Ellie
Hi R.K!Thank you for joining me on this, my second day back with Author2Author Blog Chat 2014. And of course; this being the third day of the Fantastical Reads Event that, as you know, I am co-presenting with Author, Michael Lorde; it’s been a great event so far.
And if you’ve been keeping up-to-date with the celebrations, you would have read yesterday’s Author2Author Blog Spotlight and Fantastical Reads Author Spotlight with Author, Joseph Lallo. If you haven’t, then head over there right after this and find out went down.
We're here with R.K. Ryals, she is the author of emotional and gripping young adult and new adult paranormal romance, contemporary romance, and fantasy. With a strong passion for charity and literacy, she works as a full time writer encouraging people to "share the love of reading one book at a time." An avid animal lover and self-proclaimed coffee-holic, R.K. Ryals was born in Jackson, Mississippi and makes her home in the Southern U.S. with her husband, her three daughters, a rescue dog named Oscar the Grouch, A Shitzsu named Tinkerbell, an OCD cat, and a coffee pot she honestly couldn't live without. Should she ever become the owner of a fire-breathing dragon (tame of course), her life would be complete. Contact her on twitter @RKRyals, on Facebook.
Tempest eBook was released the 4th Jan 2014 and the
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paperback version was released the 7th Jun 2013.
Kindle Version: 215 pages.
Publication: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
ASIN: B00CQCQWJ8.
Paperback: 288
pages.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent
Publishing Platform (7 Jun 2013).
ISBN-10: 1490373683/ ISBN-13:
978-1490373683.
Your average Customer Review is 4.5 out of 5
stars.
Your Amazon Bestsellers Rank in the UK is #123,292.
And your Amazon Bestsellers rank in the U.S is #12,051.
And number 38 in Swords and Sorcery.
Book Genre Categories:
Children's Books >
Fiction > Science Fiction & Fantasy
Fantasy > Epic >
Teen & Young Adult
Kindle eBooks >
Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic >
Sword & Sorcery
Book Blurb:
We must overcome and prevail ...
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King Raemon of Medeisia is slaughtering
tattooed scribes and mages, forcing them into hiding. All marked and those
associated with them are destroyed. The people are desperate. Months after
challenging Raemon, the marked rebels of Medeisia must rise against their
bloodthirsty king or chance being annihilated.
Sixteen year-old Drastona Consta-Mayria is the
prophesied phoenix of peace, desperate to be a leader for her people despite
her reservations. Following the lead of a scarred and forgotten prince,
Drastona will embark on a journey with an unlikely band of rebels and a dragon
across a cursed desert to bring down a king and save a kingdom.
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R.K Ryals
The book cover - I just had the covers of the Scribes of Medeisia series redone so the paperbacks haven’t been changed yet. So far I have used Regina Wamba (The Singing River), Eden Crane (Redemption series and Thorne Trilogy), LLPIX photography (The Acropolis series), and Frankie Rose (The Scribes Series)
Ellie
The Map at the beginning of the book is fantastic.Who does your drawings?
R.K RyalsI designed the map for the series using gimp but then it was redone much better by Frankie Rose.
Ellie
I’m a big fan of WoW (World of Warcraft). Do you play?
R.K Ryals
It’s been a long time since I’ve played WoW, but I played it in college.
Ellie
Your book is about Mages & Scribes, tell us about them?
R.K Ryals
Mages are people born with natural magic in their blood while Scribes are people who aspire not only to learn but to write. They record history.
Ellie
Tell us about the background of the King, Raemon of Medeisia.
R.K Ryals
Raemon is a mad king, the descendant of the legendary King Hedron who lived centuries before. He was the only son of the previous King of Medeisia.
Ellie
And what does king, Raemon have against the Mages & Scribes?
R.K Ryals
Raemon fears knowledge because knowledge is power, and he fears the mages because he fears anything he doesn’t understand. He wants to rule not only Medeisia but Sadeemia as a dictator, and he believes removing those with power and knowledge is the key to doing that.
Ellie
Tell us about Drastona Consta- Mayria.
R.K Ryals
Drastona or Stone as she is often referred, is the bastard daughter of the Ambassador to Sadeemia in Medeisia. She is an aspiring Scribe, but is thrown into a harsh world of survival when the Scribes are disbanded and marked for death.
Ellie
The story starts off with Prince Cadeyrn Forsen Bernhart, son and heir to the Kingdom Sadeemia.
R.K Ryals
He is. Cadeyrn is the second son of the King of Medeisia, and he commands the Sadeemian army. He is very powerful and commands steel. He can also discern lie from truth. Because of his power, he has been a target for assassins since he was a boy and trained accordingly.
Ellie
The King of Sadeemia, Freemont Horan Bernhart VIII.
R.K Ryals
Like Raemon, Freemont is a descendant of the legendary King Hedron from when Medeisia and Sadeemia were once one country. He is married to a princess of New Hope, and he has two sons, Arien and Cadeyrn.
Ellie
Ah so they’re family then haha even more interesting than it was earlier when I was already going to read it, now I MUST!
Ellie
So tell us about the Kingdom/Country of Sadeemia.
R.K Ryals
Sadeemia is a prosperous kingdom located on the sea. It is a thriving sea port and crucial for trade. The streets are clean and sanitary as are their people. It is ruled by a king but also a council for the people with the Minister of Government at its head. There are two schools in Sadeemia, one in Majesta that trains mages and another in the city of Quills that trains Scribes. Sadeemia has a tremulous relationship with Medeisia, as its people are repressed and live in filthy cities under a mad dictator where magic and knowledge have been outlawed.
Ellie
Gerod Consta-Mayria.
R.K Ryals
Garod is the Ambassador to Sadeemia in Medeisia and Drastona’s father.
Ellie
What is the Dragon Pendant?
R.K Ryals
The dragon pendant is a necklace gifted to the king of Medeisia hundreds of years before. It was forged by dragonfire and gave its wearer power. The pendant was later split in a failed assassination attempt, each half worn by warring twin princes. A desert formed between the kingdoms because the pendant was halved, which is how Sadeemia and Medeisia came to be.
Ellie
Excellent. Thanks R.K. Now I just wanna say that your work is beautifully presented by the way. What type of response do you get from readers or critics? Have you ever been told to tone it down a little? Or you need more?
R.K Ryals
Thank you! I have gotten a lot of wonderful responses about the Scribes of Medeisia series. It truly is a series that means the world to me. This world, these characters, have completely overwhelmed me. In a good way of course. But not all readers will be happy with the story, the ones who are, haven’t told me to tone down or add anything to it.
Ellie
Well that’s excellent then, no bad press haha can’t go wrong. Well, thank you so much for doing this, R.K, I hope you enjoy the blog chat and I’m looking forward to part two of this, on the other show Author2Author Blog Chat 2014.You guys should follow on over now and read part two of this exclusive spotlight with Author R.K. Ryals.Here is a little excerpt of Tempest that R.K has provided us with and she’s going to read it for us as well…
R.k
Ryals
And then I lost my battle with the wind, just remembering to turn my head so that when I fell onto Oran, it was with my cheek, my nose and mouth open and uncovered. It put me eye to eye with Lochlen. His reptilian eyes were dilated, his pupils blackening his gaze.“It ends soon,” he promised.His eyes stayed locked on mine, and I concentrated on that. Lochlen, my dragon. I’m not sure when I had started seeing him that way. It was a strange connection I’d felt since I’d first met him at the edge of the Ardus. Not a love at first sight romantic kind of feeling; he was a dragon after all. More of an I need you kind of feeling; a friendship that seemed to start without words.I was so tired. The wind bore down on us so roughly I felt like I couldn’t breathe. And maybe I couldn’t. There was no room under the fabric for all of us to breathe, no oxygen left. The wind was stealing it all away.“Just a little longer,” Lochlen yelled, his eyes on mine.My face was pressed so deeply into Oran’s fur that I could almost smell the forest on him, the hair tickling my nose.“Don’t let go!” Kye ordered from above me, his voice firm, commanding.The flat, thick tent was lifting, and I knew the men were losing their battle with the wind.“Don’t let go!” Kye yelled. “Remember why we came!”I tried lifting my head, but between the wind, the fabric, and Kye, I couldn’t move at all.“Can’t breathe!” Daegan panted. “Can’t ...”“Can’t breathe,” I agreed, my voice a whisper.No one heard me.
Great interview! I love the excerpt!
ReplyDeleteIt was fantastic wasn't it! I can't wait for ours!! :D
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