A warm welcome to author Meraki P. Lyhne joining us today here @Love Bytes on her blog tour for Anchored In Stone.
Welcome, Meraki!
Author Name: Meraki P. Lyhne
Book Name: Anchored In Stone
Series: Chronicles of an Earned #1
Release Date: November 1st, 2015
Pages or Words: 373 pages; 106,985 words
Publisher: Extasy Books
Cover Artist: Carmen Waters
Blurb:
The easiest heist in Alex Rhoden’s career is also the most dangerous of all.
As a child, Alex Rhoden’s talent as a thief was recognized by a rich art collector. He has since then been schooled and trained to become one of the best art thieves in the world. While on the easiest heist of his career he finds himself running with the artefact in his possession, followed by an unknown adversary. But they are not the only ones interested in the artefact—so is an ancient race of demigods called Earned. Cornered and out of options, Alex has to make a difficult decision that will turn his life upside down no matter what he chooses.
The young demigod, Kaleb, is reborn into servitude, but he is a freak amongst his own kind—the forbidden unity between an Earned and a witch. Other than finding himself, learning to control his powers, and balance high school as a senior, Kaleb must earn the trust of his pack and family. But Alex is in danger and the young demigod struggles to keep up.
Categories: Contemporary, Erotica, M/M Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Today I’m very lucky to be interviewing Meraki P. Lyhne author of Anchored in Stone. Hi Meraki, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
Trivial stuff, sure. I’m a Danish woman at 36. I’m a mom, a wife, a coffeeholic. I’m a black smith by trade, but I switched out the hammer and anvil for a keyboard to make the constant run of a character stop. It didn’t work out as well as planned because that just made room for more. When I moved into MM I made up this Pseudonym. That’s what the P. stands for. I’ve been published in Denmark and a publisher there once told me that readers can relate two genres pr. Author name. MM is so far from what I’ve written so far, so I made up Meraki to write MM.
What are your ambitions for your writing career?
That the readers like my books, love my characters, and hopefully take something away that will make their lives better somehow. And I want to be rich! Filthy rich! But who doesn’t?
How many published books do you have? Can you tell us something about them?
As this is a pseudonym I have one book under this name so far, but the series is well into its sixth book. Other than that I’ve published four others, three sci fi and a crime thriller. The three sci fi has been contracted, too, and are in the works of being translated.
I like anti heroes, and I like playing with the margins between what is acceptable by society, and the grey tones like instincts. I wrote a mass murderer as an MC, and he’s very lovable. I wrote a slave trainer, and not the fun BDSM kind, either, but a real dystopian character, and even he is strangely likable. The fact that society makes laws that divides people into groups and then neglects to raise/condition some of these groups to actually be able to survive in said society makes for so many grey zones of the majority of humanity to be explored. Many of these “criminals” aren’t bad people. They just grew up under conditions that left them with no methods of survival other than to fine tune their survival instinct. So to survive they have to go beyond what the safety of society provides the ones judging them. This is pivotal in all my books.
Your main character wants to cook something special for his love interest. What does he make?
Alex would cook an array of small tasty dishes to show Dominic a world of foods that aren’t just for sustenance to be swallowed during clearings of mortals.
What are you working on at the moment? What’s it about?
Other than the next books in this paranormal series, I’m working on a sci fi series about a mining planet. My MC ends up flat broke and fired before he even made it to the planet, and now he has to scrape by to get a ticket home. He ends up working in a strip club, and the boss is like the center of gravity.
Do you aim for a set amount of words/pages per day?
Yes, and no. I have a writing schedule where I tick off for every 2500 words, but I also make time for research and editing. I go by monthly goals, and the past two months, November and December, I’ve managed approximately 60K a month. I’d be happy to keep it about 50K and as things are going right now, that’s pretty doable.
Alex made his way down the corridors, watching out for the guard. This one he found leafing through a magazine with his feet up and his back turned to the staircase. Alex stopped, breathed in deeply, and let it out slowly, reminding himself that a fat guard’s dumb luck was what caught his cat burglar mentor. No matter how carefully one builds a card house, a gust of wind can bring it all down.
So Alex took his time and focused all his expertise on getting past this guard as if he were from the agency itself. Finally in the basement, he made his way to the crate, pushed it open, and sought out the stone first. He found it and put it in a bag, which he in turn put in his thigh pocket, before stuffing another bag with whatever his pricey education had told him was worth the most on the black market.
Happy with his find, he turned, but something seemed to have a hold on the pocket with the stone in. He turned and found himself face to face with a big, mean-looking ghost. He gasped and clasped his left hand over his mouth to catch the scream he couldn’t stop, and clutched the stone with his right.
And then he ran. He didn’t even care if the guard saw him. He made it past the guard, who was nowhere in sight, and exited through the service entrance.
Alex didn’t stop until his body threatened to vomit out his heart. He stopped and by sheer exhaustion, his body chose to empty his stomach anyway. He took the stone out and stared at it. It felt almost as if fine electricity danced between it and where it touched his skin.
“What the hell did you have me steal, Mr. Henry?”
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Meraki P. Lyhne is a Danish author with a love for the paranormal and space opera. She has been writing space opera since 2007, but paranormal erotic romance is a newer love. Closing the door to her writing-den, she delves into elaborate stories and research ancient religions, mythologies, and arts of the world to be inspired, so she can create new creatures of the paranormal.
Where to find the author:
Twitter: @MerakiPLyhne
Tour Dates & Stops:
11-Jan: The Hat Party, MM Good Book Reviews, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
18-Jan: Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Molly Lolly, Happily Ever Chapter
25-Jan: Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Love Bytes
1-Feb: Book Lovers 4Ever, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words
8-Feb: A.M. Leibowitz, Cheekypee Reads and Reviews, BFD Book Blog
15-Feb: Boys on the Brink Reviews, Inked Rainbow Reads, Alpha Book Club
22-Feb: Prism Book Alliance, Divine Magazine, Bayou Book Junkie
29-Feb: Multitasking Mommas, Velvet Panic, Havan Fellows
Rafflecopter Prize: PDF copy of ‘Anchored in Stone’ by Meraki P. Lhyne
Good luck with the release!
Congratulations with the release!
Congratulations on your new release.
This sounds quite interesting and I am looking forward to your future releases.