Title: The Burning Star
Author(s): Jessie Lane, Crystal Leo
Author(s): Jessie Lane, Crystal Leo
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She'll have to believe the unbelievable to
survive.
The doctors have told Kay that she will die
before she reaches her eighteenth birthday. Her mother’s determination to save
her life leads them to a move outside of Asheville, NC to a new set of cancer
specialists in the hopes to help her. But it’s not what Kay and her Mom find in
the doctor’s offices in
Asheville that lead them on the journey to save her
before time runs out. It’s what Kay finds in the woods outside of Asheville,
and an inhumanly gorgeous guy named Ryan, instead.
Myths and fairy tales come to life before
Kay’s eyes, bringing her closer to the ultimate cure if she can stay alive long
enough to get there. And if the cancer doesn’t kill her before she finds the
cure the secrets her mother has hidden from her may be the beginning of the
end.
Can
she reach her destiny before tragedy strikes?
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What would you
consider a perfect day for you as an author?
Melissa: Not having to
redo anything I wrote, and an endless supply of double stuffed Oreos at my
disposal and coffee. And hopefully not being interrupted by anyone.
Crystal: Sitting under
an umbrella in a comfy chair on an empty beach with not another soul in sight
writing on my laptop that has an endless battery and a cooler filled with yummy
drinks and munchables at my disposable. That’s like writing heaven!
Melissa: Reading a lot
of fantasy novels and getting acquainted with my imagination. Of course
Crystal
had to do a little Norse mythology homework as well as brush up on her
geography since she could practically get lost in a cardboard box.
What was your
inspiration for this story?
Crystal: A vivid crazy
dream was the inspiration for this story. Of course my husband thinks I ate something bad to cause said crazy dream but we don’t listen to him anyways.
Is there any
character in particular that you enjoyed writing about the most?
Melissa: Brendan was
the one that I enjoyed contributing to his development throughout the book.
Crystal: I like
writing my secondary character Rafe who is Hawaiian because writing in ‘pidgin’
is fun. (Bet that’s going to make a few people ponder, hehehe)
Were any of your
characters or events from the book based of real life people or experiences you
have had?
Crystal:
The main character Kay was based on a combination of what I thought my two
daughters will look or act like when they’re older. Kay very much has some of
my youngest daughter’s physical traits and my oldest daughter’s budding
personality.
Are there any other projects you are working
on that you would like to tell us about?
At the moment we are
working on two other books for two different series before we continue writing
on the sequel to The Burning Star, which Crystal has already started, called
The Frozen Star. We are branching out into the adult paranormal and contemporary
romance genres. One book is titled Secret Maneuvers and is the start to our Ex
Ops series about a black ops type group secretly run by the CIA with very alpha
like heroes and the woman that love them. (Or want to strangle them depending
on the situation) The other novel is titled Big Bad Bite and is the start of
the Big Bad Bite series starring all kinds of fun supernatural characters and
their crazy love lives.
Did any of your
characters give you a difficult time while writing this book?
Believe it or not it
seemed like Nick didn’t want to do anything I’d written for him to do. He very
much wanted to write the story more to his liking. Pushy werewolves.
Coffee or Hot
Chocolate?
OoOhhh can we have
both, in IV form! Chocolate and coffee yay!
What do you like to
do in your down time?
Melissa: I’m a big
nerd/geek. So I read and play video games with the hubby.
Crystal: When I’m not
spending time with my girls and husband watching a movie then I am reading. My
nose is always stuck in a book.
Do you relate to any
of your characters?
Melissa: In some ways
I relate to Kira. Not to spoil the book, but I understand her the most. Her
fighting spirit, the way she sees herself and her dreams of something better.
Crystal: Maybe it’s
just me as a writer but I see a little of myself in every character I’ve
written. However there’s never been one definitive character that I’ve written
that I could say, “Yeah, that’s me.” Because if I wrote that character everyone
would know just how nuts I really am. Wait. I probably shouldn’t have announced
that last part huh? Opps.
Who is Jessie Lane?
‘Jessie Lane’ is actually the
writing team of Crystal Leo and Melissa Pahl. Coming up with our name was just
the first in a long line of learning how to work and compromise with another
author. Instead of playing rock, paper, scissors, or having a wrestling smack
down over what our name should be (which with the two of us are very real
possibilities), we both chose some of our favorite female fictional characters
and wrote one long list. In the end we both agreed on ‘Jessie Lane’. ‘Jessie’,
is Melissa’s favorite female lead character from the movie, Queen of The
Damned, and ‘Lane’ after Crystal’s favorite female lead character from Karen
Marie Moning’s ‘Fever Series’ with MacKayla ‘Mac’ Lane.
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