A Dream Within A Dream: Evanescent Blog Tour: Guest Post + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the Evanescent blog tour! Today I have a guest post by the author and don't forget to scroll to the bottom of the post to enter the tour wide giveaway!

Evanescent (The Chronicles of Nerissette #2)
Author: Andria Buchanan
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Publisher: Entangled Teen

Buy Links: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository

Description:

Trapped in the deadly land of Nerissette, Allie has all but given up on any return to the mortal realm. Unless she can find the two elusive artifacts that have the power to get her and her friends back home. But she’s got even bigger problems as the newly crowned queen of Nerissette: she must unite her people in the midst of a civil war and capture the Fate Maker—the evil puppet master responsible for the conflict—before he can find another army willing to return him to power. On top of it all, Allie is just a normal teenager. Her feelings are growing for the guy she’s certain is her true love, and balancing her personal life while being the queen isn’t as easy as it sounds. Allie must learn the true meaning of bravery, love, and kinship, regardless of the world—and danger—around her.

What Inspired You to Write the Series?

The Chronicles of Nerissette all began with one simple question. My oldest kid, she was 8 then and she’s 10 now, looked at me after my first (adult) book was published and said “Mommy why can’t you write something I can read?”

After about ten minutes of staring at her gape jawed and stuttering and thought “I don’t know why I can’t actually. Hey, maybe I can,” and that was when I decided to start trying to write a YA novel. The problem was, I didn’t know what to write a YA novel about.

So I did what I always do when I don’t know what the heck I’m doing—I went to the public library. The public library has always been my safe space, ever since I was a kid the library was where I went when I felt lost and I had one of those childhoods where I felt lost an awful lot.

There I am, in the library, staring at shelves upon shelves of YA novels and thinking—I have no idea what I’m doing. Why is my safe place failing me? That’s when it hit me. What if the library, and books, would turn against my heroine? What if one of those fairytales that I used to spend hours poring over, daydreaming that it could be my life, what if it was someone’s life? And what if it totally sucked?

There it was. The basic idea for the Chronicles of Nerissette. One misfit girl (man I knew a lot about that) who gets sucked through a library book and into a fantasy world where she’s a princess and she’s got to fight from day one to keep her throne.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today and sharing your inspiration for the series with us!

Patricia's a small town girl who was blessed with a large tree in the backyard that was a perfect spot for reading on summer days. Mixed with too much imagination it made her a bratty child but fated her to become a storyteller. After a stint of “thinking practically” in her twenties she earned degrees in Business and Economics and worked for a software firm in southwestern Germany but, her passion has always been a good book. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her two wonderful kids and a husband that learned the gourmet art of frozen pizzas to give her more time to write. When she's not writing she can be found fencing and arguing with her dogs about plot points. Most days the Beagle wins but the Dalmatian is in close second. She's in a distant third. Patricia writes adult Paranormal under the name Patricia Eimer and writes Young Adult books under the name Andria Buchanan.

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