Sierra Terry ~ an interview and her novel ~ The Longest Knight

 I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME AUTHOR

Sierra N. Terry

Author Bio:
Born and raised in Central Virginia, there was almost no chance I could have grown up NOT being creative. My mother was and still is, highly creative with her drawings and poetry and she always encouraged me to pursue my work even if she didn't always like my subject matter!

I realized pretty young I loved to draw and read and despite all the encouragement I had I somewhat put my creativity on the back burner until a few years ago. No job ever interested me like art and storytelling does so in my mid 20s I started my comic again and worked on it like my second job! Since then I finished drawing the comic, wrote 5 fantasy novels and more recently put all my works under my business name Sailorfrill Studio as well as started selling at anime, book or comic conventions.

BANTER – STUFF ABOUT YOU
Q: When you think of a garden, do you picture vegetables or flowers?
A: Flowers of course! I always think of big beautiful flower gardens that I love to visit, probably because I find them so picturesque.

Q: Bedtime, relaxing so you can sleep sounds. Is your preference, white noise, TV, soft music, ocean waves, forest or meadow sounds, babbling brook, or something else?
A: I like a mix actually! I turn to soft music first but I have had things like ocean waves or rain playing too.

Q: Have you ever been too embarrassed to promote any certain titles to friends or family?
A: I’m a little embarrassed for the first two books I have published only because they are both adult/erotica. I’m actually excited for my next book to come out so I have something other than smut! Haha~

Q: Texting, love it or hate it?
A: Love it! Mostly because I can type faster on my phone than I can on a computer so as you might guess, I do a lot of my writing for my books on my phone. It just LOOKS like I’m texting when really I’m writing or editing fantasy novels 90% of the time.

BOOKS – ABOUT THE CRAFT

Q: When did you start writing and why?
A: I’m not sure. I started drawing and it was just natural to put stories to them. When in school writing a short story was impossible! I just kept going! I guess I can say it started around the time I started drawing which was 11 or so and I did it because it’s awesome~

Q: Have your characters ever taken the story in a different direction than you had originally planned? Do you have a for instance, for us?
A: Absolutely! My first novel was supposed to be a novella but did my characters take that? NOPE! My princess and her knight demanded a full blown novel and I ended up adding so much to it that it’s full length now.

Q: How long does it take you to create a novel?
A: I thought it took me a long time to write a novel but apparently it’s only 2 or 3 month. Now if you include the illustrations I like to put in then it’s about a year!

Q: Do you like to read the genre that you write?
A: That’s a funny thing about me! I write romance but I don’t watch or read it! I’m not even sure how I got into writing it when I never sought it out!

BOOKS - NOW LETS PROMOTE – STRUT YOUR STUFF

Q: What are you working on now? Would you like to share anything about it?
A: Right now I’m working on the edits and artwork for the second novel in my novel series, Beneath the Surface. A fantasy romantic adventure about a knight and a mermaid.

Q: Do you have a new book coming out soon? Tell us about it.
A: Beneath the Surface is going to come out around June of this year! (so long as I don’t get picked up by a publisher) It’s about a knight’s run in with a mermaid that’s in trouble, strange dreams about her that haunt him, and the romance that develops between them along the way.

Q: How can we find you? Do you have a web page, FaceBook page or any buy links?
A: I sure do!

Buy Links:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07MHMVWR5/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Social Media Links:
https://m.facebook.com/The-Four-Kingdoms-Series-1483070485114684
https://m.facebook.com/Sailorfrill-Studio-1709058219132678/
https://www.instagram.com/sailorfrill/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17797637.Sierra_Terry

Q: Are you currently participating in a blog tour? If you are let’s tell everyone where you’re going to be so they can catch up with you again.
A: Nope, not yet! Keep a look out on my social media pages because I may may have a book tour soon!

Synopsis: 
The Longest Knight is an erotic romantic fantasy Illustrated novel about Princess Milena and the love she carries for the one and only Werewolf knight in her kingdom.

After three long years of war with the Borras Kingdom, Princess Milena is sent away in secret by her father to her grandparent's house for her personal safety and she gets to bring none other than the wolf that holds her affections. With the road full of enemy soldiers, wild animals and the threat of being discovered, can the pair make the three day long ride there unharmed? Or will the dangers of war tear them apart before Milena ever has a chance to tell her knight her heart's desire?

Excerpt:
It's subtle but The Princess's body shakes all over, she's terrified and is growing more scared to move at all. Without warning the drooling wolf lunges for The Princess, opening its mouth wide so they could see all of its jagged teeth. The Princess screams as Dagger yanks her out of the path of the wolf and blocks its attack with his armor's arm plate.

The animal jumps back after biting into the cold metal then came back in a split second and mauls on the part of Dagger's arm that isn't covered in armor.

“N-no....” she watches in horror as Dagger struggles to get it away from his body.

He eventually just punches it with his unharmed hand and that is enough to disorient it for a minute or two. Blood squirts out of Dagger's new injury randomly and she could see from behind him the massive pain it causes him. His hand hovers over the wound, unsure what to do about it. The drooling wolf is back on its feet again and attacks Dagger once more. This time Dagger brought his sword out and slices the beast in two, ending its life with one fell swoop.

He stands there panting for a minute, taking in what just happened then looks back at The Princess. She still looks scared and the flower has fallen out of her hair but otherwise, she's unhurt. Dagger still feels some guilt, he didn't want to have to kill the thing in front of her, but he didn't see a choice. He picks up the halved animal and tosses its remains in the river to be carried away out of sight. As he watches it float away while holding his injured arm, he wonders if that's how people saw him at first: as a wild animal that would attack them at any point for no reason.

“Dagger!!” The Princess rushes over, hugs him then brought her attention to his arm. “Oh, Gods! That thing bit up your arm so badly! You said it was probably infected with something! You have a healing potion, right?! I remember all the knight's armor were redesigned to have a special compartment for healing potions years ago, so please tell me you have one!” she pleads with him, her voice still shaky.

“Yes, yes I have one Princess...”

“Please! Take it quickly!”

Dagger slips his hand into his armor's breastplate and pulls out the small bottle. The Princess made sure he drank all of it and watches as the wound clears up in a matter of minutes. The Princess's eyes grow misty as she uses her handkerchief to wipe his fur clean of his leftover blood. It's too much blood for the little bit of fabric and she really isn't doing much but ruining it.

“Gods, I never wanted you to get hurt over me! I'm so sorry...”

“What? Princess, please don't fret over me! And your handkerchief, you don't need to do that!” Dagger stops her hand by touching it gently then he notices the tears that are streaming down her cheeks. “No...don't waste your tears on me...again...”

She hugs him again, longer this time and Dagger stood there, debating if he should hug her back. Right as he is about to place an arm around her, she looks up at him, cups his face in her hands to bring him down to her height and kisses him. Shock overtakes him, and his mind goes completely blank. The kiss only lasts a few seconds before The Princess pulls away from him and covers her mouth, shock, and disturbance painted on her face.

“I didn't quite mean to do that...” she says clutching the skirt of her blue dress. The Princess turns her back to him and slowly heads towards the horse. “We should go now.”

Dagger stays there frozen in place, watching her get closer and closer to her horse. His heart is beating faster now than when he was fighting the wolf. He's confused, shocked, a little aroused and somewhat irritated. When The Princess reaches the white horse Dagger finally found the nerve to move and rushes over to her. He grips her hand, making her stare up at him.

“What...why..!” Dagger keeps starting to say something, but he just never seems to be able to finish.

The Princess waits for him, she wants him to say something about it. She wants him to demand an answer from her, but he must have lost his nerve and releases her with his eyes planted on the ground.

“Just wait a moment, Princess.”

Dagger goes back to their picnic spot and gathers up all the things they brought out and packs it all up and put it back on the horse. When he finishes with that he stops and holds his hand out to The Princess, looking to help her back onto the horse as well. However, she notices he never looks at her.

'Oh, Gods....he's not looking at me. Why isn't he looking at me?' she asks herself as she takes his hand and settles into the saddle.

Surprisingly Dagger hops onto the horse in front of her as well. No warning, he never said anything, he just got on and starts the horse back into the forest towards the road. The Princess is amazed he didn't ask like before but is still more preoccupied with his lack of looking at her.

'He couldn't be angry about it, right? Why would anyone be? Unless...what if he doesn't think of me that way? We did kind of grow up together...what if he just sees me as a sister?' That thought had never crossed her mind until now. She spent so long dreaming of him that the possibility of him having nothing but innocent feelings for her just never came up. 'Ugh...I'm soo stupid.' The Princess thought as she wraps her arms around his waist again.

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