Stealing Time
Servants of Fate, #1
by Wendy Sparrow
Date of Publication:
November 1st 2016
Publisher: Pen and
Kink Publishing
Cover Artist: Amanda
C. Davis
Genre: Paranormal
Romance (Holiday)
BLURB
Father Time’s son, Zeit Geist, must sacrifice
a mortal’s lifetime to the Fates each New Year’s Eve. Last year—inexplicably,
really—he made an 11:59 substitution. The Fates are pissed and they’re after
his mortal Hannah. With the year ending, he ought to figure out why he’d saved
her—and why he keeps doing it.
Following an unlucky year, Hannah Lyons needs
a week’s holiday in a lodge to unwind. What she gets is near-death experiences
and a sexy immortal who can’t avoid kissing her, but might have to kill her.
After all, even Zeit can’t hold back time indefinitely.
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“What are you doing to me?”
“What do you think I’m doing?”
She glared at him. Saying it out loud
would sound utterly stupid. “I keep having these lapses of time. One minute,
I’m in one place and, the next, I’m in another. And four times now, I’ve seen
you walking away from me when it’s happened.”
“So, you’re accusing me of doing
something to your memory? Or of stalking you?” He took another sip of his drink
as if he was only mildly interested in her response.
She opened her mouth to say something
before snapping it closed. What was she accusing him of? It all sounded silly
and impossible, and he’d be around this whole week. Every time they saw each
other, she’d feel humiliated that she’d actually thought…
Oh, who cared? She was going to get
brain cancer from all this testing if she couldn’t get to the bottom of things.
“You’re doing something to time. I
don’t know what you’re doing, but I don’t think your name is just an odd little
coincidence.”
For a blink, she saw something in his
eyes and a quick half-smile. “It’s a family name.”
“So, your entire family manipulates
time?”
Copyright © 2016 by Wendy Sparrow
MY INTERVIEW WITH
WENDY SPARROW
How would you describe your style of writing
to someone that has never read your work?
I think
most people would say my writing has a quirky sense of humor generally and that
I write sexy sweet stories.
What mindset or routine do you feel the need
to set when preparing to write (in general whether you are working on a project
or just free writing)?
I need
silence to write most of the time, but I’m an insomniac so typically I can
write at night just fine. If my kids are home, I put on brown noise (like white
noise, only more organic sounding) and use ear buds. I tend to become obsessive
during draft phases though, so I write without taking breaks and fast draft my
rough draft in under two weeks.
Do you take your character prep to heart? Do
you nurture the growth of each character all the way through to the page? Do
you people watch to help with development? Or do you build upon your character
during story creation?
I’m
always people-watching and my clinical OCD has always seemed to make me more
aware of the emotions and motivations of others. I also love sociology and
psychology nonfiction and I’ve studied everything from personality types to
body language. My characters become very real to me by the end of a story.
While I still am a “pantser,” my characters and their relationships drive the
plots.
Have you found yourself bonding with any
particular character? If so which one(s)?
I think
all my characters have some of me in them—even the villains. It’s partly why I
feel slightly exposed whenever I publish something new. The character that I
associate the most with myself might be from an as-yet unpublished young adult
paranormal where the main character has OCD and is a cutter. Of my published
works…that’s much harder. I have allergies like Vanessa in Past My Defenses,
but I have many of the mental issues of LeAnn in Crazy Over You. In the
Servants of Fate series, I think Tempus in the second book is my current
favorite, but that changes frequently.
Do you have a character that you have been
working on that you can’t wait to put to paper?
My
young adult series with an OCD cutter has been a career goal to write, revise,
and submit and that’s because her issues are secondary to the plot. I would
love to see mental illness be a part of present diversity in books without
every book needing it driving the plot. It would be really great to see it
presented as a facet of a protagonist and not just as something motivating the
villain.
Have you ever felt that there was something
inside of you that you couldn't control? If so what? If no what spurs you to
reach for the unexperienced?
There
is something inside me I can’t control…though I try because OCD is all about
control. I have a thirst for knowledge though that borders on obsession. I like
to explore the “what ifs” of the world and writing is an awesome way to share
that with others.
Author Info
At home in the Pacific Northwest, Wendy
Sparrow writes for both an adult and young adult audience in many genres but
always with a happily ever after. She has two wonderfully quirky kids, a
supportive husband, and a perpetually messy house because she hates cleaning.
She’s an advocate both online and in her community for autistic children in
addition to actively trying to raise awareness about obsessive-compulsive
disorder. Most days she spends on Twitter procrastinating doing the dishes.
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