{"id":21952,"date":"2014-01-15T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=21952"},"modified":"2014-01-15T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:37:42","slug":"ten-questions-about-broken-blade-by-j-c-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/01\/15\/ten-questions-about-broken-blade-by-j-c-daniels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Questions About Broken Blade, By J.C. Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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J.C. Daniels. Shiloh Walker. Herman Gurmanflarn. Okay, I made that last name up. Still! I love it when authors use different names to write different kind of books — and here is Shiloh “J.C. Daniels” Walker to talk about her newest, Broken Blade.<\/em><\/p>\n

TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m 37 years old and I\u2019m still trying to figure that out\u2026 nah, not really.\u00a0 I\u2019ve answered this a bunch of times and in a nutshell, I wear a lot of hats\u2026I write urban fantasy as J.C. Daniels, and romance as Shiloh Walker.\u00a0 I\u2019m a mom, a wife, a reader and a writer.\u00a0 I married my high school sweetheart and we have three kids.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been hooked on stories for most of my life and started writing in elementary school.\u00a0 I really got hooked on writing in middle school where I wrote this awful story in purple ink during my seventh grade history class.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t stopped since.\u00a0 Most of my books are written under as Shiloh Walker and they are romances, but there aren\u2019t a lot of picket fences\u2026I usually have my couples all but dragging themselves over the finish line, because what good is a happy ever after if they don\u2019t have to work for it?\u00a0 I sorta branched out into urban fantasy in 2011 when a story dropped on my head like a sledgehammer.\u00a0 The series is called the Colbana Files, and the first book is BLADE SONG<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 My current release is the third book, BROKEN BLADE<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

GIVE US THE 140-CHARACTER STORY PITCH:<\/h2>\n

Meet Kit Colbana. She used to be a smart-ass with a sword. Now she scrapes by serving drinks in a bar, and hiding. She\u2019s got reasons\u2026really.<\/p>\n

WHERE DOES THIS STORY COME FROM?<\/h2>\n

It came because the end of book 2 kind of left me with nowhere else to go.\u00a0 See, I left Kit in a really, really bad place and I couldn\u2019t leave her there.\u00a0 Even though all I did was write the story the way it played out in my head, I still have to drag her out of that hole.<\/p>\n

HOW IS THIS A STORY ONLY YOU COULD\u2019VE WRITTEN?<\/h2>\n

Again\u2026that hole thing.\u00a0 Since I\u2019m the one who put her in there, I figure it was up to me to get her out.<\/p>\n

WHAT WAS THE HARDEST THING ABOUT WRITING BROKEN BLADE<\/em><\/strong>?<\/h2>\n

The heroine was really, really broken when I started and I hate books where the main characters gets that \u2018insta-fix\u2019\u2026ya know, where they go through something really awful but it doesn\u2019t have much of an impact?\u00a0 Kit had gone through something horrible, and I had to work with that and bring her through that, even though it\u2019s hard, seeing your characters suffer.<\/p>\n

WHAT DID YOU LEARN WRITING BROKEN BLADE<\/em><\/strong>?<\/h2>\n

I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just with BROKEN BLADE<\/em><\/strong>, but more with this series as a whole.\u00a0 Strength isn\u2019t just a physical quality.\u00a0 I set out to write this series because I wanted to try my hand at a character who wasn\u2019t necessarily one of the strongest\u2014and wasn\u2019t going to ever be<\/em> the strongest, not physically\u2014but strength isn\u2019t a physical thing and the more I write Kit, the more I get to explore what strength really is.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always liked writing messed up characters but I usually have to have them on the way to \u2018almost okay\u2019 by the end of the book.\u00a0 Kit\u2019s \u2018almost okay\u2019 is going to take longer than that, because she\u2019s one of the most messed up I\u2019ve ever taken on.\u00a0 Her growth takes place over books, not chapters.<\/p>\n

WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT BROKEN BLADE<\/em><\/strong>?<\/h2>\n

Revealing some secrets about one of the secondary characters\u2026I\u2019d been holding those cards close to my chest since the first book and I\u2019m hoping the readers enjoy it just as much.<\/p>\n

WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME?<\/h2>\n

With this book, probably not anything.\u00a0 The fourth book, that\u2019s a different story.\u00a0 I\u2019ve started and restarted that three times over now.<\/p>\n

GIVE US YOUR FAVORITE PARAGRAPH FROM THE STORY:<\/h2>\n

\u201cNext time I tell you there\u2019s too much magic to trust to a charm, will you listen<\/em>? You know blades. I<\/em> know magic and\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

I put a hand on his arm.<\/p>\n

Somebody was coming.<\/p>\n

I could hear her.<\/p>\n

Felt each footstep like an echo on my soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WHAT\u2019S NEXT FOR YOU AS A STORYTELLER?<\/h2>\n

Which one of me?\u00a0 Ah\u2026 well, romance-me, Shiloh Walker has three e-novellas due out in the spring to launch my Secrets & Shadows<\/em><\/strong> series coming out from St. Martins.\u00a0 And the UF-me, J.C. Daniels is working on two different projects\u2026book 4 in the Colbana Files, which will follow up BROKEN BLADE<\/em><\/strong>, and I\u2019m working on a prequel of sorts that tells how Kit got her start.<\/p>\n

J.C. Daniels: Website<\/span><\/a> | Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Broken Blade:\u00a0iBooks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0BN<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Kobo<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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