Today, I welcome author/jewelry maker, Lexi Revellian. She has some great answers to the five questions she chose, so be sure and read all the way to the end! Also, check out her jewelry website. Talk about talent!! Whoa…her work is quite impressive.
Lexi’s new release, The Last Enforcer, is currently .99 cents in Ebook. The buy link is under the cover.
Cadence and her adoptive grandfather struggle to make ends meet in the medieval-style Outer City. One day while scavenging in the outlands, Cade’s life is saved by Xavier Drake, an arrogant enforcer from the high-tech Inner City. Later, when circumstances force her to take a job working for Inners, they meet again. She begins to think that maybe beneath his unforgiving exterior is a decent person.
Xavier has problems of his own. To expiate his father’s crimes, he was compelled to undergo the brutal training to become an enforcer. Ten years on he discovers the truth about the events that destroyed his family and happy childhood and goes rogue. The City’s rulers decide to eliminate him.
Xavier is drawn to Cade…but can he survive attempts on his life, get revenge, and learn to trust again?
Social links and buy links
The Last Enforcer [link to come – not yet published]
LEXI REVELLIAN
I started writing in 2006, and have been unable to stop. In 2010 I self-published my third novel, Remix, a contemporary mystery/romance. Remix spent eight months in the UK Kindle top 100 – which was much easier to do then than now. This was followed by nine other books.
My day job is making jewelry and silver under my real name, Lexi Dick. I am a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, and as well as making an affordable range of items, I have made pieces for 10 Downing Street, Her Majesty the Queen and Lady Thatcher. I live and work in London.
FIVE ON FRIDAY
You open your front door and find a penguin wearing a cowboy hat. What does he say?
LEXI: “Ann Everett made me wear this hat! I know I look ridiculous. Can I take it off now?”
Then I think he would ask if I had any fish. I’d invite him in (I figure that if he can talk, he’s most likely house-trained) and offer him a choice of fish fingers or a tin of sardines. While he ate I’d ask where he learned to speak English, and if he had an agent. There could be money in a talking penguin…
ANN:That darn penguin! He’s always blaming his poor choice of fashion on me! If you pursue getting him an agent, I want in for my cut!! LOL
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
LEXI: Ooh. I like this question. What to choose…the ability to fly? Or better, teleportation, so I could zip to a Greek island for lunch, eat my sandwich on the beach and be back to work in the afternoon. I’m tempted to go for The Power to Persuade – just imagine how useful that would be, being able to persuade people to do what you want all the time. I could persuade Netflix to turn my books into films! But there’d be a downside. I’d feel obliged to use my new power for the good of humanity, and I have no desire to jet around the world having little chats with Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. I can’t think they’d be fun people to talk to, any of them, and I’d have to do a lot of research beforehand to know what to persuade them to do. It would be a full-time job.
So I’m going to be frivolous and have The Power to Make Things Work and Stop Working. You may think this sounds dull, but consider this: my computer and internet would always work perfectly, as would my car (I am the owner of a 25 year-old Nissan Micra of which I am very fond, but lately it has been feeling its age). If the boiler stopped working over Christmas, no need to pay a fortune to a plumber, assuming I could find one. And if someone was boorishly playing loud music, I could stop his sound system working with the power of my mind. Mwahahahah!
ANN: I like your answer! I think that would be a terrific power. I can see a lot of possibilities. Making the tailgater’s car stall. Having telemarketers lose their voices. Making cake and cookies healthy…stop them for having calories and migrating directly to my hips!
Name three songs on your playlist.
LEXI:I don’t listen to music while I write as it distracts me, but for each book I’ve written I have tracks which put me in the mood of the book. I listen to music while having a teabreak, playing War Mahjong and brooding about my characters. For The Last Enforcer the tracks were:
Toto: Hold the Line
Wodkah: The Last Butterfly
Timecop1983: On the Run
ANN: I also make a play list for my books, and I agree about them helping get you in the mood.
Do you have any family sayings? If so, what?
LEXI: When my daughter was small and I was running her about the place in my trusty Micra, if the windscreen was dirty I would squirt windscreen washer and use the wipers to clean it. As the wipers spread a haze across the glass she used to say in a lugubrious voice, “You made it worse.” It became a family joke. And it’s a saying I find myself using all the time, because one so often tries to make things better and ends up making them worse. In life, there is no CtrlZ.
The other family saying is my mother’s, which she came out with whenever I or my sister couldn’t find something. “Tidy up and you’ll come across it.” Exceedingly irritating – but true.
ANN: If you’re like me, I’ve included a lot of things in my books that have been said by my kids! Sometimes, they come up with great lines.
What’s the best advice you ever got?
LEXI: That would be from a lute-making friend who rented the workshop below mine. We were discussing the latest rent rise, and he said, “You know, we’re crazy to rent. We should buy workshops.” Light bulb moment. Within months I’d remortgaged my apartment and bought 800 square feet plus balcony in Hoxton, then very down-at-heel and a bit sinister after dark. Now it’s ultra trendy and expensive. Best buy ever.
ANN: That does sound like good advice. If you ever decide to close up shop, you can make a profit on the real estate!
Great answers, Lexi!
Thanks, Gina for taking the time to stop by and comment! ~Ann
The penguin says Hi. I expect you’ll be wanting him back soon to send to other writers, won’t you?
Not that I’m anxious to get rid of him or anything. (At least I no longer have to worry he’ll eat the goldfish.)
You made me laugh! Yes, I need that penguin to come home. Thanks so much for letting me feature your new release. ~Ann