Deal Sharing Aunt: Ladder to the Red Star by Jael Wye Excerpt, Interview & Giveaway

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Ladder to the Red Star by Jael Wye Excerpt, Interview & Giveaway

Ladder to the Red Star

by Jael Wye

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BLURB:

Once upon a ruined Earth 300 years in the future...

Jacques Tallinn, biotech smuggler and thief, is after the cure for a brain disorder he's suffered since childhood--a disorder inflicted by a powerful tyrant. To get the cure, Jacques will need to climb the space elevator to the new Zenith space station hovering above Earth and go undercover in the lab where it's produced.

Martian head tech Devi Chandra is immediately intrigued by her sexy new lab assistant. Though she insists on keeping things professional, she finds herself charmed by Jacques. Until he betrays her trust, kidnapping her and spiriting her off to Earth.

All Jacques needed to do was steal the biotech and get back home. But when things go wrong, he can't bring himself to leave Devi behind. Now she's injured and a simple caper has become an intergalactic cause, endangering his life and the lives of millions of others. But the hardest part? Winning back Devi's trust.

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Excerpt

Dev knew men, knew them in and out, from their social affectations down to their cellular structures, and she knew something was wrong with this particular man. The cold watchfulness in his eyes, the overly careful positioning of his body nagged at her, told her not to be deceived by his apparent beauty and virility.

Even with Enrique Kurtz, she thought with a slight shudder, she was a woman confronted by a man. But with James, she was a woman confronted by an enigma. And that made her all the more curious about him.

Naturally, she had looked up all his Delpin-Kurtz records the second his back was turned, but nothing in them gave her any clues to this mystery. James’s biography told of a modestly successful career and an uneventful life.

But then, there was the look on his face when he stared down at Kurtz in the lab, the raw hatred he so quickly and carefully hid. That look, his body language, the scars on his arms…put it together, and it told a completely different story. But what was it?

And how would a midlevel med tech know a way to send secret communications to her mother?

There were deep and dangerous currents running beneath the surface of this situation, and Dev was helpless not to want to test them.

She stopped a few paces away from him. Without turning, he said, “I wondered if you were coming.”

She smiled. “How could I not? We made an agreement.”

He turned toward her then, and the hungry, desperate look in his eyes, combined with the uncertain grasp of his fingers on the railing, told Dev that she was caught, like she had never been caught before.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Jael Wye grew up on the American Great Plains, went to school in the Midwest, and now lives in beautiful New England with her family and her enormous collection of houseplants. For more of Jael’s unique blend of futurism and fairy tale, don’t miss her ongoing series Once Upon A Red World.

Interview:

Where are you from?

I grew up on the great plains, went to school in the Midwest, and now live in beautiful New England.

Tell us your latest news?

I would like to announce my latest release, Ladder to the Red Star, a science fiction romance novel that retells the story of Jack and the beanstalk and is set on a ruined planet Earth 300 years in the future. This is book II in my Once Upon a Red World series, which chronicles the lives and loves of Martian colonists as they uncover a dangerous plot that threatens the people of the Solar system.

When and why did you begin writing?

I’ve been interested in storytelling my whole life, but I only began writing seriously when I first developed the concept of retelling fairy tales in a science fiction setting. Not many books like this existed, so I decided that if I wanted to read them, I would just have to write them myself.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

My career as a novelist really began when I set about writing my first science fiction romance, Ice Red. I started with the goal of publishing this book, and to do that I had to polish my craft and acquire the necessary professional skills and associations. That was when I became a real writer—when I decided to make myself one.

What inspired you to write your first book?

My first book, Ice Red, was inspired by the story of Snow White. This fairy tale was one of the first I ever read and viewed on screen, and It stuck with me ever since. But the book is also science fiction, set on a future colonized planet Mars. While I was writing it, I looked to the wonderful images and information sent back to Earth by NASA’s rover missions. These ideas and images, and a lifetime of reading authors as diverse as J. R. Ward, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. LeGuin, all combined to form the idea of this book and the Once Upon a Red World series as a whole.

What would you like my readers to know?

I always wanted to be Princess Leia when I grew up--shooting blasters, romancing space hunks, ruling planets, and doing it all with great hair. Now I write books with heroines who can do all that and more. And don’t even get me started on my heroes!

Links

Website -- http://www.jaelwye.net

Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jael-Wye/319251781482358

Twitter -- @jaelwye

Carina Press -- http://ebooks.carinapress.com/E34AFC6C-272A-4159-8711-ECF9E8916FFD/10/134/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=7D67744C-9A63-431D-AB1A-CE665DADDF0E

Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/Ladder-Star-Once-Upon-World-ebook/dp/B00GKBIQG8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394308111&sr=8-2&keywords=jael+wye

Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18272276-ladder-to-the-red-star

eBooks -- http://www.ebooks.com/1550719/ladder-to-the-red-star/wye-jael/