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The Star Host
F.T. Lukens
Series: Broken Moon, book one
Release date: March 3, 2016
Wacky author interview blitz!
(Treat it like a speed
question quiz, it hurts less that way – 5 words or less answers only.)
If you could physically step into any song and wander around
in that world, which one would it be?
Birdhouse In Your Soul by
They Might Be Giants
What do you think about when you’re alone in the car?
Novel plots, tacos, my
zombie apocalypse plan
If you were a box of cereal, what type would you be?
Fruit Loops
How long after you finish your first helping do you go back
for seconds during dinner?
Five minutes.
Top your coffee.
Sugar and milk
There’s a box of Teddy Grahams sitting in front of you that
you aren’t supposed to touch. How many minutes before you munch on them? What
flavor?
I don’t, but they’re
totally chocolate.
Have you ever found the image of a biblical figure on a
piece of toast?
No, but I did see David
and Goliath in vegetables.
If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a
blender, how would you get out?
I’d write my way out.
How many M&Ms can you fit in your mouth at once? (feel
free to experiment until you know…we’ll wait)
I have no idea. I just
ended up eating them.
Groundhog Day has landed on your lap—you fall asleep tonight
to wake up tomorrow morning and relive the day. What would you change? (besides
the way you answer wacky interview questions, because face it – you nailed this
*wink wink*)
I’d be more productive.
Other than answer wacky interview questions today, I haven’t done much else
other than watch tv.
Blurb:
Ren grew up listening to his mother tell
stories about the Star Hosts – a mythical group of people possessed by the power
of the stars. The stories were the most exciting part of Ren’s life, and he
often dreamed about leaving his backwater planet and finding his place among
the neighboring drifts. When Ren is captured by soldiers and taken from his
home, he must remain inconspicuous while plotting his escape. It’s a challenge
since the general of the Baron’s army is convinced Ren is something out of one
of his mother’s stories.
He finds companionship in the occupant of
the cell next to his, a drifter named Asher. A member of the Phoenix Corps,
Asher is mysterious, charming, and exactly the person Ren needs to anchor him
as his sudden technopathic ability threatens to consume him. Ren doesn’t mean
to become attached, but after a daring escape, a trek across the planet, and an
eventful ride on a merchant ship, Asher is the only thing that reminds Ren of
home. Together, they must warn the drifts of the Baron’s plans, master Ren’s
growing power, and try to save their friends while navigating the growing
attraction between them.
Categories: Fiction, Gay
fiction, M/M Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult
258 pages
Publisher: Duet Books, the Young Adult imprint of Interlude
Press
Cover Artist: C. B. Messer
Excerpt:
Once at the hangar, Ren broke away from the
two guards and entered the lancer, walking up the stairs, irritation a heavy
feeling in his chest.
“Reporting for work,” Ren said, his tone
heavily laced with annoyance.
Janus popped up from a console she had been
working under, goggles on her face, gray hair sticking up everywhere. “You!”
she snapped. “I told you not to come back.”
Ren rolled his eyes. “It’s not my choice. I
don’t want to be here anymore than you want me here.”
“Where are your guards? I told the dumb one
not to bring you back, Abiathar’s orders be damned. I don’t want your kind
working on these ships.”
She poked a finger hard into Ren’s chest and
he staggered back, and rubbed his hand over the spot.
“What the stars do you mean by my kind?”
Her eyes grew comically large behind the
goggles. “You don’t know?” She laughed, bordering on hysterical. “You’re more
dangerous than I thought. You can’t try to control it if you don’t even know
what you are.”
Ren frowned. His tolerance for the cryptic
nonsense everyone had spouted since he arrived was gone. He took a step toward
the hull and Janus stiffened.
“Don’t,” she barked.
“Don’t what? Touch it? What will happen,
huh?”
Her face paled and her chest heaved with
panicked breaths. “You don’t know what you’re capable of.”
Ren laughed. “I’m capable of nothing. I’m a
duster, planet-born with very limited experience with tech. You have no reason
to be frightened of me.”
He moved closer to the hull, hand
outstretched, fingers splayed.
She whimpered. “Please, don’t.”
Ren slammed his hand against the hull, his
fingertips leaving greasy marks on the shiny surface. As he predicted, nothing
happened.
He turned back to Janus. “See? Nothing–”
His word tangled in his throat, cut off,
because suddenly, Ren was consumed with power, rushing from his toes to his
fingertips. A blue tint clouded his vision, and his body suffused with golden
warmth. And then he was floating amongst the wires, connected to the ship, to
the energy source, to everything. The lancer pulsed under his skin, tangling in
his veins, its systems integrated with his senses.
It was freeing and frightening.
His consciousness raced along the circuits
and he could fix it. He could fix everything. He found the tangle of wires in
the artificial gravity system and bypassed it. He found the broken circuits in
the air recyclers and with a pulse of power, refurbished them. He saw the
static in the com system, a physical entity, and he cleared it away with a
brush of his metaphysical hand.
The longer Ren floated through the ship, the
less connected he was to his physical body. And if he thought about it, he
didn’t need his body. Why would he need his body? He was free here. He moved
around with ease, the wires and the systems his route, and the more he pushed,
the more he felt the other ships too. They were nearby, on the edge of his perception,
and he could go to those, he could jump to the other ones and repair them too.
He could.
He could.
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It’s all about the author…
F.T. wrote her first short story when she
was in third grade and her love of writing continued from there. After placing
in the top five out of ten thousand entries in a writing contest, she knew it
was time to dive in and try her hand at writing a novel.
A wife and mother of three, F.T. holds
degrees in psychology and English literature, and is a long-time member of her
college’s science-fiction club. F.T. has a love of cheesy television shows,
superhero movies, and science-fiction novels—especially anything by Douglas
Adams.
…and stalking them :)
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