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Interview - Shannon K Butcher

Please describe your novel twitter style 140 characters or less. 

Mercenary chick and her hot partner uncover plot to hijack soldiers for nefarious purposes.

What is the one thing you wish you knew before you tried to get published? 

I had the advantage of knowing quite a lot about the world of publishing before I decided to dive in. My husband had already been published for years, so I had a good idea of what happened behind the scenes. I was a little surprised by the advent of social media, since that wasn't really around when I first started writing. But since then, I've learned to enjoy interacting with fans online, so that's a positive thing for me. I think the biggest surprise has been the sheer amount of work that has to get done which has nothing to do with actually writing the book.

What to you is the best part of being a writer and what is the part you wouldn’t mind giving up?

The best part of being a writer is actually writing. The stories, the characters, and all the things that go into getting words on the page, and knowing how excited fans will be when they read what I've written – those are the things that keep me going every day. It’s also nice to get to spend most days in my jammies with hot men and kick-ass women.

My least favorite part of writing is revision. While a necessary evil, I wish I was a good enough writer to never have to revise anything. But I'm not, so I revise. :-)

What city would you love to set a story in but the right one hasn’t come along yet?

I try not to use too many real cities. I like to blow things up and have gunfights and plenty of illegal activity. I find that people get upset when you blow up their cities and break their laws, so I prefer to create my own for the most part. That way I don’t have to hold back. I think that the fact that I’ve lived in several different states and traveled a lot gives me an idea of the flavor of different areas of the country.

Vampires, Shifters, Zombies, Angels - who wins the final ultimate battle?

I saw the season finale of Deadliest Warrior, so I know the answer to this is vampires. They had scientific proof. :)

If you could witness any historical event past, present or future what would it be and why?              

        

I would like to be standing next to the researcher when s/he discovers the cure for cancer. I've lost too many people that I love to this disease, and would like to be there to witness when the villain is ultimately defeated.

Thanks Shannon for taking the time to do this interview.

Everyone else.  Check out her new release Razor's Edge.  You wont be sorry.

Roxanne "Razor" Haught is an expert in stealth security for corporate espionage cases. But now she's a target. Tanner O'Connell has no intentions of leaving Razor's side. Despite her objections to having a "babysitter", his orders as the newest member of the Edge are to watch her back. With a brainwashed assassin after his partner, Tanner cannot afford to let his desire for Razor interfere with his duty. His special ops skills may be all that stand between saving Razor-or losing her forever.

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Review - Blood Eternal

Blood Eternal

By Marie Treanor

Awakened by Blood, Book 3

Signet Eclipse

Mass Market Paperback

4th October 2011

Secrets don't disappear after seduction...

Elizabeth Silk is struggling to reconcile her passion for the vampire overlord Saloman and her allegiance to the vampire hunters. When a shocking vampire revolt calls Saloman away from her, she refuses to follow him.

To make matters worse, Saloman’s beloved cousin Luk has been found and awakened by one of his greatest enemies. Frenzied with bloodlust, Luk embarks on a killing spree and prepares to expose Saloman’s biggest vulnerability: Elizabeth.

But under Saloman’s regime, vampires have become less concerned with secrecy, no longer willing to hide their power. Rumors are swirling about attacks on humans. After Saloman joins forces with the vampire hunters to consolidate his power, Elizabeth begins to understand her role in the inevitable collision of the two worlds. She could bring resolution between vampires and humans—if she can manage to stay alive long enough to play both sides….

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My review:

This is a great book.  Its a worthy conclusion to the trilogy.  I can only hope we get to meet these characters again soon.  I have been hooked since I read the first book.  They are well-written and fast paced with great characters that you really get to know and enjoy.


Elizabeth and Saloman have an unusual relationship.  Both have the power to really hurt or kill the other, even know Elizabeth is human.  By this point we have watched their relationship evolve over the course of the first 2 books.  But even here neither really feels like they deserve the other or can keep them for as long as they have together.  And this combined with the fact that Elizabeth's hunter friends dont trust him not to hurt her are the background story revolving around the bigger story of the vampire war and Saloman's cousin Luk.


This war could really be the turning point both Saloman and Elizabeth are hoping for in the ongoing relationship between vampires and humans.  Saloman wants to initiate change in vampire behavior so that the two can learn to live together and help each other.  And he spends a lot of time trying to prove how this could happen.  But he is up against his cousin, Luk, and a group of vampires that dont want to change.  If the hunters can not learn to work with him to get this matter under control, what chance does the rest of the world who is still in the dark have.

Both stories intertwine themselves perfectly throughout the book.  Leading to stunning conclusion and hope for all.  I am really looking forward to reading more from the author soon and I am extremely glad I started this series.