Is there anything you find
particularly challenging in your writing?
I know how I, myself, feels to
love someone, and I know how it makes me feel to be loved in the
different ways one can be, but describing how another person feels love?
Even on my most emotionally imaginative days, describing what another person’s
notion of physical, emotional, and spiritual love is always proves to
be the most challenging.
Is there a certain type of scene
that's harder for you to write than others?
Honestly, erotically-charged
scenes! It's not really the writing of them, it's the editing of them! Some
things have to be left to the reader’s imagination, but how much? I always
struggle with how much description is, or is not, enough!
What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
Read. Read. Read. Write. Write. Write. Then read some more.
Do you have any unique talents or
hobbies?
I always win handstand competitions in the pool. I’ve been told that I
make a richly-mean spaghetti bolognaise. I paint landscapes - not well - but I
love it! I am good with animals - especially fluffy ones – I get cuddles from
the apparently shy ones, and I’ve been told that I have a knack of chilling out
the uppity ones, but I don’t know how - I’m not exactly the most chilled-out
person!
What books have most influenced
your life most?
Kathleen McGowan’s, The Expected
One, The Book of Love, The Poet Prince. Her books dared me to look deeper,
and when I did, all I thought I knew about divinity was blown into smithereens.
Thank you, Ms. McGowan!
Who is your favorite author and
what is it that really strikes you about their work?
Paullina Simmons - namely The Bronze Horseman Trilogy. She wrote a
tale set in a tragic, mind baffling, soul wrenching time in Russian and world
history, but through all of the death and disaster, and the difficult and
overwhelming overtones, simplistic messages of love, hope, honesty, and
strength in the face of adversity and injustice rose to the surface and hit me
square in the chest.
What advice would you give to
your younger self?
Embrace what you see as your imperfections because sometimes they can
turn out to be the most loveable and unique things about you.
Which famous person, living or
dead would you like to meet and why?
Florence Nightingale. Not only
was she a renowned nurse and matron, she was also a rebellious daughter, a
social reformer, and an accomplished writer who lived to the grand old age of
ninety. I would love to meet her as an old lady, make her multiple cups of tea,
and listen to her stories about all that she has seen, felt, failed at, and
succeeded in. She was a trailblazer, a great one, who, in her younger years,
broke the mould, and in her adult life, started to break down walls we are
still hammering away at today.
Book &
Author Details:
The 13th Descent by Ky Lehman
(Rosefire Trilogy #1)
Publication date: August 30th 2014
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult
(Rosefire Trilogy #1)
Publication date: August 30th 2014
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis:
ONE CHOICE CAN
MAKE AN IMMORTAL HUMAN. BUT WHAT CHOICES NEED TO BE MADE TO GO BACK AGAIN?
The
revolutionary year following Serenay “Ren” Avalon’s eighteenth birthday could
rival Clark Kent’s entire adolescence. After her mother and her grandmother
were killed in a car bomb explosion at the heart of their sleepy hillside town
where nothing extraordinary usually happens, she discovers that her mother is
actually alive and in hiding, her long lost father is a Father, and her best
friend, who turns out was once an Archangel, has taken a gargantuan step back
in his evolution to live on Earth with her for the past thirteen lifetimes. And
besides being the only one in her immediate circle with a serious case of past
life dementia, she learns that during her first lifetime, she was married to
one of the greatest teachers history has ever known who is now the gorgeous
lead singer of a hot new rock band taking the world by storm, and who is keen
to meet up with her again in the twenty first century.
As Ren
realizes that the powerful family name she bears also brings with it the
promise of an unnatural death, she is reminded that it has always brought hope
to people on both sides of the veil, human and Tor. As the world draws closer
to being completely shrouded by the dark cloaks of her age-old enemies, the
Bloodstones, she now, more than ever before, has to draw strength from her origins
to protect her family and their ancient truth from this global force
responsible for torturing and killing centuries of her ancestors. As she
struggles to unearth who she was, who she is, and who she chooses to be, as
well as the expectations of her first mortal love and the heavenly love she has
always guiltily denied, she has until midnight on the Solstice find a way to
bring light to a compromised heart and to a world on the brink of perpetual
darkness.
This first
book in The Rosefire Trilogy is a reminder of how the choices we make in the
throes of love, loss, hope, and adversity are what makes the divine human, and
the human divine.
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AUTHOR
BIO:
KY LEHMAN is a novelist, a children's author, a teacher of
swimming and water safety, wife to her high school sweetheart and the
proud mother of their three very tall sons. She lives in the Yarra Ranges,
Victoria, Australia with her husband and their children where she is
currently writing the second book in The Rosefire Trilogy, The 13th
Rising.
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