I was invited to participate in a blog hop titled: “Meet My
Character Blog Tour” by the lovely and talented Regina Kammer – thank you
Regina!! This blog hop highlights a main character from an author’s
work-in-progress (WIP) or recently published or soon-to-be-published work.
Regina Kammer introduced Joseph Phillips from her Historical Erotica, Disobedience by Design, which I am currently reading and thoroughly enjoying!
In this book, which takes place mainly in England in 1860, Joseph is a very
experienced and quite gorgeous 21 year old American from NYC. Read more aboutJoseph and Disobedience by Design! More links can be found at the bottom of
this entry.
The Character from my Destiny Series that I will briefly
discuss here is… dun dun dun... LIZZY
1) What is the name of your character? Is he/she
fictional or a historic person?
Her full name is Elisabetta Moretti but everyone calls her
Lizzy. She is fictional but please don’t tell her that. She may come after you.
2) When and where is the story set?
The story is set in modern day Sicily, Italy.
3) What should we know about him/her?
Lizzy grows up, the only daughter of a hard working fisherman, in a small Sicilian fishing village some 77
kilometers from the capital of Palermo. She has no mother but she does have a brother that she's never met.
Lizzy becomes a trained thief possessing the paranormal
abilities of telepathy and mind control. She's endowed with at least 2 other
abilities that are not fully realized until much later. In book 1 Lizzy is a young
girl, growing up in Sicily. In book 2 Lizzy is 23 years old, while traversing the Atlantic, aboard a vast ocean liner. In book 2 Lizzy is introduced to her soul mate Vincent. Lizzy, is a stunning Sicilian female of
course, who, though well versed in all areas of self defense and other criminal
underground activities, is naïve in the ways of love and life.
4) What is the main conflict? What messes up his/her life?
In Book 1 - Lizzy’s main conflict is that she doesn’t fit
in. She has no friends as a young child and feels like an outsider looking in.
All she wants is to belong… so when she finally finds a place where she does feel a part of - she becomes internally torn because this place is teaching her the prowess
needed to be part of the criminal underground. These new skills and new
friends come with a price she’s not sure she can pay. In order to truly be a
“part of” Lizzy must abandon her father and ultimately relinquish her own
integrity.
5) What is the personal goal of the character?
She wants to be loved and accepted for who she is not for
what she can or can’t do. She spends a lot of time proving herself and trying to build up a family from a wild cast of characters all imbued with paranormal abilities, who are misfits just like herself.
6) Is there a working title for this novel, and can we read
more about it?
The working title is Exquisite Destiny and it is now a
projected 5 book series currently being called The Destiny Series. It took on a
life of its own and sprouted babies.
7) When can we expect the book to be published?
That’s a good question and I don’t have an answer to that yet.
I am currently re-writing book 2. The bulk of Book 2 was written during NaNoWriMo 2013. Book 1 will be written during NaNo 2014.
My website will be updated with current information but I’m hoping for Spring
2015 at the latest.
More about the Meet My Characters blog hop!
I was tagged by Regina Kammer who introduced the dashing young Joseph Phillips in her Meet my Character Blog Post.
Regina Kammer is a librarian, an art historian, and
best-selling, multi-published writer of erotica and historical erotic romance.
She has been published by Cleis Press, Go Deeper Press, Ellora’s Cave, House of
Erotica, and her own imprint, Viridium Press. She began writing historical
fiction with romantic elements during NaNoWriMo 2006, switching to erotica when
all her characters suddenly demanded to have sex.
You can follow Regina on:
Kayla Hampton has
always been fascinated by the dark and sexy creatures that live in our dreams
(or nightmares). Bringing these characters to life in her books is what
she wants to do when she “grows up”. When Kayla is not writing passionate
stories of love and war, she loves spending time with her husband and daughter
on the Canadian West Coast.
Follow Kayla:
Website: kaylahampton.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KHamptonBooks
Maya Goode is a short
story author, novelist, and poet. Raised by an amazing mercurial woman who
shared neither blood nor race, she lives on the edge of identities and writes
deeply honest stories about the human journey. She is an alumna of Dominican
University of California and resides somewhere between mountains and the ocean.
Her first novel, Remigium Rising, will be published in Spring 2015. You can
visit her at www.mayagoode.com
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I think I met Lizzy and her friends last time I was in Sicily -- lots of mind control to get us to make that wrong turn...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun epic series! Love the NaNoWriMo shout out.
p.s. I'm glad Joseph is coming across as dashing and gorgeous.
Yes!! I remember her telling me how much fun it was watching you drive around in circles ;) Thank you, hopefully! They're finally starting to write themselves as opposed to me still having to make morning blood sacrifices...
DeleteYAY NaNo - love your support there as well! We do have a weekly NaNo writing group if you ever want to attend!! - but it's on the west side of the bay...
And YES YES YES - loving Joseph! He kept me up way past my bedtime last night, naughty boy!!!!....