Honey and Salt by David Perlmutter - Book Tour + Giveaway
Honey and Salt
by David Perlmutter
Genre:
YA Fantasy
YA Fantasy
Bravery comes in all forms: fighting bullies and fighting your own demons.
Honey and Salt is a superhero novella that will draw you in the just fight
of a few super heroines. The story is packed with action and humor.
of a few super heroines. The story is packed with action and humor.
Their quest against evil superheroes and against their own weaknesses is
refreshing. You can identify with them and embrace their battles.
refreshing. You can identify with them and embrace their battles.
Rousing fantasy action with amazing young girls ready to fight for justice and for the oppressed.
If you enjoy a good action with an unusual plot, then this is the book for you.
Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you
feel like you have the reigns of the story?
The overall plot is always kept well in hand, but I
let the characters have free reign in terms of what they say, and sometimes
they surprise me.
Convince us why
you feel your book is a must read.
It’s not very long, and I’ve tried to make it as
entertaining as possible. Which is more than can be said for a lot of books
these days.
What did you edit out of this book?
Profanity. Some of my editors have told me that, the
younger your characters are, the less acceptable it will be to have them swear.
So, since so many of my lead characters are below voting age, I try to limit
their curses to the near-beer variety (i.e. “darn”) and leave the genuine stuff
for the more “adult” characters. Although, even then, this is done only when it
helps move the story along, and not, as is often the case now, for the joy of
doing it.
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers
what they want?
Half of one, and half the other.
What’s the most difficult thing about writing characters
from the opposite sex?
Fearing that the people of that sex will reject my
writing about them just because you aren’t one of “them”. Which is dumb,
because the best writers can make a character believable regardless of their
gender. But, in my case, there are still a lot of man-haters who think women
are the only ones capable of “really” writing about women, and there probably
always will be.
Do you believe in writer’s block?
Certainly. It
goes hand in glove with depression, which I have suffered from many times in my
life. You get thinking that you can never come with anything original because
it’s all been done before. But what’s all been done before, really, is the
stereotypes, the false and imagined expectations of readers, and the
recalcitrance of certain publishers to try anything “new”. If you write
something that you really have faith in, and you can convince yourself (and
then a publisher) that it has some merit, then you really can’t go wrong.
David Perlmutter is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
He is the author of America Toons In: A History of Television
Animation (McFarland and Co.), The Singular Adventures Of Jefferson
Ball (Amazon Kindle), The Pups (Booklocker.com), Certain Private
Conversations and Other Stories (Aurora Publishing), Honey and Salt
(Scarlet Leaf Publishing), The Encyclopedia of American Animated
Cartoon Series (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming) and Orthicon;
or, the History of a Bad Idea (Linkville Press, forthcoming).
He is the author of America Toons In: A History of Television
Animation (McFarland and Co.), The Singular Adventures Of Jefferson
Ball (Amazon Kindle), The Pups (Booklocker.com), Certain Private
Conversations and Other Stories (Aurora Publishing), Honey and Salt
(Scarlet Leaf Publishing), The Encyclopedia of American Animated
Cartoon Series (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming) and Orthicon;
or, the History of a Bad Idea (Linkville Press, forthcoming).
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