Interview & Review with Kate’s Reads on the Transfer Student Tour Today!

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CONGRATS TO TO EBOOK WINNER @MacDibble! GOOD LUCK TO TODAY’S TWEETERS! [read on for tweet deets 🙂 ]

Today on the tour I’m excited to be interviewed by Kate’s Reads. She’s a great book blogger and she’s one of my go-to blogs to find out what’s next on my TBR list! Kate asked for an interview and I really enjoyed her questions. It’s kind of funny how some stories just happen. This story is like that. One experience led to another and another and before I knew it, I had a story. TRANSFER STUDENT needed about six years to “cook.” My personal life during the years 2006-2009 played a huge part in informing my characters and the plot. Kate was nice enough to do a book review too, you can read it here! 

I hope you’ll check out the interview 🙂 Thanks for stopping by the tour here and, as always to win today’s EBOOK of TRANSFER STUDENT Tweet [& post ur tweet link here or at Kate’s interview]:

Can’t wait to read Transfer Student by @Laurawriting Check out the Blog Tour & Giveaway! #teenreads #scifi #romance #ya http://wp.me/P1J9jx-bs

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Here’s a little excerpt from Kate’s Interview with me.

Q) How did you come up with the Rethan words and where did you get the ideas for the landscape of Retha?
 
I travel and live away from home sometimes because my husband renovates hotels. At the time I revised Transfer Student, we had the good fortune to live in Big Sur, CA, a very remote part of the central California coast that remains largely undisturbed by man. The landscape is so wild that the missionaries who settled California did not enter and instead just referred to it as El Sur Grande, The Big South…Big Sur. The first road was built on the only horse path to “town” [Monterey] in the 1930s––a road that flirts with the Pacific Ocean winding into cliffs and over waves and sand dunes. Big Sur inspired planet Retha––a place where there are no roads because Rethans fly and while Rethan’s are innovative, they aren’t extremely technological. Because Big Sur is so remote, at night the heavens open up with millions of stars. It made me feel that I had never really seen the night sky before. Many times my husband and I saw satellites move in their typical steady way across the sky. I’d never seen this before. I got to thinking about meteors and what a shower could do to a planet and read up on planets that exist. I wanted to have a planet that had been hit in such a way that caused it to have two worlds isolated from one another, in a similar way that Big Sur had been isolated in the past…read more here

To enter this week’s swag giveaway leave a comment here or there to win–COME BACK TOMORROW TO SEE THE NEW SWAG FOR THE LAST WEEK OF THE TOUR 🙂

THIS WEEK’S SWAG: PIG IN SPACE PIGGY BANK! Griffith Observatory travel mug, a HOLLYWOOD MAP OF THE STARS, signed bookmarks, Griffith Park Observatory pen & postcards, Space Shuttle Anniversary commemorative coin, a CHOCOLATE MOON PIE, and more! Check out the weekly swag here:http://wp.me/P1J9jx-bs

TOMORROW WE HEAD TO THE DRIVE-IN! Hope to see you there 🙂

4 thoughts on “Interview & Review with Kate’s Reads on the Transfer Student Tour Today!”

    1. Laura A. H. Elliott

      LOL! It totally cracked me up when I saw it in FL. I was there on tour with The Paranormal Plumes and saw it as the NASA store. And I was so excited:) Great for saving up for galactic adventures! squueee:)

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