"The prince is having a ball!"

My good friend Miss Jack Lewis Baillot came out with her fourth book (details on A Test of Loyalty HERE) not too long ago and is celebrating by unleashing the characters on us poor peasants. Today, I have the pleasure (although that is debatable, seeing who they are) of introducing you to the Three Princes. These three princes are not too terribly nice, however, as they are chasing their youngest brother, Prince Lachlan, around the kingdom, trying to kill him.


 1. Hello, princes! Would you please introduce yourselves and tell us how old you are?

 Igor: You're...asking us all this, at once? I have to do this with THEM?

 Valdimar: You whine a lot for being the oldest.

 Damian: Well, you two can bicker, I am going to answer this kind lady's questions.

 Valdimar: *Snort* No one is going to fall for your kind pretenses. 

 Damian: I am Prince Damian, second youngest son of King Garolds of the Southern Kingdom and I am seventeen years of age.

 Igor: Reasons like this is why I want to kill you first. 

 I am Igor and the oldest son of King Garolds. I turned twenty seven on my last birthday.

 Valdimar: And I am Valdimar. I am twenty three.

 2. Before he died, your father, King Garolds, left instructions that the last of his four sons left alive would be the next king. How did you feel when your father made this announcement?

 Igor: I felt cheated out of my birthright. I am the oldest son and therefore the rightful heir to the throne!

 Valdimar: I wasn't surprised. I always thought my father knew Igor would make a terrible ruler and I believe he did this so I would have a legitimate excuse to become king. 

 Damian: Don't listen to ether of them. Father just wanted to make them feel like they had a chance at being king. He knew all along the throne should go to me but I was the youngest, so he had to give me a reason to become king - a lawful one.

 Igor: Lachlan is the youngest.

 Damian: He doesn't count

 3. Before your father's announcement, were you three brothers close to one another, or has there always been competition between you?

 Igor: My brothers are and have always been nuisances. They are the reason we have a bad reputation in the kingdom. There has never been a chance of us getting along because Valdimar and Damian are impossible to form any kind of relationship outside of milk tolerance.

 Valdimar: Competition is putting it nicely. Try loathing.

 Damian: They've always been envious because our father favoured me over them.

 4. You three are currently hunting down your youngest brother, Prince Lachlan, in an attempt to kill him and rid yourselves of 1/4th of the competition. What will happen after you kill Lachlan?

 Igor: You make me sound horrible. I am doing this for the good of my people. It is me being king - and I will be a fair king who will actually care about them - or one of my brothers. They will only ruin the kingdom and cost lives of those we are sworn to protect-

 Valdimar: Shut up, no one cares. You're a horrible prince and you'd be a worse king. I'd kill anyone if it means stopping you.

 Damian: I don't know where you are getting these rumors...I don't want to kill anyone.

 5. Why is it important to each of you to become king?

 Igor: Like I said, my brothers would only ruin the Southern Kingdom and I, as the eldest, have a responsibility to keep that from happening.

  Valdimar: There is little point in answering this. It is clear to all I would make a better king then any of my brothers and it is my duty to do so.

 Damian: What both of them said, only about me.

 6. Obviously, you haven't spent your whole lives fighting amongst yourselves for the throne. What are your hobbies and enjoyments?

 Igor: I enjoy hunting. I have done falconing in my younger days and it was one of the more pleasant pastimes I have found in a long while.

 Valdimar: Sword play. I also enjoy archery. 

 Damian: Horse back riding and any chance I have t scale rocks I take it.

 7. If you were stranded on a desert island, what three objects (including food and people) would you choose to be stranded with?

 Igor: What an odd question, fair maid. I...suppose my sword and my bows and arrows so that I might be able to hunt for my own food.

 Valdimar: My sword. A servant to cook for me. And a chicken, so that I might have eggs.

 Damian: My horse, a dog for companionship, and my bow and arrows.

Thanks for stopping by!

Find out more about Jack and her mad adventures (not to mention her other books) on her website HERE.

Live long and prosper.

Cover reveal for Miss Jack!

Miss Jack Lewis Baillot over at However Improbable is coming out with the second book in her Haphazardly Implausible series in a month! Huzzah! I had the pleasure of editing for her... and let me tell you, this book is really, really good.

Summary: The enemy draws close. Cities will fall. And few can stand in Morcoft's way.
Peter Jones has been betrayed by the man he trusted as his own father. Now he is forced to question everything he has ever been told, and learn the truth of his past.
Isidore Thaddeus Reichmann has finally found the person he has hunted all over England for. Yet, not all is as it seems and he begins to fear he might be on the wrong side.
Singur faces down his worst fear and comes out a victor, but the price of his triumph may put the last member of his family in grave danger.
Choices now stand before all three young men and the paths they take will not only change their lives, but the whole world.
Battles are coming. Enemies are made. Friendships are questioned. When the only world you've ever known is a lie, where do you go?

DUN DUN DUN!!!
Here is the wonderful cover!

Author Bio:

Jack Lewis Baillot is Spartacus! She also likes to believe she's an author. She likes to write books, while drinking tea, and likes to read while eating cookies, but she doesn't like to do Math, even while drinking tea and eating cookies.

 

Live long and prosper!

A bunch of things.

Firstly, AH! It came!! =D

Thank you soooo much Jack! It's lovely!

Secondly.... As you may know, blogger has decided to get rid of the "follow this blog" option. So, like many other bloggers out there, I've switched to a site called 'bloglovin' which is a free site that lets you follow all your favorite blogs.
Here is a link to a very helpful post with pictures that tells you just how to use bloglovin.... LINK IS HERE!
So.... if you want to continue following this blog (and my writing one... and everyone else's blogs) go sign up for the easy-to-use bloglovin'! Or save all the blogs you read to your favorite's bar. That works too.

I had a third thing but I forgot what it was... So I guess this is it!

Live long and prosper!

Busiest day EVER!!!!

I don't know what it is about the 14th days of months.... but they always happen to be the busiest.
Last December 14th we had our big choir concert... plus it was the Newtown shooting and Jack's first book came out. My friend got her driver's license... and there were a bunch of other things going on as well.
Well, today has trumped that day as being the busiest in my entire life.
My day started at 7:00AM when I woke up for no apparent reason an hour earlier than my alarm. Of course I couldn't get back to sleep.... so I went and lay in bed with my mom for awhile. Then we got up. By 9:00 we were on the road... to the local homeschool convention. My choir preformed three concerts during the day.... at ten, at one, and at four. So we stayed at the convention all day, walking around looking at curriculum and running into old friends. All the colleges that had booths were pouncing on my friend and I. We would walk past and they would draw us in with something fun (like free pens or candy... one had a paddleball competition going on) and then they would casually ask, "What grade are you girls in?" "We'll be going into 11th," we'd reply. "Have you thought about college yet?" they would slyly inquire.
We did get some good information about a local college, though. We'll have to look into it some more.
After an exhausting morning and afternoon, we had to rush rush rush over to my voice teacher's church for my voice recital. We made it on time! Hurray! Not that it would have been terrible if we were late, since I was the last performer, save one (but she was a surprise because her piece was a father's day gift to her dad).

And now, I present to you, Abbey's singing debut on her blog!

The song is "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the movie My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. My voice is soooo fatigued.... Too much singing this week. And I still have more to do on Sunday!

As well as having an insanely busy day.... I also managed to win a giveaway! (My first one.)
My good friend Miss Jack Lewis Baillot at However Improbable published her second book today! HOORAY!!!!

 

I won a copy... though I'm not altogether sure it's fair since I've already read the book.
That being said... I will also say GO READ THIS BOOK IT IS SO GOOD! It is the first in a new series.... so now Jack has two different series' going on at the same time. One is in the genre Steampunk and this new series is more of a Lord of the Rings style adventure. But it's very, very good. I enjoyed it even more than her Steampunk book Haphazardly Implausible.
You can buy Stretch of Loyalty here and Haphazardly Implausible here.
And while I'm at it.... My friend Kendra published the sequel to her first book the other day as well! You can find her books here.

And now I'm done with my advertising. I'm so tired I can barely think. So sorry if none of the above made any coherent sense.

Live long and prosper! and goodnight.

Eeep!! So excited!!!

This should explain my uncontainable excitement!!!

AHHH! I can't wait to start reading it! But I have to finish the Short Story Collection first.  Eep! So excited! I have a feeling I will be reading a LOT in Canada. =D

Live long and prosper!

P.S. Hee hee sorry for the momentary pause in the video where I'm saying nothing. Something fell and bounced... which made a mysterious ticking noise. I used my super spy deductive skills to figure out it was a piece of candy from the gingerbread house. xD