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Kellen’s Awakening
Bellora Quinn & Angel Martinez
Series: AURA, book three – should be read in order
Release date: May 3, 2016
Wacky author interview blitz!
(Treat it like a
speed question quiz, it hurts less that way – preferably 5 words for answers,
but some questions are so much more demanding…)
Would a fly without wings
be called a walk?
A fly without wings is called a flea. Since without wings, it
most certainly would be forced to.
Who shot first—Han Solo
or Greedo?
Han shot first. He’s no fool. Well, he didn’t used to be anyway.
If you were a tree what
kind of tree would you be?
A white pine. Soft needles, dense branches, secretive, dark,
whispering and sheltering.
Let’s play marry / f^ck /
kill (Supernatural edition) – Dean, Sam, Castiel?
Um…I’ve never watched it? *cringe* I know…I know…
Share honestly (we won’t
tell anyone, swear) you cheat at Battleship whenever you play, right? I mean
really, who didn’t move their patrol boat?
*gasp* How dare you! LOL – honestly, I don’t think I ever did.
It was one of those games that I didn’t find really interesting after the first
few moves, so I zoned out a lot. Never occurred to me to move something.
How many bowls of cereal
do you eat in a week and why aren’t you eating more?
Two, maybe three. If I had better cereal, I probably would.
If you try to fail, and
succeed, which have you done?
You have failed, you big failing failure! Mwahahahaha!
The offspring of which
two paranormal creatures would intrigue/frighten you the most?
If you could somehow get a ghoul and a harpy to have kids, that
would be truly scary. *shivers*
What would I find in your
refrigerator right now?
Milk, eggs, leftover pizza, pastry, oranges, condiments, more
dairy products, lots of bread products. Lots and lots of bread products.
You have a single chance
to pitch a Grimm episode to the producers in only one sentence…GO!
Baba Yaga comes to Portland – woe to everyone.
Blurb:
The staff at AURA has had a busy summer.
Between chronic understaffing, dealing with warring goblin factions and an
unusual number of hazardous Events, everyone is overworked. Sinistrus the
incubus, newly hired as an AURA medic, actually enjoys his busy new life of
responsible employee and faithful lover to his gorgeous police sergeant, Ness
the centaur. Life would be perfect, except for a niggling suspicion about a
colleague. Everyone else seems to disagree, but Sin’s certain something’s not
right with that pixie.
Kellen, a pixie crossover, loves his job
working in AURA medical, even if he is something of an outsider. His job and
the friends he manages to make are happy spots in an otherwise dark and
secretive life. As the rest of AURA tries to discover the root of the
inexplicable rise in violence and large scale Events, Kellen fights to preserve
his own life and what dignity he has left.
These two unlikely heroes must put their
differences aside and navigate tragedy and ever-escalating disaster together in
order to stop the sinister forces that hold Kellen in thrall.
Categories: Alternate
Universe, Contemporary, Gay Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy
69,000 words
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Cover Artist: Emmy Ellis
Excerpt:
“Before Kai gets lost in regaling you with
wedding details…” Tenzin settled, then grunted as several flower fairies
immediately popped into view around his head to land on his shoulders. “Our
lovely Sin, now that we’re among friends and not at work, can you tell me why
you insist on tormenting Kellen so terribly?”
“Oh, I dunno.” Sin picked up a spicy fried
mushroom with his claws and popped it in his mouth. “I think I’m pretty good at
tormenting him.”
Ness nudged him. “Be serious, love. Why do
you pick on him? Even I’ve seen it.”
“Look, I just don’t like everyone, okay?”
Sin spread his hands when everyone gave him side eyes. “Took me a bit to warm
up to Val, right?”
“You had good reason to be angry with Val,”
Ness said as he reached for an oat muffin. “I don’t think Kellen ever actually
caused you harm.”
Sin heaved a dramatic sigh. “Fine. He’s
absolutely useless as a paramedic.”
“Not everyone is suited for emergency field
medicine,” Tenzin said gently.
Ness leaned over to kiss the top of Sin’s
head. “You are because you’re brave and don’t stop to think.”
“Hey!” Sin swatted at an equine flank.
“Oh, dear. I didn’t mean it that way.” Ness
flushed darkly while the others laughed. “You don’t overthink. When someone
needs help, you just do instead of overanalyzing. Not everyone can be that sort
of heroic.”
“Good recovery.” Sin grinned up at his
flustered lover. “Yeah, I get it. He’s not the first responder kind. But the
little guy’s just sneaky. He doesn’t look people in the eye. He flinches at the
weirdest times. I don’t trust him.”
Tenzin frowned as he ladled vegetable panang
onto a plate and set it in front of Kai. “Eat, beloved, before you waste away.
About Kellen. I believe it’s deep-seated trauma, something so terrible that he
doesn’t want to have to talk about it, since that would mean acknowledging it.”
“Tenzi’s so often right about these sorts of
things.” Kai took up his fork, toying with his food rather than eating yet.
“But this time, I have to disagree. There is something uneasy about him.
Something beyond old fears.”
“You hardly see him thirty seconds out of
any week,” Tenzin protested. “What could you possibly base this on?”
“Ah, love. A drow knows deception. There’s
something not quite right about that pixie.”
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It’s all about the authors…
Angel Martinez
The unlikely black sheep of an ivory tower
intellectual family, Angel Martinez has managed to make her way through life
reasonably unscathed. Despite a wildly misspent youth, she snagged a degree in
English Lit, married once and did it right the first time, (same husband for
almost twenty-four years) gave birth to one amazing son, (now in college) and
realized at some point that she could get paid for writing.
Published since 2006, Angel's cynical heart
cloaks a desperate romantic. You'll find drama and humor given equal weight in
her writing and don't expect sad endings. Life is sad enough.
She currently lives in Delaware in a
drinking town with a college problem and writes Science Fiction and Fantasy
centered around gay heroes.
Bellora Quinn
Originally hailing from Detroit Michigan,
Bellora now resides on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida where a herd of
Dachshunds keeps her entertained. She got her start in writing at the dawn of
the internet when she discovered PbEMs (Play by email) and found a passion for
collaborative writing and steamy hot erotica. Soap Opera like blogs soon
followed and eventually full novels.
The majority of her stories are in the M/M
genre with urban fantasy or paranormal settings and many with a strong BDSM
flavour.
…and stalking them :)
Angel Martinez
Bellora Quinn
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