I'd like to thank Roxanne @ Bewitching Book Tours for giving me this opportunity to participate in the SPIRIT BINDER Blog Tour. And I'd like to welcome Meghan Ciana Doidge to ABTB!
Spirit Binder
Book One of the Cascadian Chronicles
Genre: Fantasy: Paranormal, Epic,
Historic
Description: Spirit Binder is a fantasy set a thousand
years after spirit (aka magic) rises to take back the world in an apocalyptic
event. It is book one of the Cascadian Chronicles.The first book of the Spirit
Bound young adult series, TIME WALKER, will be released in the fall of 2012.
Theo woke severely injured, covered in blood, and missing ten years of her life. Just to complicate matters further, Theo was born under a prophecy; one that has rabid followers with three different interpretations, all of whom are willing to sacrifice her in order to fulfill it.
Not
knowing if she can trust the stranger she’s betrothed to, the warrior visiting
her dreams, or even her own mother, Theo tries to piece together her past only
to find that her present is far more dangerous. It’s the power of her own
blood that scares her most of all. This is a responsibility Theo never wanted,
and a destiny she cannot deny, “All because of a prophecy she was trying not to
believe in, but kept fulfilling.”
Keywords:
fantasy, magic, swords, troll, castles, love story, romance, post-apocalyptic,
prophecy, spirit, love triangle, destiny, blood.
About this Author:
Meghan Ciana Doidge is an
award-winning writer based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She has
a penchant for bloody love stories, superheroes, and the supernatural. She also
has a bit of a thing for chocolate, potatoes, and sock yarn; though not all together,
that would just be yucky.
LINKS:
Author blog: http://www.madebymeghan.ca
Book page (on blog): http://wp.me/PP9tA-iG
Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/mcdoidge
4. What Inspired
Spirit Binder: Theme
For me theme drives the plot and structure of a story.
Often, multiple themes are interlaced through a single story, but I always like
to have a central theme that is connected to the main character. It is that
character’s struggle to either deny or embrace (some times both) the theme that
drives the story forward.
Occasionally it takes some time for me to find the
theme, and usually that means the story isn’t quite working out, but more frequently
I know at least the broad strokes of the theme pretty clearly after writing out
the initial idea. The theme of Spirit Binder – the idea that drives the
plot and Theo, the main character — is set up and complicated within the
first chapter.
In the opening scene Theo wakes up severely injured,
covered in blood, and missing the memories of the last ten years of her life. Her
mind is in utter chaos, but one clear thought rings clearly through, “she’d been left for dead. Which was really
foul, especially since, given the prophecy — depending on
interpretation — the world went to ruin, more than it already was, without
her alive.”
Many people, including
Theo’s mother, believe that this prophecy speaks of Theo’s destiny. However, Theo
is not a fan of having her every moment dictated by a destiny she isn’t sure
she believes in. Nor is she interested in sacrificing herself to fulfill a
prophecy that is subject to multiple interpretations.
No matter that Theo
fights it, throughout Spirit Binder the idea of her destiny is constantly
explored and debated. No matter the choices she tries to make, someone reminds
her that it is all connected to this idea of her destiny.
Here is a snippet of
dialogue between Theo and Hugh from the end of one of my favourite scenes in
Spirit Binder.
“And you sneered at destiny this morning,”
Hugh said, without looking at her.
“Circumstance is not the
same as destiny.” [Theo replied].
“With you around, isn’t
it?”
Later, Theo, overwhelmed
by her own magic and the burden of responsibility, thinks that everything that
has happened is, “All because of a prophecy she was trying to not believe in,
but kept fulfilling.”
Hopefully, that provides a little insight when reading
Spirit Binder.
Thanks Christina, for the opportunity to guest post!
Meghan
Author of After The Virus, Spirit Binder, and Time
Walker (Fall 2012)
http://www.madebymeghan.ca
Christina - thanks for hosting Spirit Binder!!
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