YA Hop Featured Authors #MFRWhop with @Kittyb78 @AileenFish @SKNHammerstone

Thanks to all the efforts of the amazing authors who participated in the MFRW young adult blog hop. And congratulations to the winners of the awesome prizes! If you missed the hop, it’s not too late to check out the talents of MFRW’s young adults authors. This link will direct you to a free mini-book (a sampling and taste) of the books featured on the hop. http://mfrw.hopwith.me/

Here are the first three in the line-up.

Dangerous Temptation by Catrina Barton

Buy Link: http://is.gd/Y462Qb

Seventeen year old Kaitlin Sinclair's world crashes when her father dies, she's discovered by an uncle she never knew existed.

She encounters Cadmon Quinn, new leader of an ancient clan of tiger shifters, who fears failing his clan, but is drawn to the haunted young woman.

An adventure in the rainforest irrevocably intertwines their lives and they soon realize that keeping their hearts safe could prove as impossible as staying alive!

Apocalyptia One: Outcast by Aileen Fish .

Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFHI39I

Everyone had heard the world was supposed to end on December 21, 2012. But no one believed it.

When the world collapses, the only person who comes looking for Niki Mathers is the loser who made fun of her in high school. JC Phillips saves her life, so she can’t really tell him to get lost. And he is keeping her from being alone at the end of the world…

JC will never forgive himself for choices he made the night before the earthquake. Rescuing the girl he’s been crushing on for the past year doesn’t bring atonement.

Maybe making the world safe for Niki will take away his guilt.

The world they know is dying. All they want is to find their place in it before it does.

The Rift by SKN Hammerstone .

Buy Link: http://is.gd/3UGGIU

Rachael Taylor has returned from the grave with no memory of who she is or which of the two worlds she exists in is real. In one world she is a teenager living what is considered the normal life. In the other she is tormented night and day in a burning city.

When strange creatures start to invade both worlds, she must discover what she is before everything collapses.

Stay tuned, during the month of September we will be spotlighting all of the books who participated. Did you read and love any of the books featured? If so, please leave a friendly comment for the author. 

An Interview with Tiffany Daune

Today we have author Tiffany Daune for an author interview. Help us welcome her to MFRW Author’s Blog.

Tell us about your latest book, including its genre. Does it cross over to other genres? If so, what are they?

Surface is a young adult paranormal romance and is also my debut novel.  Romance is the tie that binds this novel, but if you also crave a good thriller then Surface will be sure to send your heart racing.

What can we expect from you in the future?

Surface is the first book in a trilogy and I'm thrilled Noble Romance Publishing has offered a contract for the sequel, so keep an eye out for Landlocked in the near future. I'll be posting tidbits on my blog and may even tweet a few snippets. I'm also busy writing the last book in the series and hope to be done by this summer, so I can finally tan my ghostly bod.

Why did you decide to write romance novels?

I grew up on Disney. How could I not be conditioned to write the romantic happily ever after? I'm a sucker for any guy meets girl & falls hopelessly in love plotline.  Love never gets old.

What is your writing routine once you start a book?

For me, the only way to stick to a writing routine is by following the advice of author Alyson Noel, "B.I.C. (Butt in the chair)."  When I wander into the kitchen for tea and chocolate or when tweeting seems more enjoyable than my plotline, I recall her words of wisdom and sit my derrière back down and write.

What do you do to relax and recharge your batteries?

This is a tough one, I'm kind of a workaholic because let face it really, I play all day. I love getting up knowing I'm going to make up a whole new world with new characters and bring them to life. I kind of know how Victor Frankenstein felt, crazy obsessed and thrilled when the story comes ALIVE.  That said writing is hard work, so when I do need to recharge, I unplug. I have to get away from the screen and spend time with my family. My family boosts me up and I'm good to go back to my lab I mean laptop.

What is the most rewarding thing about being a writer?

The clothes

If you weren't writing, what would you be doing?

Taming Lions

Are there any words of encouragement for unpublished writers?

Don't ever give up. Write and Submit. Write and Submit. Write and Submit. And when the rejection letters come in blast Katy Perry's song Firework. Then back to write and submit. Write and Submit.

What do you hope readers take with them after reading your work?

I want them to feel the story, more than just reading the words. When they put the book down the emotions of the characters should still resonate within them. 

 A biography has been written about you. What do you think the title would be in six words or less?

Believe

Fill in your blank favorites.

Dessert ~ Anything Lemony Sweet

City ~ New York

Season ~ Summer

Type of hero ~ Vulnerable

Type of heroine ~ Courageous

Blurb: Bound to the water bound to land, a Siren’s soul will never be safe on either side of the ocean’s surface. Hidden beneath the rolling waves lies the secret to Theia’s past and as she unveils each haunting truth, she realizes the last seventeen years of her life have been a lie. Now, drawn into a mysterious new world and with nowhere to turn, Theia must place her trust in Luc, a beautiful boy who stops her heart with each dazzling smile, but even his unearthly charm can’t hide the truth—he has secrets— dark secrets binding him to his world—an underwater world where Theia will never belong—a world determined to destroy her soul.   

Amazon Buy Link

Price: $6.50

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Noble Young Adult

Release Date: February 2013

Where can your readers find you? (List them all.)

www.tiffanydaune.com

http://www.amazon.com/Tiffany-Daune/e/B00BJNZRS2

http://tiffanydaune.blogspot.ca

https://twitter.com/TiffanyDaune

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6904400.Tiffany_Daune

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tiffany-Daune/395436080503637

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o329T5gLAg

Where’s your favorite place to hang out online?

Twitterville

Tiffany Daune doesn't get why people want to grow up or why anyone would ever stop eating candy. Her purse is filled with books, lip gloss and a few pieces of Lego bricks. She writes best with a dish of chocolate chips on hand and finds licorice makes a better straw than plastic.

She lives on an island and believes mermaids may be raiding her candy stash, though she hasn't caught them, yet.