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Welcome back to Day 2 of The Indie Spotlight with Featured Author Kelbian Noel. Today, Kelbian share’s with us a guest post titled, “Mixing It Up”. Make sure you follow along each day for your chance to win jewelry, scented oil, and a copy of her novel! New options will be available in the Rafflecopter Widget after each Featured Post!

 

 


This Week’s Schedule:

Wednesday, November 07, 2012:
 

Author Interview and Giveaway Begins

Thursday, November 08, 2012:
 

Guest Post and Giveaway

Friday, November 09, 2012:
 

Excerpt and Giveaway

 

 

 

 

 

Mixing it Up

 

 

 

I blog, with a group, on Diverse Pages. One of our weekly posts is Thursday Picks (previously the Thursday Ten—but that proved to be too difficult to maintain). I’m usually the one to post on Thursdays and it’s incredibly difficult, at times, to find novels that feature multicultural characters. And I really try to mix it up. I don’t just choose books with one culture. I try to list at least one from each group. Some days it’s down right impossible, without running the risk of being repetitive.

 

I’m constantly asking myself why that is. People of color read, don’t they? I mean I do. I have ALL my life. And my very diverse group of friends and family do, as well. But still, finding books (especially in speculative fiction) featuring characters of color is a serious challenge.

 

When I started writing my goal was to use characters that looked like me. I figured, someone had to represent, and I was going to step up to the plate. So I dove in. And a funny thing happened. My stories became very colorful.

 

I found it impossible to stick to one group of people. And I’m not just talking about race. Religion, sexual preference, political association, native country, just about anything you can think of was different. And it came so naturally. Writing about one specific group, without appearances from any others, didn’t make any sense. It felt forced and I didn’t enjoy that. So I allowed myself to write the world the way I saw it.

 

That’s how The Elementals were born. A group of girls from different cultures, with vastly varying backgrounds but one destiny. Everything on the outside says they can’t possibly have anything in common but, as many of us have learned, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

 

I guess you could say my work is a product of my environment. I started off living in rural Canada and ended up in the cultural melting pot that is Toronto. So as a writer (writing what I know, as many writers do) my stories just made more sense with different kinds of people. In my mind (and let’s face it, in reality too) that’s the way the world is.


~Giveaway Time~

 

 

 

Details:
 

Follow Along Each Day For A New Chance To Win
 

Contest is Open Internationally
 

The winner will be announced on this blog post at the conclusion of the contest
 

The winner will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to reply or a new winner will be chosen.

 

US Prize Pack Includes:
 

1 Pair of Pentacle earrings (rose quartz, sapphire or hematite), Rosemary Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil, a Flourite Crystal (This particular crystal (clear flourite) is used magically to connect to higher realms and assists with communication to spirits or guides), and an eBook Copy of Elemental
 

International Prize Pack:
 

eBook Copy of Elemental
 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From a very young age, Kelbian loved to read. She found herself engulfed in novels by Janette Oke and L.M. Montgomery, but never seemed to find herself in the pages. At the age of 11 she declared she would write stories that had to do with her own experience, and be the youngest author in history. But life was full of baseball, homework, best friends and boys. Decades later, having studied writing in college and pursued it as a career, Kelbian decided it was time to get back to her dream. This time life’s distractions couldn’t shake the feeling that the world needed to hear Baltimore’s story. At least those who would listen! A year later, Kelbian is excited to introduce the first book in The Elementals series to the world with hopes someone will love the story as much as she does. Kelbian lives in Toronto with her two children.

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Diayll – MotherGamerWriter

Names Diayll, I am a 30 year old country girl, living and enjoying life. I run a blog, mothergamerwriter.com and I am working on completing my first novel. You can find me representing the Xbox and anything else game related on Twitter at MomGamerWriter. But don’t take my word for it, check me out!



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  • Denise Z

    For me, I just want a well written story and I enjoy different cultures, especially when they are different from mine, as I always want to learn more, but I do not want be bogged down into “typing” the read. I just want a good read ;) Thank you for sharing with us. Elemental looks great and my kindle is hungry to gobble it up LOL

  • Rebekah Purdy

    Kelbian writes great multicultural stories. I’m lucky enough to get to start reading book two in her Elementals series! But Kel, you’re right, there aren’t enough books with diverse characters. I think people need characters they can relate to.
    Great post.

    • Kelbian

      Thanks for stopping by, Rebekah! :~)