EIRIE: Hello and thank you for joining us. I'm Eirie Danu
and this is Null City's number one Talk Radio. Today I'm very excited to
welcome special guests Leila Rice and Gaby Parker from One Way Fare, Null City Book 1.
In addition, we have Lette Simoneau from Don't Touch, Null City Book 2.
Ladies, since it's New Year's Eve, I'd like to ask each of you for your
resolutions for the coming year. Gaby, let's start with you.
GABY: “Sure, but I wonder if I could just get Lette to
switch places with Leila first? She's so tall that if she goes in the middle
there will be a better balance for the seating arrangement. And while she's
doing that, I'll just rearrange the coffee tray so that the three cups are in
front, and the coffee carafe is anchored on either side by the milk jug and the
sugar bowl. Now, where were we? Oh yes, my resolutions. I'm not sure there's
anything I need to work on. Leila, stop coughing “OCD” into your sleeve. I'm a harmonia,
you demon-spawn, which means I need balance, preferably in groups of three or
five, if I'm going to see the hidden patterns behind things. I promised Dad before he was murdered that
I'd give up the breaking and entering, so I suppose my resolutions could be to
save Null City, and then to just chill, or whatever crap it is that people say
when they don't have properly organized lists of what to do next. Speaking of
which, I'd better update my Resolutions list, so Leila why don't you go ahead?”
LEILA: “Hey, y'all. Leila Rice here. Yes, our Gaby is a list maker. Whatever you
do, don't let her start reading that list out loud or we'll be here all day. [Dodges
Gaby's elbow with practiced ease...] My resolution is the same one I've had
ever since I met with that stick-up-his-butt lawyer in London who thinks Gaby
is all that. He asked me if I wanted tea with biscuits and a case of jewelry
from my birth mother. And her chateau. In France. But all I've ever wanted is
to make it back to my adoptive parents in Atlanta and break the news to them
that they raised a sort-of demon whose boyfriend is a kind-of angel. Only I
guess there are a few things I have to worry about first—Gaby and I have to
save Null City, there's that whole prophecy about me ending the world, and also
I'm going to miss my first day of college by about 125 years. And if somebody
had mentioned at the beginning that the angels were going to be on the other
side, I think it would have been... Pretty. Damn. Helpful.”
EIRIE: Yes, well... Leila are your eyes glowing? Maybe
you should take a moment to... calm down and get centered or whatever demons do
to avoid meltdown, especially with that whole ending-the-world thing you've got
going. Maybe we should move on? Lette, can you tell us about your resolutions?
LETTE: “Well, if Leila thinks her inheritance is trouble,
she should try having fingertips that change whatever I touch into something
different each day, from bunnies to bubbles to bombs. That's why my resolution
for next year is to move here to Null City. Stefan says that after one day in
Null City, those with extra gifts
turn into their closest human counterparts. For example, imps become baristas.
(Of course, they’re now ex-PhD candidates in literature or classics who claim
to be experts on third-world coffee blends and obscure world music groups. But
hey – there is only so close to human that hellspawn can get…) There is
this annoying ex-angel who says that won't work out for me, but I still want to
give it a shot.
EIRIE: I see you brought your charming little cat with
you. Do you have a resolution for him too?
LETTE: Why am I the only one who gets that George is
actually just an adorable tail attached to eight pounds of pure mean?
Technically he belongs to my mom, but I accidentally touched him into a
cat-shaped s'mores once, and he had to stay in the freezer for a while. And
even though I managed to touch him back into a cat, he has to stay near me or
he freezes up again. Now he's more like a disgruntled roommate. If my
resolution was for him to be happier, would that make him gruntled? Since it's
George, we'll never know.
EIRIE: I'm afraid that's all we have time for today. If
you'd like to learn more about Null City, or about my own story, please tweet
@barbtaub or email barbtaub (at) gmail
(dot) com, and I'll send you a free copy of They Fight Crime! A Null City
story. (Be sure to include your email and what eReader format you prefer.)
Thanks for joining us, and I hope we'll see more of you in Null City.
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Don't Touch
Null City
Book 2
Barb Taub
Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Steam Punk
Publisher: Taliesin Publishing
Date of Publication: December 5, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-62916-015-3
ASIN:
Number of pages: 123
Word Count: 31522
Cover Artist: James Caldwell
Book Description:
Hope flares each morning in the tiny flash of a second before Lette touches that first thing. And destroys it.
Her online journal spans a decade, beginning with the day a thirteen-year-old inherits an extreme form of the family ‘gift’. Every day whatever she touches converts into something new: bunnies, bubbles, bombs, and everything in between.
Lette’s search for a cure leads her to Stefan, whose fairy-tale looks hide a monstrous legacy, and to Rag, an arrogant, crabby ex-angel with boundary issues. The three face an army led by a monster who feeds on children’s fear. But it’s their own inner demons they must defeat first.
Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/wXoQxCCKCmM
About the Author:
In a former life, Barb Taub wrote a humor column for several Midwest newspapers. Now living in an English castle with her prince-of-a-guy and the world's most spoiled AussieDog, she enjoys translating from British to American, travel, and collaborating with daughter Hannah on the main volumes of the Null City series.
Blog URL http://barbtaub.com
Twitter Name @barbtaub
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/barbtaub
2 comments:
Interesting book
can wait to read all 3 books thanks for the giveaway
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