{"id":2147,"date":"2009-09-01T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2009-08-26T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T00:28:26","slug":"welcome-guest-blogger-kylie-brant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/welcome-guest-blogger-kylie-brant\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Guest Blogger Kylie Brant"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE MAGIC OF BOOKS\"brant_pic\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like most authors, I\u2019m a reader first.\u00a0 I still remember being about four and asking my dad to read the comics to me.\u00a0 As I sat on his lap, I recall thinking, \u201cWhen am I<\/em> going to be able to read?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you go to school,\u201d was always my mom\u2019s reply when I\u2019d ask.\u00a0 Imagine my disappointment on the first day of kindergarten when I trudged back home to announce with disgust, \u201cI didn\u2019t learn to read today.\u00a0 The teacher said I had to wait until next<\/em> year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as a small child I knew that being able to decipher those squiggly lines on paper and pages was going to lead to magic.<\/p>\n

\"brant_waking_nightmare\"I\u2019ve devoured books ever since.\u00a0 My biggest regret about writing is that it eats into my reading time.\u00a0 Since I\u2019m still teaching, my free time is mostly filled with meeting deadlines (there\u2019s something about accepting advance money that reeks of expectation :)).\u00a0 I never had a TBR pile until I started writing but I have one now.\u00a0 I put a serious dent in it every time we go on vacation.\u00a0 The rest of the year I have to chip away at it when I can.<\/p>\n

The writer in me is always a bit appalled when someone starts telling me about a fabulous book they\u2019ve read and can\u2019t recall the author\u2019s name.\u00a0 They often go on to admit that the names of the authors just don\u2019t stick with them.\u00a0 Gulp.\u00a0 That\u2019s a fairly daunting thought!\u00a0 Titles don\u2019t always stay with me, but I have always remembered authors.\u00a0 How else am I going to find their next books if I loved the current ones?\u00a0 I used to carry a list in my purse of favorite authors in order to make my monthly purchases.\u00a0 (Okay, so it was before the Internet!)<\/p>\n

Covers might intrigue me, but I\u2019m not the sort of reader who\u2019s ever bought a book just because I loved the cover.\u00a0 It\u2019s always the back cover copy that pulls me in.\u00a0 I have to read what the book is about and then if it interests me, I\u2019ll open the book and flip through a few pages.\u00a0 I read almost entirely for author voice, and if I don\u2019t enjoy the way the writer tells the story I know I\u2019m not going to enjoy the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you could see the two huge bookcases in my office stuffed to overflowing, you\u2019d know just how many I\u2019ve enjoyed so much, I can\u2019t bear to part with them!<\/p>\n

What about you\u2014do you remember author names?\u00a0 How do you make your purchases for new-to-you writers?\u00a0 What pulls you in, the title, the cover, or the back cover copy?\u00a0 Are there any like me who have to get a taste of the writing before carrying the book to the counter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m giving away a signed copy of my September dark romantic thriller, WAKING NIGHTMARE<\/strong>, to one lucky commenter today!\u00a0 Be sure to check out the other two books in the trilogy at my website at www.kyliebrant.com<\/a> and my multi-author blog at http:\/\/ridingwiththetopdown.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To read the back cover blurb for WAKING NIGHTMARE<\/strong> or to check out Kylie’s bio, please see yesterday’s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE MAGIC OF BOOKS Like most authors, I\u2019m a reader first.\u00a0 I still remember being about four and asking my dad to read the comics to me.\u00a0 As I sat on his lap, I recall thinking, \u201cWhen am I going to be able to read?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhen you go to school,\u201d was always my mom\u2019s reply… Continue reading Welcome Guest Blogger Kylie Brant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-give-aways","category-guest-bloggers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}