Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog
Cyn Balog is a normal, everyday Jersey Girl who always believed magical things can happen to us when we least expect them. She's also the Race & Event Manager for several national fitness magazines. She lives outside Allentown, Pennsylvania with her husband and young daughter. Both are 100% human, or so she thinks. FAIRY TALE is her first novel.
I love how your story blends "real life" and fairies. Did you believe in fairies when you were younger? Do you still believe :D?
I think I must have believed in fairies at one point in my life! I look at my daughter and she fully believes Tinker Bell is a real person, though she also believes there's a monster living in her closet and that if she doesn't eat her carrots it will come and get her. I can't say that I believe in them now, though. People seem to think that since I wrote a fairy story, I am obsessed with fairies. I still think they're interesting, yes, but I'm not nearly as in to them as people seem to think I should be. But Fairy Tale is really, at heart, about a girl who loves a guy that just happens to be "Mr. Wrong"--the fairy thing is secondary. I never say never, but I highly doubt I'll ever write another fairy book!
If you could visit any place and time for a week, where and when would it be?
I haven't had a vacation in FOREVER... no money, no time. I would just love to take the kids to Disney World. Circa now.
I hope you can go somewhere soon! :D
Do you ever experience writer's block?
I really don't experience writer's block anymore, especially on a deadline. I used to experience it all the time, but then again, nothing was compelling me to write-- it was a hobby. When you treat it like a business, you HAVE to push through writer's block, no matter how painful. And to do that, you write through the crap.
What elements make up a perfect writing space for you?
I don't have time or money to create a perfect writing space. Yes, I would like to write from some exotic locale but that isn't happening on my salary. And I would like to brew myself tea but I only get 20 minutes to write every day, on my lunch hour. Professionals are used to getting work done from drab, dreary cubicles. You tune your surroundings out and just concentrate on getting the work finished.
Thanks for stopping by!
About Fairy Tale
Morgan Sparks and Cam Browne are a match made in heaven. They've been best friends since birth, they tell each other everything, and oh yeah- they're totally hot for each other. But a week before their joint Sweet Sixteen bash, everything changes. Cam's awkward cousin Pip comes to stay, and Morgan is stunned when her formerly perfect boyfriend seems to be drifting away. When Morgan demands answers, she's shocked to discover the source of Cam's distance isn't another girl- it's another world. Pip claims that Cam is a fairy. No, seriously. A fairy. And now his people want Cam to return to their world and take his rightful place as Fairy King.
Determined to keep Cam with her, Morgan plots to fool the fairies. But as Cam continues to change, she has to decide once and for all if he really is her destiny, and if their "perfect" love can weather an uncertain future.
Visit Cyn at http://www.cynbalog.com
Or buy her book at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Lust-Cyn-Balog/dp/0385737068/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225896455&sr=8-1
I love how your story blends "real life" and fairies. Did you believe in fairies when you were younger? Do you still believe :D?
I think I must have believed in fairies at one point in my life! I look at my daughter and she fully believes Tinker Bell is a real person, though she also believes there's a monster living in her closet and that if she doesn't eat her carrots it will come and get her. I can't say that I believe in them now, though. People seem to think that since I wrote a fairy story, I am obsessed with fairies. I still think they're interesting, yes, but I'm not nearly as in to them as people seem to think I should be. But Fairy Tale is really, at heart, about a girl who loves a guy that just happens to be "Mr. Wrong"--the fairy thing is secondary. I never say never, but I highly doubt I'll ever write another fairy book!
If you could visit any place and time for a week, where and when would it be?
I haven't had a vacation in FOREVER... no money, no time. I would just love to take the kids to Disney World. Circa now.
I hope you can go somewhere soon! :D
Do you ever experience writer's block?
I really don't experience writer's block anymore, especially on a deadline. I used to experience it all the time, but then again, nothing was compelling me to write-- it was a hobby. When you treat it like a business, you HAVE to push through writer's block, no matter how painful. And to do that, you write through the crap.
What elements make up a perfect writing space for you?
I don't have time or money to create a perfect writing space. Yes, I would like to write from some exotic locale but that isn't happening on my salary. And I would like to brew myself tea but I only get 20 minutes to write every day, on my lunch hour. Professionals are used to getting work done from drab, dreary cubicles. You tune your surroundings out and just concentrate on getting the work finished.
Thanks for stopping by!
About Fairy Tale
Morgan Sparks and Cam Browne are a match made in heaven. They've been best friends since birth, they tell each other everything, and oh yeah- they're totally hot for each other. But a week before their joint Sweet Sixteen bash, everything changes. Cam's awkward cousin Pip comes to stay, and Morgan is stunned when her formerly perfect boyfriend seems to be drifting away. When Morgan demands answers, she's shocked to discover the source of Cam's distance isn't another girl- it's another world. Pip claims that Cam is a fairy. No, seriously. A fairy. And now his people want Cam to return to their world and take his rightful place as Fairy King.
Determined to keep Cam with her, Morgan plots to fool the fairies. But as Cam continues to change, she has to decide once and for all if he really is her destiny, and if their "perfect" love can weather an uncertain future.
Visit Cyn at http://www.cynbalog.com
Or buy her book at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Lust-Cyn-Balog/dp/0385737068/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225896455&sr=8-1