✯BOOK BLITZ:✯ Incandescently by Sylvie Parizeau { Q&A + GIVEAWAY!}

Incandescently by Sylvie Parizeau

Release Date: October 22nd 2016

Series: Incandescent #1

Genres: New Adult, Romance

LIAM O’SHEA, bestseller author of the SciFi saga, Eiloe.

All I knew was pain – a childhood filled with cruelty and villains who used and abused.

Until Éolie.

I first heard her sweet, angelical voice in the dark of night, when I lay bathed in my own impending death. Seventeen years later, it’s not the nightmare she pulled me out of that haunts me, but the glimpse of Happily Ever After she revealed just before disappearing.

They said she was a figment of my boundless imagination. A wish. A dream. Until I had no choice but to believe them, cherishing my imaginary savior the only way I knew how – in fiction and lore.

But fantasy has a way of transforming reality. When I finally tire of being a citizen of the world, I take an impromptu sabbatical as a professor at a small college on the coast of Maine. And there I see her, the girl with the sea-green eyes and angelic voice.

My world turns upside down. Turns out my girl is for real, and the pull between us is anything but imaginary.

Happily Ever After has a story … and this one is mine.

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{Q&A}

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

I was born and raised in Montréal (Québec), the world’s second-largest French-speaking city (ever heard of Paris by any chance?;).

Want to explore Montréal?

http://caen-keepexploring.canada.travel/places-to-go/montreal#/?galleryItemId=200010105

Montréal is a pretty cool city. However, back in those years, I admit to existing through the winter months only to come truly alive in the summer time (La Belle Saison), running free at a lake cottage up in Les Laurentides, where I now live full time.

Happily Ever After. No longer winter challenged. Virtually hugging trees every morning.

THE FAVORITES? (Oh, no. Do I have to?)

What is your favorite book?

You mean... I only get to pick one? That’s just... so cruel.

I have lots of favorite books and authors within my favorite genre, ANYTHING ROMANCE. In an ever-growing list that took on a life of its own.

I’m not kidding. For a short and sweet sampling, visit Mes Coups de Coeur (http://www.sylvieparizeau.com/mes-coups-de-coeur-indie/) whenever you feel like it.

For as long as I can remember, I have always been a bookworm. The shy one, the quiet one. I have older siblings and by the time I came around, I fortuitously had access to an extensive library already. Books fascinated me from then on, and even though I couldn’t read any of them yet, I used to get lost in stories I made up just from the images for hours on end.

Add to it that my favorite Saturday afternoons in the winter time were spent at the public library, in a tête-à-tête with shelves upon shelves of books, and voilà. You have me in a nutshell.

And then... E-books happened.

Browsing anytime, on my time? Downloading books in just one click? Even from under my rock, on top of a mountain, in a forest, in the middle of nowhere? With a full library of my beloved neatly following me wherever I go? With minimal imprint on trees I virtually hug every morning? And here I am, revolutionized.

Anticipation? Character building.

Instant book gratification? Decadent bliss.

Les favorites en vrac :

favorite color : blue, from the lightest azure to the darkest navy, and all the nuances in between.

favorite dish: anything pasta.

favorite time of the day: cuddling time.

favorite snack: aaaaah! Keep me far away from Cheetos. Bad Sylvie.

favorite keyboard keys: Ctrl,S.

favorite flowers: wild myosotis, lavender, echinacea, wild daisies.

favorite day of the week: Saturday.

favorite plants: ferns, moss.

favorite mood: happy.

favorite people: romance book readers.

WHAT IS YOUR WRITING RITUAL LIKE?

I have a writing/reading nook upstairs with a window seat, and a view of the forest. A view I’m more than happy to share en direct from my winter wonderland on my home page.

It’s a quiet room. A peaceful room. When I step into that room, I step into an alternate universe, and it puts me in the frame of mind needed. I let the surrounding beauty infuse me.

Sometimes, depending on my mood, I plug in headset earphones to immerse myself in background music. Mostly without lyrics, otherwise, I get lost into the story unfolding within the song.

Beyond that, I don’t require much else to keep me going for hours on end. I get by with only a shot of organic guarana caffeine once in a while (okay, maybe more than once in a while. I’ll never tell.).

WHAT INSPIRES YOU?

Life. Love. Laughter.

The written words.

Art, in its many forms.

Man’s creative genius.

The Earth’s abundant, natural wonders.

Breathing in the moment, letting it seep, blending into it.

AUTHOR BIO:

A paralegal by day and incurable romantic by night, Sylvie is a cross-genre, and she takes Happily Ever After very seriously. The End just isn’t in her vocabulary.

An incorrigible daydreamer, she now feeds her obsession with epilogues by concocting stories in which heroes deal with the happy from the get-go. Ready, or not. And she confesses under oath to loving every minute of it.

Sylvie lives her own Happily Ever After in the beautiful mountains of Les Laurentides in Northern Quebec, alongside her whole set of characters.

In between treks in their backyard wilderness, you can find them hanging out at www.sylvieparizeau.com 

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