Meet Kalli Lanford: This Week's Treasured & Tipsy Timeslip Traveller
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Please join this week's guest, Kalli Lanford, a native of San Diego, California, who grew up hanging out at the beach and playing sports. When she’s not nerding out at San Diego Comic-Con, she can be seen doing normal-people stuff like teaching high-school English, cooking delicious meals for her family, and attending her son’s football games. In her spare time, she writes new adult fiction and loves listening to hard rock. She hopes to live long and prosper, and that you will, too. #Travel #AuthorInterview #TreasuredTipsyTimeslip #RachaelStapleton
The majority of GAMMA RIFT takes place on a planet called Enestia after America, the main character, is abducted by aliens and taken there. Enestia is ruled by King Meallian. He lives in an expansive palace that includes a lab and cell block. His son, Prince Garran, also resides there along with his sister, Princess Murelle. While writing this book, I wished so badly that I could go to some of the places I describe in my novel. Of course, that would be impossible, but every time I re-read it, I go there in my head. Here are some of those places. To win a free copy of this book, enter the contest at the bottom of the page.
1. Enestia
Enestia is a planet three galaxies away from earth. It has two suns that burn the sky a beautiful magenta and it rains several times day. The average temperature in human measures is 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Due to these unusual climate conditions, a beautiful, fragrant moss, called jessom moss, covers the ground. Oil extracted from jessom is used to perfume many things on Enestia such as soap, shampoo, and other body and hair-care products. The landscape is also incredibly lush, and although there are scattered clearings, the majority of the planet’s surface is shaded by expansive trees.
2. The Ring of Reverence
The Ring of Reverence is a very sacred place on Enestia. A ring of stone statues encircle a small clearing near the palace. Each statue represents a member of the Enestian Royal House and is commissioned by an artist after a royal’s death. Royals are the only Enestians allowed to enter this memorial. Garran takes America to the Ring of Reverence, and they share a very special, life-changing moment there.
3. The Royal Palace
Being hundreds of years old, the palace has maintained its historical integrity although many upgrades have been made as new technologies replaced the old, such as virtual monitors in every room, plasma containment walls, and integrated computer systems. Enestian architecture is simple yet practical, and defined by high, curved ceilings dotted with lights. Like their buildings, Enestian furniture is dictated by clean lines and little adornment. Newer buildings have had their stone exteriors reinforced with an indestructible metal, but the palace will never see that renovation.4. The Cuyamaca Mountains/Julian
I’ve been to the Cuyamaca Mountains many times, but the last time was years ago. This mountain range is east of San Diego and part of the Cleveland National Forest although Garran would describe its location like this: 32 degrees 56’31”N, 116 degrees 36,14”W. Since I’ve been writing about this awesome camping destination, I would love to go there again. Julian, a former mining town, is in the north section of the Cuyamacas. Gold was discovered in the Cuyamacas in 1870 and was part of the gold rush. Now the town is known for its small-town, country atmosphere and famous apple pies. America, was camping with her friends in these mountains when she was abducted by aliens. But had this not happened, I can guarantee that she and her friends would have drove into Julian for a day of shopping and apple cider.
5. Area 51/Roswell, New Mexico
I know I would never be allowed to enter the compound, so being miles away from the facility is as close as I’ll ever get to an extraterrestrial – if some are being kept there.
Kalli
Lanford
Release Date: August 18
Genre: New Adult
Publisher: Entangled Embrace
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Book Description:
His
secret (alien) crush...
I may be a Prince, but there are
things that trouble me about my father's royal rule-the forced abduction,
experimentation, and torture of alien creatures. The king has a new prisoner
who's a carefully kept secret...
There's a young female who
belongs to a little-known civilization I have been studying extensively. They
are human, belonging to a small, undeveloped planet called Earth. She is pretty
in a way I find unusual and compelling. Sometimes I sneak into the adjoining
cell and we talk about everything and nothing, even as I find myself yearning
to touch her strange, soft skin.
Skin that is being subjected to
invasive tests and experiments. A body that's scheduled for a live dissection
in fifteen days. And a life that will be terminated unless I risk my future and
life to help her escape...
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About
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Kalli Lanford, a native of San
Diego, California, grew up hanging out at the beach and playing sports. When she’s not nerding out at San Diego
Comic-Con, she can be seen doing normal-people stuff like teaching high-school
English, cooking delicious meals for her family, and attending her son’s
football games. In her spare time, she writes
new adult fiction and loves listening to hard rock. She hopes to live long and prosper, and that
you will, too.
Author Website: www.authorkallilanford.com
Author Twitter: @kallilanford
Author Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorkallilanford
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