Guest Author and Giveaway Rowena Cory Daniells

Today I am thrilled to have as my guest author on Book Junkie, Rowena Cory Daniells. She is here to celebrate the the July release of THE KING'S BASTARD Published by SOLARIS! Also this is just the first in this amazing and magical series with The Uncrowned King being released this August and The Usurper scheduled to release this September! How great is that, you don't have to wait long!

So Please give Rowena a very warm welcome and I hope you enjoy her guest post today. Also, she has been kind enough to give away I signed copy of THE KING'S BASTARD, don't forget to enter!!!

Remember when …

Remember when school holidays went on forever? On the last day of term you’d pack up your books with nothing but holiday ahead of you. In those days two weeks stretched off into infinity.


Remember when birthday presents contained unimaginable promise? It didn’t matter what was in them … it was what might be in them!

Remember when you first discovered science fiction and fantasy, and the stories swept you away to worlds of wonder? When every new concept felt like a new jumper that you had to stretch and wriggled your mind to try out? When the characters and events of a fantasy world lingered in your thoughts and you found yourself revisiting them days afterwards?

Remember when you used to buy a book and couldn’t wait to race home and read it, because you just knew it was going to sweep you away from the everyday into a world where everything was brighter (and darker) than our world?

Well, I miss those days so I set out to write the kind of book that sweeps you away. I make no apologies, King Rolen’s Kin is traditional fantasy. I wanted to write the kind of book that, after a hard week at work, you reward yourself with on Saturday afternoon.

I grew up loving speculative fiction, even before I knew there was such a thing as genre. When the Disney TV show started on a Sunday evening at 6pm and the theme music came up and Tinkerbell would introduce the four worlds that the night’s show could come from. (For nostalgia buffs here is the link to the old Disney intro. In Australia we didn’t have the US adverts). There was:

Frontier Land – Oh please, not another Western. They weren’t relevant to an Australian child.

Tomorrow Land – Yay! I loved to anticipate what things would be like in the future.

Adventure Land – This was usually about animals in the wild and very worthy. Sigh.

Fantasy Land – Yay! My other favourite. No limitations, anywhere, anywhen and magic!

So I was a fan of fantasy and SF before I knew it. And really, who wouldn’t be?

It’s not that I can’t take real life. (I teach and I have six children, believe me - it doesn’t get much realer than that). I just like to lift my head above the washing and the TV news to look past the everyday to something more.

And I look for that in the books I read. I want to be swept away. One reader said to me, Your books should come with a warning. Don’t start reading late at night, if you have to get up early for work the next day.

That made me smile. My book worked for her. Maybe it will work for you. At least it worked for me. While writing, I’m swept away. That’s why I started writing, because I couldn’t find the kind of books I wanted to read. (At least, not enough of them).

............................................... Rowena Cory Daniells

http://king-rolens-kin.com/
http://www.corydaniells.com/

The three books of Rowena’s King Rolen’s Kin trilogy are being released a month apart.

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

Publisher: Solaris (June 29, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1907519017

ISBN-13: 978-1907519017

Solaris will be releasing Rowena’s new fantasy series, The First T’En, in 2012.

***GIVEAWAY***

Rowena is giving away 1 lucky person a signed copy of THE KING'S BASTARD.

Rules:

MUST Answer Rowena's Question:  What was your favourite Disney world?

MUST be a follower or become one

MUST leave your e-mail or comment won't count

Open to ALL!

Winner Chosen 08/16