Hello Readers! Today I'm interviewing Dolores Reynard from Annamaria Bazzi's newest book, Incantation Paradox. It seems that after an accident, middle-aged Dolores wakes up and finds herself in a strange bedroom--not just that, her body is now that of a teenager (Mona), and everyone at the house believes she IS Mona. Imagine this happening to you! Well, I got a chance to ask Dolores how she coped with this strange phenomenon.
What were your first thoughts when you realized you couldn't get back to your family?
Dolores – I really thought
I’d go out of my mind, but I realized early on I needed to be very careful
because my life was in danger. If I wanted to get back to my daughters I had to
be cunning.
Did you
enjoy being in Mona's young body or were you too worried about not being
recognized by your own family?
Dolores – Who would be
crazy enough not to enjoy the look and feel of a young body! Even in my worry,
trying to figure out how to get back to my daughters, the elasticity of Mona’s
body was quite pleasant. But they were thoughts and feelings kept in the
background because my first priority was to discover how such a thing could
ever happen. In books anything is possible, but in real life…
When did
you get suspicious of Eric?
Dolores – This is a hard
question due to Mona’s feelings always coming to the surface, fogging my
thinking. Even though she had problems with the scoundrel, her puppy love
feelings would drown me at times. Eric was tricky and I never really trusted
him, but when he started to babble nonsense, my suspicions surfaced.
Did you
wish you could expose him?
I did wish to expose him,
but when Jason stepped in everything changed.
When you
started falling in love with Jason, did you wish you could stay in your new
life/body and never see Ethan again?
Never seeing Ethan again
always sounded good after he slapped me with divorce papers. Although I didn’t
want to leave Jason, I still wanted to go home to my girls. Besides, the young
body felt great, but, in Mona’s body I looked like Jason’s daughter and that
would have been awkward. No matter what my feelings were for him, I still
wanted to go home.
Obviously
you're a good mother and wanted to go back for Ella and Chloe. If and when you
were to see them again, what would you say to them now that you've spent time
as a teenager again?
It’s not so much what I’d say, but how I would deal with
them and their problems. The living example is always worth so much more than
words. When teens act out it’s because they are asserting who they are as
individuals in a world they are still trying to comprehend. In the past, there
have been times when I’ve overlooked this fact, forgetting their inexperience
and in many cases their innocence.Thanks, Dolores, for dropping by. I'm sure there's a happy ending to your story, but I don't want to give it away. The journey, of course, is worth the telling. I'm sure you agree.
Book Description:
Magic is an
illusion. It doesn’t really exist. Or does it?
A horrible car
accident destroys Dolores Reynard’s life. But instead of waking up in a
hospital bed, she awakens in a teenager’s body. Soon, she discovers she is at
the heart of the murderous mystery surrounding the death of Mona, the young
girl whose body she occupies. Caught between an evil greater than she ever
imagined and a wizard who heals her tattered heart, she is forced to play a
dangerous game of intrigue in the hopes of finding a way to return to her
previous life.
Will magic be her
ally, or will it lead to her demise once and for all.
~ABOUT THE
AUTHOR~
Although
born in the United States, Annamaria Bazzi spent a great deal of her childhood
in Sicily, Italy, in a town called Sciacca. Italian was the language spoken at
home. Therefore, she had no problems when she found herself growing up in a
strange country. Upon returning to the states, she promised herself she would
speak without an accent. She attended Wayne State University in Detroit
Michigan, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Computers with a minor
in Spanish.
Annamaria
spent twenty years programming systems for large corporations, creating
innovative solution, and addressing customer problems. During those years, she
raised four daughters and one husband. Annamaria lives in Richmond Virginia
with her small family where she now dedicates a good part of her day writing.
You
can visit Annamaria at:
blog http://annamariabazzi.com
website
http://www.annamariasbooks.com
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on KendÃka’s facebook page https://www.facebook.com/kendika.burkeshire
Two digital copies of Incantation Paradox is up for grabs! Be sure to enter and find out what happens to Dolores and all the strange things she encounters.
Two digital copies of Incantation Paradox is up for grabs! Be sure to enter and find out what happens to Dolores and all the strange things she encounters.
hello, Rachelle, thank you for being such a gracious host once again. I know Dolores also thanks you for helping to spread her story to readers. when you get a chance, stop by so we can chat about your new series :)
ReplyDeleteyou're welcome. thanks also for chatting with me and my characters too. :)
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