Today we're celebrating Sara's recently released paranormal novel published Etopia Press.
Keeping secrets from a psychic can be
murder.
BLOOD, SHE READ
Petra Maras lives a charmed life, but only in the magical
sense. Her absentee father is a criminal, her mother is emotionally dead, and
everyone at her new school knows she comes from a family of witches. All she
wants is to be normal, but that's impossible, given her family. And given that
she's psychic. When the police request help with a murder investigation, Petra
reluctantly agrees. Which isn't such a good idea since the prime suspect wants
to date her, and she really wants to say yes. Her gut says he's innocent, but
since she can't get a read on him, she can't know for sure. And when she
discovers he's been keeping secrets, she wonders if maybe she's been following
her heart instead of her head...
One of the most frequent questions I get
asked about this book is: where did you get the idea from? I daydream—a lot. In
class, in the bathroom, the bath, in the car, in traffic… I sometimes lose
track of conversations because I have characters in my head who are running
through scenes, and they often have fangs or fur or wings. It is really quite
distracting. The idea for this book just came from a simple scene about a girl
hiding upstairs and peeking through the stair rails as a man came to her door
and demanded to use her psychic abilities to help him determine if his wife was
going to die or not. The idea kind of morphed from there and if you’ve read
Blood, She Read you would know that this scene is not even in the book. But I
think you could probably see how it developed from this original scene.
Why should you read my book? I don’t know,
but I hope you will. I’m sure everyone says their book is different and all
that, but I kind of think that it is.
BLOOD, SHE READ paranormal for sure, but it is also
a little quirky and humorous and also a bit dark. If I could compare my
writing/book to another authors, I would probably say that if you liked Holly
Black’s Tithe or Cyn Balog’s Starstruck then you would probably enjoy this.
These are two of my favorite young adult authors so I guess it makes sense that
after reading and re-reading their books, my writing might seem a touch
similar.
If you end up reading my book, please send
me an email or comment on my blog, I’d love to hear your thoughts, and your
comments might help me make the sequel even better. Yup. There’s a sequel! I’m
about a 1/3 of the way through it and I am hoping (fingers crossed) that it
will release next summer.
Or if you just want to chat you can find
me here:
And just in case you’d like to check out my book,
you can find it here:
Sara
Hubbard is the author of young adult books. Her debut novel BLOOD, SHE READ
releases fall 2012 and is a NEORWA Cleveland Rocks winner and a RCRW Duel on
the Delta finalist.
Sara was born in Australia to British parents,
but has lived in Nova Scotia for the majority of her life. In addition to being
an author, Sara is a wife, a mother, and a registered nurse with the
military.