FANtastical Friday #9 with Sherry Thomas!
Welcome to FANtastical Friday!
This week our FANtastical Friday has the honor of hosting the fabulous Sherry Thomas!
Welcome, Sherry!!!
FANtastical Friday Question.....
Darynda: What is it like for you to write YA Fantasy?
Sherry : For me the stumbling block isn't so much the age of my protagonists--in my romances I often write about my hero and heroine as teenagers so that part isn't new--but the fact that I was now dealing with a much bigger plot than I had ever wrangled before. And a much bigger world. And the fact that it was to be a series. So the biggest challenge was how much of this world to introduce to my readers in book 1 and how to interweave different plot threads so that the romantic tension and the external threats escalate in tandem.
Darynda: Thank you, Sherry! Fantastic insight into your world.
Meet Sherry Thomas
Sherry Thomas writes both historical romance and young adult fantasy.
On the romance side, she is one of the most acclaimed authors working in the genre today, her books regularly receiving starred reviews and best-of-the-year honors from trade publications. She is also a two-time winner of Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® Award.
On the young adult fantasy side, there isn't much to say yet, as her debut book is not scheduled for publication until September 2013.
Sherry writes in her second language. She learned English by reading lots of romance and science fiction--every word Isaac Asimov ever wrote, in fact. She is proud to say that her son is her biggest fanboy--for the YA fantasy, not the romances. At least, not yet...
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The Burning Sky
Iolanthe Seabourne is the greatest elemental mage of her generation—or so she's being told. The one prophesied for years to be the savior of The Realm. It is her duty and destiny to face and defeat the Bane, the greatest mage tyrant the world has ever known. A suicide task for anyone let alone a sixteen-year-old girl with no training, facing a prophecy that foretells a fiery clash to the death.
Prince Titus of Elberon has sworn to protect Iolanthe at all costs but he's also a powerful mage committed to obliterating the Bane to avenge the death of his family—even if he must sacrifice both Iolanthe and himself to achieve his goal.
But Titus makes the terrifying mistake of falling in love with the girl who should have been only a means to an end. Now, with the servants of the Bane closing in, he must choose between his mission and her life.
More Books by Sherry Thomas...
The Luckiest Lady in London
Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Felix knows very well his golden image is a hoax. But no one else suspects the truth, until Miss Louisa Cantwell comes along.
From their first meeting, Louisa has mistrusted his outward perfection. But even she could not have imagined that The Ideal Gentleman would propose—to make her his mistress.
Yet she cannot ignore the pleasure his touch ignites. Nor can she deny the pull Lord Wrenworth exerts upon her. But dare she get any closer to a man full of dark secrets, any one of which could devastate her?
Beguiling the Beauty
When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg aboard a transatlantic ocean liner, he is fascinated. She is exactly what he has been searching for—a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast—and soon proposes marriage.
And then she disappears without a trace…
For in reality, the "baroness" is Venetia Easterbrook—a proper young widow who had her own vengeful reasons for instigating an affair with the duke. But the plan has backfired. Venetia has fallen in love with the man she despised—and there’s no telling what might happen when she is finally unmasked…
Question of the week?
Do you like to read YA Fantasy? If so who are some of your favorite authors?
