Blog Tour: RISING MOON by Katie Groom

 

RISING MOON

Katie Groom

 

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GENRE:  Paranormal

 

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BLURB:

 

Reunited with his mate Zoie and having taken revenge on some of his immortal enemies, werewolf Hugh has new goals for revenge and justice: Ruin the lives of his remaining foes and end their reign.

 

The powerful Council of the immortal world has been imprisoning those who oppose them. But now, Hugh is one of the Council and perfectly poised to take the Council from the inside with the help of Zoie and their friends.

 

While Zoie is busy working on her witchcraft—studying and practicing so that she can protect her loved ones, Hugh probes for the secrets that have kept them in power for so long.

 

Investigating both openly and in secret, Hugh uncovers more than just the public terror. Even without the mock trials, those who disagreed with the Council often found themselves in the dark, lonely purgatory of being a gargoyle. Trapped and awake for all of eternity, in a rapidly expanding graveyard that ages all who enter.

 

Even immortals have things they fear more than death.

 

 

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Excerpt Two:

 

There was no one in the house but Zoie. Hugh had left to handle some Council business, and, while Cade had a key, they didn’t use it unless it was an emergency. She was using the time to catch up on some reading—for pleasure.

 

Since effectively coming back from the dead, Zoie had been reclassified as a missing person, but there was still some work to be done for her to get her life back. The legal red tape to bring a person back to life was more complicated than any of them had thought it would be. Sure, Hugh had connections that could forge documents, but bringing someone back to life who was never actually dead—nearly impossible in the eyes of the government.

 

Between researching that and taking action on it, Zoie was also studying magic and practicing and getting better at her skills. It was slow going because, to Zoie’s understanding, because she had let her powers lay dormant for so long, she had to work much harder to get to the level that she would have been at otherwise. No amount of natural skill could make up for practice. But, sometimes, Zoie felt as if she was practicing herself to the point that it was having the opposite effect. It was beginning to feel like a job. A job she didn’t want to do some days.

 

So between all of that and trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life, plus balancing a life with Hugh and Silas, Zoie wasn’t left with much time for fun things. So, she was taking this rare time when Hugh was out and Silas was actually with him— and she couldn’t wait to hear how that went for them—to read. She had decided to go back to a simpler time in her life and read a childhood favorite: Anne of Green Gables.

 

Since Hugh had been technically working two jobs—his role as professor in the English Department and Council Member of the Supernatural World—Zoie had also settled into the role of housewife, and it was another thing that felt like a job that she hated. She had just settled down for another break from her tasks while the laundry was rolling around in the dryer.

 

Placing the bookmark on the table, Zoie curled up on the couch with her book and a throw blanket. She took a sip of her tea and then turned the page, engrossed in the book to the point that she didn’t even hear the buzzer go off, signaling the end of the cycle.

 

What did take her out of the book was a loud argument from behind her. It almost made her question her own sanity because she hadn’t noticed anyone entering the house.

 

 

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What was the hardest part of writing this book and how did you overcome it?

 

The hardest part of writing “Rising Moon” was actually accepting that once I wrote it, that the end of Hugh’s story would be out there. Accepting that I would be done with the series. Over the last five years, I have gone through a lot of challenges and changes in my life, and Hugh (the main character of the Cardinal Moon Saga) has been there for me throughout all of it. There were times during the writing process when I knew Hugh better than I knew myself.

 

In fact, while writing Rising Moon, I hit a deep depression, and it was sometimes hard to motivate myself to do the simplest things — even getting out of bed was a chore at times. So writing, especially when I was thinking that everything I was writing was crap, was very difficult.

 

But there came a point when I saw a quote that said something like “The first draft is just that — the very first draft.” It reminded me that it was just getting the story out there. It didn’t matter how bad the output was — I could always rewrite it later. That’s what first drafts are for.

 

So once I got over my own arrogant need to put perfect things to paper, I started writing. I started coming up with ideas, and then, between work and other commitments, I would schedule time to write. I would do writing sprints, counting the time I wrote, rather than the words. I made it more about getting the story out there than a total number of words.

 

It was when I was free-writing and I connected something in Rising Moon to something that was just mentioned in the first book (Fixed Moon) that I realized that I was on to something with the story. That little idea ignited something in me, and I actually finished the draft pretty quickly after that.

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Katie Groom grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Business Management from PITT and her master’s in Employment and Labor Relations from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2016, she decided to move to Alabama in order to avoid as much snow as possible (and to advance her career in Human Resources).

 

When she isn’t working, Katie enjoys reading, writing, jokingly critiquing movies and TV, and campaigning that the plural of moose should be meese. She also loves to take in live music (especially Hanson) and traveling, with the goal of reaching each of the continents. Katie’s favorite pastime, however, is spending time with her beloved Shih tzu, Delta.

 

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/katie_writes_

 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Moon-Katie-Groom-ebook/dp/B0D6NFSFJC/ref=sr_1_1

 

 

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