Showing posts with label Solstice Quartet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solstice Quartet. Show all posts
03 March 2015
Snippet and giveaway @LitLagniappe! #SolsticeQuartet
03 January 2015
Happy New Year!
Hope 2015 is off to a great start for everyone! I'm extremely pumped for a lot of reasons. 1) It's a whole new year full of possibility (and new episodes of Arrow); 2) The weather will be warm again soon; 3) Ember's Secret releases in 32 days. And yes, I've been counting down.I've said before that Ember is a return to my roots of sorts. Playing with mythology has always been fun for me, and the Maori culture is full of these beautiful myths and stories. The backbone of the entire series (and any others I might write with the wereswans) is the story of Tane, the Maori god of birds and forests, and the Matariki, also known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters.
According to the version I found, the Sisters started as one incredibly beautiful--and incredibly vain--star, so kinda like Kanye West. Unlike Kanye, this star was actually liked by people, regardless of how many times it might have interrupted the god Tane during an acceptance speech. Tane, however, was not impressed. It's said that, in a fit of jealousy (or just having enough of this star's shit), Tane threw it out of the sky, where it crashed and broke into seven pieces that became new stars. But of course, as vain things go, the star found itself to be even more beautiful as seven parts. So thanks to Tane, there are seven Kanye Wests staring down at us every summer. Thanks, bro. Really.
That's an incredibly loose interpretation (in case you didn't notice). There are a several versions of this myth, some of which paint the Matariki as a beautiful maiden refusing Tane's advances. Regardless of the version, Tane's jealousy remains in tact. Not cool for the god of my wereswans.
So how does this all fit with wereswans? Pretty well, actually. You'll have to read Ember's Secret to find out!
Also, the blog tour is currently under way!
I'm over at I Smell Sheep with a very interesting blog post. And by interesting, I mean weird.
And don't forget you can still preorder Ember's Secret at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, and Google Play.
03 December 2014
Winter is coming
And so are the wereswans.
Every June, when the Seven
Sisters grace the sky for the Solstice, those blessed by the gods transform
from humans into swans to spend one night in their true forms.
For millennia, these swans have
been hidden away in the safety of lore, but in New Zealand, the largest and
most respected of the tribes came under attack while transformed. The lone
survivors--the tribe’s leader and his three daughters--barely escape and are forced
to settle elsewhere.
Each sister carves her own path
in dealing with the aftermath of the loss, with events converging on the same
Solstice. Follow the sisters through their journeys and learn about the love
that started it all in this four-novella series.
Book One - Ember's Secret
Ember only wants two things out of
life: to be reunited with her sisters, and to see people come back to her café.
Catering to people she never sees again, she experiences a loneliness that
can’t be filled. As one of the last Whakamanu—a
descendant of the Maori bird-god Tane—she has to hold on to the secrets of her
tribe. Family first.
Gourmet TV personality Austin Garten,
host of the popular show Back Road Eats, needs more in his life than
Breadbasket America grilling. He’s tired of the safe routes, the easy and
dependable foods that the Network loves to display. When his RV breaks down in
Wyoming, and he learns about Kai, a Maori restaurant outside of Casper, his
interest is piqued. Once he meets the proprietor, he realizes he’s wants more
than just her food. He wants her.
Ember isn’t too sure. The Solstice,
the Maori New Year, is fast approaching, and with the heat in her kitchen
ratcheting up, she knows she can’t keep her secret for much longer. But will
Austin be able to accept her? Or will her secret drive them apart?
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