The Frost Series Book # 1
Liz DeJesus
Publication Date- June 22, 2012
Published By- Musa Publishing
Blurb-
Fairytales aren’t real…yeah…that’s exactly what Bianca thought. She was wrong.
For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to “family only.”
Gathered within museum’s walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired: Cinderella’s glass slipper, Snow White’s poisoned apple, the evil queen’s magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty’s enchanted spinning wheel…
Author Bio
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or…well, anything except working in the family’s museum. She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn’t really exist.
She’s about to find out how wrong she is.
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Glass Frost
The Frost Series Book # 2
Liz DeJesus
Publication Date- July 19th, 2013
Published By- Musa Publishing
Blurb-
When joined together, Cinderella's slippers grant the wearer her heart's desire. But whose wish will be granted?
When Cinderella’s glass slipper is stolen, Queen Felicia sends her faithful steward Terrance to the real world to retrieve his love and witch-in-training, Bianca Frost. The power of the glass slipper, when paired with its mate, and in the wrong hands, could ruin the peace of Everafter. Bianca must gather every bit of magic she has learned in the past few weeks to find the slipper and protect her new love. Together, Bianca, Ming, Prince Ferdinand, and Terrance venture deep into the heart of Everafter to seek clues as to who has stolen the slipper and why. Along the way, they uncover what happened to the Seven Dwarves after Snow White married the prince, but also learn the awful risk of tampering with black magic and the high price that must be paid for magic, even when used for good.
Bianca and Terrance’s relationship is put to the test. Through the pain of suffering and loss, Bianca must determine if following her gallant boyfriend into his faraway world is in fact her heart's desire.
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Author Bio
Liz DeJesus was born on the tiny island of Puerto Rico. She is a novelist and a poet. She has been writing for as long as she was capable of holding a pen. She is the author of the novel Nina (Blu Phi'er Publishing, October 2007), The Jackets (Arte Publico Press, March 31st 2011) First Frost (Musa Publishing, June 22nd 2012) and Glass Frost (Musa Publishing, COMING SOON).
Liz is currently working on a new novel.
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Interview
Please welcome Frost Series author Liz DeJesus to Diane's Book Blog.
What is your
favorite part of the Frost Series?
The
conversations between Bianca and Ming. They always make me smile.
How long did
it take you to write First Frost?
About 9
months. And that includes the second and third draft.
If you were
stranded on a desert island which of your characters do you want by your side?
Definitely
Bianca, that way she could try to use magic to get us off the island. But if
that didn’t work at least we’d have fun chatting and playing with magic.
If you could
be best friends with one of your characters, who would it be?
Hmmm, it’s a
tie between Bianca and Ming.
What
inspired you to write your first book?
I got the
idea for First Frost about 4 years ago. I was watching TV and saw a commercial
for a local children’s museum. I started thinking about how children are often
into specific things. Like trains, dinosaurs, pirates and fairy tales. I
thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a museum for specific things for
kids. Like a pirate museum or a fairy tale museum.’ That was when I knew I had
an awesome idea for a book. Thus, First Frost was born.
What is your
favorite book that you wrote?
Glass Frost.
Who or what
inspired you to be a writer?
A number of
things inspired me to be a writer. Definitely my mother, who is a writer as
well (her novel will be released this coming Winter). But also the fact that I
was bullied in school made it very difficult for me to express myself vocally
so I started hiding in the library (only safe place for me) and I read
everything I could get my hands on. I had things to say, ideas I wanted to
express and share with others so I started writing things down. I started with
journal entries and then I saw how depressing my life was I started changing
names and making it seem like it was happening to someone else. It was a safe
way to distance myself from the pain and the isolation I felt at school.
Can you
share a little of your current work with us?
Sure! Here’s
an unedited excerpt of Shattered Frost (book #3 in The Frost Series).
Tick.
Tock.
Tick.
Tock.
Bianca
stared at the hands on the clock. She bit her nails until she broke the skin of
her index finger. She hissed in pain when she tasted the bittersweet, metallic
bite of blood. She forced herself to give her nails a break, only because she
still wanted to have her fingernails intact by the time she went back home.
Then she started to tap her pencil against her desk. A few more minutes and she
would be free from the imbeciles that surrounded her on a daily basis. She had
tolerated them for five long months. She promised her mother, Rose, that she
would be on her best behavior and not use magic in public. That was the hardest
part. No magic. Especially when she was getting picked on by the head
cheerleader, who seemed to hate everyone including herself. Being slammed
against lockers and made it look like it was an accident. And the school jerk
Brandon Campion, was currently throwing spitballs at her.
Even
when she complained to the teacher all anyone would get was a warning and
nothing else would ever come of it. So Bianca remained quiet and put up with
it. All she wanted was to make it through the end of the day. Just thinking
about everything she had endured so far made little white puff of smoke flutter
out of her fingertips. Tiny droplets of sweat trickled down her temples and she
felt a single drop of sweat making its way down her lower back. Control was
much more difficult than she thought.
Crap.
She
hid her hands underneath her armpits and closed her eyes. Bianca did her best
to meditate like Rose sometimes does. She heard her mother’s gentle
instructions in her mind.
“Clear your thoughts. Think of pleasant
things…like the rain, the ocean, flowers. Basically anything you like that
makes you happy. You know…nice things,” Rose said.
“As long as it doesn’t make me
fly off to Neverland,” Bianca muttered.
“Neverland?” Rose asked.
“You know, that whole thing
about pixie dust and happy thoughts and that’s how you can fly. Although I have
it on good authority that Tinker Bell carried Peter Pan everywhere,” Bianca
said.
Rose arched an eyebrow and
said, “Anyway, if you ever have trouble controlling your magic just meditate
and see if that works.”
“All right,” Bianca replied.
© Liz
DeJesus 2014
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