Series: Transcend Time
Saga #1
Publication date: July
27th 2011 Genre:YA Time Travel
Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England ... but she doesn't know it yet.
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Vengeance
Series: Transcend Time Saga #2
Publication date: December 8th 2011Genre:YA Time Travel
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Timeless
Series: Transcend Time
Saga #3
Publication date: November 14th 2012
Genre:YA Time Travel
IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME.
Publication date: November 14th 2012
Genre:YA Time Travel
IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME.
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About The Author
In the fall of
2008, Michelle saw Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” music video for
the first time. She thought up a story to go along with the video,
and wrote the first chapter as a homework assignment for class. Her
classmates and teacher loved it so much that they wanted to know what
happened next, so Michelle continued writing, and that story eventually
became Remembrance,
the first novel in the Transcend Time Saga. She’s so happy to be able
to share this series with you, and hopes you enjoy reading it as much
as she loved writing it!
Check
out her website, www.michellemadow.com, to add her on Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, and her many other social networking sites.
Michelle
lives in Florida, and is hard at work writing more novels for young
adults.
TEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT MICHELLE MADOW
1) I love singing—especially Broadway showtunes! I have a
mediocre voice though, so I was always in the chorus in school plays.
(The high point of my theatre career was when I got the part of Pinocchio
at a local theatre group when I was ten. It was downhill from there.)
If you want to hear me sing, I have an old video on YouTube (www.youtube.com/michellemadow
2) I was in a pre-professional
dance program for ten years. Dance was a HUGE part of my life
until my senior year of high school. I did ballet, jazz, modern, hip-hop,
and some tap. When I was in seventh grade I performed with the Russian
Ballet in “The Nutcracker”—I had the part of one of the little
mice! (When the Russian Ballet tours the country, they cast the children’s
roles separately in each city.) I eventually stopped dance in my senior
year, because my program wanted me to rehearse until 10:30 PM on Friday
nights. I realized I wasn’t going to be a professional dancer, and
that I preferred to have a social life.
3) I
was in a sorority for my first three years of college. I didn’t
plan on doing recruitment, but one of my close friends talked me into
attending a “sorority open house,” where I ended up receiving a
bid to join the sorority. I didn’t have many friends in the beginning
of college, so I decided to join because it would help me branch out.
I’m glad I did, because I met my three closest friends in that sorority,
and they are still my best friends today. I’m not good at following
arbitrary rules though (I question every rule and need to understand
WHY it’s in place if I’m going to follow it) so I got in “trouble”
with the sorority a lot. I wrote Remembrance when I was a junior, and
after signing with an agent in the summer between my junior and senior
year of college, I decided to drop out of the sorority in my senior
year so I could focus more on my writing.
4) I’ve broken both
my ankles—luckily at separate times! The first time was in
fourth grade. I was playing a make-believe game with a friend that involved
fake-flying. I decided to jump out of a tree. Bad decision. The second
time was in sixth grade. I was excited for the end of the school day,
and ran to my mom’s car when she arrived to pick me up. I randomly
decided to do a ballet leap on the way there, but the ground was icy,
and I didn’t land right. Another bad decision.
5) I cannot draw.
Seriously … my drawing/painting skills are pathetic. I can barely
make a stick figure. Something doesn’t compute right when I try to
draw an image. I’m so bad that I can’t even play the game “Draw
Something” because I get so frustrated! Part of the reason I made
Lizzie an artist in Remembrance is because it’s a skill I highly admire,
since I have no concept of how to do it myself.
6) I wish I’d taken
writing seriously at a younger age. I never considered writing
novels as a serious possibility until I was a junior in college. I wish
I could go back in time and tell my fifteen year old self to stop caring
about dance so much (since dance was always a short term goal of mine),
and to think more long-term and start writing novels in high school.
To those of you who are in high school and are already taking writing
seriously, I give you major props. I wish I had been more like you when
I was your age.
7) I tried to play
guitar for years, but was never any good. It’s sad, but true.
You see, my dad and brother both play guitar. They’re not experts,
but they’re good enough so they can play songs and entertain people.
I wanted to be able to do that so badly, so I got a guitar and started
playing when I was in tenth grade. I had trouble with strumming at first,
but I figured I would improve with practice. After two years of practice,
my strumming was still terrible, so I set aside guitar. Then I picked
it back up when I was a junior in college. I practiced almost every
day when I was a junior and senior, but remained awful at strumming.
I could only manage to strum a song right if I focused very hard on
it, but then I couldn’t sing along. Even then, the strumming wasn’t
that great. Eventually, I realized I just wasn’t naturally talented
at guitar, and set it aside again.
8) I was obsessed
with Star Wars in fourth grade. I watched the movies multiple
times, and started a Star Wars action figure collection (that I still
have today). I have a Millennium Falcon for them and everything! In
fourth grade I brought my action figures to school, and insisted my
friends do the same, so we could create make believe stories set in
the Star Wars universe and have our action figures act them out. (Luckily,
I went to a very small school then—I had 12 kids in my grade—and
I somehow managed to make Star Wars cool, so no one thought I was a
total loser.) I can’t imagine what people would have thought of me
if I were in public school!
9) I don’t like
most cold or room temperature foods. I have this (kind of weird)
thing about hot food. I pretty much ONLY eat food that’s hot. I don’t
like cereal for breakfast, and I definitely don’t understand the appeal
of sushi for dinner. (Cold AND uncooked?! Gross.) I’ll occasionally
have a room temperature food as snack (it happens rarely, though). But
I never feel satisfied from a meal unless it’s hot.
10) Discovering that
I wanted to take writing seriously made me grow as a person more than
I had ever thought possible. In high school and the first two
years of college, I worried about what people thought of me. I’ve
never been naturally “cool,” but I wanted to be part of that crowd
so badly that I tried too hard, which resulted in them not liking me.
Then I discovered writing in the beginning of my junior year of college,
and suddenly what people thought of me wasn’t important anymore. I
realized there was no point in trying to be “cool” when there were
tons of other awesome people out there who I had more in common with,
anyway, and I had more fun hanging out with. I stopped caring about
what others thought of me, and learned to be happy and proud of who
I actually am. That realization led to me being happier in those last
two years of college than I was in the first two years of college and
high school combined—and because I was more confident, I ended up
with an awesome group of friends!
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