Blood Flows Deep in the Empire Tour Stop: N. Isabelle Blanco Interview

Hello and welcome to my first blog tour! I am especially honored to host one for author, N. Isabelle Blanco. She has released other great erotic romance reads such as the amazingly hot Allure series. You can't believe how excited I am to read the next Szolites book featuring Zeniel and Evesse, Blood Stained Tranquility.

Summary

Dyletri, God of Fertility, has locked away his powers. No woman is allowed to touch him, not until he can return his long-dead lover back to life. All he has to do is sacrifice one human girl, a girl who unlocks his powers and rips his dormant lust right out of his body. Trapped by his promise, Dyletri has no choice but to watch Ismini die, no matter how much he wants her.

Yet the darkness of his calling is spiraling within him, demanding he claim the human as his. If he goes back on his promise, the energy of the Fates will cause untold destruction in the Universe. That doesn’t change how Dyletri’s begun exhibiting symptoms that point to more than just lust. How does he allow Ismini to die when she’s come to own him from the inside out?

Desire and torment spiral into something much darker than obsession, more turbulent than an addiction, and something much more brutal than a mere soul-mating. As a war is being rekindled right under his nose, Dyletri will have to come to terms with a destiny eleven thousand years in the making. He thought he’d known what path his future would take, but he’d been wrong. Now the one woman he truly loves might pay the price for his decision.

Blood Flows Deep in the Empire is the first in a series that will pit free-will against Destiny, Destiny against Fate, and love against brutal desire. Everyone likes to think they have a choice as to who they end up with, but as they rise to face the greatest threat they’ve ever known, even the Gods will learn they have to bend to Destiny’s whim to survive.

Q&A with N. Isabelle Blanco

Blood Flows Deep in the Empire is your first paranormal romance novel. What was your inspiration for it?

I’d have to say that it was born out of a mix between my love for mythology, ancient history, and romance stories. In actuality, Dyletri, Ismini, Dimithinia and Crius first popped into my heads when I was 17. It happened out of the blue and at the time I only wrote stories as a hobby. I had no plans to become a writer, and wouldn’t make that decision for another 7 years. Still, their stories continued to expand and morph in my head, seemingly on their own. Almost as if it was meant to be.

Which character in the book most resembles you?

This question made me laugh. Those close to me would tell you that all the characters have bits and pieces of me, but if I were to be honest, I’d have to say that the only character I knowingly and willingly allowed to become my personality twin is Nylicia, the Watcher of Destinies. Her personality, her struggle (which will be further explored in the future books) and even her looks, while not identical, come pretty close to my own.

Are you a fan of any particular author that inspires your current writing?

The list of author’s that I read and love is actually really, really long. I have thousands of books between my paper library and my e-book collection. I’d have to say that my writing is influenced by almost anything paranormal, erotic, or just plain hot. Movies and various subjects I study also play into it. But in reality, most of my writing is coming out of my imagination. It’s fun and scary at the same time to sit back and watch what that beast is capable of.

Have you always wanted to write erotic romance novels? Is there a specific genre, besides the one you are in right now, that you want to write in?

I actually studied and worked in many different field before I hit the age of 24 and decided to bring Dyletri and Ismini’s story to life. Many people have asked me if I’d like to write a different genre. That’s not a question I can honestly answer right now. If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that you never know where life takes you. So who knows what else I’ll be writing years from now?
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And that brings me to the end of the blog tour! Thank you to both N. Isabelle Blanco and The Writer's Coffee Shop for letting me host for an author that I both admire and adore.

Blood Flows Deep in the Empire will be available Thursday, March 7th and you can purchase it here. You can read my review for the book here. Please look forward to the next Szolites book in the series, Blood Stained Tranquility, which will most likely be released in 2014.

Author Bio

N. Isabelle Blanco, the woman who would come to be known as “Nyddi,” was born in Queens, New York. By age three, due to an odd fascination with studying her mother’s handwriting, she’d already begun to read and write. By the time she reached kindergarten, she was reading at a second-grade level, not to mention talking up a storm and showing off her extensive vocabulary. Her obsession with words and reading ended up bleeding into every aspect of her life. As she got older, romance novels took the reins of her obsession, leading her to devour every romance story she could find.

Thanks to the world of Japanese Anime, N. Isabelle was introduced to the wonderful universe of Fanfiction. She would come to write fanfics on and off again as a hobby for the next ten years, but it wasn’t until the Twilight phenomenon came along that she began dedicating hard hours to writing. For the next year and a half, she amassed a following that, by her own admission, she would never be able to live without. It is those fans that encouraged her to step beyond the fanfic realm and take her talent out into the publishing world.

N. Isabelle’s first ebook novel, Destructively Alluring, came out in July of 2012, followed by Addictive Lunacy in September, and Allure Magnified in November of 2012. The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House has recently signed her first print novel, the highly anticipated first book in the Szolite series. Blood Flows Deep in the Empire is scheduled to be released in March of 2013 and will be available in both print and ebook formats.

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