Tuesday 8 November 2011

Interview With Author Cidney Swanson.


Interview With Cidney Swanson Author Of The Ripple Series.

1. How did you come up with such an original idea?

Well, I had this image in my head that just showed up one day: A girl (who is staring at a river) turns invisible. Only she doesn’t realize it. I was really puzzled by this image. It stuck with me and I wrote the story to figure out (1) why she’d vanished and (2) why she hadn’t even noticed. 

2. Any more books in the series after the second one?

Yes, there will be a third book coming out soon!

3. What would you do if you could turn invisible?

Hmmmmm . . . I’d for sure find a large plate glass window and just ripple back and forth through it! Oh, and I used to have these fantasies of walking around in my hometown shopping mall and picking out anything I wanted. Of course, in my “Rippler” world, I wouldn’t be able to grab anything.

4. Did you grow up wanting to be an author?

Absolutely. It’s the earliest dream I had. Hit me about age 7. Oops, I take that back. When I was 6, I wanted to be a magician.

5. When did you first think of yourself as a writer?

Well, promise not to laugh too hard, but I took myself pretty seriously at age 8. That’s when I started my first novel. I wrote the first page. Only. A more serious answer would be that by middle school, it was pretty obvious I was a word-girl.

6. Which author's have inspired you?

JRR Tolkien, Jane Austen, Frank Herbert, George Eliot, Suzanne Collins, Markus Zusak, Maggie Stiefvater, Audrey Niffenegger, and lots more!

7. What are you currently working on?

A story set in a very ancient world, book three in the Ripple Series, and a sci-fi series!

8. Any upcoming appearances you would like to share?

Oh, absolutely! I’m on a blog tour at the moment! 
 November 5: Romancing-the-book.com
November 8: Sibelhodge.com

Thanks For Your Time Cidney , And I Wish You The Best Of Luck.

Book Review (12).


Rippler (The Ripple #1)

Australian Vs. U.S.A Book Covers.

Haunting Violet

Australian.
American.

Reblog This.


Behold - the fanciest thing I own, a box full of Advance Readers’ Copies of TEAM HUMAN, a book that Justine Larbalestier and I wrote, which will not be out until JULY! Would you LIKE one?
It is about that first time in school when your best girlfriend has a boyfriend and she loves him SO MUCH and she talks about him ALL THE TIME… and also, he is a vampire.
Seemed a good idea to start tumblring with a FANCY GIVEAWAY!
If this gets reblogged 100 times, I shall put all who did so in a hat for one of these fine fancy things…

Book Review (11).

Prized (Birthmarked #2)

Saturday 5 November 2011

Book Review (10).

Birthmarked (Birthmarked #1)


My Thoughts.
Gaia is following in her Mother's footsteps and training to be a midwife.The first three babies born each month are handed over to the Enclave to be adopted and live inside the wall (these included Gaia's two older brothers).
One night arriving home after delivering her first unassisted baby she finds both her parent's have been arrested by the guards of the Protecterate, there is a guard there waiting for her to ask her about important information that her parent's had (a record of all the births of the babies given into the Enclave) Gaia doesn't know anything but was given a ribbon by Old Meg who works with her Mother, not knowing the information they're after is sewn onto the ribbon.
Gaia's time is then spent trying to find a way into the Enclave to save her parents, and once in there trying to find her way out. 
I liked this book way more than I thought I would and now it's straight onto the second book Prized.
I give this book 4/5
A big thanks to Caroline @ Simon And Schuster Australia