Forever: The Dragon Wars tour with interview and giveaway

Today I have an interview for you all with author Rebecca Royce.  You guys should check it out as I had several fun questions for her in true Mistress of the Dark Path style.  As further incentive, Rebecca will be awarding a $50 Amazon Gift Card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.  So feel free to join in with your own questions and check out her other stops here for more chances to win.

Forever: The Dragon Wars

by Rebecca Royce

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INTERVIEW:

Tell us something dark about yourself.

I can be incredibly envious.  Maybe this doesn’t initially come across as dark but envy can be, for me, a very dark mistress. It can lead me to not focus on all that is good and light in my own life. It can make me focus on the wrong things, to lose my footing, to veer from my chosen paths.

I’ve gotten pretty good at controlling her but every once in a while—when I’ve worked so hard to lose weight and only lost one pound in a week and the girl next to me who didn’t work so hard and lost two—I can feel it running around in there waiting to do damage, to tell me that my one pound was nothing…

Nope not going to write any more.

You are on a deserted island and can only choose one beverage to have besides water.  What would it be?

Iced Tea

If you had to choose between a bullwhip, cat o’ nine tails, or a crop, which would you pick?

A crop

What mythical creature would you be and why?

A werewolf. How could I pick anything else? I write about them the most out of any of my stories.

What first inspired you to write your book?

I got approached about the idea to write an anthology. The anthology didn’t happen.  But I wrote this story, initially, to be part of that. When it didn’t happen, I adjusted the story, changed it, and created a new series with it.

How long did it take to research/write it?

A couple of months.

Give one unique fact about your novel that makes it different from the others in its genre.

Well, it pits werewolves against dragons. I think that’s pretty unique.

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I want to thank Rebecca for allowing me to conduct an interview with her.  She gave some really good answers.  Below is further information about her and her book as well as an excerpt for you all to check out.  I know I’m intrigued.

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BLURB: 

Devin Owen has come back from the Dragon Wars a changed Werewolf. For one thing, he’s lost his wolf side as well as most of his desire to live. He spends most of his life doped up to handle the pain from his injured leg.

Lena Knox knew the moment she met Devin that he was her mate. But, she’d been a child at the time and he hadn’t noticed her at all. Now, all grown up she wants Devin to be the wolf she’s waited for. Not that she has a lot of time for longing with life crumbling around her.

A couple of heated encounters draw them together but is it enough to overcome the war wounds they both carry? Or will an outside enemy destroy them before they get the chance to know?

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EXCERPT:

“You’re my mate, Devin. I’ve known it since the first time I was in your company when I was seven years old.”

Devin gripped the side of the table he stood next to like she’d struck him. “No.”

“No?” She hadn’t expected the pain of his rejection. She’d known he might not believe her at first. Tears she refused to shed clogged her throat. “It’s not ‘no.’ I’m your mate, such that I am.”

Lena knew she wasn’t an ideal Female specimen. Her skin frequently broke out in horrible bouts of acne, although she looked pretty clear at the moment, her chin jutted out too far, her hands were not dainty, and when she shifted, her Wolf form frequently had trouble coming to a stop at high speeds. More than once she’d collided into trees, bushes, and other Wolves.

But she knew she was a nice person. She could work hard, and she never asked anyone for anything but common decency. She’d be a good mate to him, and he shouldn’t be rejecting her outright.

Unless he found her absolutely repulsive to look at…

“You’ve made a mistake. Whatever you thought you smelled when you were a child was the wild fantasy of a young girl. You should be over it by now.”

She sighed. “Devin, I can still smell it. I promise when you get to know me you’ll find out I’m not wildly fanciful. I live in the real world.”

“I can’t smell it on you. Not at all. I’m sorry, Lena. You seem like a nice kid, but if you can really smell mating from me, then it’s one of those rare occasions where one Wolf feels something the other doesn’t.”

Lena had heard about those situations. It was every young Wolf’s deepest fear. Something went askew with the chemistry. One Wolf felt mated and the other one didn’t. They could even mate with someone else.

“I think you should go home and work on getting over whatever this is because, at least for my part, it is not a mating.”

Lena’s heart might explode from her chest. She turned on her heel. What else was there to say, really? He’d said no. He didn’t feel it. She’d waited fifteen years for him to come home, and it had been for nothing.

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AUTHOR BIO:

As a teenager, Rebecca Royce would hide in her room to read her favorite romance novels when she was supposed to be doing her homework. She hopes, these days, that her parents think it was well worth it.

Rebecca is the mother of three adorable boys and is fortunate to be married to her best friend. They’ve just moved to Texas where Rebecca is discovering a new love for barbecue!

She’s in love with science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal and tries to use all of these elements in her writing. She’s been told she’s a little bloodthirsty so she hopes that when you read her work you’ll enjoy the action packed ride that always ends in romance. Rebecca loves to write series because she loves to see characters develop over time and it always makes her happy to see her favorite characters make guest appearances in other books.

In Rebecca Royce’s world anything is possible, anything can happen, and you should suspect that it will.

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AUTHOR LINKS:

Website

Blog

Goodreads

Facebook

Twitter

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Purchase Links:

Amazon | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | BookStrand

~ by Suzie on March 20, 2013.