Book Tour: Whistleblower by Alysia S Knight

"Marley Reynolds’ flight with proof to stop the pharmaceutical company she works for from releasing a drug that could kill thousands of soldiers lands her in the arms of a man she has no idea how to handle.     Ex-Army Ranger, Zan Master, had given up on finding the right woman for him until she runs into him, literally.  Now, he just has to keep her alive long enough to blow the whistle for them to enjoy the love they found."

~ Amazon ~ 

I grew up in a small town in Wyoming loving the outdoors, sports, art, and reading Hardy Boys books. After reading them all at least a half dozen times, I started writing my own stories.

Thirty years ago I married a wonderful, honorable man. I’m mother of five children and grandmother of seven boys. I love traveling. Through my husband’s work and vacations, I have visited much of the United States, all over Eastern Europe, Canada, Mexico, China, Thailand, Cambodia and Australia, giving me many intriguing locations and experiences for my stories.

I am a storyteller. I write the classic hero story because I think there’s a need for more heroes, love, and adventure in our lives. I’m not out to change the world with my writing; I’m just hoping to make your day a little better.

Hope you enjoy.

Alysia S. Knight

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Character Casting

Readers pick who you would like to see portraying the characters and comment on the official event page with your favourites.

Hero-

Channing Tatum from White House Down or GI Joe

Josh Duhamel from Transformers

Chris Evans  from of course Captain America

Heroines-

Emily Van Camp from Captain America

Blake Lively

Katie Cassidy

Creepy bad guys-

Joseph Fiennes

Ben Foster

Head arrogant scientist and head of security I’ll put up for votes.

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Spring Cleaning Blitz: Day 6: The Haunting of Springett Hall by E.B. Wheeler

Eighteen-year-old Lucy doesn't know why she's haunting Springett Hall in Victorian England. All she remembers of her life is that she was trying to fix a terrible mistake. Now, a necromancer's plans threaten everyone in the house--living and dead--and her only hope of stopping him is enlisting the help of a servant named Philip--the one living person who can see her. But as Lucy delves into the mystery surrounding her death, she realizes Philip may have secrets of his own.

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E.B. Wheeler grew up in Georgia and California. She attended BYU, majoring in history with an English minor, and earned graduate degrees in history and landscape architecture from Utah State University. She's the award-winning author of THE HAUNTING OF SPRINGETT HALL and BORN TO TREASON (May 2016), as well as several short stories, magazine articles, and scripts for educational software programs. She lives in the mountains of Utah with her husband, daughters, various pets, and as many antique roses as she can cram into her yard. If she had spare time, she would spend it playing harp and hammered dulcimer, gardening, hiking, shooting archery, knitting, and reading.

Q & A with the Author:

1.     What is the thing you struggle with the most while writing? And how do you defeat it?
Sometimes when I'm writing, I hit the, “Why am I doing this? This is the worst drivel ever set to paper,” mindset. It usually happens when I crash into a plot hole or some difficult part of the character's development. It's really hard for me to slog through it. That's what I do, though: I slog through it. I set time aside for writing every day, and I make myself write at least a little even when I don't feel like it. I find when I keep writing, I get new ideas, I get excited about the story again, and then I'm back on my writing high.

2.      Which of your personality traits did you write into you characters? (Deliberately or accidentally)
I think we all put more of ourselves into our writing than we realize. My characters may have picked up more of my insecurities than I would like. I did intentionally use my own experiences with a disability to influence how Lucy, the main character, reacts to being helpless in her disembodied state.

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Snippet 1:

I stared at the room’s reflection in the glass doors of a bookcase, trying to focus on the blank space where I should have been. Why could Philip and Edmund see me when I couldn’t see myself? I passed my fingers over the glass. “What do I look like?”

Philip sighed and set aside his book. “What are you talking about?”

“I don’t know what I look like. I can’t look in a mirror, and I don’t remember. Will you please tell me?”

“Why does it matter?” Philip grumbled.

“Wouldn’t it bother you not to know?”

“I suppose.” He shrugged. “You have long, dark hair.”

“I can see that part. What color are my eyes?”

“Brown.” Philip picked up another book.

“Just brown?”

“If you want a poem about them, ask Sir Edmund.”

“Perhaps I shall.”

“They’re dirt brown,” he said, still focused on his book.

I stepped back and blinked my dirt-colored eyes. “I think you’re just being horrid again. The worst part is, I can’t even cry when you hurt my feelings.”

Philip tilted his head back and exhaled. “They’re the color of fresh soil when the gardener first takes his spade to it in the spring. It’s dark, and rich, and full of potential—one of the most beautiful colors in the world.” 

I gaped at him, and he met my stare. He leaned forward, deep blue eyes fixed on mine. Something in my chest trembled at the intensity of his gaze, and I fought the desire to flee. Or to rush into the harbor of his arms. I felt certain I would be safe there, but that certainty filled me with a fear I couldn’t understand, and a deep, painful longing. 

I shook myself and blinked rapidly. What was I doing? What was I feeling? I hardly knew anything about Philip, and I was dead.

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Spring Cleaning Blitz: Day 5: The Secret Life of Daydreams by Lucinda Whitney

-->Lucinda Whitney was born and raised in Portugal, where she received a master's degree from the University of Minho in Braga in Portuguese/English teaching. She's a cancer survivor, and served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Salt Lake Temple Square Visitors Center mission in Utah.

She lives in northern Utah. When she's not reading and writing, she can be found with a pair of knitting needles in winter, or tending her herb garden in the summer. She also works part-time as a substitute teacher.

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-->Sometimes the dream you never planned for is the one you can’t live without.

Six years after a painful divorce, Josh Conrad is happy traveling the world as a photographer. When he arrives in Portugal, he plans to complete the assignment as quickly as possible. What he doesn’t plan for is Sofia, the girl he baptized eleven years earlier on an LDS mission, and soon he’s making excuses to prolong his trip.

Sofia Monteiro leads a structured life in Braga, Portugal, teaching high school by day and caring for her mother by night. After she reconnects with Josh through mutual friends, the memory of a failed relationship and her new graduate program are enough reasons to stay away from him.

As they collaborate on a project, Josh is wary of repeating his old mistakes and Sofia hesitates to spend time with an American who’s only passing through.

Can two people with wounded hearts bring themselves to trust their dreams to each other?

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A few Q&A's with the Author!

3.      What is the thing you struggle with the most while writing? And how do you defeat it?
Distraction and Super focus, which are the sides of the same coin. On one hand, I have a hard time not getting distracted. But once I'm able to focus on a scene/chapter, I don't want to stop.

4.      Which of your personality traits did you write into you characters? (Deliberately or accidentally)
Josh is a photographer, and I had a photography business for a few years, and Sofia is an English teacher, which is what I did before I served a full-time mission. It wasn't a conscious decision but it turned out convenient.

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Spring Cleaning Blitz: Day 4: Numbers Game by Rebecca Rode

A citizen girl someone’s trying to kill. A hot military slave with a mysterious past. A dangerous game that changes everything.

In futuristic America, everyone wears a number. Treena's as ready for Rating Day as anyone can be—she's a top contender in Level Three school and has a highly-rated boyfriend. But when her number is announced, it shocks everyone.

To get her life and boyfriend back, Treena must go undercover and expose a military spy. Doesn’t sound too hard, except that someone wants her dead. And then there’s Vance, the mysterious soldier with a haunted past and gorgeous brown eyes. Together, they discover a dark numbers conspiracy, one that shatters the nation’s future. Treena must join up with Vance if she is to survive the dangerous game of numbers—and the terrible war that rages within her heart.

If you love futuristic thrillers and dystopian sci-fi adventures, you'll love this action-packed mystery with a dash of romance for fans of Suzanne Collins,Veronica Roth, and Ally Condie. This is the first book of the #1 Bestselling Numbers Game Saga.

"Gripping, from beginning to end . . . a tale as action-packed as Divergent yet as introspective as The Giver. . . . Sure to be an instant classic in the genre."
–R.J. Craddock, author of The Children of Cain series

"Best dystopian fiction I have read since Red Queen!"
-Sheri, Reader 

 

REBECCA RODE is an award-winning author, journalist, and mother of four. She is the author of the YA dystopian novel, NUMBERS GAME, and the inspirational book, HOW TO HAVE PEACE WHEN YOU'RE FALLING TO PIECES. She also writes for Deseret News, KSL.com, FamilyShare, and Provo Daily Herald. However, her true love is writing for teenagers. She enjoys traveling, reading, and martial arts, and she has a ridiculous addiction to chocolate-banana shakes.

Facts About the Author:

1. What is the thing you struggle with the most while writing? And how do you defeat it?

Not being "in the mood." It's rare that I jump into writing with enthusiasm and the words flow effortlessly. Sometimes it's agony to get things moving. But if I waited for those rare moments, nothing would ever get done. I have to set deadlines for myself and then look forward to a reward of some type for getting the work done. Yes, I'm like a puppy that way. A really cute one.

2.      Which of your personality traits did you write into you characters? (Deliberately or accidentally)

Hmm. Well, these were definitely accidental. Treena is a perfectionist, a girl with a checklist, prioritized and color-coded. I'm totally that way too. But there's a little of me in Vance as well. He finds it hard to see past his mistakes in the past and beats himself up over it. I'm my worst critic, and shutting off that inner voice is really hard.

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Snippet #1

"Your Rating is wrong," he said. "Their precious Rating system says absolutely nothing about you and what you're capable of." 

"So far, everything I've done has proven my number absolutely correct."

"Treena." His tone softened. "I don't know why that happened to you. But I do know one thing." He stopped on the step below me, and I whirled to face him. We were the same height now, and his expression was fierce. "You are the most loyal, most determined, and most fascinating girl I've ever met. No number could ever describe you."

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Spring Cleaning Blitz: Day 3: See Me For Me by Teya Peck

-->Her most recent accomplishment started in the summer of 2015. Finishing her father’s dream come true by publishing his works. She is the 2016 local American Night Writers Association (A.N.W.A.) chapter (Snake River Writers) president, won NaNoWriMo and participated in the online writers’ conference March 2016.
Teya has been writing for as long as she can remember. At a young age she lived on a street she affectionately named Hill Street Blues. She is street smart and fluent in sarcasm, all help in her writing. Her father would always be and will continue to be her inspiration, even after his untimely death in 2006.
She loves sitting in her soft chair next to the fireplace and watching out a big living room window. It gives her plenty of creative juice for stories.
She met the love of her life in the loft of a barn. Yep, that set up some teasing from her father. They have been happily married since 2003. They have four children and all are loving and supportive of her writing. She refuses to comment on the trolls in the closets and under the beds. She is active in her church, has compassion for others, and a love for all life brings. 

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-->One wrong step changes Jocelyn’s Prima Ballerina life...
One choice results in Jeremiah facing unbearable consequences...
When these two meet, it could be catastrophic or the answer to unspoken prayers.
Can love be tested too far? Will hearts soften and hurts be forgiven?
Or will too much loss be too devastating to find hope?
One thing is for sure, lives are about to change forever…

-->http://www.amazon.com/See-Me-Teya-Peck-ebook/dp/B01B4AB93Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456016746&sr=8-1&keywords=See+me+for+me+by+Teya+Peck

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Snippet 2: 

Coming to a stop sign, Jeremiah glanced quickly left, then right, and stepped on the gas as he glanced at his sister. Strangely, she began to glow brighter. A fleeting thought came to him of why she might be illuminated. Emily started to turn her head right, and as she turned everything slowed down. Silence fill the space, not even the radio made a sound. He saw her eyes wide with fear and her mouth open as if in screaming, but no words. He felt his eyebrows crease together a second before he heard Emily scream, “Jer!” Then a deafening crunch, as he slammed against his door, and as his head careened toward the window. Metal twisting metal, and the shattering of glass could be heard. Just before his head smashed against the window knocking him out.

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