Today I have a guest post from the completely awesome Tawny Stokes. Tawny is the author of the young adult paranormal books, Static and Demon Whisperer. I'd like to thank Roxanne over at Bewitching Book Tours for putting arranging Tawny's visit!
The Teen Inside Me
By
Tawny Stokes
I’m pretty sure I never really grew up. Not really. Sure I got married and had a kid, and got divorced and pay taxes and pay bills. I do all the adult things I’m supposed to. But deep down inside I still feel 16. Which is probably why writing YA feels so normal to me.
I’ve written a lot of books for adults but it wasn’t until I started writing YA that it felt truly right. Static was the first YA I’d written. And it was an easy book to write. And a joy to write. Some of it was like jotting down old memories. Vivid memories that I could still see, and hear and feel.
Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Salem’s experiences were mine. Although I had attended many gigs when I was a teen, and I did travel around following different bands, I have in no way had any contact with an incubus and have ever been turning into anything unnatural. *looks in mirrors checks eyes*. Nope, still good.
It was the same when I wrote Demon Whisperer. It was easy. Well, not easy easy, all writing is hard, but I didn’t have to think about what I was writing, it just flowed. The difficult part was not interjecting my thought processes into the way Caden would think and behave. He’s 17 and I’m well, not 17, and I have many life experiences, I’ve learned the hard way some tough lessons. So, sometimes it proved difficult to allow Caden to make those mistakes when I knew better. I didn’t want Caden to do dumb stuff, make poor decisions, but I knew to keep his voice authentic I had to let go. And remember all those painful moments from my teen years. In some ways, it was fun to relive them. Like first love. That’s always my favourite thing to re-experience, that rush. And Caden’s got it bad for Aspen. :)
So now I’ve come up with the 5 ways you can tell you have a teenager living inside of you, for all those adults out there…
- You call everyone dude
- Your thumbs have callouses from texting
- Your iPod, iPhone and other devices are part of your iDentity
- You are either Team Gale or Team Peeta, or the fact that you think in teams when it comes to dudes
- Other words in your vocabulary are: epic, uber, junk and awesomesauce
- You watched the Hunger Games movie trailer ten times in a row. (Okay, that might’ve just been me)
Tawny Stokes
Tawny Stokes has always been a writer. From an early age, she’d spin tales of serial killers in love, vampires taking over the world, and sometimes about fluffy bunnies turned bunnicidal maniacs. An honour student in high school, with a penchant for math and English, you’d never know it by the foot high blue Mohawk and Doc Martens, which often got her into trouble. No longer a Mohawk wearer, Tawny still enjoys old school punk rock, trance, zombie movies, teen horror films, and fluffy bunnies. She lives in Canada with her fantastical daughter, two cats, and spends most of her time creating new stories for teens.
Tawny also writes adult paranormal/urban fantasy fiction under the name Vivi Anna, and is an aspiring screenwriter.
Demon Whisperer by Tawny Stokes
Genre: Paranormal YA
Buy Now: Amazon Kindle | Smashwords
Awake a year-long coma, where he literally spent in hell, Caden Butcher, 17, developed a special power. He can speak to demons in their own language. This new trick helps him take over the family exorcism business, from his broken alcoholic father. Having to take care of the finances, Caden makes a decent income getting rid of demons. He’s known as the young whiz-kid exorcist to the stars, obtaining most of his work in Hollywood. But what others don't know is the exorcisms are all staged with the help of his best buddy, a demon he met in hell named Dantalion (Dan).
When an exorcism goes wrong, Caden discovers the demon inside a teen girl is not the run of the mill malicious entity but an adversary from down under who is hell bent on Caden’s destruction. The International Order of Exorcists, an organization that tolerates Caden at best because of his respected father, starts their own investigation because of his screw up.
Now with the help of his demon buddy, and Caden’s girlfriend Aspen Spencer, a skilled necromancer, Caden must track down the rogue demon before he can expose Caden as a fraud and destroy everything that matters to him in his life, ending his reign as the one and only Demon Whisperer.
Static by Tawny Stokes
Genre: Paranormal YA
Buy Now: Amazon | Smashwords
Be careful what you listen to....
During the summer before her senior year, 17 year old band groupie, Salem Vale, has been following her favorite punk rockers, Malice, from gig to gig hoping that one night she might get backstage and meet the sinisterly sexy guys. She’s been saving her virginity for the lead singer Thane. One fateful evening she gets her wish. It’s a dream come true.
Except the dream turns to a nightmare when she wakes up in a dumpster, tossed away like yesterday’s trash, with no memory of what happened the night before. She feels strange, different, as if something is trying to get out. Soon she realizes she’s changing…turning into something not quite human.
Now a hunger deep inside claws at her to feed, to siphon energy from those around her. Before she can do just that, Trevor, the band’s roadie shows up and stops her from killing. With his help she learns to control the hunger inside, because he’s just like her. And in return he wants her help to do one little thing…
Help him kill the members of Malice.
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