I'm extremely excited that my first time participating in an Xpresso Book Tour is for an author I've actually met! As I mentioned when I reviewed the first two books in the series, Remembrance, and Vengeance, I stood in line at the BEA 2012 Bloggers Day. Unfortunately I didn't get my picture with her, or an autograph, but I'll have to do that next time I get to see her!
This post is to celebrate both the final book in the series, Timeless, as well as a new bonus pack available for fans called the Transcendence packet. Also available to download. Below are the covers of the three books in the series, with links if you click on them to go purchase them, and the first book in the series is only 99 cents right now to download as an e-book!!
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One thing that immediately fascinated me about the series before I read it, is how it was a video that inspired the story for the author. Here is that story from the author herself:
HOW
TAYLOR SWIFT’S “LOVE STORY” MUSIC VIDEO INSPIRED REMEMBRANCE
The “Love Story” music video premiered in the
fall of 2008. The first time I watched it, I was entranced. Taylor sees a guy
while walking through campus, and the moment their eyes connect, the scene
flashes to the two of them dancing at a beautiful ball dressed in clothes that
appear to be from around the year 1815. It’s magical to watch, and the video is
so amazing that it gave me chills. I watched it over and over again, and a
story started to piece together in my mind. A story about a girl reincarnated
from Regency Era, England, who doesn’t realize it until her soul mate transfers
into her school and triggers her memories to gradually return to her.
In that semester at school, I was taking a
class called Intro to Creative Writing. One of our first big assignments in
class was to write anything we wanted and bring it in to share with everyone.
Since the characters and scenes that came to me while watching “Love Story”
refused to leave my mind, I decided that for the project, I would write the
first chapter of what I then called “The Story Inspired by ‘Love Story.’”
After completing the chapter, I stared at it
for about an hour, worrying about what my classmates would think after reading
it. I assumed everyone else would write about “normal” topics—not reincarnation
and seeing your soulmate from the past for the first time! What if they thought
what I wrote was weird? I nearly erased it in favor of turning something else
in, but then I remembered something Taylor had said:
"If
you’re lucky enough to be different from everyone else, don't change."
I listened to her advice. Yes, what I wrote
was going to be way different from what everyone else in class wrote, but I was
okay with that. And after I read the chapter aloud to the class, I was amazed
to find out that everyone in my class, including my teacher, loved it.
Actually, they more than loved it—they wanted to read more!
But I had never written a novel before, and
the idea of making the plunge and going for it intimidated me. What if I failed
and couldn’t finish it? That worried me, but again, I remembered something
Taylor had said:
"To
me, fearless isn't not having fears; it's not that you're not afraid of
anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump
anyway."
So I jumped.
And now, three years after I saw the “Love
Story” music video for the first time, my debut novel Remembrance is finally available for everyone to read. I’m so happy
to be able to share it with you. I can only hope that if you choose to read it,
you end up enjoying it as much as I loved writing it!
Thank you for taking the time to read my
story about how “Love Story” and Taylor Swift helped me get to where I am
today!
For more great stories like the author's reason for writing the story above, you can download the Transcendence Time Bonus Packet HERE.
I hope you'll give this series a chance if you haven't already. It is such a great story!
