Strigoikillerr

Let's see, my name is Emily. I'm 22 and love all things fantasy. Faeries, elves, mermaids, vampires, and nymphs are my favorite mythical beings. I've read too many urban fantasy novels to count, and I'm on my way to publish my very first book!

You can find updates on my upcoming book Believe at this site:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Believe/550205254989616




I am currently working on three different novels:
Elfish, Blue Crest, & Believe


Elfish - (YA Epic Fantasy) Takes place in the world of Elfin where a determined high elf struggles to make the most of the cruel life that fate has given her with the help of some unlikely friends.

Blue Crest - (New Adult Urban Fantasy) This book is about a reluctant Siren who lives a dual life of both land and sea. She's half Mermaid and half Nymph, which prompts her to question where her loyalties lie.

Believe - (YA Paranormal Romance) This story is about a seventeen year old girl who sees terrifying, mystical creatures that others cannot. She's forced to ignore the strange, glowing, ethereal beings to have a chance at a normal life. Her sanity is constantly questioned when she meets an absurdly handsome stranger who takes a sudden interest in her.






Thanks for checking out my profile ^^






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Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback?
Paperback

Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Barnes & Noble :)

Bookmark or dog-ear?
Bookmark! Dog-ears ruin the book.

Amazon or brick-and-mortar?
Never heard of brick and mortar, so Amazon!

Alphabetize by author, or alphabetize by title, or random?
My books are just organized by order of favorites on my shelf.

Keep, throw away, or sell?
Keep. Books are my babies :p

Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Keep

Short story or novel?
Novel. Short stories don't really allow the reader to fully fall in love with the characters on a deep level.

Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
Harry Potter

Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
Chapter breaks. (If I stop at all :P)

“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
It was a dark and stormy night.

Buy or borrow?
Buy.

Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
Book reviews on Goodreads

Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
I have a love-hate relationship with cliffhangers. I guess tidy endings if they are good.

Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Nighttime :)

Stand-alone or series?
Series for sure.

Favorite series?
Too hard. Vampire Academy, Blood of Eden, Lux, Penryn & the End of Days

Favorite children’s book?
Harry Potter of course.

Favorite YA book?
Unearthly was a pretty good YA book.

Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
Daughter of Smoke and Bone was pretty good and relatively unknown.


Favorite book read last year?
Immortal Rules

Favorite book of all time?
Has to be Shadow Kiss


What are you reading right now?
Hallowed by Cynthia Hand


What are you reading next?
Opal, Indigo Spell, & Boundless


Favorite book to recommend to an 11-year-old?
The Giver or Harry Potter


Favorite book to re-read?
Vampire Academy or Twilight

Do you ever smell books?
Hahaha.. I love the new book smell.

Do you ever read primary source documents like letters or diaries?
Not really?

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here…

Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The DaVinci Code- Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi- Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo