Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend…

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I’m feeling rather bittersweet at the moment about saying goodbye to Rachel Clancy. If you have somehow not heard me shouting to the roof, my Warrior series has ended with the final book in the series, Justice, releasing today.  Initiation, which was the first book in the series, is the book that first led me to Decadent Publishing. 

Book 1

Book 2

The series is four books long and should be read in the correct order, they do not stand alone (as I’ve heard many reviewers complain about lately) so consider yourself warned.  They have to be read in the right order and the whole story is not complete until the end of the fifth book.  The right reading order is Initiation, Driven, Subversive, Redemption, and then Justice.  The story is an urban fantasy tale in a dystopian future where our heroine has to fight for her life against maniacal scientists, werewolves and vampires. She also falls in love and makes some really bad choices (and some good ones) along the way.  She is sixteen years old in the first book and eighteen by the end.

Book 3

Book 4

I loved her, loved writing her, and for a period of time until I said goodbye, she felt like family to me.  I’ve never actually cried finishing a story the way I did when it was time to finish Justice.  Thanks so much for joining me on this wild ride with her.  Have you ever cried to see a favorite character leave a book you’ve written? 

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Hope you are all well!

RR

What Drives You Forward?

by Rebecca Royce

Each time I sit down to write Rachel Clancy, the protagonist of The Warrior series, I find myself answering a question.  In Initiation, the first book in the series, I needed to know what would happen to Rachel when she discovered that the monsters she’d feared her entire life, the ones who existed outside, or Upwards, from where she lived were not necessarily as bad as the ones she knew at home.  What would that do to her? And isn’t it the same for all teenagers?  Doesn’t part of growing up mean reassessing the childhood beliefs that the adults taught you to help you get through the day. Who was Rachel? How would she make it through?  

Rachel impressed me so much.  I didn’t really know what she would do when I sat down to write her story and by the end of it she and I knew each other very well. Although she is in no way me, (She is much braver than I am.) I like her a tremendous amount.   

The next book, I knew, would be more complicated for her because the question plaguing me that would be the momentum for Rachel’s story was hard.  When all hope is gone, what drives you forward?  Because learning that lesson is part of the journey every teenager makes.  In Rachel’s case, the situation is different than teenagers today.  In our world, no one is being asked to fight vampires or werewolves. But we do ask teenagers to handle their peer groups, their coaches, their teachers, and sometimes the expectations of the adults around them as they figure out who they want to be for the rest of their lives. 

Driven is complicated.  But Rachel is magnificent and I can’t wait to tell her next story.   

Here is a blurb below: 

My name is Rachel Clancy. Forty-six years ago, life as humanity understood it ended. Armageddon. Well, that’s what we call it, anyway. What other term works as well to describe the day the Vampires and Werewolves slaughtered nearly all of humanity?




When Rachel Clancy turned sixteen, she inadvertently changed the lives of everyone around her. Now, six months later she has to figure out how to live with what has happened.



Sent back into the wilderness—this time with a new love—she will find herself face-to-face with two people she never thought to see again: the boy she thought she loved and the man who wanted to destroy her since birth. If Rachel can learn what drives her forward, there may be a chance for everyone to start again. If she fails, all is lost.


I hope you’ll join me on Rachel’s journey to adulthood. There is a lot of story left to tell! 

~Rebecca Royce~

Who's Starring in Initiation?

 

Hi everyone, its Rebecca Royce and I’m so excited to be blogging here today because today I get to talk about one of my favorite topics, which is who I would cast in the movie versions of my books! I think about this type of thing all the time. Not because I actually think they will be movies (wouldn’t that be cool if they were?) but because I am sort of setting up small movies in my mind when I write the books.  So without further ado…I will attempt to cast some of the characters from my books “Initiation: The Warrior Book 1” and “Eye Contact” for all of you. 

Initiation…Post-Apocalyptic Paranormal YA book. 

Rachel Clancy: (This is hard because she is the main character of the book and the books in this series are in first person so she really needs to BE Rachel for me.)….Emma Stone.   Why Emma Stone? Because I think she shows the right amount of toughness and vulnerability.  I think she’s hugely talented and, well, she’s a redhead as is Rachel. 

 

Tia Lyons (Rachel’s best friend. Tia’s character really changes between Book 1 and Book 2, for those of you looking for a small spoiler. LOL)…Aimee Teagarden

Jason Kenwood…Tom Felton.  (Can he do an American accent?)

Chad Lyons…Zach Gilford

Keith Endover..Kevin McKidd

Tiffani Endover…Alyssa Milano

Isaac Icahn…John Mahoney

 

 Have you read Initiation? Who would you cast? I think it would be more interesting to hear who other people saw in these roles other than who I imagined!

Eye Contact…setting, modern day America.  Sort of.

Addison Wade…Julia Styles

Spencer Lewis…Justin Timberlake

 

Roman Lewis…Taylor Kitsch

                          

Who would you put in those roles? 

Thanks for letting me play today! See you all soon!!

~Rebecca Royce

Living the Decadent Life!

by Rebecca Royce

Hello! I’m author Rebecca Royce and this is my first time blogging at the Decadent Publishing blog so HELLO and Thank You for having me! While I am new to Decadent Publishing, my first book Initiation, a Young Adult Paranormal, doesn’t have a release date yet, I’m not all that new to publishing and I have to admit, I love to Blog!

Today, I was thinking about Decadence. What does it mean to live a Decadent Life? Does it mean having what you want? Because aren’t we, as good men and women, not supposed to indulge in all of our greatest fantasies?

A good example of this, I suppose, could be illustrated with a television show I was watching while I ate my lunch today. The show is called House Hunters International. It follows couples, usually Americans, on a journey to purchase Real Estate in foreign countries.

Today’s adventures were about a couple who had two children from Idaho. They had sold a bunch of houses they’d fixed up themselves and now they were moving to Honduras and they wanted to buy a beach resort.

I watched, stunned, as they looked at one beach resort after another and contemplated the pros and cons of each resort as both a business and a home. Finally, I realized what it was that had me staring at the television with my mouth open like a landed fish. These people were actually moving from Idaho to do something that most people talk about doing but never ACTUALLY do. And seeing them doing it felt…decadent to me. The idea that people might decide to live the life they want to lead as opposed to the one that would be normal, more standard, is somehow indulgent. They were throwing away their comfortable life in Idaho for a much more adventurous one in Honduras. Heck, I suppose it wouldn’t be too much to say it’s the kind of thing heroes and heroines do in the fiction I read and write. In real life, I know very few people who throw caution to wind and sail off into the sunset. (Especially with a 3 year old and 1 year old with them.)

But, why not? Life is short.

I started to think about this in terms of my own life. Isn’t that exactly what I’m doing? Writing things I hope to get published (like my book coming out with Decadent Publishing!) as opposed to spending that time doing something that might be considered more productive?

So, I decided to applaud the couple from Idaho who have never run a resort before in their journey to Honduras as I embrace my decision to keep writing and telling the stories in my head!

Best to you today! Rebecca Royce