Hybrids, Volume Two: Vengeance by Jennie Dorny - Book Tour
Hybrids, Volume Two: Vengeance by Jennie Dorny
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Blurb
Caught in a web of murder and vengeance, Theo must outsmart the Spylady to save her new friends.
Imprisoned in a male appearance, can Nand survive deportation without losing herself?
Forced to leave Eridan after her mental battle with Keith of Rain Forest, Theo travels to Earth Metropolis with SpaceSS agent Jack Finch. When Jack is arrested for murdering his husband, Farren, Theo’s plans for a new future collapse.
To impress Declan, Nand face-changes into her cousin’s appearance on the day of the Face Changer Assembly. But her moment of triumph turns into a nightmare when Keith launches an attack against the Face Changers.
Deported to Gambling Nova, the federal prison, with Ashta and a few Face Changers, will Declan be strong enough to overcome his guilt in order to help Nand keep her male appearance and safeguard Eridan’s future?
Convinced that Farren is still alive, Theo must outsmart the Spylady if she wants to get Jack released from the penitentiary and find Farren’s whereabouts. Yet when Sheer, the Savalwomen leader, orders her to rescue the Face Changers, Theo faces a new challenge: is she ready to return to Gambling Nova? And risk her life?
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1. If you could tell your younger writing
self anything, what would it be?
Keep on reading, writing, experimenting and travelling.
Be determined.
2. Favorite childhood memory involving books?
Reading very late into the night, when everybody was asleep.
Asking my mother why Jo didn’t marry Laurie; rediscovering old books when trying
to put them into order and re-reading a page that I found particularly moving.
3. What fantastical fictional world would you want to
live in (if any) given the chance?
I would like to live in the world of Pern and fly a
dragon (Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of
Pern series).
4. Did you want to be an author when you grew
up?
Yes. I wrote poems and stories. I still have all the
stories I wrote. The most elaborate was the one I wrote when I was about ten. I
remember inventing this story during a Christmas holiday at my parents’ house
in Normandy. I still have the notebook where I wrote the story, which remains
unfinished. It was the story of Jacques and Geneviève, a fairy tale. Jacques
had to undergo several challenges in order to win Geneviève. There were other
characters: Geneviève’s parents, Geneviève’s friends. At the same time, each
character, Jacques and Geneviève included, represented a body part. The title
of the book was L’Union des parties du corps (The Union of Body Parts). Every character was simultaneously
a person and a body part. Geneviève was the right arm and Jacques the left arm.
Jacques and Geneviève were the names of our closest neighbors.
Later, I mostly wrote stories during Latin classes when I
was in high school, stories with lots of children. In one story there were
twins who were named Dominique and Claude, two first names that in French can
be used for both girls and boys. I thought it was fun that nobody could know
which gender Dominique and Claude were!
5. What’s one movie you like recommending to
others?
I like all kinds of movies, so it would have to be
perhaps one movie in every genre. For instance, in sci fi I love Blade
Runner for its bleakness and how disturbing it turns out to be; I’m also a Star
Wars fan – I’ve seen them all, and a long time ago I even saw the first
three (the middle stories) in a row from midnight to around 8 a.m. in a
Parisian movie theater. I’ve seen Minority Report a few times as well as
the Matrix trilogy, Mad Max, Terminator and Alien, Avatar
and Abyss.
But I also love My Beautiful Laundrette, The
Last of the Mohicans, Love Actually and movies by Wes Anderson, Stephen
Frears and Jane Campion, and Indian as well as Japanese movies, and many, many
others … And if we go into series: I’ve
seen many, but among the most recent, I very much liked the Danish/Swedish
original version of The Bridge – I enjoyed the play of colors in the
settings: blues, greens, browns, some white, some black. The characters stayed
in my mind for a long time.
6. If you could own any animal as a pet,
what would it be?
I have three cats, all adopted: Mathilde, Violette and
Lulu. Lulu is the youngest: I found her beside the big highway called “le
périphérique,” which circles Paris, on my way to work. She was tiny, and she’s
still small but indomitable!
7. How long, on average,
does it take you to write a book?It depends. Hybrids (as a whole)
took me half of my life. But I’ve written shorter books, and they take about
two to three years between reflection, writing and editing. My writing takes
time because I have a full-time job … I write in the evenings and at the weekends.
8. How do you select the
names of your characters?Different names, different
ways. I look for names that have meanings for some characters and will search
books which explain the significance of names from all around the world. Then
I’ll use them as they are or add a syllable here and there. Or I will create
names. Characters can’t just have any name. The sounds of names are as
important as what the letters put together look like. It’s a complicated
process!
9. What creature do you
consider your "spirit animal" to be?Probably a dolphin.
10. If you were the last
person on Earth, what would you do?I wouldn’t like it at all. I
wrote a short story about a similar situation, inspired by the eerie atmosphere
in the movie Picnic at Hanging Rock.
11. Do you have any advice
for aspiring writers?Write a little every day.
Travel, meet people, read, learn languages.
12. What is your favorite
genre to read?I read all kinds of books:
novels and essays. I learn poems on my way to work (whenever my mind seems to
become sluggish). Poems teach us about rhyme and the poetry of words
themselves. Among novels, all sorts of novels in English, in French or in
translation (literary, romance, some crime, women’s fiction, gay and lesbian
fiction, some YA, science fiction, some graphic novels), not historical, but then
one of my favorite books in my twenties was Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset’s
saga Kristin Lavransdatter, which takes place during the Middle Ages in
Norway.
Essays: I read to learn, and
it can be in various domains – nature, the environment, science, philosophy,
sociology, history, languages, grammar books, books about writing, publishing,
editing … I am literally surrounded by books, and I read both in French
and in English.
Author
Jennie Dorny was born in 1960 in Newton, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Paris with her three cats. She is both French and American. She studied American literature and civilization, Italian and history of art at three Parisian universities. She wrote her Master’s thesis about contemporary Irish poetry after spending a year in Dublin. She loves words and languages, and she can spend hours exploring a thesaurus. Over the years, she has studied Spanish, Japanese, Hindi and sign language, and recently took up Italian again. She has published in French Gambling Nova (1999), Eridan (2002) and Les Cupidons sont tombés sur la tête (Mischievous Cupids gone Crazy, 2007). Gambling Nova and Eridan are partial, earlier versions of Hybrids; science-fiction novels that in many ways deal with the question of gender.
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