Welcome to our weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!
Each week we will be interviewing a different YA author
and highlighting their upcoming release!
We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!!
Introducing Peadar O’ Guilin,
YABC’s Author of the Week!!
Irish writer Peadar Ó Guilín is the author of the YA novel, The Call, inspired by the beautiful northwest of Ireland where he grew up.
In September 2007, Peadar published his first novel, The Inferior, which the Times Educational Supplement called “a stark, dark tale, written with great energy and confidence and some arresting reflections on human nature.” Foreign editors liked it too, and over the coming year it is to be translated into eight languages, including Japanese and Korean.
His fantasy and SF short stories have appeared in numerous venues, including Black Gate magazine and an anthology celebrating the best of the iconic Weird Tales. He is currently working on a sequel to The Call.
YABC: What gave you the inspiration to write this book?
The Hunger Games meets horror in this unforgettable thriller where only one thing is certain . . . you will be Called.
Thousands of years ago, humans banished the Sidhe fairy race to another dimension. The beautiful, terrible Sidhe have stewed in a land of horrors ever since, plotting their revenge . . . and now their day has come.
Fourteen-year-old Nessa lives in a world where every teen will be “Called.” It could come in the middle of the day, it could come deep in the night. But one instant she will be here, and the next she will wake up naked and alone in the Sidhe land. She will be spotted, hunted down, and brutally murdered. And she will be sent back in pieces by the Sidhe to the human world . . . unless she joins the rare few who survive for twenty-four hours and escape unscathed.
Nessa trains with her friends at an academy designed to maximize her chances at survival. But as the days tick by and her classmates go one by one, the threat of her Call lurks ever closer . . . and with it the threat of an even more insidious danger closer to home.
Amazon * B & N * Indiebound
The Call
By: Peadar O’ Guilin
Release Date: August 30, 2016
*GIVEAWAY DETAILS*
Five winners will recieve a copy of The Call. (US only)
The Call sounds great!
Hello Peadar, your book sounds chilling, I would love to read it. Thank you
what do you mean the hunger games meets horror!? Wasn’t being forced to fight to the death horrifying enough!? oh I want to know now… 🙂
What authors have inspired your writing?
What inspired the premise? It sounds absolutely stunning and unique
What inspired you to start writing?
Do you like to listen to music as you write or, do you need silence? Do you drink lots of coffee when you write? The book sounds great!
Any authors who influenced your writing?