Week Long Author Event – Day 2 Author Faith Hunter
JANE YELLOWROCK
My world is pretty dangerous. In fact, if you knew just how dangerous, you might not visit the party capitol of America. I’m not talking about Las Vegas. Not talking about New York or LA. I’m talking about New Orleans, the home of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, and about fifty other titles that give him the right to govern most of the Southeastern US. But hey, his power base is in the French Quarter. He runs his city with an iron hand and if you cause problems, you might just disappear. I know a lot of his own kind who did just that after the most recent vamp war. Well, maybe insurrection might be closer to the truth. Or maybe civil war, though there was nothing civil about it at all. It was a bloody, vicious, vamp battle that wiped several clans off the map.
But I have to admit that New Orleans is a totally cool kinda place. Soul, Blues, Reggae, Zydeco, Cajun folk, and R&B on every street corner. Artists in the streets and in ateliers (that’s attic studios for the non-NOLA folk). Jewelry, dance, mimes (who are kinda weird. Just sayin’) clowns, (ditto on the weird) everywhere. Very cool place! And dangerous. Vamps make it dangerous.
So. The writer has asked me to give a list of Five Things to Bring to New Orleans. Easy peasy.
5. Cool clothes. I don’t mean cool as in stylish, though that helps. I mean cool as in lightweight. When I first got here I was wearing jeans. Did. Not. Work. Trust me. Bring some lightweight cotton stuff. Thin woven pants. Sandals. In fact, I recommend lightweight clothes even in winter. The writer is writing the fifth in the series featuring me, and in Death’s Rival, it’s winter. But hey. Not cold like the Appalachian Mountains, know what I mean? So, light jackets, sweaters. Boots, natch. Think HOT both in terms of weather and in terms of style!
4. Dancing shoes. I mean, come on. You gotta dance, right? Personally I like the Royal Mojo Blues Club in the French Quarter. The house band is always topnotch, and last week, they had a couple of the Neville Brothers there. Yeah. Really. I danced until I was ready to drop. Radically cool!
3. Blades. Preferably silver-plated, at least eight inches long, though I like mine longer. Twelve inches is good. Eighteen can be better when you’re trying to keep a vamp at fang’s distance. It might be more like a short-sword, but it does the trick to increase your reach.
2. Stakes. Vamps, right? Gotta have stakes. Three kinds: sterling silver, silver-tipped ash wood, and ash wood. Plain, no silver, on the last one. Sometimes you need to incapacitate a vamp, not kill the blood-sucking fiend.
1. Enough money to stay a while. I managed to snag a freebie house, provided by the vamps who hired me. But the city can be really expensive, especially if you stay in the French Quarter. And where else do you want to say, right? You can book a room in a hotel on St. Charles Ave. and take the street car to the Quarter. Yeah, that works. But the best place? The Quarter, hands down.
Hey – come visit. I’ll make you some good tea and show you around. We can go dancing, all night and then eat in my fave breakfast joint. If you’re lucky, you won’t need the stakes.
BEAST
I am big-cat. I am Beast. I go where Jane goes, on Bitsa, her Harley-bike. Bitsa is a machine and machines are confusing—they have hearts and breathe, but then die and sit silent. Bitsa is alive and not-alive, but not dead. Confusing. Like vampires. I do not understand. (rolls over and looks at winter sky, paws in air)
Jane lives and hunts in New Orleans, in the city Leo Pellissier claims as hunting territory. Leo is a vampire and I want him as mate. He is good strong hunter with much territory. But Jane does not think Leo is good mate. She is confusing, too.
Jane wants me to give five things her fans should bring to her city. Leo’s city. I can count to five. (rolls back over and looks at reader)
5. (lifts lips in snarl) Bring your own deer. Deer are small here, but are mine. Deer here are Beast’s! Beast has claimed hunting ground and deer.
4. And rabbits. Bring your own rabbits. Your meat and your own prey.
3. Bring big rock to sleep on in sun. New Orleans has no rocks. Bring your own rock, so sun will warm it. Or you could use log. But rock is better. (crouches down and thinks) That is three. (flexes out claws, still thinking)
2. Bring killing claws. Must be able to defend self and mate and kits.
1. Killing teeth. To hunt and bring down prey. To defend against vampires.
I am Beast. Jane will take you dancing. I will take you hunting. (huffs with amusement) Embrace your inner Beast!
Hi I am Faith Hunter, and the two you just met live inside my head and on the pages of the Skinwalker series. So far, the series is four books: Skinwalker, BloodCross, Mercy Blade, Raven Cursed, and Death’s Rival coming out in October 2012. But I could easily write ten books about Jane and Beast. Maybe fifteen if the numbers hold up and the fans want them. The new release is of course, Raven Cursed, just out on Jan. 3.
In Raven Cursed, Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker and vampire hunter for hire. But lately instead of just slaying vampires, she’s been working for them.
The vampires of Asheville, North Carolina, want to establish their own clan, but since they owe loyalty to Leo Pellissier, the Master of the City of New Orleans–and Jane’s boss–they must work out the terms with him. Leo sends an envoy with the best bodyguard money can buy: Jane Yellowrock.
But when a group of local campers is attacked by something supernatural, Jane goes from escort to investigator. It’s up to her to keep peace in the region, and unless she wants to face up to a very angry vampire Master, Jane will have to work overtime to find the killer. It’s a good thing she’s worth every penny.
Part of my giveaway this today is a necklace made by me, designed with Jane Yellowrock in mind. It will have a wire-wrapped, hand-knapped arrowhead focal stone, and beads. Because of the cost of shipping stone internationally, I’m offering this necklace only to US winners.
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Faith likes stones and water over stones. What are her two hobbies?
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I am here y’all!
Welcome Faith, it is so great to have you back to the site again!
Rachel
Thank you Rachel! Great to be back here.
Rachel V. –USA
Faith, what led you to pick a mountain lion (which was a wonderful choice), to be Jane’s “beast”? Why not a black bear, black leopard, or something else?
Hi Rachel V. It had to be something — some creature that existed in teh Smoky Mts in the 1800s. I also wanted to have it be predator, to fit the magic system I was creating.
Elaine G-Canada(have US address though)
my question-what cover in your Jane Yellowrock series is your favorite?
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I really like the cover to Mercy Blade. That blue is eye catching and hot! But I also like the green foil on my name on the Raven Cursed cover. Which is totally selfish, but hey. LOL. I like!
Hi! How exciting! My question would be.. Do you ever find it difficult being involved in writing 2 different series? Trisha T. U.S.
It can be very difficult, Trisha. In the first two Jane Yellowrock books, I would slip into Thorn’s patter. I would catch them and fix them, but a fwe would slip through. My editor caught several.
Fortunately, Jane and Thorn are very different from one another in terms of temprement, history, preferences, style of living, food choices, physical bodies. This makes it easier to keep them straight.
Hello, Faith! Good to see you else other than MW. (But glad you are there!)Waiting for payday to get ‘Raven Cursed’.
I don’t suppose you are ever in OH for a con?
MarCon! I’ll be there April 6 – 8.
http://marcon.org/wordpress/?page_id=2
WOOT! Hope to see you then!
Yes!
Rachel V. USA
Faith, can you tell us, without revealing a spoiler of course, where Jane is headed next? Is she staying in NC, heading back to NOLA, or somewhere else?
Rachel V, In Death
Hi, Faith,
I just started reading ‘Raven Cursed’ (only on chapter 6), so I don’t know what to ask about that, yet.
What I would like to know is if you think doing another collaboration with Catie will ever happen?
Kerry, we left the door open. If you remember, at the end of the story, Jane and Joanne exchanged tokens. They now have a way to contact each other if needed. Anything is possible! What would really be cool, is if CE (Catie) Murphy was picked up by my publisher, ROC and we did a real collaboration. But I think she is happy where she is and I am very happy with ROC …. sigh …..
Rachel V, In Death’s Rival, Jane is mostly in New Orleans, cleaning up the problems left hanging after Raven Cursed. But she is also dealing with a vamp problem that could lead to a vamp war, in Sedona, Seattle, and Natchez.
Yes, Jane hits the skies!
Oops. Trying again!
Faith, did you already know the lovely lady who is Jane at your book signings and on the wallpaper or did she contact you and say,” hey I’m your Jane”, or how did you meet her?
I met all my team (oddly enough) at, in, or through my fave indie story on the outskirts of Rock Hill. The BooKnack.
Mike manages the bookstore, and he became my web and video designer. He also designed the Tee-shirts and leather armbands. He introduced me to my PR person at The Author Pro, Adonna, to Christina Stiles, a game-designer, who became the designer for the Rogue Mage World Book and RPG.
Alison B., the modle, was working there part time while going to school, and she said she could be Jane. I said,
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 If you could have a special
Question for Beast:
Beast, I know you sometimes get angry at Jane when she doesn’t do what you want, but with everything you’ve been able to do through Jane are you happier now that she kind of took you into herself or do you wish she had just left you alone?
(Beast thinks) I am happy and not happy. I have seen many things. Learned many things. I survived when others of my kind died in the Hunger Times and the Fire that burned the mountains. I have ridden *trucks* like riding bison. I have hunted much big prey and killed many of my enemies. I have killed and eaten and claimed territory.
But I am alone. Alone except for Jane. I have no mate. I have no kits. I have only claws and killing teeth. I do not know if that is enough.
Faith Hunter likes making jewelry and whitewater rafting.
Jean is smart!!!
I met all my team (oddly enough) at, in, or through my fave indie story on the outskirts of Rock Hill. The BooKnack.
Mike manages the bookstore, and he became my web and video designer. He also designed the Tee-shirts and leather armbands. He introduced me to my PR person at The Author Pro, Adonna, to Christina Stiles, a game-designer, who became the designer for the Rogue Mage World Book and RPG.
Alison B., the modle, was working there part time while going to school, and she said she could be Jane. I said, “GO for it.” Mike had all the gear. So they went to work designing her costume. And that has evolved to all sorts of things! In fact Jane Yellowrock is going with me to Dragon*Con in August!
Sigh… I will get hang of this, I promise.
One more question, Faith, will you ever sell your jewelry on your website or somewhere like Etsy? It’s beautiful, love your style.
Rachel Vance USA
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Rachel V, I give lots of it away to friends and writer friends. Among the writers: Misty Massey has several pieces. Kim Harrison has a few. Tamar Myers has 3 or 4 necklaces.
I am going to give LOTS of my jewelry away as part of the kickstarter for Rogue Mage RPG and World Book. FIrst come first served when you hit that teir!
But making jewely is something relaxes me and if I had to to do for money, it would be work. I already work about 70 to 80 hours a week. I took my first non-working vacation in ten years this past summer. It was grand! So, no. I’ll not make it to sell! The most I might someday do, is design it and let someone else make it. But even that isn’t likely!
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Well not sure how my reply got put here????
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 Have you done any book trailers for your books? Do you think they help attract readers?
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Lisa, I have done three trailers, two for Mercy Blade and one for Raven Cursed. The RC one is on the front page of BBB.
And no, I don’t see that they help to attract a lot of new readers. What I see is that they alert fans that a new book is due. It starts the excitement. And it gives me something to put on screens at Cons so that fans can find me. Current fans can direct new readers to the trailers, which helps with readership, but as always, it’s the FANS who start it all. The fans who keep books coming. Publishing (in its current form) is the only purely fan-driven art.
Lisa R smalltown, USA
I see that this takes place in Ashville, NC. Did you use the Biltmore house in your story?
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Lisa, I did not. I may use it in a furture book, but I’ll not call the Biltmore House. I’ll call it something else.
Faith, Thank you for the great stories and world you have created in the Jane Yellow Rock books. I Just wonder where ever did you get the Idea for Jane to begin with?
Charles, I was at tea in Starbucks with Kim Harrison some years ago, and we were both so tired and brain-fuzzy. We needed a creative lift, and I asked her what she wanted to write that wasn’t the Hollows. She brainstormed for about 20 minutes (I’ll never tell what!) and then she asked me, “How abotu you?”
I said, “I keep having this thought, ‘Katies Ladies, the oldes still operating whore house in New Orleans.’ ”
She said, “Go with it.” So I started talking and in about half an hour, I had a character named Jane Doe, who was a vamp killer. I had a storyline. And my brain went wild with it.
I had tea with Misty Massey later on, and she let me talk some more. With her, I discovered Beast!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
Did you get the chance to visit the Ashville area?
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I ADORE Asheville, Lisa. The arts and the very setting of Asheville, in the bowl of mountains is wonderful!
I spend a lot of time in the mountains in and around that area. My favorite place is Hot Springs, outside of Asheville. Oh, my, the hot waters there can heal any amount of whitewater bruises and sore muscles!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 What was your favorite book as a child or YA?
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Lisa, I read everything in the library. But the Hardy Boys were so smart and sexy! LOL. I loved mysteries. And then I found the Dragon Lady and her world of Pern. I was hooked on fantasy!
Anne McCarthy!!!
Exactly!
The grande dame of fantasy Anne McCaffrey just recently died and that is a great loss to the fantasy world
Do you ever use Fans names in your books? If so I would love it if you used mine . Charles Henri Le Blanc.
Also I Can’t wait to read about Jane being up here in the Northwest even if she went to Seattle instead of Portland Oregon.. You could bring her here and have a “Portlandia” Style Coven. Cause we are all kinda weird up here. LOL
Thanks again for sharing your Imagination with us. I Love The world you have woven because one never just reads a good book, one lives it. Keep it up!!
Charles, several of the paddlers in Raven Cursed are real people. And yes, I intened to use Kimphy in a book – Kimphy is a fan and I love her *weird* name!
I think there were some Le Blanc’s in the AKA’s books. (Gwen Hunter) Quite a few of her books were set in Louisiana. And Henri was my maternal grandfather’s name. So you might see that in a book some day!
Hi Faith,
Couldn’t wait to get your book so I got it on the 3rd when it came out! I loved it. I have a few questions. Here is the first one:
Jane often says that she is not human. After being bitten by a were she was healed by a Mercy Blade. If she’s not human, how is it possible for her to be infected and to change from being a skin walker into a were? It doesn’t seem possible for her to be infected but in the books it sounds like it is?
Beth
Oh Dear, Beth… You are good!
How to answer? Hmmm. Truth is always best. Okay.
SPOILER from future books! Gee DiMercy told Jane he healed her. Jane believed that he healed her. But when he tasted her blood, he knew what she was. So he tried to spell her to use her for his own ends. But that is much as I can tell you! (writer covers mouth and shakes head)
Thanks!
Just a quick note. In about 20 minutes I am taking a short break and rushing over to my mom’s. She had a fight with rug and a brick wall last week and is having bad muscle spasms. (And the worst black eye in the history of black eyes. And bruisers, abrasions and cuts and …) Mama lost the fight with the wall, BTW. I have to check on her.
I’ll tell you when I take off and I’ll be back quickly.
Hey Faith,
Just stopping by to say hi. Nice little chat you’ve got running here. I wanted to mention again that I really liked Cat Tales and will probably crack into RC this weekend. See you soon!
JH
JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John and I became friends at a Con in …2011? 2010?
John is a writer friend, originally self pubbed and now picked up by a mid-sized press. He writes vamp … detective, I guess … books, and I asked to blurb them. They are wonderful! My editor said I could blurb them, which was great! John and I will be in the same booth at Dragon Con!
I have to leave for a short while. Back SOON!
I am back. My mom is NOT a good patient. She *forgot* to take her pain meds. Grrrrr.
Hi Faith –
I think this sounds great. I think it’s very interesting that they are part of her. What is your favorite genre to read and at the moment who is your favorite author? +1
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RSVP For Day 3 of the Week Long Author Event Lucienne Diver
I love Urban Fantasy because it’s like thrillers, with magic! Right now I am reading 2 books, one by Ilona Andrews (the last Edge book) and The Hunter Games, by Suzanne Collins. I honestly do not have a *Favorite* author.
I loved the Hunger Games Trilogy. Some people didn’t care for the final book – Mockingjay but I thought it wrapped things up nicely.
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I don’t understand what about the ritual made Beast go silent and why does she semi-come back?
Beth, the spell Evil Evie created in the circle was to draw the two natured and moon-called and then kill them or change them utterly, hoping to get Leo (who is alive and not alive) close enough to be affected. When the angel came, the spell was disrupted. Every two natured in very close proximity was changed. Beast was damaged. Jane feared Beast was gone forever, and she missed her other half. But Besat came back. The only questions is – how damaged or how changed? If at all?
I cried when that happened. I love Beast
just finished Easy Picking a great story
I was just wandering how Jane and Jo would get along I am so glad they got together
Patrick, EP was great fun to write! And I adore Catie!!!
Rachel Flesher / Raonaid Luckwell
RL, there are elves in Jane’s workd, but I haven’t decided how they might differ from current fiction and mythology. Until I decide who they are, I won’t be writing about them.
I’d love to write about a different kind of were, one not moon-bound, but something new entirely. I have this image of claws pushing through skin at fingertips. But that’s all I got!
This is for Beast: How did you stay hidden for so long when Jane was growing up in that home?
(Scratches chin with back claws, thinking)
In Hunger Times I was alpha, Jane was beta. But even as beta, Jane showed me to hunt with nose-to-ground. I survived when others of my kind did not.
Then white-men-with-guns shot us, and we had to shift into Jane. When I woke after shoting, Jane had been found by white-men-without-guns and put with human kits.
I was curious about white-men-with-guns. Needed to know how they hunted. How *guns* worked. I made a den in Jane’s mind and stayed there, learning.
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Beast,
You’ve said that Ricky Bo, Bruiser and Leo would all make good mates for Jane. Which one is your favorite?
(chuffs with laughter) Beast does not want one. Beast wants all.
I SO agree with Beast!
Question for Faith. It seems that Jane and Beast sort of live right under your surface.
So I’m curious if you’ve ever been out doing run of the mill stuff, see something or someone and pop into Jane or Beast mode in your head?
Thanks!
Rae M. , USA
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Oh, yes, Rae. For instance we have feral cats in my neighborhood. My writing room is on the second story of our house and I look out over the woods and creek in back where the cats, foxes, cyotes, hawks, and the ocassinal turkey buzzard nest and hunt. There is this one black cat, sleek and canny, who kills field mice out there, and I watch her hunt with Beast-eyes.
There was a this strange male deer here this fall too. It had 6 points and ran in daylight, down the streets. Beast wanted to hunt, thinking it was easy prey.
As to Jane, I was online looking at boots last month and I saw this pair of buckskin-toned leather ones with cutouts like barbed wire and thorns on them, dyed a deep, dark red like old blood. Oh. Ohhhh. Jane wanted them!
So, yes. All the time.
Beast,
As a person who understands a dual nature, how hard it is not to grab more time in the lead?
(looks up from kill, rabbit in paws and claws)
Was hard long ago. I kept Jane as beta. But time is enemy. Was … bored. Jane is good hunter, good killer, good life on Bitsa, hunting vampires.
(licks meat and skin and rabbit fur off of bones and chews)
I am … not bored now.
Hi Faith,
I love all your books and can’t wait to read Raven Cursed.
Do you have a favorite story world other than your own?
Anne McCaffrey. She built such fully fleshed out worlds! She is sorely missed.
How would your characters fare if they were dropped in it?
Koran, the dragons would eat Beast. Or … Beast and Jane would pair up, steal an egg, and fly!
Hi Faith! Have you considered writing anything aimed at the young adult market?
Aleta
Hi Aleta! Yes, I have. But I haven’t found the voice yet. I’m still searching for it.
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Just a comment – the idea of meeting elves in Jane and Beast’s world is exciting!
Aleta, I’ve tried to think that through, and it might work best as a spinoff. I do have ideas.
Faith, welcome to BBB. I wanted to make sure to stop by and say hi.
Aside from Jane, what other character in the current series do you most enjoy writing?
Oh, and you are now up on the D*C site.
(I did RSVP, and post the event to Facebook)
Hi Carol! Glad to see you here!
Beast. By far. Then Jane. Rick next.
And thanks on the D*C thing! WHOOT!
Oh Faith, the next time Jane dresses up for a Vamp party she HAS to wear these shoes. I dont even like shoes but wow these are perfect for Jane. http://rawshoes.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/022fullscreen-2.jpg
Dang!
WOW!
I just wanted to say “hi” and tell you how much I’ve been enjoying your books.
Amy T.
Thanks Amy! It is fun!
Nothing new here since 6-ish. I may hit the sack.
This has been fun, Y’all!
Hopefully you haven’t left yet. I was at a meeting.
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Jane is always wondering how Rick really feels but when he wants to talk she seems to shut him down. What’s up with that? Why is his new job going to make him Jane’s enemy? He’s going to be traveling all over for his new job but we don’t know where she is going to be? Is this the end for Ricky Bo?
Hi Beth. I’m still up. The dogs kept me.
Jane had no real understanding of human interaction, haivng spent so long in lion form. So while she wants something from Ricky Bo, she doesn’t know how to trust him. She wants and fears what she wants. And they haven’t known each other longer to let trust develop. And … She lied to him by ommission when she didn’t tell him what she was. She is ethical, and honorable, and a lier. And she is therefore conflicted.
But the plot points are all there as to what might happen between them. Ricky Bo will disappear for a while. Then he’ll come back when Jane is more ready to trust him. Then … Well, I have 10 to 15 books in mind, and Jane isn’t the white-picket-fence kinda gal, so a lot of things could happen!
Now, bed for sure!
I really liked Beast’s 5 things. Thanks for sharing!!
Question – If you could witness any historical event past, present or future what would it be and why?
Contest Entries:
+25 RSVPd
+1 question above
+1 RSVPd for Lucienne
+10 voted for BBB
+1 total – 39
Thanks!
Donna S
USA
Donna, there has to be more than one!
1. The Crucifixion of Christ.
2. The sacking of Rome.
3. The printing of the first book.
4. The shooting of Lincoln.
5. The crash at Roswell.
I’m sure there are more, but that’s way more than one!
More than one totally works!
tweet – https://twitter.com/#!/DonnaS1/status/156965452554313728
question – Vampires, Shifters, Zombies, Angels – who wins the final ultimate battle?
Thanks!
Donna S
USA
Donna, Angels, of course. They’ll stand back and watch all the others kill each other off, then go in and clean up the stragglers. Weeeell. *If* they are the angels from the Rogue Mage trilogy.
Question – What city would you love to set a story in but the right one hasnt come along yet?
Thanks!
Donna S
USA
Dona, that would be Natchez Missisippi.
What do you see yourself doing in another 10 years?
Tweeted at https://twitter.com/#!/purplepoodle55/status/15556962062361300992
I voted, RSVPed for this event and RSVP For Day 3 of the Week Long Author Event Lucienne Diver
Lisa, I’d love to be writing. And taking some really good rivers. And visiting with the children of my nieces and nephews. And … not having to work so many hours in a wek! LOL
Hi Faith
* I RSVPed to be here today +25
* I Spread the word and here is the link https://twitter.com/#!/sasluvbooks/status/156991830536372224 +1
* I Voted already for you +10 inless you can vote more then once?
* I RSVPed for Day3 Lucienne Diver +1
* I Tallyed my Points +1=38
* Stacey S USA
sasluvbooks at yahoo dot com
Thank you Stacey!
Kristina P, USA
+25 RSVP
+1 ASk author a question: *If you were stranded on an island and could only take 1 thing with you, what would it be and why? (the neccesities are all there)
+1 Tally
Total+ 27
The necessities are all there. So I don’t have to bring fire, matches, water, food, weapons, fish hooks, knives, whetstone, fishing nets, hammer, tent, saw, bowls, sunscreen, bug repellent, rope…
Hmmm…
I’d bring…
The Rosetta stone for French, with all batteries and equipment for using it. I’d love to learn to speak Frensh. I took a year and half of private lessons 20 years ago, and I really want to speak it!
That is awesome! I know Spanish(well a little) but I’m afraid I would bring my Kindle and all the stuff to go with it…You never find me without my Kindle or a paperback
Thanks so much for answering my question
Kristina P, USA
+1 RSVP for Day3 Lucienne Diver
+10 voted
Running total===38
1. Beth M-USA. RSVP’d +25 points
2. Asked the author three questions. + 3 points
3. Tweeted this event + 1 Point
4.Already own this great book
5. VOTEd for Bitten by Books in the P&E Best Review Site +10 points.
RSVP’d For Day 3 of the Week Long Author Event + 1 point
6. Tallied my own points total +1 point
Total 41 points
Yea Beth!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 https://twitter.com/#!/alterlisa/status/157152444214804480
total=846
Hi Faith!!! I’ve never been to New Orleans, but it is high on the list to visit…along with Vegas. Jane’s tips were very helpful, but I was wondering what is your favorite place in NOLA? What is your favorite local cuisine? I see that Beast prefers deer, but we have those here in Indiana.
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 https://twitter.com/#!/alterlisa/status/157174552332480512
total= 847
Contest stuff:
+25 – RSVP
+2 – Q&A
+10 – vote
+1 – RSVP for Lucienne’s event
+1 – twitter – https://twitter.com/#!/Heatwave316/status/157257072948412417
+1 – tally
total = 40
Hi there! I have not read these yet, but I have listened to the audio version of Rogue Mage series. Very good! I’ve been meaning to get to these also, I’m going to have to move them up my tbr list.
Do you have any say in the audio production at all? Get to pick the narrators?
Joani S from USA
voted
rsvp’d for diver
tally points=13
JoAnna B – USA
Great interview!
25 – RSVP
1 – RSVP
1 – tweet https://twitter.com/#!/beckerjo/status/157287223002267648
1 – tally
total = 28
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 https://twitter.com/#!/alterlisa/status/157327493764874240
total=848
Where did you go to college/major?
Tweeted at https://twitter.com/#!/purplepoodle55/status/157330646904213504
Lisa D. USA
Total points= 541
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