A Note:

6/2/13

I once told myself: IF I am accepted into grad school, this blog would no longer be updated. As it turns out, in April, I received news of my acceptance for the Fall 2013 semester, where I will attain a Master's degree of Science in Nutrition.

Running a blog, as many of you may already know, is a demanding side job once the excitement wears off. And once I fell out of the blogging community's loop (have you SEEN how many blogs there are now? Wow!), it was like the kiss of death. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get into a blogging routine once this happened due to the disconnect I felt from the community.

So I took a break. I struggled with the loss and with missing my blog. And then I realized I didn't have to run Book Faery to still be a book reviewer; I could read my books and post reviews online. I'm still a book review blogger, just not in the traditional sense.

I'll still be online. You can chat with me on Twitter, where I'll be posting links to my reviews and talking books. I'll also be posting links to nutrition articles. And if you'd like to connect with me where I guarantee I will post reviews, just add me as a friend on Goodreads.

So that's all, folks! It's been a fun and amazing journey, and I thank you all for listening to my thoughts about books. I hope we all can keep in touch elsewhere :)

Tori
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Blog Tour: Darkness Falls series by Krystal Wade & Giveaway


Let's see . . . what's next. Well, I'm not planning any more books in the Darkness Falls series, but I have considered spin offs . . . considered being the keyword. I love the world of Encardia, and I love the other, connected worlds. But for now, I'm ready to move on.

And move on, I have (channeling Yoda!)

I'm writing a book called Shattered Secrets (working title). This story is about a girl who believes her biggest problems involve boys and college applications, but she's wrong.

Very, very wrong.

Her problems involve boys, college applications, and kidnappers.

And these aren't ordinary kidnappers! They reveal more about her than anyone close to her ever has, sending her on a mission of self-discovery, one full of secrets waiting to be shattered.

But will the world survive if she does?

I posted the prologue for this novel on my blog (http://krystal-wade.com/im-the-next-big-thing/)



About Krystal Wade - website, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads
Krystal Wade can be found in the sluglines outside Washington D.C. every morning, Monday through Friday. With coffee in hand, iPod plugged in, and strangers–who sometimes snore, smell, or have incredibly bad gas–sitting next to her, she zones out and thinks of fantastical worlds for you and me to read. How else can she cope with a fifty mile commute?

Good thing she has her husband and three kids to go home to. They keep her sane.





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Happy endings are hard to find, and even though Katriona is in the middle of a war with someone who’s already stolen more than she can replace, she aches for a positive future with her DraĆ­ochtans.

Armed with hope, confidence in her abilities, and a strange new gift from her mother, Kate ventures into the Darkness to defeat a fallen god.

Losses add up, and new obstacles rise to stand in the way. Is the one determined to bring Encardia light strong enough to keep fighting, or will all the sacrifices to stop those who seek domination be for nothing?




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Wilde's Fire week:
Monday, November 5th - Book and a Latte
Tuesday, November 6th - Paranormal Reads
Wednesday, November 7th - Once Upon A Time
Thursday, November 8th - Urban Fantasy Investigations
Friday, November 9th - A Soul Unsung


Wilde's Army week:

Monday, November 12th - Good Choice Reading
Tuesday, November 13th - Simply Infatuated
Wednesday, November 14th - Chocolate Coated Reviews
Thursday, November 15th - The Non-Reluctant Reader
Friday, November 16th - A Buckeye Girl Reads


Wilde's Meadow week:

Monday, November 19th - Book Spark
Tuesday, November 20th - Alexia's Books and Such
Wednesday, November 21st - Reader Girls
Thursday, November 22nd - The Book Hookup
Friday, November 23rd - Book Faery

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Blog Tour: Jess Haines (Plus Giveaway!)



The H&W Gang Talk About Travel  
 By Jess Haines 


Hello there!  Jess Haines here.  I'm the author of the urban fantasy H&W Investigations series
(HUNTED BY THE OTHERS [link: http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=16761],
TAKEN BY THE OTHERS
[link: http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=18148],
DECEIVED BY THE OTHERS
[link: http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=19226],
and the upcoming
STALKING THE OTHERS [link: http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=20725]).   

Shiarra has been having a pretty bad time of things lately. She's here with some of her friends (and otherwise) to tell you about it.  Since I'm headed to New Orleans in August for Authors After Dark, they H&W Gang are going to touch on the Big Easy (among other places).  Over to you, Shia!  

____________________

Shiarra: I've only been to New Orleans once. I don't remember most of it.

Sara:  Neither do I. I think we both had one Sazerac too many.

Arnold: Sazerac?

Sara: A drink New Orleans is famous for. When we went on vacation, Shia and I tried it.

Shiarra:  We tried it a lot.

Royce: I very much would have enjoyed seeing that, I think.

Chaz: Me too.

Arnold: Ditto.

Sara: Maybe we should go on vacation when all this crazy stuff blows over.

Shiarra:  That's not likely to happen anytime soon.

Chaz: I'd go to Vegas if I could get away for a vacation.

Arnold: Because of the hookers?

Shiarra:  If he wants to live to see the end of this interview, he isn't going to answer that question.

Royce: Perhaps he should answer it, then.

Chaz:  Oh, screw you, dead man.

Royce:  I don't lie with dogs.

Sara: That's… uh… kinda gross.

Chaz:  What?!

Arnold:  Shia's turning pretty red over there.

Shiarra: I don't want to talk about it.

Royce:  Perhaps now would be a good time to mention it would not be wise for any of you to travel to Las Vegas.

Arnold: What, even me?  Why?

Royce: The master vampire over that territory and I are not on good terms. If he knew someone with a connection to me--however indirect--was visiting, he would not take kindly to it.

Sara: Why aren't you guys best of buds?

Royce:  I would rather not discuss that here.

Chaz:  Big surprise.

Shiarra:  I'm kind of disturbed by the idea that I might end up in trouble just for going on vacation. Are you in a pissing match with anybody else right now?

Sara: Are you allowed to say “pissing” here?

Arnold: Too late if she can't.

Chaz: Heh.

Royce: I wouldn't say such words in public again, were I you. It's bad for your image.

Shiarra:  Oh, yay. The most pressing of my worries.

Sara: No kidding. I'm with Shia, though. What places should we avoid? Are there any cities that are safe to visit?

Royce: If you leave my territory, I cannot promise that you would be safe. Some of the other vampires take pains to police the areas they are responsible for, and some do not.

Arnold: There are only fifteen master vamps in the U.S., including you. They can't be everywhere.

Royce: We have deputies to act as our representatives in the larger cities under our care. We are always--always--watching for enemies and unexpected guests.

Shiarra: That's mildly disturbing.

Chaz: More than mildly.

Sara: Wait a sec. Fifteen? I've heard of Clyde Seabreeze in Los Angeles, but I don't know of any others.

Royce: That is no coincidence. Most of them wish to remain unknown by human society, ignored by any Others not of their own kind.

Arnold: Someone cue the Secret Agent Man theme.

Chaz: I'm not surprised. Leeches are a shady bunch. I can name a few of 'em for you.

Royce: That may not be a wise move. This is a public forum.

Arnold: Dude, I know it's tempting not to listen to him, but he's right. It's not a good idea to broadcast stuff like that without telling the vamps in advance what you're doing. They take exception to that stuff.

Royce: As do most Others. We all value our privacy.

Shiarra: Can I guess one? I want to guess!

Sara: I just want to know where it's safe to take a vacation when this is all over. 

Arnold: Don't worry. Wherever you want to go, I'll protect you.

Chaz:  Ha. Don't count on it. One mage against a host of vampires? Or a pack of Weres? Good luck.

Shiarra: I dunno. Arnold seems pretty capable of taking care of himself.

Chaz: Maybe if he was alone. But watching over Sara? And maybe you, too? No, he'd never make it.

Royce: You underestimate the power of a mage, wolf. It's no wonder you can't maintain leadership of your own pack.

Chaz:  A momentary setback. I'll be taking everything in hand as soon as I figure out who set me up. And I do mean everything.

Shiarra:  I don't like that sound of that. 

____________________ 



You can learn more about Shiarra and the rest of her friends in HUNTED BY THE OTHERS (link: http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=16761).  

For the next stop on the blog tour, be sure to visit
the official STALKING THE OTHERS blog tour calendar (link: http://jesshaines.com/blog/2012/05/07/stalking-the-others-official-blog-tour-calendar)! 

You can also visit me on the web:


Thanks again for having me and the gang over, Tori!


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Vampires, werewolves, mages–the Others are very real, and wreaking havoc in Shiarra Waynest’s life. But now, she’s returning the favor…


Once, she was one of the good guys–or as close as a New York P.I. can get. Then Shiarra Waynest was drawn into the world of the Others. Every faction has its own loyalties and agenda. And Shia’s recent betrayal by her ex-boyfriend means that she may be on the verge of becoming a rogue werewolf at the next full moon.


Of course, with all the threats against her, Shia’s not sure she’ll live long enough to find out. The enigmatic vampire Royce wants her back in his clutches, as do two powerful werewolf packs, along with the police. Instead of going into hiding, Shia is enlisting the aid of her enchanted hunter’s belt and every dirty P.I. trick she knows. If she’s going down, she’ll take out as many of her enemies as she can–and hope that in the process, she keeps whatever humanity she has left…




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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Spellbound Blog Tour



A Few of My Favorite Things (Then & Now)
Favorite Movies Growing Up
The Parent Trap, Labyrinth, The Never Ending Story, Secret of Nimh, The Dark Crystal, Princess Bride, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music
Favorite Movies Now
Amelie, Braveheart, Run Lola Run, Life is Beautiful, Resident Evil, V for Vendetta, The Illusionist, Wedding Crashers, Meet the Parents, Office Space, The Wedding Singer
Books Then
Nancy Drew, The Babysitters Club, Matilda, Harriet the Spy, Howl’s Moving Castle, Les Miserables, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, the complete works of Jane Austen
Books Now
Historical romance, Memoir, Literary fiction, Narrative nonfiction, YA: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Divergent, Hunger Games, The Infernal Devices
Music Then
Musicals, Disney soundtracks, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, 80’s all the way!
Music Now
Enigma, Sting, Chicane, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Putumayo World Music
Life’s Dream Then & Now
Be a writer
Favorite Scene from Entangled
The day Graylee Perez wakes up in her twin sister Charlene’s body. Gray has no idea she died and finds it odd when she wakes up in Charlene’s bed. Her mom is out of town and Charlene isn’t anywhere to be found so Gray goes to school.
 
Once at McKinley High, Gray is further dismayed when she finds her locker has been emptied. Things get really wacky when she goes to first period and her teacher asks her what she’s doing in his class. When he calls her Charlene she immediately corrects him. However, the information is not well received.

 
Excerpt:
Louder gasps, followed by a rush of whispers coming from all directions. It was like being sucked into the eye of a hurricane with chatter hurled and swirled all around her. Gray looked to Mr. Burke, imploring him with her eyes to make this charade end.
             
“Enough!” he shouted and the clamor stopped. Mr. Burke looked at Gray and spoke softly. “Miss Perez, please come with me.”
            
Gray stuffed her things inside her pack and vacated her desk. She was more than ready to get out of that room.
            
She joined Mr. Burke in the hallway, where he shut the classroom door behind them. Gray could practically hear the jabber begin anew the moment the door clicked in place. Hyenas. She’d like to see how her classmates handled a day in the Twilight Zone.

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Book two,
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  2. Two Headed Quarter: Two Grays are better than none and two heads are better than one, especially when flipping over who gets to choose which movie to watch with a trick coin. Adrian returns in Duplicity and opens a magic shop.
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Extras:

(Entangled is available for ebook at amazon. It will return to Barnes & Noble and Smashwords once KDP select ends July 15, 2012.)



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Twin witches Graylee and Charlene Perez agree on one rule: No dating warlocks.

Not so easy when a certain rogue warlock is convinced he and Graylee belong together and will use anything, including magic, to try and impress Gray. When Charlene’s boyfriend dumps her, she threatens to kill either herself or the girl who stole Blake. Somehow, Gray ends up dead.

A Resurrection Spell Gone Wrong:

Two months after dying, Gray wakes up in Charlene’s body. As a witch, can anyone blame her mother for attempting to bring her daughter back to life? Only now Gray’s stuck sharing her sister’s body 50/50 in twenty-four hour shifts.

The race is on for Gray to find a way back inside her own body before Charlene purges her from existence. Raj McKenna is rumored to meddle in the black arts, not to mention he’s after Gray’s invisibility spell and worse – her heart. But Raj might be the only one powerful enough to save Gray from fading away forever.

About:

Nikki Jefford is a third generation Alaskan who found paradise in the not-so-tropical San Juan Islands where she is, once more, neighbors with Canada. She has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Alaska Anchorage and was a reporter before returning to her first love: fiction.

After a whirlwind romance in France, Nikki married SƩbastien in March 2000. They reside with Cosmo the wonder Westie.

Find her at:
http://twitter.com/NikkiJefford

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Blog Tour: Until Next Time, The Angel Chronicles, Book 1



Matt is my partner. He’s handsome, funny and a real pain in the proverbial wing,
but it’s nice to talk to someone about him.

We have a place that you’ll see called the Lightning Room. I can’t tell you how
much time we’ve spent in this place. I’m not sure where your parents used to put
you when you were bad, or whatever they call it down there, but this is our ‘time
out’ room, so to speak. Matt really hated this place; he’s never been happy about
total darkness. But I thought of it as a place to unwind. I like the dark. If you can’t
see anything, then you never have to know what you’ve messed up, or who
you‘ve hurt.

Matt loves the training ‘pit.’ To me, it feels like I’ve actually fallen straight through
the earth and directly into Hell when I‘m in that thing. But I’ve learned, after being
a human, that the male species actually does love the whole ‘ultimate fighter’
thing, and that’s what the ‘pit’ is all about. Our teachers put us in there to train
- something we have to do because once we get a new ‘life’ we have to go up
against some pretty difficult situations…and people. Matt loves the sword, the
scythe, the gauntlet - and he loves the fact that when he’s really mad at me
(which is a lot lately), he can simply haul off and kick my…wing…because he
knows that he can’t actually hurt me so there’s nothing to feel guilty about later
on.

I never thought that my best friend and constant companion would end up
becoming more as we went along. I mean, I know our feelings for each other
are aging just the same as we are, but it’s gotten really hard to face it. Especially
after Jason came into my life. If I had been asked to ‘call’ this one, I would have
told you that Matt would be the ‘half’ of us who’d fall in love - he’s got that kind
of big heart. So when it was me instead, I felt like I actually wounded the one
person I figured I could never harm. But I suppose the ‘pit’ - the fire and the
swords - are nothing compared to your best friend falling for someone else.

Love is something I still don’t understand. I mean, down there it can range from
obsession to perfection. I guess I wasn’t prepared for it. Of course, the second
time around everything I thought I knew changed completely. As Matt and I keep
coming down for another chance at righting what we may have screwed-up the
first time, I keep hearing my favorite teacher’s advice rattling over and over again
in my head. He told me that:
“Some get tired of waiting and settle for less than what they really want; their

souls grow heavy. They don’t remember the true love they can experience - so
they simply settle for not being alone.”

I never want to do that, but I can see where loneliness could become too much to
bear, especially when your best friend…changes.

When she wrote our story - Until Next Time - I traveled back and tried to figure
out what lessons I was supposed to have learned. And now that she’s put the
second book in front of me - the hardest one to read because of the twists and
turns that occurred in that life - my feelings for Matt seem to be more clear. I just
wonder what he’s going to do when he hears them. Heck, I wonder how I’ll ever
be able to tell him. I’m not in the dark anymore in that calm, quiet room - I’m all
grown up and I feel like the spotlight is shining directly on me…

We’re just about to take the third jump. I have no idea what this one’s going to
entail until we get down there, but that one piece of advice and the one lesson
I’ve learned so far is what I’ll take with me. I will never settle for someone less
than the one who can fulfill my soul.

Now all I have to do is stay alive long enough to figure out who that someone is,
and hope that he feels the same way.

Until Next Time,

Emily

Amy Lignor began her career at Grey House Publishing in northwest Connecticut where she was the Editor-in-Chief of numerous educational and business directories.

Now she is a published author of several works of fiction. The Billy the Kid historical
The Heart of a Legend; the thriller, Mind Made; and the adventure novel, Tallent & Lowery 13.

She is also the owner of The Write Companion, a company that offers help and support to writers through a full range of editorial services from proofreading and copyediting to ghostwriting and research. As the daughter of a research librarian, she is also an active book reviewer.


Currently, she lives with her daughter, mother and a rambunctious German Shepherd named Reuben, in the beautiful state of New Mexico.



Website: http://www.thewritecompanion.com/
Blog: http://hellowriters.wordpress.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alignor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/HelloWritersAmy
GoodReads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5222068






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How does a girl choose between the one who steals her heart and the one who owns her soul?

Matt and Emily were created for a specific job. Raised and trained as the ultimate angel/warrior team, they are sent down to save, defend, judge and forgive, depending on the 'life' they've been assigned. What they don't realize is that the power of human emotions, such as love, anger, passion and fear can take over even the best of souls, causing them to make mistakes and follow paths that lead to confusion and heartache.

When the reason for their training is finally revealed, the angel/warrior team find themselves thrust into a world they know nothing about. Matt takes over the life of Daniel, a young man with a great deal of baggage. Emily becomes Liz, a girl living in a remote village who relies on nothing more than her own strength to survive. A violent storm erupts one night, and framed in the window of Liz's establishment is a frightening face. Let in by the soul of a Good Samaritan, the two visitors bring with them a past full of secrets that could literally change an angel's path and a warrior's plans.

From murder to redemption, this angel/warrior team must find a way to keep the faith they have in each other in a world that's ripping them apart. 


Sunday, March 25, 2012

Blog Tour: Jackie Morse Kessler

It’s The End of the World As We Know It
By Jackie Morse Kessler
 

The Apocalypse…what a show! Okay, so maybe that works better with “The Inquisition” and if you’re a Mel Brooks fan. But hey, let’s hear it for books all about the end of the world and other things to do on a Thursday afternoon!

My favorite Apocalyptic book, bar none, is Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett. Both authors have done wonders with the character of Death in their individual works (one has her as a chipper goth gal, the other has him as a traditionally hooded/robed skeletal figure with a tendency to speak IN ALL CAPS). And working together, the two of them created what has to be one of the funniest Apocalypse stories ever.

But what Good Omens isn’t is a post-Apocalyptic book—that is, the book is all about preventing the Apocalypse. There are many, many books that come from the starting point of everything having hit the fan and most of the people in the world are dead. The “End of everything” isn’t the ending of the story, but the beginning—the Apocalypse has come and gone, and the books focus on the survivors.

I just read Jonathan Maberry’s Rot & Ruin, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. There’s the brutal Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. Of course, there’s The Walking Dead comic books (to say nothing of the AMC television show), which shows how easy it is for humans to become monsters—and that’s not even considering all the zombies. I also love Stephen King’s The Stand. Nothing like a massive book of Good versus Evil after a man-made plague has wiped out most of the world’s population. There’s also Robert McCammon’s Swan Song, which begins with the world leveled by nuclear blasts, and from there, survival hijinks ensue.

My Riders of the Apocalypse series takes a different tack from the above. The series, like Good Omens, isn’t about the upcoming End of Everything (which is always right around the corner) but more about how the protagonists, in learning to embrace themselves for who they are, stop hating themselves for who they’re not, and discover their inner strength, are able to prevent their own personal Armageddon. (Plus, there’s Death, who looks, sounds, and sings like Kurt Cobain.)

Hunger, the first book in the series, is about an anorexic teenage girl who becomes Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The second book, Rage, is about a teen girl who self-injures, who becomes the avatar of War. The third book, LOSS, which just hit the shelves, is about a bullied teenage boy who is tricked into becoming Pestilence. And then there’s the fourth book, Breath, which I’m currently writing.

Don’t worry—the Apocalypse is coming. It’s just a question of whether it really is the end of everything…or the start of something new.

What are some of your favorite Apocalyptic or post-Apocalyptic stories?

GIVEAWAY DETAILS (open internationally):

LOSS by Jackie Morse Kessler comes out March 20, 2012!

One lucky commenter below will win a small cover poster of LOSS—and will be entered in the grand prize drawing! The grand prize winner will receive signed copies of HUNGER, RAGE and LOSS—and will get to name a character in BREATH, the fourth book in the Riders of the Apocalypse series. The grand prize winner will be picked on Sunday, April 1, 2012. No foolin’.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Guest Post with Susan Quinn


Keeping an Open Mind—The Importance of Theme

by Susan Kaye Quinn,
author of Open Minds
(Book One of the Mindjack Trilogy)


The very first image—the first brain spark—that inspired Open Minds (Book One of the Mindjack Trilogy) was filled with the effects of intolerance. The idea of a world where everyone read minds, except one girl, sprung up as a setting: the girl, sitting in a high school classroom, surrounded by her mindreading classmates, but as isolated as one human being could be from another. She didn’t speak their mind-language, but it was more than simply being a deaf-person in a hearing world. She was mistrusted, shunned, because they couldn’t understand her. They feared her, because she was the definitive other in their world.

The idea of other has always fascinated me. As a girl, I grew up on aliens in Star Trek and sentient robots in I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Embedded in those stories was the idea that a being who looks, acts, and thinks nothing like you could still be a person—this is an enduring tradition of science fiction and one that I wholeheartedly embraced. I like exploring what it meant to be human, and I think the best SF has always been about the human being amongst the technology.

In Open Minds, someone who can’t read minds or be read by others is called a zero, a not-so-subtle pejorative that reminds them of their value in the society. Zeros are mistrusted in a world where every thought can be known, except theirs. In this mindreading world of the future, trust is built on complete openness—every thought you have is known by everyone in the room. There are no secrets, no white lies, no social niceties. It’s a rather coarse world in many ways, but also a credulous one. Of course you tell the truth; how can you not? So someone who is capable of keeping a secret is feared as someone completely outside the normal social structure. How could you ever believe a thing that person said? How could you trust them to run the cash register, much less do anything of importance?

Kira, raised in this society where trust and truth are intimately connected, discovers she has a giant sized secret—one that might finally allow her to fit in. She can control minds. All she has to do is lie and mindjack everyone she loves.

Although the theme of intolerance in Open Minds was there from the very beginning, it definitely evolved as I wrote the book. I began to discover all the ways that the intolerance of Kira’s world affected not just her, but the other characters in the story, and eventually the society as a whole. Kira handles her secret and the choices that go with it in one way, but the other characters handle it much worse (or some better). In spite of being mindreaders and mindjackers in a future world, the characters were all still human, subject to all the weaknesses and inner strengths inherent in our humanity.

I’m working on Closed Hearts now, and as the title suggests, the theme of intolerance gains ground in the second book. It fascinates me to create characters that can play out all the possible ways that people can react to an evolving world. Sometimes it feels like our world of 2011 is moving ahead at warp speed, but when the world truly shifts, you can tell the character of a person by how they shift with it. I hope, throughout the Mindjack Trilogy, to honor the fine tradition of science fiction in exploring all the ways in which we are human. 






When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.


Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden world of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

Open Minds (Book One of the Mindjack Trilogy) by Susan Kaye Quinn is available for $2.99 in e-book (Amazon US (also UK, France and Germany), Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, iTunes) and $9.99 in print (Amazon, Createspace, also autographed copies available from the author).