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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Featured Author: C.M. McCoy


Welcome Today's Featured Author
C.M. McCoy!!!


EERIE is an award-winning debut novel, featured in an April 2016 issue of People Magazine!
 
EERIE Blurb:
* A PG-13 teen paranormal adventure with romance *

Hailey's dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid.
When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year-old beast is an equally terrifying creature who has fallen "madly" in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety--a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive her ParaScience classes, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn't decide to kill her himself.

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Excerpt:

A Guarded Girl

Hailey stared at the empty can on her tray, silently willing the caffeine to kick in. The last thing she needed was to fall asleep, dream of monsters, and have an “episode” in front of her 200 closest non-friends.
No way she’d let that happen.
Now if only her droopy eyelids would cooperate, because the hard plastic chair under her butt sure wasn’t. The dang thing was teasing her and feeling mighty comfy, like a puffy armchair, and she was sinking fast. Thankfully, though, just as her head bobbed, the bell rang, jolting her into a wide-eyed, full-body spasm.
Great. Real smooth, she thought, rubbing her face with both hands as a few gigglers shuffled past.
She groaned, rising with all the enthusiasm of a mushroom, not at all looking forward to another two hours inside the social torture chamber, or as everyone else referred to it, South Side High School.
She was so intent on avoiding the students there for the rest of her senior year that she rarely looked up from her books anymore, and those last two hours dragged. When three o’clock finally rolled around, she bolted outside, took the first open seat on the bus, rested her head against the window, and let it bounce there. She was just about to make it through another day of school very happily unnoticed, when Tage Adams smacked her on the back of the head.
“Ah!” she yelled, startled from sleep.
The bus was waiting at their stop, like normal, and Tage was waiting for her in the aisle, politely—not normal.
Tucking a wayward strand behind her ear, she hurried off the bus.
Tage followed.
“What’s up with you today?” he said nonchalantly, adjusting his pace to walk next to her.
He’d never done that before.
“Nothing,” Hailey said, surprised Tage was talking to her. They’d been catching the bus at the same stop for four years, and he’d never so much as looked at her.
“You’re usually not like that, that’s all.”
“Like what?”
“Nodding off in class, falling asleep on the bus…you know, slacking off. It’s just, you know, you usually have your nose in a book.”
He watches me?
“Oh,” she said, unsure.
“Guess you were working late last night…St. Paddy’s Day…”
“Yeah.” Of course she was working late. Her family owned the most popular Irish pub in Pittsburgh. Hailey pressed her lips together. Small talk was not her thing. Especially not with him.
Her mind went blank.
Searching the pavement for a thought, she chewed her lip as too many seconds stretched the silence. Finally the pressure forced her good sense aside and she opened her mouth to say…anything.
“What’s—”
“Well, see ya ‘round, Dancing Queen.”
She snapped her mouth shut and waved as he peeled off and trotted down Bridge Street. She tried to form the word, “bye,” but all that came out was “buh—”. Standing dumbfounded, she stared after him. She hadn’t realized Tage knew she existed, let alone the fact that she waitressed. And danced.
Stunned, Hailey walked, then jogged, then stopped dead to puzzle over what had just happened. Then she jogged again until she finally reached the pub.
Nobody at that school “chatted” with Hailey. Not since the fourth grade, not since the day a particularly mean girl concocted a particularly ugly rumor—that Hailey had started the fire that killed her parents. The whispers and sideways glances lasted close to a year, and in trying to defend herself, Hailey only made things worse. By the time she figured out that nobody else believed in pyromaniac-nightmare-monsters, it was too late. She’d already earned the label, “weirdo,” which, unfortunately, stuck.


About CM McCoy:
Colleen, aka CM McCoy, is an Irish dancer and retired Air Force officer living in the Great White North. Though she holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and German, she’s far happier writing stories involving Alaska and monsters (with an awkward kiss in the mix.) While working 911 dispatch for Alaska State Troopers, she learned to speak in 10-codes, which she still does...but only to annoy her family. In the writerly world, she’s the PR Manager at Inklings Literary Agency. Her debut novel, EERIE, is a teen paranormal adventure with romance, released 15 Dec 2015 through Omnific Publishing/Simon and Schuster. Her work is represented by Michelle Johnson.

C.M. McCoy's Circle of Trust on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/eeriefans/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eerie_o
Amazon Author: www.amazon.com/C.M.-McCoy/e/B017O1F0KC/
 
 
Interview With C.M. McCoy:
 
  1. Can you tell us a little about your book?
Sure! EERIE is a teen paranormal adventure with romance, which was featured in an April 2016 issue of PEOPLE Magazine. EERIE opens like a cozy mystery, set in Pittsburgh, and it segues into a paranormal romance, set at the world's premier ParaScience University in Alaska. Readers have called it fast-paced, dark, quirky, and suspenseful.

  1. How did you choose the genre you write in?
It wasn't a conscious decision. In fact, I didn't even know what genre EERIE was until months after I wrote it. Some call it a paranormal romance, and some call it speculative fiction. Others simply say it's YA romance.

  1. When did you know you wanted to write a book?
After I finished my memoir, I didn't feel like I was done writing, and I had a story in mind. I knew right away I'd write the story, if for no one else, then for my big sister to read. 

  1. Where do you get your ideas from?
Alaska is a cornucopia of weirdness, and I find no shortage of inspiration here...lol!

  1. I love that your webpage has Eerie Discussion Sheet and Crossword, how did you come up with that idea?
One of the authors in the Young Adult Romance Writer's of America gave me the idea and a template for a discussion sheet. The crossword was something I tried on a whim. Some folks love it! I made a deal with my readers: send me a photo of the finished EERIE crossword, and I'll enter you into my monthly t-shirt drawing. The response has been huge!

  1. Do you work with an outline, or just write?
I work from a fairly specific daydream. Does that make sense? I dream up my plot and then I write. I've never written out an outline, but I usually know my character arc and plot arc before I start writing.

  1. Do you have a favorite food or drink you must have nearby when writing?

YES! It changes but right now it's coffee, swiss cheese, and baked jalepeno cheddar buns.

  1. What’s your favorite summertime activity?
I love being outside. Anything outside is my favorite and makes me grin like a fool. I especially like riding bikes with my 4-year-old, who just got his training wheels off. We both love the wind in our face :-D

  1. What are writing projects are you currently working on?
I'm currently working on 3 projects.

1) I'm rewriting my memoir's final 5 chapters and redirecting it away from a "tabloid" focus.
2) I'm working the sequel to EERIE
3) I'm editing a YA Thriller called 30 Days with Dr. Death. It's set in Alaska and features an antagonist-protagonist. Here's the blurb:

Seventeen-year-old Hannah lures wayward teen celebrities into month-long, POW-style rehab—it's the not-so-legal, Alaska family business. Her mission: return them sober or in a body bag.

After capturing her latest mark—eighteen-year-old Pierce, the alluring yet annoyingly arrogant son of a prominent politician—Hannah discovers his only “addiction” is his integrity, which encourages him to expose his family’s skeletons.

When her orders change from "straighten him out" to "take him out," Hannah begins to doubt her psychiatrist father’s infallibility. Pierce is charming for sure, but there’s no way he’s the psychopathic woman-hater her dad’s diagnosed. As Pierce’s day of “Survival Training” nears, Hannah knows he’ll be left to die, and if she’s not careful, she could be abandoned in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness with him. Her choice is clear: betray her family and risk her own life to save his, or stand by and watch another innocent teen die.
 
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1 comment:

  1. UnknownJuly 3, 2016 at 12:05 PM

    Hi guys! Thanks so much for the featured post today! <3 <3

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