Lost in Blog by Anne Michaud

I was approached by an author who was doing something interesting in introducing a book she was writing. She asked me to either do a review of the blog or a book review on the blog. I thought the blog idea was very clever and thought you might like to hear what it is about and a bit about the author in her own words. So without further ado from me, here is Anne Michaud...
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I just love a good book. I have my special blanket (I live in Canada, so it’s essential), a cappuccino cup filled with burning hot tea, put a little music on, and I’m gone for hours, immersed in another world. If it rains, it’s even more perfect. And then the last page is turned and sometimes – if I’m really lucky – I find out the author has a blog. So it doesn’t feel like the world has ended because I still get to catch little glimpses of the characters, people I’ve come to know through and through, who I sometimes, sadly, mistake for friends. 

Thank whatever god I’m a writer. I can spend hours alone with new acquaintances all the time – they’re in my head and I’m the only one who hears their voices (I’m rather shy, so I think lunacy is my best option). I like my characters with a little spunk, a good dose of loud-mouth, a bit of shyness and insecurity, severe depression and lots of confidence, maybe stupid and brilliant – not all wrapped into one, though. But like every good story, it has to end, and with the last words written on the page, their voices die.

So when I realized being a writer involved more than just being alone with my cats and writing –  or more accurately, I had to start a blog - I thought: ‘How can I keep my characters alive while getting my written prose out there?’ And then, click: I could blog about Livy Parker, heroine of my Young-Adult novel Rebel. She lives in a dystopian world where America faces daily threats of invasion, where kids are sent to fight in the trenches for their country’s freedom, and News has become a religion. It’s dark, it’s futuristic, and I love it there.

Livy’s living the prequel to my book, we follow her path toward Rebel and the choices which lead her to become one. I get to be friends with her, and now everyone can, too, even though she’s blogging all the way from the year 2297.

Anne Michaud’s blog: Livy Parker’s Journal; the dystopian tale of a teenage girl.