Author Guest post & Giveaway w/ Jaime Rush {Storytellers … Born or Made?}

Hey Everyone! I’m happy to have over here on the blog, for a second time, Author Jaime Rush… This time for a Guest Post and a Giveaway of her newest release!

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Storytellers … Born or Made?

BURNING DARKNESS, Book Four of the Offspring Series

By Jaime Rush

Avon Books, Feb, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-06-201885-4)

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Fonda Raine lives for one thing: killing Eric Aruda for slaying her lover. But she'll have to be careful--Eric can set fires with his mind. Seconds from plunging a knife into his heart, an assassin tries to take them both out. Now, she must choose: join forces with the man who's burning through her defenses or go down in flames.

People often wonder how one becomes a fiction writer. We writers are, after all, curious things. Half the time, or more, we live in a make-believe world and talk to people who don’t exist. People are committed for stuff like that. Or given meds. I believe writers are born storytellers. Some writers don't come into it until later in life. Maybe they've stuffed that desire due to a fear of being ridiculed or failing, or because their lives went in different directions. Deep down inside, though, I think that drive and talent is there right from the beginning. It's our purpose in life, I'd even venture to say. Those who wait until, say, the kids go off to college, find that purpose niggling, pushing, and then downright kicking them in the butt to get writing.

Fortunately, I loved telling stories as soon as I could put words together. I directed plays with my neighborhood friends, complete with bad guys chasing us all over. Forget baby dolls. You can only feed them and change their diapers…but Barbie dolls, a girl can have some real fun with. They can love, hate, marry, cheat, and murder. Yeah, I know—I was a strange kid. My first story, at least the one we found, was called "Pathways to Death." Somehow I was always drawn to the dark side of human nature.

As I grew older, I started writing short stories that I sent out to different publications. Then I got an idea that was too long for a short story. I was off and running! Even though I worked full-time, I spent as much free time as possible writing. As soon as one book was out to editors and/or agents, I was already starting another one. I treated my writing as my job, whether it was paying me or not. I was prepared for when I actually did get a contract, and later, for my full-time career.

The curious thing about writers is, we can’t not write. I have friends who have written five, eight, ten books without selling a one. But they keep writing because they have to. So if you see someone walking down the street with a strange glint in their eyes, maybe even mumbling to themselves, they might not be crazy …they may be a writer. And that writer may be you!

And for something fun! I'm celebrating the release of BURNING DARKNESS with my Kick Butt First Line contest. Shocking, suspenseful…make us want more! Cash prizes! Contest runs from Feb 1 through March 1, 2011. For aspiring authors, it's a chance to get your name out there and add a "win" to your bio. For readers, it's a chance to play at being a writer. Even if you're not inclined to write a line, check out the entries—they're a lot of fun! For details, go to www.JaimeRush.com and click on the Contest link.

 

Giveaway!

QUESTION: What is your passion? And when did you realize it?

PRIZE: A copy of BURNING DARKNESS. Signed bookplate can be sent to the winner upon request.

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Offspring Series Review {Books #1-3}

Burning Darkness ARC Review

 

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ARC Review: Burning Darkness {Offspring, #4} by Jaime Rush

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fonda Raine lives for one thing: killing Eric Aruda out of revenge for slaying her lover. But she'll have to be careful Eric can set fires with his mind. Seconds from accomplishing her goal, an assassin tries to take them both out. Now, two adversaries must go on the run together, bound by hatred, drawn by passion, and hunted by a vicious and powerful enemy.

 

From Goodreads 

• Publisher: HarperCollins | Avon 
• Release Date: February 1st, 2011   
• My Copy: eARC received from NetGalley.
• Series: Offspring Series 
• Genre: Paranormal Romance 
• Author's Website
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Burning Darkness

  *SPOILER FREE

This was my favorite book in this series so far! I’ve been dying for Eric’s story for a while and not only did Jaime deliver it, she also blew me away with the revelations she made in this novel.

Eric has been the bad boy among the heroes of this series since book one. He is always the bloodthirsty one, the one ready to get physical and solve things the most violent way possible or even simply set his enemies on fire, whatever is easier. Not only that, but he has been feeling annoyed by his friends for a while. They are all paring up and falling in love and he feels that they shouldn’t, specially since they are in the middle of a war and there is no worst time for it.

Cut to Fonda who until very recently was working for the Offspring’s enemy, Darkwell and part of a team that was actively hunting them. Who also personally hates Eric for killing her lover and has decided to hunt Eric and kill him herself. Two people couldn’t possibly be on more different sides of a story, but the is that Fonda doesn’t know all the truth behind the Institute and the offspring, and the man she is on the hunt for might be the only one who can help her, if she isn’t careful enough he might even steal her heart.

I LOVED Burning Darkness! Eric and Fonda are an awesome pair and their romance set the pages on fire. But for this pair it was definitely not all about the smex, their connection ran so much deeper that, I couldn’t help but fall in love with both of them and their stories. I was glued to the pages of this book from the beginning to the very last word and I can’t wait for more from this series.

Jaime Rush brought out all the guns with Burning Darkness, she answered some huge questions and shocked the hell out me with most of it. I love the world she has built and I soooo want more!

If you enjoy Paranormal Romance with a great deal of action, this is definitely the series for you!

 

Previously in The Offspring Series:

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Series Review: Offspring Series {Books #1-3} by Jaime Rush

 

A Perfect Darkness:

They live ordinary lives, but they are extraordinary. They are the Offspring, children of a mysterious experiment gone awry—and they are in terrible danger.

A sexy stranger awakens Amy Shane in the dead of night. Lucas Vanderwyck barely has time to whisper a few words before three men burst into her bedroom and drag him away. But what Lucas reveals shatters Amy's safe little world forever.

Lucas and Amy share a psychic gift—a gift that could put them in mortal danger. And as they share night after night of savage passion, as a shadowy government conspiracy tracks their every move, they will fight to save each other. But only with their powers of second sight can they escape the terror of a perfect darkness.

From Goodreads 

• Publisher: HarperCollins | Avon 
• Release Date of Book #1: February 1st, 2009
• Release Date of Book #2: September 16th, 2009
• Release Date of Book #3: April 23rd, 2010     
• My Copy: eBooks/Kindle Edition | Bought.
• Series: Offspring Series 
• Genre: Paranormal Romance 
• Author's Website
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Offspring Series

 

 

 

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I can’t remember how I found out about this series, but I did and I utterly enjoyed books one and two at the time. Then last year book three, Touching Darkness, came out and I just couldn’t get myself in the mood to read it. Closing in the turn of the New Year I finally did and I regretted waiting this long to do it.

Touching Darkness was such a great read, much more than what i thought. I was kind of reluctant to read it, since it tells the story of two characters we don’t really know yet. I had my heart set in other HEAs, so I was very pleasantly surprised but how much I enjoyed  Nicholas and Olivia’s story. But enough of that, this is about the series in general *grin*.

The Offspring series is about these twenty-something men and women with superpowers, who find out that their parents were part of a government program and that their death’s was much more than they thought. Apparently their parents were given a mysterious booster that made them that much more powerful but that also drove them insane.

From book one, A Perfect Darkness, we start getting to know this group of rogues that are trying to figure out the truth behind their special abilities and their parents’ deaths. They are also trying to bring down the men that experimented on their parents years ago, that now has re-started a similar program to the old one and is using other Offspring to hunt them down. This series is all about the relationships between this group of rogues and each book is the story of each of them finding their love.

The Offspring series is a great Paranormal Romance series that is much more than it seems. In the Third book some of the questions that have been building up in the first two books get answered and we start seeing that the world Jaime had created is anything but simple. I was intrigued and captivated by this series and I can’t wait to read more and more!

 

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  Coming Out February 1st, 2011!

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Author Interview & Giveaway w/ Jaime Rush!

 

Hey Everyone! I hope you guys have a wonderful week and I am happy present you with a treat today =)

I have Jaime Rush here today, author of The Offspring Series. I love this series and I am really excited I got to interview her, there is also an awesome giveaway courtesy of Avon books, deets at the end of the post =)

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- When did you first start writing?

When I was a kid. As far back as I can remember, I was making up stories!

- Have you always been interested in Romance?

My earlier short stories were in every kind of genre, horror and drama included. But the first book-length story was a romance. I love writing about two people who overcome the odds to not only find themselves and their strengths, but love as well. Especially when they're not looking for it.

- What about in the Paranormal?

I've always been interested in things paranormal. I grew up hearing about the haunted house my mom grew up in. There is much more in our world than our senses "see."

- Why writing Paranormal Romance?

It's a natural blend of two elements I love.

- Were there any Books, Movies or Writers that have inspired you?

I read Stephen King as a kid, watched all kinds of horror movies, and loved the V.C. Andrews series (the first two). I also read the short story collections in the Alfred Hitchcock books.

- What is your favorite subject in the Paranormal Romance Realm?

I'm drawn to things that could be real, mostly psychic abilities, dreams, and magic.

- The sex scenes in your books are amazingly hot. Where do you get your inspiration?

Why, thank you (heh heh). When you're really connected to the characters, they create the steam. The right tuneage (music) helps, and a glimpse or two through the Kama Sutra book doesn't hurt!

- Do you find it hard to write them?

It's funny, because, like sex in real life, sometimes you're just not in the mood. Other times they're a lot of fun to write.

Favorites:

- Favorite Paranormal themed Movie?

Sixth Sense

- Favorite Paranormal themed TV Show?

Supernatural

- Favorite Paranormal themed Book?

Outlander

- Favorite Author?

Janet Evanovich

- Favorite Paranormal Romance Author?

I really like Ilona Andrews

- Favorite one of your Books?

Burning Darkness (book 4 in the series, coming Feb 2011)

- Who is your favorite of your own characters?

It's funny because Eric Aruda, who appears from book 1, was a bonehead. Really. I figured he'd end up torching himself (he's a pyrokinetic) because he's a hothead. Right away readers resonated with him, though, so I knew I couldn't kill him off. And he grew on me, too. By the time I'd written the third book, I knew he had to have the next story, and I really connected with him.

- Which was the hardest to write?

Probably Olivia in Touching Darkness. Characters come to me with their flaws and strengths. I saw her as being submissive to her family but growing throughout the book. But I had trouble connecting to her and realized she needed to be jazzed up. Changing a character once the book is written is tough. But it had to be done, and I like her a lot more now.

- What would you be if not a writer?

I love photography, especially capturing nature and those odd shots (I have some at my Facebook and Myspace pages. For example, my phallic fungus and nipple mushroom pics. Yeah, really!)

Quickies!

- Coffee or Tea? Mostly coffee, with steamed milk, 5 drops of stevia, 5 drops of vanilla.

- Up or Down? Up

- Virtual or Real? Create in virtual, live in real

- Right or Left? Right

- Day or Night? Night

- Here or There? Always here.

- Sooner or Later? Always now.

- Light or Dark? Dark.

- Fast or Slow?  Right in the middle. 

- Telekinesis or Pyrotechnic? Actually, I'd rather have teleportation skills.

- Angels or Demons? Someone with a little of both.

- Reading or Writing? Writing always takes precedence.

- What is your favorite part of the writing process?

Getting the idea

- What is your least favorite part?

Doing the final round of revisions

- The Offspring series in your own words?

A group of twenty-somethings live ordinary lives but possess extraordinary psychic abilities. They are the Offspring of parents involved in a mysterious experiment gone awry. Sexy…dangerous…outcasts… They are being hunted by the government and others like them. Together they must find the truth and fight an enemy out to destroy them.

- How many books do you have planned for the series?

Six are in the works, but I could easily do two, maybe even more!

- What is coming up next for you?

Plotting book 6, revising book 5

- What are you working on right now?

Reading, taking a break

- Do you have any advice or tip to those like me that want to become a published Author someday?

Join Romance Writers of America, send your work out to contests and critique groups but use your instincts to filter all feedback. When you've sent something out to an editor/agent, start working on something new. Never give up if you feel the drive to write in your heart.

- Anything you would like to say to your fans out there?

Thanks for loving the Offspring almost as much as I do!

- Thanks so much for being here!

Thanks for having me =)

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