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Friday, October 26, 2012

The CrossRoads Blog Tour Day 6: Stacey Kade


Welcome to Day 6's tour stop for theThe Cross Roads Blog Tour, hosted by author Judith Graves. You can check out my other 5 tour stops for this year's tour here. Be sure to stop by the tour blog page HERE to check out the awesome line up of authors who are apart of this year's tour, as well as the bloggers who will be hosting each author. 

Mark your calendars for Monday, October 29th, as MM's will be hosting the Cross Roads author chat on Twitter! Trust me, you won't want to miss it. More info that will be posted soon.  I'm excited to have author Stacey Kade on the blog today. 



In the first book of your Project Paper Doll series, your protagonist has 5 simple rules. As a teen, which would have been the first one YOU broke?

Hmm. That’s an interesting question. The funny thing is that they all sort of lead to each other. I think I would have had the most trouble with #4, keeping my head down. I wanted to be noticed, acknowledged, desperately at that age. I mean, don’t we all want that, even now? Someone to say, hey, I see you. 

Music obviously has a role in your creative process. How much time is spent creating your playlist, and how do you know when a song is right for it?

I tend to create my playlists on the fly. Usually, I start while I’m still working on notes for the book. If I’m listening to Pandora or watching a movie trailer and hear a song that speaks to me, I track it down and buy it.  And I know a song is right for it when it triggers an emotion that I know will be important for a particular scene or character. 

From corporate copywriter to fiction writer - what sparked the transition, and how difficult/easy was the change?

I did both at the same time for a very LONG time. And I probably still would be doing both, but the corporate job I had changed and they wanted someone full time. Which I couldn’t do and keep up with my writing obligations. So, I didn’t exactly jump into full-time writing so much as I was nudged. But that was a good thing. Writing books was my dream. I was just a little too scared to go for it without that push. 

And it’s been wonderful. Terrifying and amazing at the same time.  Doing something you love for a living is rare and truly a blessing, but when you care so much about something, it also ups the stakes considerably.

You're suddenly no longer able to write...now what?

Um, curl up in the fetal position in the corner and whimper? Seriously, I have no other marketable skills. I don’t know, actually. I think I’d always be searching for a way to tell a story. It’s a part of me. 



Be sure to follow Stacey Kade via her Website | Twitter Don't miss picking up her books, The Ghost and the Goth, and her most recent releases, Queen of the Dead, and Body & Soul. Don't miss next year's upcoming releases, Project Paper Doll Rules, coming from Hyperion books on 4/23/13.




* Thank you to Judith for providing today's tour stop interview questions.


The Tour:



Each day of The Crossroads Blog Tour, a new research question will be revealed on The Crossroad Blog Tour main page:http://judithgraves.com/events/the-crossroads-tour/crossroads-2012/ and each day the answer to that question will be found within one of the different blog posts by Crossroads Tour authors. Your job is to get the question, read the blog posts, and collect all answers by the end of the tour.

Answers are to be emailed to judithgraves @ ymail dot com by October 28th at MIDNIGHT. Winner of the grand prize will be announced on OCTOBER 31st – HALLOWEEN.

The Giveaway:


The GRAND PRIZE you’re vying for? A brand new KINDLE, preloaded with a title from each of the participating Crossroads Blog Tour Authors. That’s right folks, a free KINDLE and 13 free EBOOKS!

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