Today I'm taking part in the blog tour for Katie Young's new book The Other Lamb. Here we have all the details about the book and also a Q&A with the wonderful author herself.
Enjoy
THE OTHER LAMB
by Katie Young
Genre: fantasy,
paranormal-horror
Publisher: Curiosity
Quills Press
Date
of Publication: August 28th, 2014.
Summary
Incarcerated on Earth as punishment for breeding with humans, the Watchers found a way to escape. Zach is living proof of that…even though someone has cut out his heart. When Zach turns eighteen he develops an insatiable thirst for blood, but he tries to bury his fears and go on enjoying his birthday. His best friend Kim has scored them tickets to the hottest gig in town. But a charged encounter with his idol, the enigmatic rock star known as Grigory, leads to a revelation that shatters everything Zach thinks he knows about himself and the world, and places everyone dear to him in grave danger. Zach is a Naphil, the forbidden offspring of a mortal woman and a Watcher. When those who seek to destroy him snatch Kim, Zach is forced to embark on a journey of discovery spanning continents and ages. With the help of a mysterious stranger named Sam, Zach must unearth the truth about his parentage, find Kim, and discover who has stolen his heart…before he triggers the apocalypse.
Q&A with Katie Young
Author of The Other Lamb
What
was the inspiration behind The Other Lamb?
It was based on a short
story I wrote in my teens about angels who stole human hearts and swapped them
around to make people fall in love. Then while I was researching angelic names,
I discovered an author who believed all evil in the world could be attributed
to fallen angels and their descendants and that struck me as a fascinating, if totally
crazy, idea.
What’s
your favourite part of the writing process?
I love coming up with the initial
concept, crystallizing the idea and beginning the research. That first flush of
excitement. I adore researching and reading around the subject. I may love it a
bit too much as I can do this for hours instead of actually writing anything!
Being a female
writer were there challenges writing a male protagonist?
I honestly don’t think I ever considered
it too deeply. Zach was kind of based on the type of boys I fell for when I was
younger – shy, awkward, sensitive. Unobtainable. I have always had very close
male friends and I have brothers. I read a lot of male authors. It seemed quite
natural to me to write a male voice. I think it’s always a challenge to write
believable characters full stop, to be honest. Strangely, I did one of those
silly online quizzes quite recently, which was ‘do you have a male or a female
brain?’ I had always assumed I had quite a male brain, but I came out something
like 97% female, so shows what I know!
What
three books would you recommend to readers of The Other Lamb?
Lost Souls by Poppy Z.
Brite, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer and I, Lucifer
by Glen Duncan.
Nephilim
is becoming a big contender for most used mythical creature these days. Why did
you choose to write about them?
The idea for the story
is actually about fifteen years old, so I’m not sure the Nephilim were quite as
popular back then, but I was really drawn to the story of the Watchers, and the
idea that angelic bloodlines could still be going strong today. Stories of
giants are prevalent in almost every culture, and really, really old, so I
guess it’s enticing to think their descendants could be passing as human in the
modern age. They can be seen as a nice twist on the traditional vampire too, I
think.
Who
was your favorite character to write and why?
Grigory was definitely
my favourite. He’s just the embodiment of depravity. He’s gorgeous, immortal,
and a rock star. I found mentions of angels having exquisite singing voices, so
I wanted to play with that and make Grigory very much about music in all its
forms. He is really quite evil in some respects, but with many redeeming
qualities.
If
The Other Lamb were turned into a film who would your dream cast be?
I LOVE this question
because this is exactly the kind of thing I spend my time fantasizing about
when I should be working, so thanks for enabling me! I think Ezra Miller would
be absolutely perfect for Grigory. He’s gorgeous, but there is something so
devilish about his expression sometimes. I can imagine Ben Wishaw or Michael
Pitt as Armaros. I like Juno Temple or Saorise Ronan for Kim. Let’s go stellar
and say Angelina Jolie or Rihanna for Istahar. For Sam, perhaps Cillian Murphy
as he is so mesmerizing and other-wordly. I think Tom Hardy has the beauty and unhinged
intensity to play Uriel. I also think Alexander Skarsgard, Tom Hiddleston and
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers would be excellent archangels. Zach is tricky…I really
like Avan Jogia, Robert Sheehan and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. There’s a young
actor, Frank Dillane, who is incredibly natural and looks like a really young
Johnny Depp. I’d probably go for him!
Lastly describe
your book in five words… Go!
Sinful, bloody,
haunting love story.
About Katie
Katie Young is a writer and occasional zombie movie ‘supporting
artiste’. She also works in kids’ TV but wishes she were a rock star. She has
various shorts available for download from Ether Books, and features in
anthologies from Collaboration of the Dead Press, Angelic Knight Press, Indigo
Mosaic, Song Stories Press, Static Movement and Fox Spirit Books. Her story,
Atelic, was shortlisted for the 2010 Writers' & Artists' Year Book short
fiction prize, and she is a regular contributor to the Are You Sitting
Comfortably? story-telling events run by White Rabbit. Katie also writes TV
reviews for The Cult Den. The Other Lamb is her first novel. She lives in South
East London with her partner and a second-hand cat. She is not a natural
redhead.
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