Remembrance
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #1
Publication date: July 27th 2011
Genre:YA Time Travel
Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England ..., but she doesn't know it yet.
Then Drew Carmichael transfers into
Lizzie's high school at the beginning of the year, and she feels a connection
to him, almost like she knows him. She can't stop thinking about him, but
whenever she tries talking with him about the mysteries behind her feelings, he
makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching him is even more
difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has started to become full
of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her
flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So
why can't she get him out of her mind?
Even though Lizzie knows she should let
go of her fascination with Drew, fighting fate isn't going to be easy.
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Vengeance
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #2
Publication date: December 8th 2011
Genre:YA Time Travel
How
far would you go to get revenge?
When Chelsea Givens discovered that her
ex-boyfriend Drew dumped her to be with her former best friend Lizzie, she'd
never felt so betrayed in her life. Then her new friend Shannon tells her she
can help set things right. Chelsea's willing to listen, but what Shannon wants
her to believe -- that she shared a past life with Drew -- is impossible. And
what she wants her to do to get him back … well, it's downright crazy.
Could Shannon be telling the truth? And
if she is, what lengths will Chelsea go if it means making Lizzie pay?
Find out in Vengeance, the second part
of the Transcend Time Saga.
*Vengeance is the short story that
bridges the events in Remembrance and the final novel in the Saga.
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Timeless
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #3
Publication date: November 14th 2012
Genre:YA Time Travel
IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME.
In Remembrance, Lizzie and Drew changed
the course of fate so they could be together.
In Vengeance, Chelsea set fate back on
its original, deadly path.
Now, strange things keep happening to
Lizzie. Things that are omens of darkness to come. A curse has doomed her to
die an early death, just as she did in her past life. To make matters worse,
even if she can figure out who cast the curse, it's irreversible. There's only
one option left for her to save herself. It's crazier than anything she's heard
yet, and to do it, she'll need Drew and Chelsea's help.
Because to make things right, they must
go back to when it all began ... and Lizzie discovers that the final events in
her past life were more sinister than she ever imagined.
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Here are all the purchase links:
Remembrance
Vengeance
Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Vengeance-Transcend-Time-1-5/book-V59w3WragEaGhurbnin6iw/page1.html
Timeless
Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Timeless-Transcend-Time-2/book-8ET8jl0Yx0G5W6fobO5DpQ/page1.html
Transcendence is now available for FREE download on SMASHWORDS . . .it contains bonus features from the books, interviews with the characters, author interviews and MUCH MORE!!! So if you love this series go grab a copy!! . . Here is just an example of what you will find in there . . .
Here is the download
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Trancendence posts by Michelle Madow
Trancendence posts by Michelle Madow
Here is a collection of “This or That” questions I’ve answered from
Drew’s point of view for interviews.
Day or night?
Night.
Dog or cats?
I’ve never had a pet, but I guess I would
pick a cat.
Chocolate or vanilla?
Mixed. My favorite ice cream is Rocky Road.
Hardback or paperback?
Hardback. They look nicer on my bookshelf.
Leather or lace?
Don’t you wish you knew ;)
New car smell or strawberry?
Nothing beats that new car smell.
Black ink or blue?
Black.
Earphones or stereo?
When hanging out in my room, I use my stereo
that hooks up to my iPod.
Pepsi or Coke?
Neither—I don’t like soda.
Steak or Salad?
Steak, no question. Cooked medium.
Beach or Mountain?
Mountain, because there’s skiing. The harder
the slope, the better.
SUV or Motorcycle?
Depends on the SUV. If it’s a cool one, then
SUV. If it’s a soccer mom one, then motorcycle.
Fruit or Veggies?
Veggies.
Dance or Concert?
Assuming the concert is for a band I like,
then concert, no contest. Just don’t drag me to a Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, or
whatever concert that middle school girls like going to.
Play or Watch Sports?
Watch.
NYC or LA?
NYC is easily the best city in America.
Cake or Pie?
I rarely eat either, but I guess pie.
Past or Present?
Present. Because then there’s more control
over the future.
Lizzie or Chelsea?
Do you really need to ask?
REINCARNATION IN THE TRANSCEND TIME SAGA
An explanation of how reincarnation works in the series
To write the Transcend Time Saga, I had to
create my own version of reincarnation. The first thing I did was research
reincarnation on the Internet. Even though I don’t personally believe in
reincarnation, I had fun learning about it. There are tons of websites on the
topic—from ancient Buddhist beliefs to people who claim there are scientific
ways to prove reincarnation. It was interesting doing the research, but I came
across a problem: Nothing was fitting into the story I had started to create
about Lizzie and Drew.
Then I realized something: Remembrance was going to be a work of
FICTION, so I was free to create my own version of reincarnation!
The main thing I knew about Lizzie’s story
was that she had a dramatic early death in her first life that made it so she
couldn’t be with her soul mate, Drew. She and the people close to her who were
negatively impacted by her death had been reincarnated to set things right. I
decided to create my own version of reincarnation that revolved around that
idea.
I created a Word document with bullet points
describing the important aspects of reincarnation in the Transcend Time Saga.
This document is called “Reincarnation Rules,” and this is the first time I am
sharing it with readers.
Here are some of the basic Reincarnation
Rules in the Transcend Time Saga:
1) The only reason a person will be
reincarnated is if they have to change something dramatic that left them
unfulfilled in their past life. They continue being reincarnated until they do
this.
2) Most people are not reincarnated. Once
they live one life, they go to Nirvana. Most people living on Earth are “New
Souls.”
3) Major events in present day lives parallel
past lives, so people will be thrown into situations with other reincarnated
souls from their past.
4) Their physical features are similar to
those they had in their past lives, although not so similar that they look the
exact same.
5) A big part of initially remembering a past
life is a recognition of the soul of a person they had a positive deep
connection to, usually a soul mate. (In Lizzie’s case, this person was Drew.)
If you were friends with someone in a past life (like Lizzie/Chelsea and
Elizabeth/Catherine), you will feel very close to that person, but they will
not trigger memories of the past to return.
6) Objects from the past will also serve as
triggers. (Lizzie loved Pride and
Prejudice in her past life, so reading the book for her English class
triggered her memories. Drew built the music box for Lizzie in his past life,
so seeing the music box again triggered his memories.) However, people usually
believe their memories to be figments of their imaginations until they meet the
person who is their “big trigger.”
7) A soul can only reincarnate into the same
species it started in. (You cannot be a human in one life and a dog in the
next.)
8) People remember images and scenes—they
very rarely remember full conversations. They can, however, remember their
feelings from those conversations.
9) People don't reincarnate immediately. They
reincarnate during a good time for them to complete whatever it is they need to
do to sort out the issues they had in their past life. Plus, if a spirit went
through something traumatic in their life (usually resulting in death), they
need time to recover.
10) Reincarnees have Memory Guides that help
them remember their past life so they can make changes in their current life.
These Memory Guides have been reincarnated, and successfully fixed what they
needed to. They go through training, and then come into the Reincarnee’s life
when they are ready to remember their past life.
After I had those basic ideas, Lizzie and
Drew’s story pieced together as I wrote. I outlined the book before writing the
draft, but it was still fun to see their story unfold.
About the Author
Michelle Madow wrote her first novel, Remembrance, in her junior year of college. Remembrance is the first book in the Transcend Time Saga, a three part series about reincarnation and true love that Michelle successfully self-published. The series was inspired by Taylor Swift's "Love Story" music video. Michelle's upcoming YA trilogy, The Secret Diamond Sisters, about three sisters who discover they are the secret heirs to a Las Vegas billionaire casino owner will be published by Harlequin TEEN in Spring 2014.
Michelle graduated from Rollins College in 2010, cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the International English Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta. She received the Charles Hyde Pratt Award for Excellence in Creative Writing in 2010.
She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where she is writing more novels for young adults. She loves reading, spending time with family and friends, traveling, shopping, sunshine, Disney fairy tales, Broadway musicals, and spends way too much time on Facebook and Twitter (@MichelleMadow).
Michelle graduated from Rollins College in 2010, cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the International English Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta. She received the Charles Hyde Pratt Award for Excellence in Creative Writing in 2010.
She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where she is writing more novels for young adults. She loves reading, spending time with family and friends, traveling, shopping, sunshine, Disney fairy tales, Broadway musicals, and spends way too much time on Facebook and Twitter (@MichelleMadow).
1 comment:
I absolutely love time travel, I'll need to check out this series for sure. I'm headed over to Smashwords right now!
Thanks for sharing, I loved the interview as well :)
Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews
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