Short and mostly painless bio:
S.J. Day’s resume includes a variety of odd jobs ranging from amusement park employee to POW interrogator. S.J. is now a full-time novelist, presently working on the MARKED urban fantasy series ( Tor-Forge ).
Longer, possibly too long bio:
This is where I tell you about me, I suppose. Not my favorite thing to do--I find it awkward--but here goes.
I've been a published author for over three years now and have been blessed to have sold 17 novels and several novellas to several different publishers during that time. I've won many awards for my writing and a few of my books have been national bestsellers, but the MARKED series is a whole 'nother animal altogether. It's the most ambitious, exhausting, over-my-head project I have ever had the fortune to tackle. I love it and was once again blessed when I found my editor Heather Osborn and publisher Tor-Forge , who loved the concept as much as I do. They asked me to write the first three books together so they could release them back-to-back in Spring 2009. I’m incredibly grateful for their enthusiasm and faith.
So here I am, a veteran feeling like a newbie. New name, new genre, giant hopes and expectations. I hope you’ll try the MARKED series when it releases in May, June, July 2009. I can promise I put my heart and soul into these books, and I think they’re my best work yet.
No matter what genre I write in, I have a few storytelling "trademarks" -- strong but sympathetic heroine, moments of humor, plot twists, sexual tension (one of my strengths, if I say so myself), vivid descriptions, and breakneck pacing.
I was born in South Central Los Angeles and moved to Orange County, California when I was in the fourth grade. I stayed until my early-20’s, when I joined the U.S. Army Military Intelligence as a Russian Linguist/Interrogator. My family still lives in Orange County. I live a bit further inland now, in a wine valley. (However, I don't drink wine. It gives me a headache.) You’ll see a lot of this history and these settings in the MARKED series, so in many ways it’s very personal. From my heart to your hands, you could say.
Thank you for stopping by, and thank you for reading all the way through to this point. And if you "wishlist" the MARKED books for future purchase, thank you for that, too. I really, truly appreciate it.
S.J.
EVE OF DARKNESS, EVE OF DESTRUCTION, EVE OF CHAOS
publish date -- May, June, July 2009
publisher -- Tor Books
Is it a series: Yes
Will there be more: Yes, back-to-back-to-back
Give us a blurb, a teaser, an opening line:
Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel... All in a day’s work.
For Evangeline Hollis, a long-ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad mystery man has led to a divine punishment: the Mark of Cain.
Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted to kill demons, Eve knows her learning curve must be short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She's also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history...
But she’ll worry about all that later. Right now she’s more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she’d quite never believed she had.
And an excerpt:
http://www.sjday.net/excerpt/
I’m very excited about this series and can’t wait to share it with you! :)
Eve of Darkness
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0765360411/
Now available for pre-order!
Eve of Destruction
http://www.amazon.com/dp/076536042X/
Now available for pre-order!