Isn't Megg Jensen's cover of the last book to her Cloud Prophet Trilogy A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!
June 30, 2011
June 28, 2011
Megg Jensens' Guest Post & GIVEAWAY!
Real Life (Almost) Never Impacts My Writing
When readers talk to me about Anathema and Oubliette, they often ask how my real life impacts my stories. The simple answer: it doesn't. Sure, many of the characters are names stolen from friends (Johna and Hanne, for example), and maybe my emotional state will impact the direction of the novel while I'm first drafting. But it's very, very rare that anything from my actual life will show up in my novels. I think my life is far more boring than what happens in my books.
But, there is an exception to every rule. For my upcoming novel, Sleepers, I used one portion of life that I'm very passionate about - martial arts. No, I don't have a black belt in anything. My fear of standing up in front of other people has always held me back from taking a class. However, five years ago my daughter started taekwondo and I spent a good part of every week practicing with her. Everyone told me I should take class with her, but I told them I couldn't because I still had a younger child to watch so how could I possibly commit to take the class? The truth was that I adored taekwondo, but I feared standing up in a class of children (it's offered age six and up but it's rare to see a parent in the class) with parents looking on.
Since I didn't feel like I could truly express myself in taekwondo, I used it in Sleepers. My main character, Lianne, is an expert in martial arts. In developing this part of her life, I was able to let myself live it with her.
Well, my son is now old enough to take taekwondo too. At his first class, the instructor told the parents that any of them were welcome, in fact encouraged, to take the class with their children. He looked at me, and called me out in front of everyone. I thought, just for a moment, that I would melt into a puddle of embarrassment. Surprisingly, I didn't.
On the way home, my husband said, "Why don't we take it with the kids now?" I hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Okay." Working on edits for Sleepers (which I wrote more than a year ago) has reminded me how much I love taekwondo. I'm still scared to death to step on that mat with all of the other adults watching, but I'm going to do it anyway.
So yeah, real life impacted my writing - and now, I can honestly say, that writing has impacted my real life.
My question:
I am going to start off with my question and it is something that I am going to write a blog post about. I am also determined to make T-Shirts that ask this question...so here it is.
"Why are most of my favorite authors redheads?"
Megg Jensen's answer:
"All your fav authors are redheads because we are the awesomest of all
humans - particularly the natural redheads, like me. ;) lol!" and then she said, "Bwahahaha!!!! Every single redhead I know has a screw loose (myself included). ;)"
It's me...Mindy again! See! Redheads truly do ROCK! Keep your eyes open... because I am determined to have a T-Shirt made and have all my fave redhead authors sign it! "Megg, will you be my first author to sign my shirt?" LoL! If any of you have an awesome T-Shirt designers...give me the 411.
So do you want a chance to win an ebook of Anathema & Oubliette? Well there will be 2 lucky winners that can win! You can enter by: (Make sure you leave your email address)
- One entry if you ask Megg Jensen a question by commenting on this guest post.
- One entry if you post a question for Megg or comment on my Anathema by Megg Jensen review.
- One entry if you post a question for Megg or comment on my Oubliette by Megg Jensen review.
- One entry if you tweet about Megg stopping by and the eBook giveaway with a link (include @bookluvrmindy in the tweet)!!
Oubliette by Megg Jensen
Author Summary: Reychel thought she was finally free. She was wrong.
Everyone saw her gift of prophecy as a blessing, but her gift is controllable. No one alive can teach her to manipulate her unique gift and the answers she needs lie buried within a madman’s journals.
She’s thrust in the midst of a brewing war and the only uniting factor for her people is their belief in the Prophet. Will Reychel learn to control her gift or will she be forced to deliver a false prophecy that could lead her people into a violent, unwinnable war?
My Take: I don’t know how Megg Jensen does it! The second book to the Cloud Prophet Trilogy was more that I could possibly have expected or asked for. If I was asked to give you one word to describe Oubliette, I would have to say, “BRILLIANT.”
First off, I have to say that there is not a whole lot I can say about this book to avoid spoilers! As I said in my review of Anathema (See my review HERE), there is very little detail about Oubliette that I would want to include in this review because I loved that I read it completely blind, AND I would prefer it to be the same with everyone else.
But what I CAN say is that Oubliette is perfect as a sequel for Anathema. Based off of Megg’s last book, I was expecting some betrayal and maybe some twists in this book, so I was constantly trying to figure them out while reading. There were a couple of things that didn’t surprise me “too” much, BUT I was COMPLETELY blindsided by one HUGE twist and it was, like I said, B.R.I.L.L.I.A.N.T!
The fantasy world that Megg created for me has a little bit of a medieval times feel to it. I loved how she showed a lot more magic in this book. And to top it ALL off, the ending was AMAZING! I really hope I don’t have to wait long to read the last book in the trilogy because I just KNOW that it will be as phenomenal as Anathema and Oubliette, and I think you will too!
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