# 1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout Lives in West Virginia.

All the rumors you heard about her state aren’t true.

Well, mostly. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write.

She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press), the Lux Series (Entangled Teen), Don’t Look Back (Disney/Hyperion) and a yet untitled novel (Disney/Hyperion), and new YA paranormal series with Harlequin Teen.

Jennifer also writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J. Lynn. The Gamble Brothers Series (Tempting the Best Man/Tempting the Player) and Wait for You. Under her pen name, she is published with Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

City or Country?
Somewhere in between.

The Host or The Mortal Instruments?
I probably won’t end up seeing either at the theater, but more interested in TMI.

Pepsi or Coke?
Pepsi

Nashville or The Vampire Diaries?
Vampire Diaries

Ian Somerhalder or Matt Bomer?

Is that a serious question? Ian.

Romance or Paranormal?
Paranormal Romance

Vampires or Werewolves?
Vamps

Twilight or The Hunger Games?
Uh… I haven’t read The Hunger Games. Gasp. I know.

Sweet or Savory?
Saucy

# 1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout Lives in West Virginia.

All the rumors you heard about her state aren’t true.

Well, mostly. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write.

She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press), the Lux Series (Entangled Teen), Don’t Look Back (Disney/Hyperion) and a yet untitled novel (Disney/Hyperion), and new YA paranormal series with Harlequin Teen.

Jennifer also writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J. Lynn. The Gamble Brothers Series (Tempting the Best Man/Tempting the Player) and Wait for You. Under her pen name, she is published with Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

Fans of the Lux series are dying to get their hands on the newest book, ORIGIN. What can we expect from it?
Origin is a game changer in the series. There will be several things that I don’t think the readers will see coming. There are new
characters and old ones that you’ll be saying goodbye to.

I have to ask. Why aliens?
I don’t think aliens are as over exposed as some other creatures and you really have no limits or preconceived notions of what an alien is.
So you get to really create something unique.

Both the Lux and Covenant series are going to be wrapping up soon. Do you have another YA series lined up?
Yikes. Wrapping up a series is so scary and I do have two them ending soon. I do have another YA series sitting in the wings, plus a few
standalone novels like Don’t Look Back which releases from Disney/Hyperion in Spring of 2014.

In the Lux series, Katy is a book blogger. You included everything from her writing Waiting on Wednesday posts to freaking out when new books arrived in her mailbox. How fun was it to do that and what encouraged you to include that?
It was a lot of fun doing it. I have a very close relationship with several book bloggers so I was able to pick up on a lot of what they
do and how they feel. And I have book bloggers to thank for any success that I have had, so that was encouragement enough to recognize
them by creating a character like them.

To put it nicely, Daemon was known as a bit of a sarcastic jerk. Was there any difficulty in creating his character? I’m assuming there’s a bit of difficulty in writing about the opposite gender, but if there was, I didn’t notice.
Actually, writing the male character comes easier to me than it does with the female character and I had a lot of fun writing Daemon, because he is such a jerk and says what most people are thinking. The hardest part is walking that fine line between redeemable jerk behavior and not so redeemable.

Did you have any inspiration for any of your characters or is it all just from brainstorming?
Just brainstorming.

You have another book coming out called OBSESSION. We know that it takes place in the same world as Daemon and Katy, but it is an adult novel. Are we going to see any familiar characters in it?
Yes you will!

Opal ended with a bit of a surprising twist that upset almost everyone. Please tell us that this is going to be fixed very soon in the next book?
You’ll just have to read Origin to find out. =D

Has there been any talk about turning any of your books into television series or movies?

Yes. There has been interest, but it is up to the people who make shows and movies to want to do so, but there has been interest.

When you actually get some downtime to read, what are you planning to read next?
Down time? What is that? I can’t wait to read the new Black Dagger Brotherhood book coming out soon.

Heidi Acosta was born on Long Island, New York. Moving around a lot when she was younger, she has lived in New York, Arizona, New York (again), Washington, Georgia, and Florida, in that order. Each place offered her something special, but she will always consider New York her home.
Heidi started writing as soon as she could spell. When she was three, Heidi’s mother gave her a copy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods; thus beginning her lifelong love affair with literature.
Writing soon also became a form of therapy for Heidi, when she realized that no matter what was happening in her life, she could find emotional escape while writing. Some of her earliest stories featured her as a princess who explored new worlds with her horse Buttercup. If it sounds romantic, it wasn’t, there was no prince charming in those fairy lands (boys where yucky).
Heidi now resides in Florida with her husband, very active daughter, one hyper Chihuahua, two sweet cats, and one very fat moody cat.
Barbie Girl is the first Novel of Heidi’s new, four-book, Baby Doll Series: Barbie Girl, Barbie World, Doll Face, and Southern Sugar.

Character Interview

with Barbie

When Dylan first started tutoring you, you didn’t seem all that impressed with him. When did you first start noticing your feelings toward him?

He was such a pretentious ass. Can I say ass? Well he was an ass munch. It was not until I saw him with Emmy that things started to change. Any guy that lets his little sister dress him up, can’t be that much of an ass. But I think I always had feelings for him, ever since I was a little girl. They were just awoken when I saw him with her. And the boy has great abs.

I would say that Dylan seems pretty uptight. Do you think we’ll get to see him loosen up in the future?

I hope so that boy is wound as tighter than a rubber band. And any one wound that tight is about to snap.

The ending of Barbie Girl didn’t look all that promising for you and Dylan. What’s going to be your next move?

Dylan had his chance and he betrayed me. Okay, so I know he didn’t really have a choice and if I was in his shoes I would do the same exact thing. But everything was just so confusing and I have to think of Everett first. So my next move is to just breathe and figure out how I am going live under the same roof as him. And that boy is not making it easy.

Your home life situation wasn’t all that great. Actually, it was horrible. If you could say one thing to your mother (and have her actually listen) what would it be?

I would want to know what made her chose drugs over Everett and I. She never spoke much of her past but I know something bad had to happen to make her try to numb her pain the way she does.

What’s one thing about you that we don’t know?

I have a tattoo. But I am not going to say where or what

What can we expect from you in Barbie World?

I am bound and determined to find out where I came from. I need to find the woman who abandoned my mother and get the questions I have answered.

If you could describe your experience in Barbie Girl with one word, what would it be?

Well there are a few four letter words I would use, but since I can’t say them… Heartbreaking.