Year: 2013

Sci-Fi Month – An Interview with Cristin Terrill

Posted November 13, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 11 Comments

Hello Everyone, I have another post for you as part of Sci-Fi Month hosted by Rinn Reads, today I want to share with you a Interview with Cristin Terrill, author of her brilliant debut All Our Yesterdays, which you can see my review here She was very busy, but she took the time to answer my questions for this special event. But before I crack on with the interview here is a little bit about her debut novel…

All Our Yesterdays
By Cristin Terrill
Publisher – Bloomsbury
Release Date – August 1st 2013
Purchase – Amazon | The Book Depository

Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn’t happened yet.

Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other’s anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There’s no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It’s from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that’s about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future.

{An Interview with Cristin Terrill}

1. All Our Yesterdays is one of my first time travel books and I loved it, what inspired you to take on Time Travel as a genre?
I’ve always loved time travel stories, but I never thought about writing one until the idea for ALL OUR YESTERDAYS came to me one night. I couldn’t sleep, so I got up in the middle of the night and turned on the television. The Terminator was playing, and I started drowsily thinking about how the story would have been different if the killer robot from the future was the good guy instead of the villain. Then, because I write YA, I started wondering what it would be like if that character was a teenage girl instead of a robot.

2. Are you a Doctor Who fan and if so which is your favourite timelord? 


I love Doctor Who, so that’s a tough question! I’ve only watched New Who, but even between those three it’s hard to decide. I was a fan of David Tennant’s many years before he became the Doctor (I saw him in a play in London called The Pillowman that I loved so much I saw it five or six times), so I think I have to go with Ten. I adore Eleven too, though!

3. As its Sci-Fi Month, do you have any favourite or aspiring authors or films/TV shows now or when you were younger?
I grew up reading Madeleine l’Engle, Ursula Le Guin, and Lois Lowry, and I still love those books. Stars Wars and The Terminator movies got frequent play at my house, and many of my favorite television shows (like Firefly, Doctor Who, Misfits, and Battlestar Galactica, among others) are science fiction. I actually didn’t realize how much of a sci-fi fan I really was until I took a good look at my DVD collection one day!



4. What research did you have to do in order to create the perfect time travel novel?
Actually, most of the research I did for this book was for things other than the science. Since time travel doesn’t exist, I could just make stuff up and not have to worry about being too accurate! Cassandra is loosely based on the Large Hadron Collider, so I did some research there, but the actual explanation of how time travel is possible in the book is basically wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey nonsense!


A few quick questions:



1. Cybermen or Daleks?
 Daleks! Their seeming non-scariness is what makes them scary.

2. Favourite sci-fi heroine? And was it based on your character Em? 
Tough one, but I’m going to have  o go with Sarah Connor from the Terminator franchise. I wouldn’t say she’s based on her, but Em definitely has a little Sarah Connor DNA inside.


3. Space or Time or Both? Both is obviously the most fun, but I’d go with time if I had to pick just one.

4. If you could visit any time period what would it be? London, 1602. I’d go see the first performances of Hamlet and Twelfth Night in the original Globe Theatre.

5. Finally can you tell us at all, any hints on your next novel as I believe its part of a Dualogy? Or is it a secret? I’m sorry, the future me would come back and kill me if I divulged anything!

  Thank you for joining me today Cristin.


Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this post. 


DON’T FORGET – All UK and Ireland Bloggers, to ENTER my Breathe a Resist Giveaway by Sarah Crossan. 

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Sci-Fi Month: Guest Post & Giveaway by Sarah Crossan

Posted November 8, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 8 Comments
Sci-Fi Month: Guest Post & Giveaway by Sarah Crossan

As part of Sci-Fi Month hosted by Rinn Reads, today I want to share with you a Guest Post by Sarah Crossan who very kindly put together on the World Building of her novels Breathe and Resist. Also Bloomsbury has also allowed me to giveaway 2, yes TWO sets of her books. Find out more at the end of the post… But first here is a little bit about her recent novel, Resist. Resist (Breathe #2) by Sarah Crossan Publisher – Bloomsbury Released – October 8th 2013 The sequel—and conclusion—to Sarah Crossan’s Breathe. Three teen outlaws must survive on their […]

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November is Sci-Fi Month!

Posted November 1, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 6 Comments
November is Sci-Fi Month!

As you have probably guessed over my previous tweets of things bookishly sci-fi, I’m part of a feature month hosted by Rinn Reads. Like Rinn I have been planning these posts as well as various guest posts and reviews to help throughout November. I for one don’t read a lot of Sci-Fi, nor adult nor YA so this has encouraged me to at least tackle The ever-growing TBR pile. So why not join in on the conversation at #RRSciFiMonth or tweet at @SciFiMonth. So let’s kick off Sci-Fi Month in style with a little intro post by yours truly and I’ll look […]

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Girls of YA – All Hallows Halloween

Posted October 24, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 2 Comments
Girls of YA – All Hallows Halloween

Hi everyone! Megan and me have been getting into the Halloween spirit lately, reading loads of paranormal books and obsessing over paranormal shows and, of course, paranormal guys. And so we decided to launch our blog in the biggest and most awesomely Halloween-y way. Everyone, get ready for All Hallows’ Halloween! We’re going to kick the event off with: The Girls’ Paranormal Guys! The Girls’ Favourite Spooky Legends She Says She Says – Joint Review of The Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black She Says She Says Halloween Edition – Our Favourite Paranormal Movies, Shows and More! From Girl to Girl Halloween Edition […]

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Showcase Sunday #22

Posted September 21, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 40 Comments
Showcase Sunday #22

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Vicky at Books, Biscuits & Tea. Its an opportunity to highlight our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. Unfortunately it has been a while since I have done a Showcase Sunday *sighs* but this week I got a little overloaded with books so I thought I would make a one of the best books I have received and looking forward to reading in the next few weeks. Work has also been […]

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Book Review and Film Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Posted September 11, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 11 Comments
Book Review and Film Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1)by Cassandra ClarePublisher – Walker BooksRelease Date – July 2nd 2007Purchase – Amazon | The Book Depository  When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing — not even a smear of blood — to show that a boy […]

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NEW FEATURE: Book of the Week #1

Posted September 4, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 10 Comments
NEW FEATURE: Book of the Week #1

Inspired by my job as a Library Assistant, this feature is to showcase the best book that you either received or reserved from your library this week whilst also promoting your love and support to your local libraries. For more information about this meme, please click here. Hi Everyone and welcome to my very first post of this feature Book of the Week. I would love for you to all join so I have left the linky widget at the end of the post. I got my hands on some pretty looking YA books this week but the aim of […]

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Mini Reviews: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas and Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone

Posted September 2, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 5 Comments
Mini Reviews: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas and Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone

Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2)by Sarah J. MaasPublisher – BloomsburyRelease Date – August 15th 2013Purchase – Amazon | The Book Depository  I never really done a review for Throne of Glass, it was either a mixture of I wasn’t in a blogging mood at the time or I’d simple got so caught up in it that I knew so many of you would have already read, and reviewed it with the similar ideals and expectations like me. Throne of Glass was for me a little tough for me to get into as it was the start of the […]

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Our NEW Blog – The Girls of YA

Posted September 2, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 4 Comments
Our NEW Blog – The Girls of YA

Throughout the Summer I’ve had a little project been going between myself and Megan over at The Book Addicted Girl. We have been Twitter Buddies for quite a while and we’ve had some good laughs and book talks so I decided to see whether she wanted to do a joint blog with me!? I love my own and I wanted to be part of something else as well;  Read, Fangirl and Design together. What could be better. So here is where the Girls of YA has been born today. We will blog weekly with some of the following features below: […]

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