Welcome to Day 1, Tour Stop 2 of the
WordCrafter Double Visions Book Blog Tour. Today, I’m interviewing
author Kaye Lynne Booth. We also have a great giveaway, so leave a comment at
each stop for a chance to win one of three free digital copies, and for U.S.
residents, one signed print copy of The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double
Visions.
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The Giveaway
Follow
the tour and leave a comment to let me know you were here and be entered
for a
chance at one of three free digital copies or one signed print copy of
The
Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double Visions.
Winners are chosen in a random
drawing from my hat. You can visit any stops you missed through the links in
the tour schedule below. So, get your comments in now.
Place your comments on Writing to be Read
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Tour Schedule
Mon. – Writing to be Read
– Amaryllis, Rock Star & The Pretty Reckless/Undawnted –
Interview with the author
Tues. – Poetry by Mich,
Hotel by Masticadores, and Masticadores Phillipines – LeRoy, Cowboy
& Writing with Music & Review
Wed. – Book Places –
Monique, Shaman Woman, & Werner’s Syndrome & Review
Thurs. – Carla Loves to
Read - Nick, the Time Device & Writing in Multiple Time Lines &
Review
Fri. – Writing to be Read –
Catalina and Writing with Multiple P.O.V.s
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About The Rock Star & The Outlaw 2: Double
Visions
In 1887, LeRoy is stuck, bringing
trouble down on those around him. Sissy is kidnapped and he's the only one who
can save her.
Amaryllis wakes up in 2030, in a
future very different to the one she knows, one in which she may not have been
born. She will stop at nothing to find LeRoy fix what went wrong in the past.
She and a version of Monique which
is different from the one she grew up with travel back to 1887 to try and make
things right.
Add two time travel regulators from
the future who are after the time module, and things begin to get wild.
When the time loops are crossed,
things change, but not the way Amaryllis intended and pretty soon, everybody is
seeing doubles.
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The Kickstarter campaign for book 2
of Kaye Lynne Booth’s Time Travel Adventure Series is still in full swing until
the 29th of March, so pop on over to offer your support and check
out all the cool rewards. You can get discounted digital copies, exclusive
signed print copies, posters, goodie bags and more.
I hope you’ll drop in and
check it out here:
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Interview with Kaye Lynne Booth
1- What got you interested in time travel? Books? Movies? Science?
The
whole time travel thing is a lot to wrap my brain around. I would watch
time travel movies and my mind would ponder the possibilities for days
after. I watched one movie where the time traveler goes back and falls
in love with his grandmother, essentially. making the guy his own
grandfather. I mean, wow! Think about that for a moment. H.G. Wells', The Time Machine,
explores the idea of going back and changing events in time to create a
different outcome. The main character discovers that it is not
possible, and if you change an event that was fated to happen, it will
find another way and happen anyway. He goes to the future in search of
the answer to why we can't change time.This story was so profound. How
can your mind not be boggled by the implications? The Butterfly Effect deals
with the same issues, showing the unintentional things that could
change from changing just one thing. In the words of Michael J. Fox's
Marty McFly, "That's some heavy stuff."
My
first time travel story was "Last Call", found in "Last Call and Other
Short Fiction", about a bar stool that was a gateway to a soda shop in
the 1950's. It was a fun story to write. Then, I got the idea for a time
travel device that fit into the pommel of a saddle, thus turning the
horse into a mode of time travel, which I thought was a pretty cool
idea. Maybe not as cool as a Delorian, but then again, maybe it is. That
gave me a time traveler from the old west.
2- From your usual protagonists, what is different in your characterizations of the Rockstar and Outlaw?
I write a lot of strong female protagonists, which is to say, girls who
can kick butt. Rockstar is no different in that way. The idea for her
character came from Sharon Stone's portrayal of the woman in Basic Instinct, making
her an adrenaline junkie, who thrives on cheating death. When I got the
idea to put the two characters together and base the story on the music
of The Pretty Reckless, she became a rock star, and a junkie of another
sort, due to the rock and roll lifestyle, so if anything, I would say
she is more flawed than my usual characters and has a lot more to
overcome.
3- If you could go back in time or forward in the future, when would you go? And, why?
That's
a really good question. Most people would probably go back and try to
change something in their present, even though every time travel story
carries a warning of the dangers of doing so. Since I lost my son right
after he turned 18, I would probably be inclined to do so, as well.
Especially since I can see several things that might have set events in a
different direction. But, the one consistent thing about time travel is
that you can never really change anything.
Maybe
I'd prefer to jump ahead in time, except that as I watch the trends and
the direction things are going on this world, I'm not so sure if I'd want
to go forward either.
No. I think I'm content to stay right when I'm at.
4- Would you like to be a rockstar or outlaw in another life? Are you either now?
Rock
stars lead wild lives filled with parties, sex, and illegal substances.
When I was younger, that might have appealed to me, but these days, I'm
an old lady who goes to bed at nine o'clock, so that type of life no
longer appeals to me.
Amaryllis
is on top of it though. She thrives on the excitement of that life. She
loves to flirt with danger. Whether driving fast, skydiving, bungee
jumping, mountain climbing, or dating the biggest drug dealer in Las
Vegas, Amaryllis is all in. For her, traveling back to the 1800s with an
outlaw cowboy is just another adventure.
Outlaws
spend their time running from the law and other outlaws. There is no
time to put down roots. They are always on the go, and always facing
danger. I'm pretty mellow, so that's not me either.
LeRoy
is a reluctant outlaw, who joined up with an outlaw gang to try and save his father's farm. After one robbery, he realizes this isn't for
him, but the gang is unwilling to let him go.
5- What else would you like to add for your readers to know about you and your publications?
Music plays a big part in this series. Amaryllis is all about The
Pretty Reckless. Each chapter is titled with a song, and Leroy's are by
various artists. The first book has alternating POVs between the two.
Double Visions has multiple POVs, so each of them have song titles for
each chapter, too. Both books feature a playlist of all the music, so
you can listen as you read to put you in the right frame of mind.
I
really hope you will all enjoy this series. I had so much fun writing
it. And I hope you will all pop over to the Kickstarter campaign, where
we have discounted digital copies and exclusive signed print copies of
books 1 and 2, plus posters and goody bags not available anywhere else.
When you purchase books through Kickstarters, the author gets to keep
more of the profits than purchases through retailers, and you don't have
to pay as much, so everybody wins.
You can check out and back the Kickstarter here:
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About Kaye Lynne Booth
For Kaye Lynne Booth, writing is a passion. Kaye Lynne is an author with published short fiction and poetry, both online and in print, including her short story collection, Last Call and Other Short Fiction; and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets; Books 1 & 2 of her Women in the West adventure series, Delilah and Sarah, and Book 1 in her Time-Travel Adventure series, The Rock Star & The Outlaw, as well as her poetry collection, Small Wonders.
Kaye holds a dual M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing with emphasis in genre fiction and screenwriting, and an M.A. in publishing. Kaye Lynne is the founder of WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services and WordCrafter Press, where she edits and publishes two short fiction anthologies and one poetry anthology every year amidst her many writing projects. She also maintains an authors’ blog and website, Writing to be Read, where she publishes content of interest in the literary world.
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That wraps up today’s stops on the
WordCrafter Double Visions Book Blog Tour. Tomorrow's stop will find us
over at Poetry by Mich, Hotel by Mastcadores, and Masticadores
Phillipines with Michelle Ayon Navajas, where we'll explore the character
of LeRoy and Cowboy, and writing with music in a guest post and reading from me
and a review. I hope to see you there, but until then, don't forget to pop into
the Kickstarter campaign to get your copy of The Rock Star & The Outlaw
2: Double Visions.
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