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Review + Interview: Thirst by R P Channing

1/30/2016

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240+ Pages
WITH BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS 
~ Kira Sutherland ~ 


After a near fatal accident (and getting cheated on by her 'boyfriend'), and beating up the lead cheerleader (with whom the boyfriend cheated...), and being labeled as having 'issues' in her school because she, uhm, sees ghosts, Kira is left with two choices:
 
1. Continue her 'therapy' (where she's told the ghost is a hallucination and also gets her legs ogled too often...)
 
Or
 
2. Go to Starkfield Academy, a boarding school for "Crazies and Convicts" (as the social media sites call them.)
 
She chooses the latter...
 
~ Cory Rand ~ 
Cory Rand has not had an easy life. His mother died in a car accident when he was twelve, and so did his mother's best friend...sort of. You see, Janice made a promise to take care of Cory just before she died, and so she lingers. Undead. A ghost that watches out for him.
 
Brought up in an abusive home, Cory quickly falls into a life of disreputable behavior. After his third offense (which was prompted by a girl, as usual - he has a weakness) he's left with two choices:
 
1. Be tried as an adult and share a cell with a guy named Bubba (he thinks...)
 
Or
 
2. Go to Starkfield Academy, which Cory is pretty sure is run by vampires. But, hey, at least he'll get an education.
 
He chooses the latter...
 
It's at Starkfield that Kira meets Cory Rand, a boy with an insatiable Rage who sees ghosts, too. As well as other things, other things from his past, things that confuse him, things like fire and witches and demons.
 
Things he's always ignored.
 
Until now.
 
Genres:Young Adult Romance
Paranormal Romance
High School
Vampires, Demons, Witches
Dark Fantasy
Horror
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Author Interview
When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
It wasn’t the first thing I came up with when I was listing “possible professions” as a kid. I don’t even think it made the list. I just started writing one day and then I wrote more and then I wrote more... Before I knew it, I started calling myself “A Writer.”
 
How long does it take you to write a book?
It depends on the book and the story and how long it’s been since my last book. It’s so different from story to story that I have no fixed timeframe. Some stories are out of my head and onto paper before I can even blink, others take longer, much longer.
 
What is your work schedule like when you're writing?
I try and set myself a target of words for the day and then make that target. Sometimes that takes only a few hours, sometimes I’m writing until the early hours of the morning.
 
Where do you get your information or ideas for your books?
Wow. They’re random. They come out of nowhere. Sometimes I don’t even have an idea. If I do have one, the writing is easy. if I don’t, I just pound away until the story takes me somewhere, and then I re-write. I try and take a professional attitude to my writing and not “wait for inspiration.”
 
Tell us something unusual about yourself.
The weirdest thing I like doing is jumping in my car and going for a drive with no place to go. Some people like walking, I love just getting on the highway, looking around, and then driving back home after an hour or two. I find it very relaxing.
 
How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
Well, I’ve written plenty of stories, but Thirst is the first one I published. I guess that makes it my favorite because I actually put it out there for people.
 
Do you have any suggestions to help me become a better writer? If so, what are they?
Don’t listen to advice from new writers.
 
Do you like to create books for adults?
I’ve written all kinds of stories (unpublished), but I like YA as a genre. I like the crowd, I like the “innocence.” I don’t see myself publishing in any other genre. At least not for a while.
 
What do you think makes a good story?
Likable characters that take initiative.
 
As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up?
I wanted to become an actor. Of course, that failed. :)


​My Review

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This will be a short review because I don't want to give away any spoilers.

When I read the blurb and saw that Cory had issues and was raised by his abusive father I just had to give this a read because you know how I love an underdog hero who fights against the odds. Cory didn't disappoint :-) I loved him.  He has an attraction to redheads, although he doesn’t know why. When he sets fire to his ex’s trash can after she dumps him, he has a choice, be tried as an adult, or attend Starkfield Academy for troubled kids. He chooses the latter. Kira also has issues, she has a friend who just happens to be a ghost. Given the choice of therapy, or Starkfield Academy, she chooses the Academy.

I was immediately drawn in by the author’s writing style. The story was interesting and mysterious. It kept me guessing and wanting to turn the pages to find out what happened next. A lot happened towards the end of the book, some of which I found confusing, and I would have liked to know more about Kira’s ghost and why he followed her around, but maybe that will be explained in a future book.

This was an enjoyable read which I recommend to anyone who enjoys a paranormal tale with a touch of romance. I would read more from this author.
Buy Links

Amazon US
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018M5GTLI
Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B018M5GTLI
Kindle Unlimited
 
$20 Amazon Gift Voucher GiveawayAt the back of the book there is a giveaway link. Once the book hits fifty reviews on Amazon, one of those reviewers will win a $20 (US Dollars) Amazon Gift Voucher!


​Author Bio

​R P Channing started writing three years ago, but never published anything even after churning out over a million words of fiction. Thirst: Blood of my Blood is the first book he dared to publish. When asked why, he said, “Because it’s the first thing I wrote that my wife actually enjoyed reading.” When not hammering away (most literally) at his keyboard, he can be found buried in a book, reading anything from romance to horror to young adult to non-fiction to comedy. 

Author Links

Website
http://blog.rpchanning.com
Twitter
@rpchanning
Amazon
http://amazon.com/author/rpchanning
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Guest Post: Oh no! I can't figure out an ending!

1/12/2016

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Today I welcome author J.A. Stringer to my blog.
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I don’t know if anyone else has run into this problem before. Personally, I’ve been working on the same story since NaNoWriMo 2012. It’s a story I fell in love with and the critique group I had at the time was super supportive of. I’m a plan and plotter by nature, but I decided to just fly by the seat of my pants this time around. I think it bit me in those pants because I’ve been dangling at the same point ever since then all those years ago.
 
So, I’m stuck with the decision to make. Do I just slide the story aside and ignore it until I can figure something out? I have to have my stories make sense and work out in some logical fashion. Even if it’s sci-fi… I need that explanation, even if it’s for my imagination. But this story isn’t sci-fi, so the fantastic, far-fetched twist wouldn’t work.
 
Then it hit me! Just leave it as it is. It doesn’t have to be a full length novel. Why couldn’t it just be a short story with the reader left with the cliff hanger and wanting to know what happened? Heck! I want to know what happens and I haven’t figured it out yet. There’s nothing saying that I can’t come back at some later time and write an ending that I’m comfortable with for the characters and that works well for them and the genre. But, it doesn’t leave the story in limbo either.
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​J.A. Stinger is the co-author of Generations Beyond. The highlight of J.A.’s writing journey is meeting other Indie Authors and having them share their experiences and support. “I don’t think I could have done it without them.”

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Hidden, buried deep within the government’s archived files of failed military experiments lays a troubling secret. For years, 1953 to 1972 to be exact, a team of doctors and scientists tried unsuccessfully to alter test subjects, hoping to build living, organic weapons for the future. Eventually the project was disbanded, labeled an abject failure – but they were wrong – it just took the passage of time and altered DNA.
Now, years later, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original test pool are different, superior, and dangerous. Project Generations was spawned, a systematic collecting, or scrubbing, of an experiment gone awry. The Generations are hunted, collected, and eliminated before someone discovers the key to controlling them...or perhaps someone already has.
Clouded in secrecy, a General is tasked with the daunting assignment of hoarding or wiping out the past by destroying their future. Captain Christina Aarons, a cursed Generation, is dispatched by the General to locate a new partner, Captain Jonathan Cross, himself the recipient of special abilities. Together the duo battle time, the General, their attraction to one another, and unseen forces to block the laboratory testing and genocide of their brothers and sisters.
Generations Beyond will grip you and not let you go until the final page of this series is turned and the truth is revealed. Secure your copy today and discover The Generations.
** WARNING: This book contains sexual situations intended for readers over the age of 18 with violence, and strong language that may be offensive to some. The book does end in a cliffhanger. **
Available at Amazon / Barnes and Noble / Kobo
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    Michelle Abbott lives in the UK and hates describing herself in 3rd person.

    She writes new adult romance about heroes who fight against the odds and are protective of their girl.

    She's an avid reader of romance, is addicted to coffee and loves wine and chocolate, so yeah, not the most healthy eating and drinking habits :-) She spends way too much time online when she should be writing. She collects teddy bears and occasionally knits a couple of rows on a sweater she started years ago, which she may eventually finish in time to wear for her funeral :-)

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