Blog Tour: What Kills Me by Wynne Channing

I'm so excited today to be opening the tour for What Kills Me by Wynne Channing, organized by Dark Mind Book Tours!

Join me and read my interview with the author, Wynne Channing, and take your chance in the giceaway to win awesome goodies!

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What Kills Me

An ancient prophecy warns of a girl destined to cause the extinction of the vampire race.
So when 17-year-old Axelia falls into a sacred well filled with blood and emerges a vampire, the immortal empire believes she is this legendary destroyer. Hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, Axelia and her reluctant ally, the vampire bladesmith Lucas, must battle to survive.
How will she convince the empire that she is just an innocent teenager-turned bloodsucker and not a creature of destruction? And if she cannot, can a vampire who is afraid of bugs summon the courage to fight a nation of immortals?

Where to purchase What Kills Me:

Amazon US - Amazon UK - Smashwords - Barnes & Noble - Kobo

Wynne Channing

Wynne Channing is an award-winning national newspaper reporter and young adult novelist. She loves telling stories and as a journalist, she has interviewed everyone from Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Jackman to the president of the Maldives and Duchess Sarah Ferguson. The closest she has come to interviewing a vampire is sitting down with True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard (he didn’t bite). She briefly considered calling her debut novel "Well" so then everyone would say: "Well written by Wynne Channing." 

Where to find Wynne:

Website

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Goodreads

Thanks Franny, for these great questions and for hosting me on your great blog. I’m super stoked to begin my blog tour on Mind Reader!

Where did you find the inspiration to write What Kills Me?

Bits of What Kills Me have been floating around in my head for years. One night, I couldn’t sleep and I imagined a young woman falling into a well. The image of a girl crawling out of a well covered in blood, that’s what started it all.

Was there a scene in the book you found particularly hard to write?

Without giving anything away, any scene where one of my favorite characters dies, is always sad for me.

Did you get inspiration from someone specific to write your characters?

Zee is a cooler, funnier, braver version of me at 17. (If vampires were trying to kill me, I’d just cry and hide under my bed)

How did you become a writer?

I can’t remember wanting to be anything else. Telling stories is all that I’ve ever done.

Do you have a writing process/schedule?

Since I work at a newspaper with immediate deadlines, I write everywhere, anywhere and all of the time.

Is there a particular place you feel more inspired to write?

I love to write at coffee shops with my headphones — and without the distraction of Facebook or Twitter (who just ate what for breakfast?).

What is the most satisfying part of being an author?

So many readers have written me lovely messages about What Kills Me. Every single time I see an email or a Tweet, fireworks burst in my head. My friends have to hose me down.

What do you usually do when you're not writing?

I teach and perform Latin dance.

Are you working on any new projects at the moment?

I’m excited to say that I’m working on the sequel to What Kills Me!

What advice would you give to anyone who wants to start writing?

The only way to be a better writer is to read and write A LOT. So keep at it. Finish what you start. Giving up would be like turning off the heat just before the water boils.

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GIVEAWAY TIME!! Wynne is offering to one lucky blogger the chance to win the items in the picture below. All you have to do, is follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter form (after the picture), but please note that this giveaway is for US & CANADA ONLY. The giveaway will run until September 21st, and after that a winner will be chosen & announced.  

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