UFI welcomes Pippa Jay. Thanks for Joining us!!
What can you tell my readers about yourself that they might not know from
looking on your bio or reading in another interview?
My nickname as a teen was
Dormouse for my habit of curling up in a nest of blankets when sleeping.
What do you enjoy doing on your down time?
I love to watch and read scifi, do
some sewing (mostly cosplay outfits), draw a bit, make graphics and mock up
covers for my books, sing, do freestyle street dance for fitness, spend time
with my family, and I have a pet leopard gecko and five bantam chickens to look
after.
What is your favorite part of writing?
Creating new worlds. Honestly, who
wouldn’t enjoy that?!
Do you have any certain routines you must follow as you write?
Not really.
I’m a pantser, and my writing method is chaotic and non-linear, so it’s a case
of take my new shiny idea and get stuck in.
What are some of your Favorite books or Authors in the Urban Fantasy/
Paranormal Genres?
I just read Scorched by Erica Hayes (Superhero/UF), which I
really enjoyed. Also loved the Embers series by Lauri Owen, and the Hunted
series by Elle Hill.
How would you pitch No Angel to someone who has not heard of it before?
Think
Bladerunner but with angels and demons instead of replicants.
Can you tell us a little bit about the world that No Angel is set in?
It’s
about a hundred years in the future, and humanity is able to travel the stars.
Mortal kind aren’t aware angels and demons are still around, but they are and
have embraced technology along with humans, although perhaps a little slower.
This story is set in City Above, while my main character Lucien is a denizen of
City Below, perhaps better known as Hell. The setting is somewhat gloomy, with
bits of future technology popping up throughout.
Do you have a favorite scene in No Angel?
Several, but the one that tickles
me the most is when Lucien is face to face with His Infernal Highness, being
given orders to hunt an angel. I had this weird idea of who I wanted to play
Satan, so I had fun writing it and seeing some of the responses from my beta
readers.
Which character was your favorite to write about? What about the hardest to
write about?
I loved writing Lucien, the main character. I’d never really
written a character who not only embraced his sexuality but reveled in it. The
hardest was Miranda, because she’d been quite a shadowy figure in my mind, and I
didn’t want her coming across as too cold and remote just because she’s an
angel.
What Other Projects can we look forward to reading from you?
I have a YA
dystopian romance releasing in April 2015, plus the re-release of my debut scifi
romance novel and its sequel.
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After spending twelve years working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and
Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay is now a stay-at-home mum who writes scifi and
the supernatural. Somewhere along the way a touch of romance crept into her work
and refused to leave. In between torturing her plethora of characters, she
spends the odd free moment playing guitar very badly, punishing herself with
freestyle street dance, and studying the Dark Side of the Force. Although
happily settled in the historical town of Colchester in the UK with her husband
of 21 years and three little monsters, she continues to roam the rest of the
Universe in her head.
Pippa Jay is a dedicated member of the
Science Fiction Romance Brigade,
blogging at
Spacefreighters
Lounge,
Adventures in Scifi,
and
Romancing the Genres.
Her works include YA and adult stories crossing a multitude of subgenres from
scifi to the paranormal, often with romance, and she’s one of eight authors
included in a science fiction romance anthology—
Tales from the SFR
Brigade. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the
Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3rd place), and the GCC RWA Silken Sands
Star Awards (2nd place).
Find Pippa and her books
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No Angel
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How far would you fall for love?
Centuries ago, guardian angel Lucien committed a terrible sin. He gave in to
his own desires and revealed himself to the mortal woman he'd been charged to
protect. By kissing her, he condemned himself. Torn of his wings and his angelic
powers, thrown down into the City Below, Lucien now serves Satan as an incubus
who claims souls for his master from the City Above, and who feeds on the energy
stolen from his mortal lovers. Dark, sexy, and charming, he's been top of his
league for decades uncounted.
Until His Infernal Highness decides to send Lucien looking for a lost angel.
Lucien has no idea what he did to deserve such a punishment, since the touch of
an angel could destroy him. Yet the challenge and the potential kudos of
seducing one of his former heavenly kin leads him on.
But when he finds the angel, he learns he still has more to lose than his
already forsaken soul.
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Excerpt:
A couple of centuries ago, Lucien mused, he would've been forced to use the
treacherous spiraling staircase that led down to Hell. Stone stairs that were
covered in slime, cracked and shifting underfoot, with no handrail for safety,
and no chance to withdraw. No light other than the lurid red glow from beneath.
For those poor mortals travelling that way, the redness would have increased in
step with the temperature as they descended, to the point where both would
become unbearable, leaving them desperate to retreat. But then most would tumble
headlong down the stairs long before being able to turn back, to lie broken and
bleeding at the bottom. That would merely be the first taste of all the torments
to come.
Instead, Lucien rode in the luxury of an elevator into the bowels of Hades,
Hell, Purgatory—whatever mortals chose to name it. As one of its denizens, he
had little to fear from such a trip Down Below. At least, normally he wouldn't.
Tonight was different. He'd been summoned.
Lucien hunched deeper into his leather jacket, hands thrust into his pockets
and the collar turned up around his neck, though not from cold. In all his years
as an incubus, the big boss had never asked to see him before. He couldn't think
of anything he'd done lately to warrant such attention. Or anything he hadn't
done. There were plenty of lewd and despicable acts he'd committed. Things even
the darkest of human minds couldn't possibly conceive, and several times over.
That was his job after all. What else did anyone expect of a demon, for Hell's
sake?
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