KAT CANTRELL "took a
complete new world with new possibilities and let it all blend into a
mesmerizing, captivating world of danger…showing trust is the ultimate reason
for love when you find right person.”
~5 of 5 stars from Fantasy Romance Reviews
Carina Press
Determined to revitalize her imploding career, blacklisted
movie star Ashley V takes on her biggest role yet: posing as one of ten
scientists invited by aliens to a universal summit. But when the aliens seize,
strip and implant the entire delegation to extract their knowledge, she is
quickly found out and sent to a cell to await recycling.
The alien research director designated ZXQ-One
devised a plan to let the humans volunteer their best and brightest in a gamble
to solve his people’s energy crisis. But he fails to find anything useful and
winds up imprisoned alongside the fiery human woman who refuses to give up, and
who insists on calling him Sam.
After an accidental link between their implants
lets them share their thoughts, they find themselves drawn to each other. Sam
will have to trust in her human compassion and forgiveness for his role in her
capture, and Ashley will have to trust him with her deepest secrets if they are
to have any chance at survival…
THE EARTHLY KAT CANTRELL
read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and
has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would
she write but romance? She majored in Literature, officially with the intent to
teach, but somehow ended up buried in middle management at Corporate America,
Inc.
Kat became a stay-at-home mom in 2009 and devoted
nap time to writing. After three years and many thousands of words, her dream
of publication finally came true. When she’s not writing about characters on
the journey to happily ever after, she can be found at a soccer game, watching
Friends or dancing with her kids to Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Kat, her husband and their two boys live in North
Texas. She’s a proud member of Romance Writers of America®. Kat was the 2011
Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and a 2012 RWA® Golden Heart®
finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.
OUT OF THIS WORLD QUESTIONS
We are so lucky to have a famous actress with us today. Her newest role landed her in a heap of trouble with aliens! I couldn't resist this interview.
ANGI: Who was your favorite character you portrayed?
ASHLEY: Ashley V. No really. In Hollywood, you’re never
off camera and the me sitting here right now is as much an invention as any
movie character. That’s how you survive the casting jungle.
ANGI: What’s the first book you remember reading?
ASHLEY: The first thing I remember reading is the script
for the first commercial I did when I was six. Does that count? I didn’t go to
school like normal kids, so it was pretty much all about the script from way
back.
ANGI: What’s your favorite “love” word?
ASHLEY: Jewelry. The more sparkle, the more love. ;)
ANGI: Can you tell us about a real-life hero you’ve
met?
ASHLEY: My mom. She raised me after my dad left and
without her pushing me through Hollywood's closed doors, I’d be a nobody.
ANGI: What was your first thought meeting Sam?
ASHLEY: Here’s someone who can help me escape. Fantastic. And I keep forgetting he’s
not human. What is with that?
ANGI: Which is your favorite movie?
ASHLEY: The one that grosses the highest. Oh, did you mean
one that I wasn’t in? I watched Contact
a bunch of times for research. It was pretty cool.
ANGI: Who’s your favorite villain?
ASHLEY: Voldemort. He was virtually invisible and slowly
clawed his way back into existence and power, despite not even having a body.
You have to admire that kind of resolve.
ANGI: What's your least favorite thing about aliens?
ASHLEY: (makes a face) That they exist. And do horrific
things to humans. And lie to everybody. Oh, and they’re bossy.
ANGI: What is your biggest vice?
ASHLEY: Seriously? You know I had to go to court-ordered
rehab, right? That’s code for never-met-a-vice-I-didn’t-like.
ANGI: What role do you wish you could have snagged?
ASHLEY: You’ll think it’s silly, but I’m really mad I
didn’t get The Ugly Truth. Stupid
Katherine Heigl. She used to be an alien on that show Roswell, you know.
ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: While creating your world for MINDLINK, what stumped you the most?
KAT'S GOTTA ANSWER: Oh, man. I hate to tell you…it’s kind of the crux
of the alien’s secret. Let’s just say the alien world is a derivative of
another society and it was a challenge to envision how the original society
might reasonably evolve and change over time. I had to think about culture,
government, politics, economics, technology, etc. It’s not an exaggeration when
I say I had seventy-five pages of notes for this book before I wrote the first
word.
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THE THINGS SHE SAYS
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KAT WANTS TO KNOW: Ashley, the heroine of MINDLINK, is
kind of a mess and has a reputation for being difficult on the set. But she
knows she caused her own problems and desperately wants a second chance. Do you
think people can really change?
As a general rule people don't change. I couldn't resist the interview either. I just loved it.
ReplyDeletemarypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Aww, thanks Mary! :) Ashley was in rare form...but then she always is. LOL
DeleteKinda depends to what level. i know of people who've managed to stop smoking - I consider that a (most positive!) change.
ReplyDeletethumbelinda03@yahoo.com
Ooh, good point Linda! That is a positive change and not easy to do. Thanks for coming by!!
DeleteSo fun to have you here. I just finished Marriage with Benefits and loved it!
ReplyDeleteYes, I think people can and do change, but the key is that they have to decide that for themselves. If you're expecting someone to change because you want them to, better lower your expectations cuz that's not going to happen.
Ditto
Delete...what Clover said!
~Angi
*blush* Thank you both!!
DeleteClover, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Change has to come from within or it doesn't stick...thanks for hanging out with me today. :)
Welcome back to GLIAS, Kat.
ReplyDeleteDo we change? Or do we change our view of the way others perceive us? Or are we changing our view of the way we THINK others perceive us? I can ask this several different ways. LOL
All I know is that it takes a lot of effort to change. I think most people are satisfied and it's not worth the hard effort. But, yes, people can and do change.
~Angi
Thanks Angi!! Glad to be here. Hmm. You do provoke thought with your questions. You're probably right to a degree. Back on Clover's point. If you stop smoking, you've caused others to perceive you as a non-smoker, but the personality trait that caused you to start in the first place is probably still alive and well. Yes?
DeleteUh...sorry, I meant LINDA with the smoking comment. Sheesh.
DeleteFun interview
ReplyDeletebn100candg at hotmail dot com
I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteI picked a winner at random and it's bn100! Congratulations! I'll be in touch via email. Thank you everyone for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS FOR the great giveaway, Kat and for spending the day with us. Always a pleasure.
ReplyDelete~Angi
LOL, Kat. I wish you would have got the part in The Ugly Truth too, just so I could say WAY To Go. Welcome once again to Get Lost in a Story!
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