Today I get to post twice! Such an amazing time celebrating books, books, books!
So, to go along with our two-for-one, let's meet a duo who together have published a terrific looking novel! Not only that, but they are sisters to boot!
I am so excited to be one of the first to see the cover, and hear all about it! So it is such a thrill to be able to present it to you!
Let's meet these terrific gals!
With
one sister a debuting author and the other a debuting publisher, how can it go
wrong?
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| A. Claire Everward |
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| Kate Anne Everward |
“Forever Looking Forward”. That’s their motto. And that was what they were thinking when they decided to drop everything and just do it.
Anna Claire Everward is now an
author with already two book series on their way. And her sister? Kate Anne
Everward became her publisher and PR agent. That’s how Author & Sister was
born.
Once upon a time a sister
told her sister that her imagination is going wild, that she has so much to say
and stories chasing through her head (don’t worry, no voices) and that escaping
into that endless world of imagination makes everything (well almost
everything…) tolerable. So the sister sighed indulgently and told her sister,
you want to write, write. We’ll publish. People love to read.
Ready for the book yet?
Let's see what it's all about!
The First
A debut novel by A. Claire Everward
Find Her.
Is the ancient directive
that has once again reawakened in the hearts of those who hide.
Kill Her!
Is the frantic command of
those who fear their rise.
Aelia returns from a
vacation that did not go quite as she expected, to a life she does not quite
feel at home in but that is, at least, hers. Or so she thinks. Within days of
returning she is targeted by a hit man and she has no idea why.
But then neither does he.
All Kyle Rhys knows is that to protect humanity, this woman must die. At least,
he thinks, killing her will be easy. After all, the organization that has
raised him has prepared him for her death his entire life.
So why can’t he kill her?
What? Whaaaat? Need to know more?!
Is this cover gorgeous, or what?
Let's meet this fabulous new author!!
A. Claire Everward takes the
world far too seriously. Passionate and sensitive to her surroundings, she
takes it all to heart, sometimes too much so. but it makes her fight for what
she believes in. She is direct, although she tries not to be, at least not
always. Like every artist she has her quirks, some understand them and some
don’t. She prefers to keep to herself and spend time with her characters, and
for her escaping into writing is always the best refuge. She would say it
maintains her sanity but her sister Kate says that sanity does tend to be
overrated.
Claire spent years away from
home getting an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering and a graduate
degree from the same faculty, with a risk management specialty. During that
time she lived in the university, surrounded by forested hills and too much
silence, and so to keep away the boredom she also took on an MBA, and now she
feels ridiculously over-educated.
She tried to work in her
field, she really did, and even put her education to good use in the finance
field for a while. But eventually her love for writing took over, and she
decided to leave it all and move to the world of her imagination. Her characters
had a lot to do with that—they had lived in her mind, waiting patiently
for her to be ready, for too long, they felt, and so they finally decided
enough is enough and took over. And Claire didn’t put up that much of a
resistance. She has always loved to read, but writing, that’s a whole new world
she soon knew she could never give up.
She lives with her two cats,
a brown tabby named Mary Boleyn who is much smarter than her and who likes to
take over her laptop exactly when she wants to write, otherwise she starts
throwing all kinds of stuff off the desk, and a black cat named Henry VIII who
loves to jump on top of the kitchen cabinets and scream at the ceiling.
Especially at five in the morning.
Nowadays, when she’s not
rudely peeping into the lives of her characters, or having in-depth
conversations with them, which she does tend to do quite often, Claire actually
manages to do some writing. The First is only the first of her novels. With a
sequel on its way and a whole new series to follow, Claire is turning her dream
to be an author, a reality.
The second half of this incredible duo!
After ten years working as a
PR expert specializing in crisis and reputation management, voicing other
people’s thoughts and needs and making sure they got what they want, Kate knew
it’s time for a change. She’d always been a dreamer, a bookworm who escaped to
her imagination when things got tough, and when her sister, another bookworm
(they got it from their bookworm mother) came to her and told her she wanted to
be a writer, and already had stories and books to show her, Kate decided to
help her dream come true.
And so from crisis manager she
became a book publisher/marketer/literary PR agent. Her career had taught her
how to fight for what she believes in, and she was tenacious to begin with, and
now she’s using it all. While her sister writes, Kate is learning everything
she can about the traditional and self-publishing world, and is talking to
anyone, anywhere out there. She and her sister Claire have now created Author
& Sister, so they can publish Claire’s books and tell the world their
story.
