Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Publication Date: September 11, 2013
Synopsis: In a desert world of sandstorms and sand-wolves, a teen girl must defy the gods to save her tribe in this mystical, atmospheric tale from the author of Drink, Slay, Love.
Liyana has trained her entire life to be the vessel of a goddess. The goddess will inhabit Liyana’s body and use magic to bring rain to the desert. But Liyana’s goddess never comes. Abandoned by her angry tribe, Liyana expects to die in the desert. Until a boy walks out of the dust in search of her.
Korbyn is a god inside his vessel, and a trickster god at that. He tells Liyana that five other gods are missing, and they set off across the desert in search of the other vessels. For the desert tribes cannot survive without the magic of their gods. But the journey is dangerous, even with a god’s help. And not everyone is willing to believe the trickster god’s tale.
The closer she grows to Korbyn, the less Liyana wants to disappear to make way for her goddess. But she has no choice: She must die for her tribe to live. Unless a trickster god can help her to trick fate—or a human girl can muster some magic of her own.
About the Author: Sarah Beth Durst is the author of Vessel, Drink, Slay, Love, Enchanted Ivy, and Ice from Simon & Schuster, as well as Into the Wild and its sequel Out of the Wild from Penguin Young Readers. She has been writing fantasy stories since she was ten years old and holds an English degree from Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband and children. For more information, visit her at www.sarahbethdurst.com.
Author Interview:
1. Describe Vessel as a tweet
(140 characters or less)!
2. How did the idea for Vessel come to you?
I've always wanted to be a writer.
It's the only thing I've ever wanted to be. (Except Wonder Woman. I really wanted to be Wonder Woman when I was
five. I would also have accepted Unicorn
Princess.)
I was inspired by all the books I read that I loved, the books that
transported me into other worlds and other lives, that introduced me to
fictional friends, that made me laugh and made me cry. I wanted to craft stories like that too.
6. What kind of research, if any, did you do for Vessel?
I researched various deserts: the Sahara, the Gobi, and several in the
southwest United States. I love to mix
fantasy and reality so I try to include as many real details as I can and then
weave in the magic.
7. Do you have a specific place where you write?
My desk. I'd love to be able to
write on a mountaintop or in a cafe or some exotic locale, but truthfully, I'm
most comfortable just at my desk with easy access to my fridge!
This or That...
Ebook or Real book?
I read both, but my heart belongs to real books.
Twitter or Facebook?
I'm on both, but my heart belongs to Twitter.
Chocolate or Vanilla?
Chocolate.
Past or Future?
Present.
And just for fun- What is the strangest thing on your desk right now?
A carving of a polar bear. (My husband always buys me presents that are
thematically linked to my novels. The
bear is for ICE, my Arctic adventure novel.)
Thanks so much for interviewing me!
And thank you, Sarah, for stopping by my blog!
-Kristen ♥
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