Manifesting DESTINY
(Changers)
M Pepper Langlinais
Romance/Paranormal/Fantasy
65K, Evernight Teen Publishing
Marcus urges Cee to go to the Magi to have Livian
removed, but the more Cee becomes attached to Livian, the more she questions
the decision. Should she change her natural self for the crush who will never
love her anyway?
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Excerpt:
Heat spread through her. Cee’s face elongated, her
arms extended, her nails formed into claws, and her feet became suddenly very
heavy. The bony spires erupted from her shoulders, and Cee was compelled to
double over to allow the wings to grow.
Throughout, Cee fought the urge to resist, though her
instinct was to do just that. She wondered what she looked like, caught a
glimpse of red scales, and realized her eyesight had become sharper. All the
details of the trees around her impressed themselves upon her brain: the cracks
and flakes in the bark, the saw-tooth edges of the leaves, and every little spot
and insect thereupon.
How big was she? Cee realized she was at eye level
with the middle of the trees. She looked down and saw her friends pushing
themselves even harder against the trunks, making way for Cee’s—or Livian’s,
she supposed—tail as it snaked by.
Yes, we’re very pretty, said
Livian impatiently. But we don’t have time for showing off just now.
The massive wings began to move, slowly at first,
gathering speed that put the force of the helicopter’s artificial wind to
shame. Cee realized she had no control over what was happening. It was all
Livian, and she was housed inside him, somehow, along for the ride.
It was equal parts thrilling and petrifying, bursting
through the treetops and being free of gravity. Cee would have liked to spend
more time experiencing it, but there was the helicopter, like a massive black
bug, and Livian went right for it.
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About the author:
M
Pepper Langlinais is an award-winning screenwriter, produced playwright, and
author. Her latest novel CHANGERS: MANIFESTING DESTINY, first in a new YA
fantasy trilogy, is now available from Evernight Teen.
M holds a Master of Arts in Writing, Literature and
Publishing and a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film. She has a love
of Shakespeare, having both performed and taught his work, and has also
interned on Hollywood film sets. M worked for Houghton Mifflin and Pearson
before deciding to devote her full time to writing (and occasionally
parenting). She lives in Livermore, California with her family, cat, and
hamster. Find out more about her and her books at PepperWords.com.
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Q: She has a dragon living inside her? What made you think of that?
ReplyDeleteMy kids joke that I'm a dragon in human form. So I decided to explore what that might be like.
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DeleteLove the cover. How did it come about?
ReplyDeleteEvernight Teen uses artist Jay Aheer (and you can hire her freelance, too, btw). She contacted me and said she was thinking of trying something "different" for the cover, something not typical of the genre. I was a little nervous, but this book IS different, and I love that the cover shows that in a way. Instead of looking for a model that looks like Cee, the silhouette with the dragon inside is perfect. And I love that it's white instead of black. I think Jay did a fantastic job.
DeleteSounds intriguing. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWhat's your tip for new authors?
ReplyDeleteRemember it doesn't have to be perfect the first time. Just get a draft done and then worry about fixing any problems. Don't slow down to fix as you go. And be sure you don't write in a vacuum. Find critique partners, a writing group, beta readers—good ones, ones you trust to give you the right information, ones that are honestly trying to help and support you. The source *does* matter. I recommend Absolute Write as a great place for information and support. Finally, don't query until it's ready. You'll be eager to send it out because you want to be finished, but it's almost always too soon. Do it right, no matter how badly you just want to move on to the next step.
DeleteRemember it doesn't have to be perfect the first time. Just get a draft done and then worry about fixing any problems. Don't slow down to fix as you go. And be sure you don't write in a vacuum. Find critique partners, a writing group, beta readers—good ones, ones you trust to give you the right information, ones that are honestly trying to help and support you. The source *does* matter. I recommend Absolute Write as a great place for information and support. Finally, don't query until it's ready. You'll be eager to send it out because you want to be finished, but it's almost always too soon. Do it right, no matter how badly you just want to move on to the next step.
DeleteThanks for the great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds amazing!
I liked the excerpt, thank you.
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt and thanks for the giveaway
ReplyDeleteCee's life is so complex and I'm sure there will be no easy answers to her life problems. I'm interested to see how she goes about dealing with everything.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was working to give the heroine a diverse set of problems and complications. This book is really about depths of friendship and what it means to stick by someone even when they're not what you want or expect them to be. And on the flip side, it's about being true to yourself and not changing because others pressure you to do so. In this story, they live in a really smoothly run society. It isn't some terrible world like in so many dystopian stories. The question for Cee is whether it's worth it to her to upend that world. No one wants to be the person to change things when nothing is broken. No one wants to be the person to ruin the world.
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