What are your top 10 favorite books/authors?
This changes but I would say over the last few years there
have been a few books I’ve gone back to a few times. This is in no particular
order.
·
Daniel Jose Older – Bone Street Rumba series
·
Aliette de Bodard – Obsidian and Blood series
(set in Aztec Mexico). Actually, everything.
·
Antonia Fraser, historian. Particularly The
Wives of Henry VIII
·
Kresley Cole – Immortals After Dark, classic
paranormal romance
·
Nalini Singh – everything but I love the Guild
Hunter series the best
·
Somerset Maugham – His short story collections
are perfect for binging or dipping in and out.
·
Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon. I think
he must be a literal genius to write these books.
·
CJ Sansom – the Shardlake mystery series is
about a lawyer in Henry VIII’s England.
·
Mary Roach – Anything but my favourite is Stiff:
The curious life of human cadavers. Hilarious and insightful popular
science.
How long have you been writing?
Over 20 years. I remember the exact day I started writing. I
had been at a book festival and thought, “I wonder if anyone has written a book
about an assassin screwed over by her lover.” Then I realized I could write
that book. I started writing it the next day.
Do the characters all come to you at the same time or do
some of them come to you as you write?
They come as I write. I usually only know the main
characters. In this case, I knew Cal and Iliana were there and I had a hazy
idea of the rest of the Immorti but they didn’t come alive until I started
writing. Mara, Iliana’s best friend, didn’t even cross my mind as a character
until I wrote the scene where they have lunch.
What kind of research do you do before you begin writing a
book?
I use research as a procrastination technique so I do quite a
lot. For Immortal Redemption, I read about Mexican history and Aztec
mythology as well as mass grave excavations. I use books from the library and
my own collection as well as the Internet.
Do you read yourself and if so what is your favorite
genre?
I do! I was always the kid with a book and that never
changed. I read every day and I read multiple genres. My comfort reads are
mostly fantasy, science fiction, non-fiction, mystery and paranormal romance.
Print
Length: 355 pages
Publisher:
Self-Published
Publication
Date: October 15, 2019
Cal
Olin is a grudging member of the Immorti. A resurrected Aztec
warrior, he knows he has much to atone for but doesn’t believe
waiting for an enemy who hasn’t appeared in hundreds of years is
the best way to do it. He’d prefer to spend his time in his CEO
role with Civica, an organization dedicated to righting
wrongs.
However,
when Cal sees the unconscious body of a woman near a magical portal,
he knows the long period of peace has come to an end. He’s shocked
to discover the woman is Dr. Iliana Rogers, Civica’s
second-in-command. The beautiful, argumentative thorn in his side has
managed to open the gate and set off a chain reaction that could end
the world. Is she an agent of evil or an unknowing pawn? He has to
find out.
Nightmares
have taken over Iliana’s dreams and with Cal, she no longer feels
alone. But when he breaks into her house and tells her, incredibly,
that he’s immortal, she knows she’s been living an illusion. It’s
a shock to find out he was telling the truth and that her own mother
was an agent of the malevolent Nilohum—and that she herself is
fated to end the world.
As
Iliana searches for the truth, Cal struggles with a terrible choice:
does he help the woman he loves, or does he stop the end of the world
and risk Iliana’s love…and life?
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Alana
Delacroix is a paranormal romance writer based in Toronto, Canada.
Her Masked Arcana trilogy is available through Kensington's Lyrical
Press, and her Immortal Protector series launches Fall 2019. She is
an introvert's introvert who loves true crime, war, and horror
podcasts and is very paranoid. Alana is also addicted to advice
columns.
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