my first love in fiction, starting with Superman comics when I was four. I didn’t actually read romances until my children were almost grown. A friend forced me to read one of Nora Robert’s books and I realized romances weren’t the bodice rippers I thought they were anymore. I literally devoured every romance I could get my hands on after that. So the Alien Affairs series was simply a combination of my two favorite genres.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhQVEAQKCdI_FzICJivNUhD2RJJprkYQ4M_441lyFE2CWAMH4uf5x8EhYft-SMubRyctp_O6X0K0dCmiAGJJfPxeoT4d_TrsUQaKf0XiNwey8MhJXXDzqjaCWJWFt50ri3vGYfI\/s1600\/sweet+gum.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 206px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 339px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486527226671806338\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhQVEAQKCdI_FzICJivNUhD2RJJprkYQ4M_441lyFE2CWAMH4uf5x8EhYft-SMubRyctp_O6X0K0dCmiAGJJfPxeoT4d_TrsUQaKf0XiNwey8MhJXXDzqjaCWJWFt50ri3vGYfI\/s400\/sweet+gum.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#cc66cc;\"\u003EDo you miss penning your contemporaries?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003EA part of me does and I still want to write more southern women’s fiction like THE SWEET GUM TREE. But I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing science fiction romance. I’m having too much fun doing it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#cc66cc;\"\u003EWhat started the idea of the Alien Affairs series and the GEPs (Genetically Engineered Persons)?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI was watching the local news one night and they did a bit on what the newscaster called “designer babies”. He seemed vaguely horrified that parents might someday be able to pick things like hair and eye color, intelligence, and athletic ability. I kept thinking, “what’s so bad about that? Don’t we all want our children to be smart, coordinated, and good looking?” Of course we do. But since genetic engineering hasn’t reached that point yet, I decided to genetically engineer my fictional children instead.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEGSF8Fb-0amc1-W6Va9DqQ6ggcCiPrGeNT6czSE3iKMbE_8BLMhLpPpNTSNzCckd2MzLVzEMN-KhmYG4djAW4r0LcXFUTRFNzzkwFkogguBP0OluCCpz2Wn23L9o18P-7dQWQ\/s1600\/close+encounters+book+1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486527477523100802\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEGSF8Fb-0amc1-W6Va9DqQ6ggcCiPrGeNT6czSE3iKMbE_8BLMhLpPpNTSNzCckd2MzLVzEMN-KhmYG4djAW4r0LcXFUTRFNzzkwFkogguBP0OluCCpz2Wn23L9o18P-7dQWQ\/s400\/close+encounters+book+1.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#cc66cc;\"\u003EWhy did you craft Eco Adams a quasi-kick ass heroine and party girl?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETo tell you about Echo, I need to tell you about the heroine from the first book, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. When I made Kiera Smith, she was the only super GEP we knew about in her world. She was pretty naive about regular people (Naturals) because she’d never been around them. She went right from the crèche when she was thirteen to living on a spaceship and dealing with aliens.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen it came to CLOSE CONTACT, the second book, I wanted a heroine who would be the complete opposite of Kiera, someone who had been created to work with Natural people. And someone who knew nothing about being an agent. So, Echo Adams was born. She’s the quintessential city girl so it was loads of fun coming up with situations to make her squirm. It also gave me a lot of room in her character arc to turn her into a semi-competent agent.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjoAQGm7AYJ3cRz71U98in7LNgPCYKIVdkCtXpshnK-4FSdo8uJTjqhSZVuRcO618DUfyovQ_ANVp-d85v_tRNRLPTYl1yoTacAfJBD_ovx7Yzt_EBxlmYmS6wKsIvyGBp29nLx\/s1600\/close+contact+book+2.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486527734372941282\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjoAQGm7AYJ3cRz71U98in7LNgPCYKIVdkCtXpshnK-4FSdo8uJTjqhSZVuRcO618DUfyovQ_ANVp-d85v_tRNRLPTYl1yoTacAfJBD_ovx7Yzt_EBxlmYmS6wKsIvyGBp29nLx\/s400\/close+contact+book+2.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#cc66cc;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere were you when you learned of your contract with Eos and most recently about your 4.5 stars Top Pick from Romantic Times?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWow, this could be a long answer. LOL. I had turned the final of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS in to my agent, Laura Bradford, and when she sent it out, she told me to relax, it would probably be months before we heard anything from the publishers she sent it to. Four weeks later, I was in the kitchen cooking dinner when she called me and said we had not one, but two offers on the book! A small bidding war ensued with me bouncing around the kitchen, fork in hand, trying to cook and keep up with her at the same time. I finally threw the fork at hubby and told him he was on his own, and then sat down, in a complete daze, until it was over. I’m still not sure I believe it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe top pick from Romantic Times wasn’t as hectic. My wonderful editor, Emily Krump, had found out at the RT convention and copied the page. She sent it to me in the snail mail. I was very surprised, and very happy, to get it. And since I’m talking about this type thing, I’m also thrilled that CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is a finalist in the FF\u0026amp;P chapter's Prism contest.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg6-wzmNbI8VWHJbwT9BYtqDN3OfMCJcjHpCQN9j3yF9EjeAiWD8EiOvtvYMq4WmLQYcKso4bXc2ZUSkJ40mYdWCboLoMfKLYqHHpORtEnSHnggYq6RZui4mySupYSrlUIjRGey\/s1600\/2nd+time.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 178px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 316px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486528240766158594\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg6-wzmNbI8VWHJbwT9BYtqDN3OfMCJcjHpCQN9j3yF9EjeAiWD8EiOvtvYMq4WmLQYcKso4bXc2ZUSkJ40mYdWCboLoMfKLYqHHpORtEnSHnggYq6RZui4mySupYSrlUIjRGey\/s400\/2nd+time.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbC4ulOA1q5M-M7A9RT8nsomMhDoI8l4wiVxBIeI-F-UO61YyKdBBwjJ0VSXeqYP6Wcmix-1ItbcsPP6wgq1y04XnpB6LRmmtYOxWVxBa3TI3H1qhU9D-GIeCE5JjH7IS8cmR7\/s1600\/2nd+time.jpg\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#cc66cc;\"\u003EWhat kernel of authorial knowledge would you bestow on a new writer?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ffff33;\"\u003ENever give up, and write what you love to read. Quitters will never be published, and if you don’t love what you’re writing, no one else will either.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you'd like to learn more about Katherine or her novels, check out \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.katherineallred.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.katherineallred.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"technoratitag\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003ETechnorati Tags:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Link to Technorati Tag category for Alien Affairs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Alien+Affairs\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003EAlien Affairs\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan 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spill"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sci-fi"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Just One Day"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELately with the news of the oil spill everywhere I turn, I've been thinking what would I do if I had the ability to fix one colossal problem in one day? \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478717787510210354\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 260px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhBvDKeuiAIs_nFg5y7qYeSQLdZmCSDWbA4zzXOM7CzQW9Pi46tjdezGdR0_vs_YL-xGmNqvGUsdN7W4dKuidRUZY2R0wuhUE8x9RuLg4QotPwOM1-Pi8aaZ6IpaHz0StvnegbU\/s320\/oil.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's not an uncommon mission for a hero or heroine, especially in sci-fis and urban fantasies with increasing numbers of apocolyptic and post apocolyptic plots. How many times have we seen goals like a hero or heroine saving their people, their planet or the universe? I'm not saying that's bad, because there are limitless possibilities for how they'll achieve \"the impossible\". Just like in love, half the fun is getting to that final HEA (or close to it anyway).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478717912837022562\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi3xmS-QFqQgIVb0nBH-9pqcxz0doZIpf-tL3n_a3-jPDNieF4RP4lXlx83uf7NipPDekwjbpt_8dgfrXHACt0mUcCxSTuKCV3fluaYmaHkGnK0ECTS0xWU-rQM-UzdTBH3jhoM\/s320\/earth.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the present day would the hero and heroine's mission be to stop the oil spill without government approval or in the face of their opposition? Would they pull a hostile take over of BP to force them to take action? One thing is certain, it would be a hot button topic no matter who you talk to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you had the chance to use one day to make something impossible happen, what would you do?No, you don't have to play by the rules and only use what you presently know or are physically capable of. Let yourself go...imagine you're the hero or heroine of your story. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPersonally I'm undecided. I'd love to stop the oil spill, so it doesn't harm the water supply, states along the coast, animals in harm's way, not to mention the people who've been touched by the catastrophe. I also thought about curing a disease like cancer or diabetes which are both epidemic in their scope. Then I thought about a super fundraiser being the catalyst for solving the problem, instead of me finding the secret\/cure myself. Sometimes the facilitator is as important as the person who puts in that final peice. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cimg id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478718082302427314\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 132px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhZgD7g3VKUOhmkFWtzYgWvXt4Qy11lleYOwTjNjWRJ29MmoA0LFtUrqdWJ0f3OnnLE4e17hyphenhyphenwBVavvbTvHzBqjOF2A7Gy7JIv-QU6ZsUIEMrTFC71AcO84BmU6yFl7Agi9R9bD\/s320\/cancer.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen I thought about all the people in debt, especially due to the economy's slump. Would I pull a Fight Club ending and take out everyone's credit card record? However with every good deed, there comes a cost...a ramification. Will having their balance stand at 0 really help or cause a bigger problem? Should my answer be to give people a way to help themselves by creating a business that would supply thousands (possibly milions) of jobs to get everyone back on their feet. As I wrote in ALL I EVER WANTED, give people who need help a hand up not a hand out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is so much that needs to be done, problems we may not see resolved in our lifetimes, but each little bit of growth can mean deciphering the bigger issue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"technoratitag\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003ETechnorati Tags:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Link to Technorati Tag category for oil spill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/oil+spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003Eoil spill\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Link to Technorati Tag category for sci-fi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sci-fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\"\u003E\u003Cspan 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