"Our fires burn
brightly for our readers and as a way to say thanks to our readers we've
launched our latest division of Entangled Teen and it's name is Ember. We have
two exciting launch titles: Darker Days by Jus Accardo and Chaos by Christine
O'Neil. Read away!" Entangled Teen Ember is a division of Entangled Teen
that specializes in digital-first YAs
Chaos by Christine O’Neil
Synopsis:
My name is Maggie Raynard. After sixteen years being just
plain me, suddenly, when I lose my temper, my fingers become weapons of
mass destruction. Turns out I'm a semi-god, descended from Aphrodite. Sounds
cool in theory, but when I accidentally put my ex-boyfriend in a coma,
things go downhill pretty fast.
Now some new guy named Mac Finnegan has made it his mission in life
to continually piss me off. I'm stuck learning how to use my new powers
while also dealing with regular high school problems, and with this
annoying and super-hot—guy all
up in my business, I'm about to flip out.
But it gets worse. I just learned there's this watchdog council of semis who
keep an eye out for any bad apples. They think I'm the baddest one in the
bunch and want to take me out before I do any more damage. My nemesis Mac
might turn out to be my salvation, only he's got secrets of his own...and
they may just kill us both.
Darker Days by Jus Accardo
Synopsis:
A little sin can be deadly...
Jessie Darker goes to high school during the day, but at
night she helps with the family investigation business.
Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They’re your
girls—but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky
Poltergeist living in your pool? They’ll have the problem solved in a magical
minute. For a nominal fee, of course...
When gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the
office requesting their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple
case—until the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.
Seven deadly ones, in fact.
They’ve got five days to recapture the Sins before they're
recalled by the box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy
peasy—except for one thing...
There’s a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free,
causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone
she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and family—or lose
everything.
Thanks
for coming to visit us on this leg of the Entangled Ember launch tour! We
thought we could interview Jessie Darker (heroine of Jus Accardo’s book Darker Days) and Maggie Raynard (heroine
of Christine O’Neil’s Chaos) to
interview each other so you guys could get to know them a little better!
Readdyyy…Go!
Q:
Liam Hemsworth or Alex Pettyfer?
Jessie: That guy from
the Vampire Diaries. The dark, angry one. I know, I know. He's an Otherworlder (and
not real) but holy house of hogs getting blasted by the blue birdie brigade, is
he hot.
Maggie: Kit Harington.
Game of Thrones.All day.
Interviewer: Okay, neither of those guys were one of your
choices…
Maggie: We, ah, aren’t
exactly known for rule-following.
Q:
Okay, thanks for the warning. The Conjuring
or The Notebook?
Jessie: The Notebook?
Really? Do you have any clue who you're talking to? The Conjuring.
Maggie: *gag* No
contest. The Conjuring.
Jessie: *snickers* See?
Great minds!
Q:
Movie Popcorn or Movie Candy? (and if B., what kind?)
Jessie: Candy.
Chocolate.Because there is no other kind.
Maggie: Movie candy,
Reese anything.
Q:
Dogs or cats?
Jessie: I suppose I have
to say dogs by default…
Maggie: Dogs. I love
animals, but cats always seem standoffish. Like, if you dropped dead and
weren’t around to feed them, they’d probably eat your face off or something.
Q: Favorite fictional character?
Jessie: Dracula… Though
I'm not entirely sure he's fictional.
Maggie: Spiderman. Now
THOSE are some powers I could work with.
Jessie: No way. If
you're gonna go the superhero route, it should be someone epic. Peter Parker
got bit by a bug… A BUG!
Maggie: You picked
DRACULA! Vampires are SO two-thousand and seven.
Q: Least favorite fictional character?
Jessie: The Smurfs. I'm
sorry, but they're just smurfing
creepy. All those guys and one chick?Yeah… Wonder what's going on there.
Maggie: Winnie the Pooh.
The half-shirt/no pants thing is off-putting. Plus he’s a terrible speller.
Sell some of that “hunny” and buy a dictionary, dude.
Jessie: *snorts* The no
pants thing is way creepy!
Maggie: Right?!
Q:
Favorite toy as a child?
Jessie: Am
I going to get my mom in trouble if I say the family weapon collection...? If
so, then, um, I dunno. A doll?One with that fake kind of brushable hair? Yeah.
That sounds safe...
Maggie:
*nods* Ugh, dolls are the creepiest. I’m pretty sure they come to life while
I’m sleeping and try to turn my other toys against me. *ponders* I’ma have to
go with sling shot. Fun to play with but also handy if the dolls stage a coup
and I need to protect myself.
Q: If you were on death row, what
would you pick for your last meal?
Jessie: If
I'm going out, I'm doing it in a blaze of chocolate. Chocolate cream pie topped
with chocolate whipped cream—the real stuff. Chocolate croissants. Chocolate
chimp pancakes. Mmm
Maggie: Is
my friend Libby going to see this? She’ll totally judge me for it, but I don’t
give a crap, it’s my funeral, right? Let’s see, *ticks off on fingers* Kraft
mac and cheese, onion rings, tater tots—extra ketchup--a cherry Pop Tart and a
peanut butter chocolate shake towash it all down. What? *eyes interviewer* Why
are you looking at me like that?
Jessie: Oh
my God. I'm so hungry right now.
Interviewer: Those are all…side
dishes.
Maggie:
*elbows Jessie* She thinks Pop Tarts are a side dish. *shakes head* What a
noob.
Jessie:
*shakes head* I feel so sorry for you right now, lady.
Q: Favorite book?
Jessie:
Vendi's Monster Encyclopedia
Maggie: The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Q:
Favorite subject in school?
Jessie:
Does lunch count?
Maggie:
Art. *snort* Kidding. I guess Mythology…or, as I like to call it, “Reality”.
Q:
Dream job?
Jessie:
Duh. Monster Mashing!
Maggie: An
advice columnist
Q: Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny?
Jessie: Um... I'm not sure how to answer this. If you mean which is
freakier, the Easter Bunny all the way. Mom took me to the mall once to see him
when I was younger. I tried to strangle him. No judging. I thought he was a
demon, okay!?
Maggie: So my options are giant rabbit who poops eggs that we’re
supposed to eat, or fat man in a red suit who breaks into your house to give
you candy in a sock, yes? Ummm…can I choose The Great Pumpkin instead?
Jessie:
Pumpkin… cookies. *shrugs* What? I told you I was hungry…
Q:
Favorite fish?
Jessie:
*blinks* You're joking, right? This is a joke? *looks at Maggie and shrugs,
then turns back to interviewer* Are we just saying any random thing that comes
to mind? Okay. Well, here's a piece of advice. Do not meddle in the affairs of
dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup... Yeah. How do you
like it? Seriously, though. That advice is actually solid when dealing with
certain otherworlders...
Maggie:
Swedish
Jessie:
*laughs* I totally just pictured you chowing down on that puppet. The one from
that old Muppet show?
Maggie:
Nah, if I was going to eat a Muppet, I’d go with Miss Piggy. Because ribs.
Jessie: I'm
so refraining from making a Kermit the frog joke right now.
Q:
You go to school and realize you forgot to do your homework. What excuse do you
give?
Jessie: My
demon dog ate it... Probably not an excuse, either. He has a taste for notebook
paper...
Maggie: I
was busy getting sentenced to death by the Council of Amaranth…again, probably
not an excuse. That’s totally a possibility.
Q: One thing you would change about your life?
Jessie:
This is gonna sound messed up, but nothing. I wouldn't change a thing. I'm
happy with who I am, and if I went around tweaking and changing things, I
wouldn't be me. Yeah it sucked that my dad couldn't be around when I was
growing up, but that's the way it had to be. As Lukas would say, we did our
penance. Everything works out in the end. I gotta believe that.
Maggie: I wish I could
be as accepting of my lot as Jess is, but I’m not that zen yet. I totally want
my dad back. I’d even take one of those screwed up zombie versions of him, or,
like, a ghost-type deal. Just…something. Some way for him to tuck me in, or
dance with me, even one more time.
Christine O'Neil was born and raised in Connecticut, where
she spent most of her childhood outdoors catching salamanders, frogs and colds.
When she wasn't terrorizing Mother Nature, she was curled up under the covers
with her nose in a book. As an adult, she's stopped stalking amphibians, but
still loves books. When she isn't reading, she likes to spend her time
people-watching. In fact, she's probably watching you RIGHT NOW O_O She's also
pretty obsessed with writing YA books, but if she had to pick another
profession she would be a ninja...or a Professor of the Dark Arts. Christine
also writes adult romance under the pen name Christine Bell.
JUS ACCARDO spent her childhood reading and learning to
cook. Determined to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps as a chef, she
applied and was accepted to the Culinary Institute of America. At the last
minute, she realized her path lay with fiction, not food, and passed on the
spot to pursue writing. Jus is the bestselling author the popular Denazen
series from Entangled publishing. A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle
of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald.
