Nancy- Today
I’m interviewing Jessica Kong. Her
book, A Seacat’s Love is a Science Fiction Romance and was released on May
1, 2014. Please
tell my readers a little bit about your book.
Jessica- A Seacat’s
Love takes readers back in time to planet Earth, where Rick McCall is committed
to living the lonely life of a government spy after losing his wife and unborn
daughter due to his own arrogance and poor decisions. Leonora, one of the top scientists on the planet
of Oceana and a high-ranking Seacat Warrior, is a humanoid feline who has come
to Earth to study human evolution and find similarities between earthlings and
oceanans. But her expedition’s camp is stormed by the human army. Now committed to helping Leonora remain safely
out of the clutches of a wrongful government and find a way back to her home
planet, Rick faces many difficult choices—but he doesn’t want to repeat the
past and make another devastatingly wrong decision.
Nancy- Describe
the genre of this particular title, and is this the only genre you write
in?
Jessica- A Seacat’s Love and
all of my other books fall under Science Fiction Romances. Some of my titles
will have my version of a paranormal twist added in for extra pizzazz.
Nancy- Did
you have several manuscripts finished before you sold?
Jessica- Yes I did.
Nancy- Did you send them out yourself?
Jessica- I will have to admit, I only sent out
several inquiries to publishing houses.
I was not in the position to give my full attention to pursuing my
writing career at that time. Now that my kids are older, I am able to take my
love of writing to the next level and self-publish my stories.
Nancy- What
is your writing routine like?
Jessica- I have a crazy routine. Since I have three active kids, my writing
routine is sitting in my car and typing my stories into my laptop. When I’m at
home, I will either be hiding in my office typing away on my laptop, or if I’m
tired of sitting, I will be in bed clicking away on the keys until 2 or 3
o’clock in the morning, then I start again the next day. I will never complain
because I love my kids and writing.
Nancy- What
sort of promo do you do? Do you have help?
Jessica- I do all of my promotions since hiring help cost money
and I have a limited budget. I try to use
the social networks, but I feel that I’m not using them to the fullest. I am
trying to squeeze in time to set up interviews like this one with you. I am now looking into participating in public
book signing events. And I try to host online author sale events. My problem is finding the time to do the
research on where to participate.
Nancy- Having
achieved your goal to be a published author, what is the most rewarding thing?
Jessica- Hands down, the most rewarding thing for me
is all the positive reviews my books are receiving. I am so happy that readers
are enjoying the crazy things that are in my head.
Please Share three fun facts about you
that most people don’t know.
1)
I love to attend Anime Conventions with my daughter
2)
I love to dress up in costumes with my daughter
3)
I love to play video games with my kids
What’s next for you?
Jessica- My
goal is to attend book fairs and publish the second installment in the Oceanan
Saga entitled A Seacat’s Challenge.
BOOK BLURB
In the first book
of the Sea-anan Saga, A Lost Kitten, readers meet John McCall. The second book,
A Forgotten Kitten, features Areo McCall. Both of these intriguing protagonists
are children of an intergalactic marriage. Now, fans of the saga will be
thrilled to learn the story of how their parents get together.
A Seacat’s Love takes readers back in time to planet Earth, where Rick McCall is committed to living the lonely life of a government spy after losing his wife and unborn daughter due to his own arrogance and poor decisions.
Leonora, one of the top scientists on the planet of Oceana and a high-ranking Seacat Warrior, is a humanoid feline who has come to Earth to study human evolution and find similarities between earthlings and oceanans. But her expedition’s camp is stormed by the human army.
Rick and Leonora first encounter each other at a secret military lab during the cat woman’s attempt to escape her captors. When she collides with Rick in a corridor, Leonora begs for his help, claiming that the government has been experimenting on her, and one look into the frightened feline’s pale-blue eyes is enough to stir the hardened spy’s heart. For Leonora, the spark ignites in her chest after Rick dares to defy his government and his own commanding officer to aid her and her colleague Tigif. She recognizes the nobility in this selfless act of helping strangers—aliens from another world, no less!
Now committed to helping Leonora and Tigif remain safely out of the clutches of a wrongful government and find a way back to their home planet, Rick faces many difficult choices—but he doesn’t want to repeat the past and make another devastatingly wrong decision. His relationship with Leonora grows in fits and starts, constantly undermined by Tigif’s devious plots, and Leonora is threatened by Tigif’s increasingly forceful advances. As they avoid a massive government dragnet, fight off dangerous feline fevers, and try to retrieve the aliens’ ship, heated emotions of jealousy, distrust, and resentment that arise in the confusion put their very lives in jeopardy.
Author Jessica Kong seamlessly blends multiple themes into her Sea-anan Saga and Oceanan Trilogy books, including loyalty, racism, family, and love. In A Seacat’s Love, the theme of multiracial relationships is particularly prominent, where the difference in race between the two protagonists is exaggerated to galactic proportions. As in all of the volumes in the series, this book shows how fundamentally similar we all really are when it comes to our basic needs, desires, and even cultures.
But readers don’t have to be fans of the saga to enjoy A Seacat’s Love. The
A Seacat’s Love takes readers back in time to planet Earth, where Rick McCall is committed to living the lonely life of a government spy after losing his wife and unborn daughter due to his own arrogance and poor decisions.
Leonora, one of the top scientists on the planet of Oceana and a high-ranking Seacat Warrior, is a humanoid feline who has come to Earth to study human evolution and find similarities between earthlings and oceanans. But her expedition’s camp is stormed by the human army.
Rick and Leonora first encounter each other at a secret military lab during the cat woman’s attempt to escape her captors. When she collides with Rick in a corridor, Leonora begs for his help, claiming that the government has been experimenting on her, and one look into the frightened feline’s pale-blue eyes is enough to stir the hardened spy’s heart. For Leonora, the spark ignites in her chest after Rick dares to defy his government and his own commanding officer to aid her and her colleague Tigif. She recognizes the nobility in this selfless act of helping strangers—aliens from another world, no less!
Now committed to helping Leonora and Tigif remain safely out of the clutches of a wrongful government and find a way back to their home planet, Rick faces many difficult choices—but he doesn’t want to repeat the past and make another devastatingly wrong decision. His relationship with Leonora grows in fits and starts, constantly undermined by Tigif’s devious plots, and Leonora is threatened by Tigif’s increasingly forceful advances. As they avoid a massive government dragnet, fight off dangerous feline fevers, and try to retrieve the aliens’ ship, heated emotions of jealousy, distrust, and resentment that arise in the confusion put their very lives in jeopardy.
Author Jessica Kong seamlessly blends multiple themes into her Sea-anan Saga and Oceanan Trilogy books, including loyalty, racism, family, and love. In A Seacat’s Love, the theme of multiracial relationships is particularly prominent, where the difference in race between the two protagonists is exaggerated to galactic proportions. As in all of the volumes in the series, this book shows how fundamentally similar we all really are when it comes to our basic needs, desires, and even cultures.
But readers don’t have to be fans of the saga to enjoy A Seacat’s Love. The
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MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jessica Kong is the author of A Lost Kitten and A Forgotten
Kitten, books one and two of the Sea-anan Saga. The major theme in each
series of interracial families is inspired by her own experiences in a
multicultural marriage as well as the experiences of her triplets. She
addresses the issue through the lens of science-fiction characters whose
heritage is of both planet Earth and planet Oceana. Through this literary
device, she can convey the message that society should not judge people without
knowing anything about them, as well as showing how, underneath it all, we are
really all the same.
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