Shifter synopsis:
Beroan is a shapeshifter, part of the dragon clan. His clan’s Alpha, Sirath, wants to watch the world burn.
For ten long years Sirath has attacked villages, killing thousands of humans and burning towns to the ground. Beroan has had enough, but his resistance will only end in suffering.
Nsi is a human living in a small village with her grandmother and cousin. Her ignorance about the existence of shifters won’t protect her for long. Her family was killed in a dragon attack when she was younger, and now dragons have come again. Now she will stop at nothing until the dragon shifters are stopped, to save humans from suffering the same fate as her family.
Together, Nsi and Beroan will risk everything to save humanity from Sirath.
Darkness is spreading through the galaxy, Corrupting one world after another, and now it has come for theirs. Sirath already belongs to the Corruption of darkness.
He will not stop until he burns down the world and leaves it covered in fire and ash.
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About the author: Joanna White earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing for Entertainment at Full Sail University. The Valiant series is her first published work, which is still being updated on a website called Wattpad. She lives in a small town in Missouri with her husband, where she continues to work on her other upcoming books. Writing has been a passion ever since she was ten, when she wrote her first book. Ever since then, writing has become her life outside of her family, God, and being a nerd. Shifter is the second of the Valiant Novels to be published. The first is Hunter; to find out more about Hunter go to: https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Valiant-Novel-Joanna-White-ebook/dp/B01EKB7UY8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499289775&sr=8-1&keywords=Hunter+Joanna+White To find out more about the Valiant novels, go to http://joannaalbin.wixsite.com/valiantseries Or like their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/valiantseries
And here is what we talked about this week:
When did you start writing and what motivates you to keep writing?
I started writing the summer before my sixth grade year, so I was ten or eleven I think. I became fascinated with the idea of writing a story about a man who went to jail for murder but was innocent, so I took a lot of my friends in middle school around me, made our characters all high schoolers and worked with my best friend at the time for ideas, haha. It became a hobby to me, but I loved creating these stories with my best friend, taking people we talked to or had crushes on and making up random stories about real life and issues and then God helped them overcome each story. Eventually, it became a career after high school, so I got more serious with it and at that point, I had switched to writing fantasy. Now, writing is a part of my life, like if I don’t have a book to read, I get antsy and I feel so weird.
What is your favorite genre of books and why?
Probably fantasy. I’m branching into other genres to gain experience as a writer, but I love being able to do anything I want and then explaining it with magic. Even if I do a real life modern book, I always involve fantasy unless I’m strictly writing a modern drama as I call them. I love magic and creatures and stuff like that, so I always try to write a good fantasy. As I said, these days, I’m trying to branch into other genres and I really like modern drama style books, but I still want fantasy, so I’ve been doing a lot of modern fantasy which actually seems to be a perfect blend for me. Recently, I’ve also written a Biblical fiction/historical romance and usually, even when I write fantasy, romance is a part of it somehow, so I feel like clean romance is going to be another big genre for me too.
What keeps you reading and what makes you put a book down?
I used to read all the time in high school but anymore, it’s an effort to read. I don’t really know why. I managed to keep up with my favorite author’s new series—Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifaces—and a few Star Wars books and comics and other than a book I promised to review, I have a habit of starting books and not finishing them. I don’t know why. I start reading them, and they’re actually good stories – one promised review, one I want to review for the author, and another I wanted to read for fun because it looked and sounded good – but I haven’t been able to finish any of them. I have a lot of other things I could or need to do and I guess it just keeps reading further down on my to do list.
Do your characters ever surprise you? How?
Hahaha! Yes! All the time! The Valiant characters from Hunter and Shifter, and the other Valiant books were the worst! I would have a plan, like something I wanted them to do, then I write the scene and afterward, do a facepalm because they did something totally different. Mythix, from the Valiant Series Book 4 or 5, was the worst! It’s like he constantly defied me on purpose because he thought it was funny (I know I sound crazy, but I’m really not).
If you could boil down your latest book into six words, what would they be?
Egyptian prince falls for Israelite slave.
Can you name something that most people don’t know about you?
Hmmm. Well, I sign a lot of Christian songs in ASL—American Sign language—as a fun hobby, but my immediate family know that. Likewise my family also knows I play guitar and sing. And my family is fully aware of how clumsy I am. Mmm. I’m a very open person, so I think it’s hard to find something most people don’t know about me. If anything, most probably don’t know that I love tragic stories. Unless my readers have picked up on that one already.
What would your favorite day be like?
Hmmm. Going out shopping or doing something fun with my immediate family. Or being with my family while I play my guitar and my other family members play their instruments and we all sing together.
What would your least favorite day be like?
Ugh, fighting. I hate fighting with people.
What do you think is the most important thing any writer can do to further his or her career?
Oh goodness. I think probably building relationships with other writers and people in general. I’ve tried to market myself a lot which probably gets me a little sales, but I’ve had more support from other writers I got to know as friends genuinely who then wanted to help me. Just don’t become friends with them only to help yourself or anything.
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