Good Morning, Booklovers!
It’s a lovely spring day in the Midwest. I’ve moved onto the deck for today’s guest interview with Lyndi Alexander, who is featuring her post-apocalyptic YA series, The Color of Fear.
Welcome, Lyndi! How do you take your coffee?
LA: Strong, definitely caffeinated, with a mix of coffee creamers for exotic flavors!
Ally: While I get our mugs ready, please introduce yourself to readers.
Good Morning, Booklovers!
It’s a lovely spring day in the Midwest. I’ve moved onto the deck for today’s guest interview with Lyndi Alexander, who is featuring her post-apocalyptic YA series, The Color of Fear.
Welcome, Lyndi! How do you take your coffee?
LA: Strong, definitely caffeinated, with a mix of coffee creamers for exotic flavors!
Ally: While I get our mugs ready, please introduce yourself to readers.
BIO:
Lyndi Alexander always dreamed of faraway worlds and interesting alien contacts. She lives as a post-modern hippie in Asheville, North Carolina, a single mother of her last child of seven, a daughter on the autism spectrum, finding that every day feels a lot like first contact with a new species.
Something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: “Lilacs are my favorite flower. When they bloom I cut whole branches and bring them inside.”
Author Contacts:
Blog: https://lyndialexander.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyndialexander13/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4185290.Lyndi_Alexander
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Lyndi-Alexander/e/B005GDYPU2/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lyndi-alexander
Smashwords | Lyndi Alexander:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lyndialexander
Lyndi Alexander always dreamed of faraway worlds and interesting alien contacts. She lives as a post-modern hippie in Asheville, North Carolina, a single mother of her last child of seven, a daughter on the autism spectrum, finding that every day feels a lot like first contact with a new species.
Something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: “Lilacs are my favorite flower. When they bloom I cut whole branches and bring them inside.”
Author Contacts:
Blog: https://lyndialexander.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyndialexander13/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4185290.Lyndi_Alexander
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Lyndi-Alexander/e/B005GDYPU2/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lyndi-alexander
Smashwords | Lyndi Alexander:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lyndialexander
INTERVIEW:
Ally: Who or what inspired you to write your featured book?
LA: I am very disturbed at what our country has revealed about itself of late, and I can’t help but think that we are going to continue to have terror attacks. If someone were to attack the white population, as happens in this series, I worry that the contributions of other ethnic groups will fall by the side of the road, and someone like Gabriel will rise up to fight for the old ways. Let’s pray it doesn’t continue until we have destroyed ourselves altogether.
Ally: When did you first decide to pursue writing as a career? Is it your only career, or do you have a “day” job?
LA: When I was in third grade. I wrote my first story, then went on to write through high school, sold my first piece at age 18. I got sidetracked by life, kids, marriage, divorce, and law school. I practiced law for 30 years, during which I got inspired to go back to writing. I had a number of novels published before I retired, and now writing is my only sort of work.
Ally: Are you a plotter, a pantser or a little of both?
LA: A little of both. My ideas usually come out of the ether, and I let them run for awhile. Then about halfway through, I fine tune and decide where the end is going, and loosely outline through the end. Then at about the ¾ mark, I chapter by chapter outline to make sure I’ve got the strings all tied up.
Ally: How many drafts (revision passes) do you do on a typical book before submission to your editor/publisher?
LA: I usually do two passes before taking it to the critique group, then another with their suggestions, and then likely one more all the way through before turning it in.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
LA: I’ve just finished an old-style historical romance set in Key West, Florida at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. I love Key West, always have, since we lived in south Florida and it was only a couple hours away! It should be out by the end of the year.
Ally: Which of the trivia questions did you choose to answer?
Ally: Who or what inspired you to write your featured book?
LA: I am very disturbed at what our country has revealed about itself of late, and I can’t help but think that we are going to continue to have terror attacks. If someone were to attack the white population, as happens in this series, I worry that the contributions of other ethnic groups will fall by the side of the road, and someone like Gabriel will rise up to fight for the old ways. Let’s pray it doesn’t continue until we have destroyed ourselves altogether.
Ally: When did you first decide to pursue writing as a career? Is it your only career, or do you have a “day” job?
LA: When I was in third grade. I wrote my first story, then went on to write through high school, sold my first piece at age 18. I got sidetracked by life, kids, marriage, divorce, and law school. I practiced law for 30 years, during which I got inspired to go back to writing. I had a number of novels published before I retired, and now writing is my only sort of work.
Ally: Are you a plotter, a pantser or a little of both?
LA: A little of both. My ideas usually come out of the ether, and I let them run for awhile. Then about halfway through, I fine tune and decide where the end is going, and loosely outline through the end. Then at about the ¾ mark, I chapter by chapter outline to make sure I’ve got the strings all tied up.
Ally: How many drafts (revision passes) do you do on a typical book before submission to your editor/publisher?
LA: I usually do two passes before taking it to the critique group, then another with their suggestions, and then likely one more all the way through before turning it in.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
LA: I’ve just finished an old-style historical romance set in Key West, Florida at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. I love Key West, always have, since we lived in south Florida and it was only a couple hours away! It should be out by the end of the year.
Ally: Which of the trivia questions did you choose to answer?
- an item on your bucket list: riding a jetski
- most watched tv show: FIREFLY—love these characters!
- If you were a color, what would it be? Deep pine green
- last time you rode a train (not subway): In 2013 my daughter paid for me to travel across country on Amtrak. What a wonderful trip it was, passing across the Plains, and through the Rockies in winter.
- pie or cake? What kind? Elderberry pie made by the Methodist church ladies at our county fair booth
THE COLOR OF FEAR series
Genre: YA post-apocalyptic, diversity, multi-cultural
Rating: PG-13
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HtphfL7TE&t=21s
Purchase series from Amazon here.
Genre: YA post-apocalyptic, diversity, multi-cultural
Rating: PG-13
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HtphfL7TE&t=21s
Purchase series from Amazon here.
WINDMILLS (The Color of Fear #1)
Terrorists launch a plague in the United States that spreads to kill most of the world’s Caucasian population. As the deadly bioweapon mutates, Tzu Lin Kwan’s father, a renowned medical doctor and biologist, defects from China to help develop a cure. His only daughter, Lin Kwan, is left behind in Hong Kong with her aunt.
Then Kwan’s father summons her from across the sea to bring him Chinese medicinal herbs. Lonely and missing her parents, she accepts the challenge, traveling with her sensei Li Zhong to the New World.
But a Chinese spy is on her trail, determined to kill her and Li Zhong, and when Kwan discovers her father has disappeared, she sets out on a journey to find him and deliver her precious cargo, a quest that she may not survive.
Buy it here!
DESTINATIONS (The Color of Fear #2)
Xi San saved the life of a mysterious girl one night in his ravaged San Francisco neighborhood. He can’t get her out of his mind, but believes that she’s lost to him. Lin Kwan came to America to bring her scientist father Chinese medicinal herbs, hoping to stop the virus that killed most of the world’s Caucasians before it mutates to infect the rest of the world. On her way to finding him, she meets again the man who once saved her, a man she can’t forget.
With a diverse group of fellow travelers, they head for St. Louis, where civilization is being rebuilt. Between them and safety, danger lurks—Gabriel, a self-styled religious leader and white supremacist, who has organized his army from Upper Midwest survivalist and militia followers, determined to take revenge for the white man.
But Gabriel isn’t their only enemy. Before they reach their destination, they will battle nature, prejudice and even those hidden among them who wish their destruction.
Now available at Amazon.com and other online booksellers. Or place an order through your local indie bookstore!
Xi San saved the life of a mysterious girl one night in his ravaged San Francisco neighborhood. He can’t get her out of his mind, but believes that she’s lost to him. Lin Kwan came to America to bring her scientist father Chinese medicinal herbs, hoping to stop the virus that killed most of the world’s Caucasians before it mutates to infect the rest of the world. On her way to finding him, she meets again the man who once saved her, a man she can’t forget.
With a diverse group of fellow travelers, they head for St. Louis, where civilization is being rebuilt. Between them and safety, danger lurks—Gabriel, a self-styled religious leader and white supremacist, who has organized his army from Upper Midwest survivalist and militia followers, determined to take revenge for the white man.
But Gabriel isn’t their only enemy. Before they reach their destination, they will battle nature, prejudice and even those hidden among them who wish their destruction.
Now available at Amazon.com and other online booksellers. Or place an order through your local indie bookstore!
ADVERSARIES (The Color of Fear #3)
Life after the devastating biological terrorist attack that decimated the White population in the US is beginning to recover as Tzu Lin Kwan is finally able to deliver her precious cargo of herbs to her scientist father. Or is it?
The virus may be mutating, spreading to infect those previously immune. Tzu Shin and his fellow scientists—and now Kwan—are literal prisoners of the US military. The White supremacist army of the demagogue Gabriel has invaded St.Louis. And the Chinese assassin Piao knows where to find his targets.
Kwan and her friends Valery, Eddie, and San are ready to fight to the death to defend their recovering world. The question is: Are courage and determination enough?
PUBLISHER WEBSITE: http://www.zumayapublications.com
RSS Feed
