Welcome to The Bookish Babe's stop on the Darkness Rises Blog Tour!
My stop includes a guest post from author Dianne Duvall and giveaway.
But first, check out Darkness Rises.
Series:
Immortal Guardians #4Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Zebra
Publication Date: 10/1/13
Krysta is used to getting the drop on vampires. Her "special abilities" aren't much, but the plan is simple -- she plays helpless pretty young thing to lure them in. Then her shoto swords come out and it's bye-bye, bloodsucker. Until one night she finds herself with an unexpected ally. He's a vampire, all right, but different. Mysterious. Handsome. And more interested in saving her skin than draining it.
Étienne has been an Immortal Guardian for two hundred years -- long enough to know that Krysta is special. He can't stop thinking about her long legs, even more than her short swords. Then he discovers the vamps she's exterminating have friends in high places, and the Guardians are in danger, too. He'll have to accept Krysta's help to save them. The stakes for a mortal are high. But the cost to his heart might be higher . . .
Dianne Duvall Answers Readers' Questions
Thank you for joining me! And thank you, Andrea, for letting me visit
The Bookish Babe and for helping me celebrate the release of DARKNESS
RISES. DARKNESS RISES is the fourth book
in my Immortal Guardians series and, I’m happy to announce, just hit the USA
Today Bestseller List! If you like strong heroines, powerful
preternatural heroes, action scenes that will keep you flipping pages well past
your bedtime, and romance that is alternately sweet and steamy and laced with
humor, then DARKNESS RISES is for you. J I’m
so thrilled by the response it has received from reviewers and readers. And, speaking of readers . . .
The readers who frequent my Facebook page were
kind enough to offer up some questions they would like to me answer in an
interview. So, without further ado, here
is my Author/Reader Q&A:
Lisa, Carolyn, and
Gwen: Who are the hot men on the
covers? Do you get to pick which sexy
man goes on the cover of which book?
Dianne: I actually have
no idea who the men on the covers are.
Janice Rossi, the art director at Kensington, designs them. I’ve been very pleased. J
Michelle: Do you use any music as inspiration?
Dianne: I wouldn’t say I use it for inspiration, but
music does occasionally make an appearance in my series. Readers will find quite a wide variety of it
in DARKNESS RISES, much of it unexpected.
J
Vanessa: Do you plan on curing the vampires during the
series?
Dianne: I don’t know yet. For those who are unfamiliar with my Immortal
Guardians series, vampires aren’t the heroes.
Vampires are the bad guys. (Or
rather, they’re ONE group of bad guys.
Others have arisen of late.)
Vampires are humans who have been infected with a very rare symbiotic
virus that conquers and replaces the immune system, then lends its hosts
heightened senses along with incredible speed, strength, and regenerative
capabilities. It also causes
photosensitivity, a need for blood, and progressive brain damage that rapidly
drives humans infected with the virus insane.
Immortal Guardians, on the other hand, are men
and women born with extremely advance DNA who are infected with the same
virus. Their advanced DNA lends them
abilities humans and vampires don’t possess — such as telekinesis, shape
shifting, or telepathy in the case of Étienne, the hero of DARKNESS RISES — and
protects them from the more corrosive aspects of the virus so they suffer no
brain damage. As a result, immortals
spend their nights hunting and destroying the insane vampires who prey upon
humans.
The network of humans who aid the Immortal
Guardians has been searching for a cure for the virus, but there’s a catch: If they succeed in killing the virus, the vampire
or immortal turned mortal will be left with no viable immune system. As of yet, they’ve found no way around this.
Jackie, Liz,
Kristine, Misty, and Patricia: Will
Seth and David be given their own stories or find their true loves?
Dianne: Yes, I do intend to help the eldest immortals
find their HEAs. Both work so hard to
create a familial atmosphere among the Immortal Guardians and give so much of
themselves to others. They’ve lived so
long, however, and have seen so much that it’s taking me longer to find the
perfect women for them. :-)
Vanessa: Who is the next immortal to get his/her HEA?
Dianne: Lisette, Étienne and Richart’s sister. For two hundred years Lisette has been
burdened with the guilt of having accidentally turned her brothers — of having
denied them the happiness they could have found as mortals in the form of love,
marriage, and children. I knew she would
never let herself find happiness until her brothers did and, I admit, I was
eager to see the twins fall in love. So
Richart found his HEA with single mother Jenna in “In Still Darkness”
(PREDATORY anthology). Now Étienne has
found his HEA with mortal vampire hunter Krysta in DARKNESS RISES. And Lisette can, at last, release the guilt
and try to find happiness for herself.
Perhaps she’ll find it with a certain mysterious, dark and powerful
winged being who lingers outside the Immortal Guardians’ fold. ;-)
Sarah and Andreia: How many books will there be in the series?
Dianne: I haven’t decided. I know where I want the series arc (plot) to
take me. I just don’t know how many
books it will take me to get there or how many immortals will find their HEAs
along the way.
Ashley: Do you have any one favorite Immortal Guardian
over all the others or one character out of all your books that you just fell
in love with—whether they are a main or side character?
Dianne: My favorite characters tend to change with
each book. Étienne and Krysta are my
current favorites. I simply love the
teasing banter they share. But, if I had
to choose just one, it would be Seth, the eldest and most powerful Immortal
Guardian. He’s seen so much, suffered
such tragedies, and carries so many responsibilities on his broad
shoulders. I’m looking forward to finding
the woman who can ease some of the weight of that and brighten his nights.
Josette: What’s your favorite line/scene that you’ve
written?
Dianne: I have a long list of favorite lines from the
series and couldn’t choose just one. I
usually jot them down as I edit and share them in the Favorite Quote Friday
posts on my blog. I don’t think I could
pick just one favorite scene either. My
favorite scene in DARKNESS RISES, though, would have to be the big climactic
action scene. I think this is the first
one that made me laugh several times despite the violence and destruction taking
place in it. I hope it will be a
favorite of readers, too. J
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of PREDATORY, my last release, + Immortal Guardians swag.
Contest is open Intl, ends 10/27 at 11:59 pm.
About the author
Dianne
Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of
the Immortal Guardians paranormal romance series. Her debut novel, Darkness Dawns, was
nominated for the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance by RT
Book Reviews and for Best Paranormal Romance—Vampire by The Romance
Reviews. Ensuing books in the series — Night
Reigns, Phantom Shadows, and Predatory — have all been deemed
Top Picks by RT Book Reviews, The Romance Reviews, and/or Night Owl
Reviews. Her latest release, Darkness Rises, has also been chosen as
a Night Owl Reviews’ Top Pick. Dianne loves all things creative. When she isn't writing, Dianne is active in the independent film industry and once even appeared onscreen as a machete-wielding maniac not unlike the vampires in her novels.
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