Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you
about their work?
I don’t have a favorite – I have several! Anne Rice and Neil Gaiman I have admired for many years. I love Rice’s deep, descriptive style and Gaiman’s unique ideas. But I also love Paullina Simons and Cormac McCarthy – there are just so many! And, of course, there’s J.K. Rowling, but I don’t really have to name her, do I? Isn’t she everybody’s favorite by default? π
Which do you prefer: ebook, hardback or paperback?
Definitely paperback, hands down. I have a Kindle and it’s just not the same. Hardbacks can’t be held comfortably (yes, I bend the spines! I’m totally guilty!). I can’t imagine a world without physical books. It’s depressing to imagine, actually.
What is your favorite type of food?
Mexican!
Who is your favorite book boyfriend?
Shura. π
Besides writing, what do you like to do in your free time?
Of course, I love to read. I also love the outdoors (hiking, swimming, biking, tennis, etc.), and binge-watching television series’.
Is there one book that has had an impact on not only your writing, but on you personally?
That would be THE VAMPIRE ARMAND by Anne Rice. It’s a book that I’ve read four or five times and the one that really inspired me to try to become a published author.
If the Earth suddenly became uninhabitable, would you rather live under the sea or in space?
In space! I’m obsessed with the Universe. Besides, the thought of living in the ocean sort of terrifies me.
What was your favorite pastime as a kid?
Playing in the wooded creek at my grandparents’ house in Greer’s Ferry, Arkansas.
Everything Under the Sun
Jessica Redmerski
Genre: Dystopian YA/NA Crossover
Jessica Redmerski
Genre: Dystopian YA/NA Crossover
Date of Publication: August 28, 2017
ISBN: 1546413081
ASIN: B074W372G6
Number of pages: 657
Word Count: 203K
Cover Image by Perrywinkle Photography
Cover Design by Okay Creations
Tagline: Can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?
Book Description:
Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. But when her town is attacked by raiders, she and her blind sister are taken away to the East-Central Territory where she is destined to live the cruel and unjust kind of life her late mother warned her about.
Atticus Hunt is a troubled soldier in Lexington City who has spent the past seven years trying to conform to the vicious nature of men in a post-apocalyptic society. He knows that in order to survive, he must abandon his morals and his conscience and become like those he is surrounded by. But when he meets Thais, morals and conscience win out over conformity, and he risks his rank and his life to help her. They escape the city and set out together on a long and perilous journey to find safety in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Struggling to survive in a world without electricity, food, shelter, and clean water, Atticus and Thais shed their fear of growing too close, and they fall hopelessly in love. But can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?
Excerpt
2
It
wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was supposed to travel with him until he got
me out of Lexington City and then I was to make a run for it, kill him if I had
to—but I didn’t. I was supposed to stay with these people and leave Atticus to
do what he wanted, go where he wanted, without me—but I couldn’t. I was
supposed to be afraid of him not only because of the terrible man he was when I
first laid eyes on him, but also because he was a man—but I wasn’t. I wasn’t afraid of him.
I was
afraid for him.
I was
afraid of being without him…
“Thais?”
I looked
up; my bottom lip quivered.
“I will
wait for you,” I said, trying to be strong. I wiped my tears, swallowed hard
and nodded.
Atticus
dashed outside, pushing the barn door out of his way. Seconds later he came
back with the horse. He tossed the quilt we’d slept on the night in the barn,
over the horse’s back. Then he went over to the backpacks, stepping around
Rachel’s unconscious body, and shoved everything back inside. He helped my arms
into the straps of the larger backpack.
Fitting
his hands on my hips, Atticus hoisted me up and set me on the horse; I grabbed
a hold of the horse’s reins.
“Stay
out of sight of the house,” he said as he fitted the smaller backpack and his
jacket between my legs. “And cut through the woods there”—he pointed toward the
back of the barn—“that’s west; just keep as straight as you can in that
direction, but don’t leave the woods.”
I
nodded.
He
walked with me outside the barn, stopped to look out at the flat land beyond
the highway where those who were coming for us would likely be, and then led me
around the barn. The deep woods beckoned me out ahead; I couldn’t help but feel
intimidated by them, as if they were some kind of final leg of our journey—or
the beginning of my journey alone.
Steadying
my breath, I looked down at Atticus once more, transfixed on his intense blue
eyes, the sculpted shape and rough texture of his handsome face, and I couldn’t
imagine at this point never seeing it again.
“I’ll
come for you,” he promised.
Tearing
my gaze from his, I faced forward and tightened my grip of the reins.
About the Author:
Jessica Redmerski is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, international bestseller, and award winner, who juggles several different genres. She began self-publishing in 2012, and later with the success of THE EDGE OF NEVER, signed on with Grand Central Publishing/Forever Romance. Her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Jessica is a hybrid author who, in addition to working with a traditional publisher, also continues to self-publish. Her popular crime and suspense series, In the Company of Killers, has been optioned for television in the United States by actor and model William Levy, and a film exclusive to the Dominican Republic.
She also writes as J.A. Redmerski.
Web Site: http://jessicaredmerski.com/
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Love this author/book so much!! Thank you for hosting!
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