Nacreous, Harmony Run Series book 4, by Sarah Elle Emm
I'd like to welcome Sarah Elle Emm to my blog to talk about her forthcoming release Nacreous, book four of the Harmony Run series. Most of you who follow my blog will know that I'm a huge fan of this incredible series.
About Nacreous
After
two members of The Freedom Front are arrested and interrogated by the UZTA’s
tyrannical President Nicks, Rain Hawkins and her friends face the alarming
reality that their plans to liberate the mixed zones across the United Zones of
The Authority might not come to fruition. While the resistance movement is
growing outside the walls of the zones, the president’s forces are
strengthening and putting citizens everywhere in more peril than ever. When
Rain receives warnings that her cousin, Calista, has agreed to support plans to
kill the mixed zones, and that her life could be on the line at the upcoming
pure zone initiation ceremony, she must decide where her loyalties lie and if
all of her allies can be trusted. As The Freedom Front use their abilities to
unravel the mystery of the ceremony, The Authority captures some of their
friends, forcing TFF to either go into hiding, or plan a rescue mission that
could jeopardize everything they’ve been fighting for.
Author biog
Sarah Elle Emm is the author of the HARMONY RUN SERIES, a young-adult fantasy and
dystopian series, released in May 2012 by Winter Goose Publishing. (PRISMATIC,
May 2012, OPALESCENT, February 2013, CHATOYANT, September
2014, NACREOUS, August 2015) Her debut fiction novel, MARRYING MISSY, was published by Bird
Brain Publishing in October 2011. Sarah is a graduate of The University of
Evansville, she has lived and worked in Mexico, Germany, England, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, and has traveled extensively beyond. Sarah lives in Naples,
Florida with her family. When she’s not walking the plank of her daughters’
imaginary pirate ship or snapping photos of Southwest Florida scenery, she is
writing.
The previous books in the Harmony Run series can be found on Sarah's Amazon Author page.
Sarah, in her own words
Hooray, it is finally release day for Nacreous!
Thanks for stopping by the fabulous Release Day Blitz, organized by Book R3vi3w
Tours. To kick off the blitz, here are a couple of “Fun Facts” about my writing
process… I hope you enjoy!
Writing Playlist:
So…Music. Some authors swear by it. They
have their playlist set in the background while they pen their latest
manuscript. Me? Not exactly. Music is very important to me. I believe in dance
parties, and by dance parties I mean cranking up my I-pod to the music fitting
my mood, be this salsa, classic rock, blues, country, classical, whatever, and
dancing alone in my room or kitchen. (Yes, I said classical and country in the
same list). My kids may or may not be in attendance. They like to watch and
laugh. Sometimes, they join in. But as far as my writing process goes, the
music is sort of my warm up. So I might turn on some music that fits my mood
for parts of the story and listen to it in my car or at my desk before I write,
but not while I am actually writing. I need it to be quiet in the room, so I
can tell the story…(Ahem, hear what my characters are trying to tell me). ;)
While I wrote Nacreous, and the other books in the Harmony Run Series, my
favorite music warm-up to set the mood was Lorde. Specifically, the songs Team and A World Alone. In fact, if any of the books from my series could be
made for film, I would beg producers to include one of those songs in the movies.
My writing process:
I can’t sit down and force myself to write
everyday because it begins to feel too mechanical, but I am definitely one of
those people who thinks about writing, story ideas, characters, scenarios all
of the time, awake or asleep. I love using my dreams in my writing and have
written a few of them into scenes in the Harmony Run Series. Back in college,
the good ol’ stone ages, I had one of the most terrifying dreams of my life
about a man with a triangular-shaped eye chasing me down a corridor, one door
after the other, with this woman’s voice echoing all around us, telling him to
kill me. When I got to the end of the corridor, I opened the last door, and he
was standing there facing me. I woke up sobbing…About a year later, a
psychology professor at my university asked some of us to share dreams with him
so he could demonstrate dream analysis. I bravely raised my hand, (this was
huge for me, since I am very shy in person), and shared my dream in vivid
detail. After I finished talking, the entire class got eerily quiet and the
professor told me I was dealing with issues beyond his realm of help, and went
on to the next student’s dream. That student shared a dream about not being
able to make a goal in a soccer match, and the professor dissected his dream in
depth for fifteen minutes. Years later, I incorporated that dream, adding on
some twists and turns of course, into book one from the Harmony Run Series,
Prismatic.
I also come up with ideas when I'm looking out of the kitchen window, when I'm walking, driving, cooking, gardening, taking my kids to martial arts, helping with their homework, basically, every waking moment. I take heaps of notes. I jot notes down for days. And when i'm ready, I sit down and type everything I can. I woke up the other night, and grabbed the notebook and pen beside my bed and wrote down an idea for another story. So my writing process is sort of a twenty-four hour thing. Oh, and probably the most important part of the process...How could I forget? My dog, Shorty, has to harass me to sit on my lap throughout the day. She eventually gives upland sleeps at my feet or nearby. She spares me the occasional glance or sighs every so often when I talk too much. yes, I like to talk aloud to myself more often than not. If that dog could talk...Well, thankfully that's not an issue. Here's a photo of my writing pal...
Isn’t she cute? I hope you stick around to
read about Nacreous. I’m going to look up that old psychology professor to see
if he wants to read my latest book… ;)
