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Sarah Daltry!!!!
Title: Primordial
Dust
Author: Sarah Daltry
Genre: Fantasy
(Romance/YA)
Synopsis:
A princess, trained
to behave. An assassin, betrothed to her. A thief, whose eyes she
dreams of at night. A kingdom at war, torn apart by the suppression
of magic and truth, as well as family secrets that threaten to
destroy decades of peace.
Questions of
loyalty, of morality, and of free will culminate in a fantasy novel
about forging one’s own path and choosing one’s own destiny.
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Excerpt:
“I’m not sure.
It’s a spell of some sort, but it’s a powerful one. Magic script
is rarely used now and never like this. The varied colors mean that
the spell is a conditional one. The writing of this today would bring
me to your doorstep.”
“What do you
mean?”
“The three colors.
A conditional spell has three outcomes – based on the mage who uses
it. The intent of the mage changes the results, and if the mage’s
intent is to harm…”
“Intent is all,”
I whisper.
“Yes. The
foundation of magic, but intent matters little in an age when magic
serves no role. In a world when it was powerful, however, this could
be a weapon or a blessing. All depending on the mage. It doesn’t
matter, though, because if we want to read this...”
“We need the
mage,” I finish. “Sure. That will be easy.” Finding a mage in
Anara during peace time was a challenge, at least one who would admit
to crafting this. Secrecy is forbidden in mages; it was one of the
agreements when magic became a specialized art. Finding a veiled mage
after entire kingdoms, along with all of their mages, have been
butchered is an impossibility.
“I think we must
speak with Alusia,” Seamus suggests. “And then we need to take a
journey to Livonia.”
“Livonia is in
ruins. It was absorbed by Yarvania, remember?”
Seamus smiles.
“Ruins are the best place to start. Where better to hide a secret
than under rubble everyone forgot?”
Author
Info:
Sarah Daltry writes
about the regular people who populate our lives. She's written works
in various genres - romance, erotica, fantasy, horror. Genre isn't as
important as telling a story about people and how their lives unfold.
Sarah tends to focus on YA/NA characters but she's been known to
shake it up. Most of her stories are about relationships - romantic,
familial, friendly - because love and empathy are the foundation of
life. It doesn't matter if the story is set in contemporary NY,
historical Britain, or a fantasy world in the future - human beings
are most interesting in the ways they interact with others. This is
the principle behind all of Sarah's stories.
Sarah has spent most
of her life in school, from her BA and MA in English and writing to
teaching both at the high school and college level. She also loves
studying art history and really anything because learning is fun.
When Sarah isn't
writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking the internet for
pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out
the window.
She has written
several books, most notably Bitter Fruits, an urban fantasy
in the Eden’s Fall series, Backward Compatible: A Geek
Love Story, and the six book New Adult Flowering series,
including Forget Me Not, Lily of the Valley, Blue Rose, Star of
Bethlehem, Orange Blossom, and Ambrosia.
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Author Links:
Website: http://sarahdaltry.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SarahDaltry
Interview With Sarah:
1) Can you tell us a little about your books?
My first novel, Bitter Fruits, is part of an urban fantasy trilogy. I am still in the process of writing books 2 and 3. It's about a girl who falls for a mysterious stranger she meets at a "vampire masquerade" party - but he's resistant to get close to her. She also finds herself intrigued by his brother and this culminates in the revelation of a secret that's been kept since man's beginning in the Garden of Eden. This is New Adult with some steaminess.
I also wrote the Flowering series, a college contemporary series that is sort of romance, but heavily based on realism. It has a lot of steamy scenes, and there is a love story at the heart of it. However, it's really about growing up, about discovering yourself and letting go of other people's rules and expectations and assumptions, and finding a person out there in the world who will be there with you while you navigate both the highs and absolute lows of living. There are six books: Forget Me Not, Lily of the Valley, and Blue Rose are simultaneous, followed by Star of Bethlehem, Orange Blossom, and Ambrosia.
My novellas include Quiver of a Kiss, which is historical erotica about the story of Helen of Troy, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a modern literary reimagining of Eliot's poem.
Lately, I am writing YA and I have two YA titles. Backward Compatible, a gamer geek comedy with a hint of romance, is technically NA since the characters are in college, but it's written more for gamers of any age. I just released Primordial Dust, a fantasy novel about a princess being forced to marry an assassin, but who has to choose her own destiny when her kingdom is attacked and she learns that everything she believed was a lie.
2) You write a lot different genres, do you have a favorite genre to write?
I don't, really, because I love reading anything and I write what I want to write at the time. I guess I think of myself as a YA/NA writer, which isn't a genre, but I find the stories more engaging than a lot of the sort of family drama in "adult" novels.
3) Do you have a favorite spot to write?
Not really. My porch, but I never use it.
4) Do you have any “odd” writing habits?
I hate noise. I can only have the playlist I made for the book on, or it needs to be silent.
5) What book did you enjoy writing the most and why?
Backward Compatible was the most fun to write, because it moved quickly and it was just a funny story. Primordial Dust took me three years, so I guess I put the most work into that one.
6) What's the last book you read?
I'm reading Fellowship of the Ring right now, because I've only seen the movies and I'm taking a class soon on gaming and literature and the book is the focus of the course. I have to admit - it's a million times better than I ever gave it credit for and I kind of wish I had read it before seeing the movies.
7) What's one random fact about yourself that you can share?
I love math. I have serious anxiety and a whole list of issues, but when I get really nervous or upset, I do math problems in my head to relax.
8) What is your all-time favorite book?
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
9) Do you have a favorite character to write about?
I am closest to Jack emotionally from Flowering, but I love all the characters.
10)What are you working on next?
I really don't know. I had a lot of things planned, but I have a few things in the works and I might try something different with them. I don't know if I want to continue the indie thing.
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