Today I am so excited to be bringing you a stop on the Thornhill Blog Tour! We've got all kinds of info about the book and where to find it, an interview with Kathleen Peacock herself, and an awesome giveaway!!
Title: THORNHILL
Author: Kathleen
Peacock
Pub. Date: September
10, 2013
Publisher: Katherine
Tegen Books
Pages:352
Mac can’t lose
another friend. Even if he doesn’t want to be found.
The ripple effect caused by Mac’s best friend Amy’s murder has driven Mac’s new
love, Kyle, to leave Hemlock and disappear from her life forever. But Mac knows
that Kyle plans to enroll in a rehabilitation camp, where he can live with
other werewolves. She refuses to accept his decision, especially since the
camps are rumored to be tortuous. So she sets out in search of Kyle with a
barely sober Jason—and Amy’s all-seeing ghost—in tow.
Clues lead Mac to find Kyle in a werewolf den in Colorado—but their reunion is
cut short by a Tracker raid. Now Mac and Kyle are trapped inside the electric
fences of Thornhill, a camp for young werewolves. As she devises an
escape plan, Mac uncovers dangerous secrets buried within the walls of
Thornhill—and realizes that the risk to the people she loves is greater than
ever before.
About Kathleen:
Kathleen Peacock spent her teen years crushing on authors
and writing short stories about vampires. She put her writing dreams on hold
while attending college, but tripped over them when office life started leaving
her with an allergy to cubicles. Her debut, HEMLOCK, is coming May 8th, 2012
from Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins, and will be published
in the UK under the title DEADLY HEMLOCK from Simon and Schuster Children’s
Books.
How is writing a sequel different
from writing the first book in a series?
In some ways, writing a middle book
is much trickier—at least it felt that way with Thornhill. You need to
provide a recap of what came in the first book without turning pages into
info-dumps. Characters need to evolve while still leaving plenty of room for
growth in the next volume. Some plot and relationship threads need to be tied
off while others need to be carried over. It's a bit like walking a tightrope.
Even just figuring out where to start seemed harder. I think I wrote about five
or six different openings for Thornhill before feeling like I had one
that finally worked.
When you were first writing Hemlock,
did you already have the whole series planned out in your head, or does it come
to you as you are writing?
Even though I tried to write Hemlock
so that it could stand on its own, I was really hoping an agent and publisher
would be interested in a trilogy, and so I planned out chunks of the story for
books two and three in my head. After Hemlock sold (as a trilogy—yay!),
my editor suggested moving some of the subplots from book one to book two.
When I did that, other things had to shift and change. Also, when I
actually began to write Thornhill, I realized that some of my initial
ideas (like telling the book from Kyle's POV and certain subplots) just didn't
work on the page. Changes I made to Thornhill, ended up rippling over
into book three.
After everything that happened
to her and the people around her in the first book, what kind of Mac can we
expect to see in book two?
In some ways, Mac is a little more
open in Thornhill. Admitting she had feelings for Kyle—actually saying
she loved him—was a huge emotional step for her. In book two, Mac is also
forced to stop outrunning her childhood and deal with her past. In order to
save the people she cares about, she'll have to put old grudges aside—something
she's not sure whether or not she can do.
Can you tell us anything about
camp Thornhill? Since Mac and Kyle are trapped inside, will we get to
see other character POV’s from outside of the camp?
As tempting as it was to break
POV—and there were times when it was very tempting—book two is told entirely
from Mac's perspective.
Thornhill isn't like other
werewolf rehabilitation camps. While the other camps have no actual intention
of rehabilitating the infected, life at Thornhill is actually designed
around trying to help the inmates learn to control their wolves through a
series of behavior modifications, self-control classes and harsh punishments
for anyone who falls out of line.
Here's Mac's first look at the
camp:
Like cattle, we were forced off
the truck and counted before guards in blue uniforms took over and herded
us across an expanse of pavement. They carried guns that looked every bit as
dangerous as the ones the Trackers were toting and made sure no one made a run
for it.
Not that there was any place to
run to.
We were in a courtyard behind a
massive gate. A thirty-foot-tall fence topped with razor wire stretched out
from either side of the entrance and disappeared into the dark. It was easy to
imagine that it went on forever.
Serena tilted her head to the
side. "It's electric," she murmured.
Giveaway Details:
For First Place (International):
- "Unlock the wolf within" Thornhill necklace (engraved stainless steel pendant on a silver-plated chain http://instagram.com/p/cIGkoowOJq/#)
- Signed copy of Thornhill
- Signed swag
Runners Up (International)
- 3 runners up will get swag packs (stickers, bookmarks, signed bookplates)
