This week I’m hosting Jennifer Slattery with Intertwined (US only), Ronie Kendig with Embers (US only), and Veronica Heley with Murder by Suspicion (digital worldwide). If you want to enter the drawings for any of these books, please leave a comment on your post with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (October 11th) evening.
Interview with the hero from Embers by Ronie Kendig
1. Prince Haegan, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
The most interesting thing? *scoffs* I would reckon the answer would be that I have endured these last ten years on a feather mattress without the use of my body, my ears burned by the ramblings of an aged accelerant. All thanks to an enemy determined to crumble House Celahar and the Nine Kingdoms.
2. What do you do for fun?
Flames. This query feels like a jest. The most fun a person in my situation can have is having an intellectual duel with my aged tutor and guardian. Make not the mistake that because he is old, he is slow. Sir Gwogh has one of the keenest minds in all the Nine Kingdoms.
3. What are you afraid of most in life?
My greatest fear is yet again failing my family, those I love most. I failed my father as a boy when I lost the use of my body and the Flames died out. I fear now that my father will not have the warrior he needs to defend the Nine against our fierce enemy, Poired Dyrth. are upon me—to lose my family. Dare you join me on this terrifying quest to save my father’s kingdom—but even moreso, the life of my sister.
4. Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?
Books have been my life. The Histories. The Parchments. The Legacies. And all the stories in between put to quill and parchment, for without the use of my legs, I have travelled across all Primar through books and stories. But dare I confess the Histories were my favorite? Reading about my ancestors and their feats, wielding the Flames at the behest of Abiassa Herself!
5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would walk. And run. And join my father’s elite fighters, the Valor Guard. But ‘tis a fool’s fancy to think of things. It only serves to depress and distract. I will focus on what I can accomplish—learning from the Histories and Legacies, so I might someday be wise counsel for my sister who may rule.
6. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
A pet? What need would I have for a pet? I would no sooner relegate my enemy to the cold chambers and cloudy windows I endure by day and night, let alone, bore an animal with such misery.
7. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
To the moment I was poisoned. I would toss aside my plate. Shatter my glass. I’d stay strong. Be the son my father wanted and the prince kingdom needed.
