Get ready to meet Arcadia Day, star of Jesi Lea Ryan's "Arcadia's Gift" and "Arcadia's Curse"
Arcadia “Cady” Day is
the star of the Arcadia’s Series by
Jesi Lea Ryan. The following interview is a chat between the author and her
main character.
Jesi: Thank you,
Cady, for sitting down with me today to talk. I know interviews make you
nervous.
Cady: *Sips her
bottle of water* Yeah. This is sort of weird. I mean, as my author, you already
know everything about me.
Jesi: Not everything.
I feel like I learn more about you every day. But this interview isn’t for me,
but for your fans.
Cady: *shudders*
That’s weird too. Having fans. I’m just a seventeen year old girl from Iowa.
Jesi: Well, I’d argue
that you’re much more special than that, but why don’t I let you tell the
readers about it. How would you describe yourself to people who have not read
your books.
Cady: Well, like I
said, I’m seventeen. I grew up in a completely normal, somewhat boring, family
in Dubuque, Iowa. But then my sister died...my twin. It changed everything.
Jesi: How so?
Cady: Well, you know
how some twins have a psychic connection or whatever? When my sister died, the
psychic parts of us reached out and connected.
Only once she was gone, my psychic part never snapped back in. It’s like
I have this big invisible umbrella over me, and anyone who steps under it, I can
feel all of their emotions.
Jesi: But you do more
than feel their emotions now, right?
Cady: *blushes* Yeah, I guess I sort of absorb their
emotional energy, and then I can do things with that energy. Makes me feel like
a freak. I don’t like to talk about it, can we move on to something else?
Jesi: No problem.
Let’s talk about the boys in your life. You have sort of a love triangle thing
going on. How’s that going?
Cady: I do not have a
love triangle! My boyfriend is Bryan
Sullivan. That’s it. I know Cane
Matthews, my sister’s former boyfriend, has some sort of crush on me or
whatever, but I’m not interested. I think he has guilt over breaking up with my
sister right before she died, and he is projecting that onto me.
Jesi: You say you’re
not interested, but you have kissed him. And you liked it.
Cady: *grumbles*
Guess I can’t hide anything from my author. Fine! Yes, I kissed him back, and I
liked it. He kisses like he could medal in it in the Olympics. But it was just
biological. I don’t really want him.
Jesi: But things are
strained between you and Bryan right now. Why don’t you tell us about that?
Cady: Well, Bryan has
a blood disease, hemophilia. It means his blood doesn’t clot, so if he bleeds
or bruises or whatever, he will get really sick. He could even die. And one of
the ways I can use the emotional energy that I absorb from people is by
healing. I can stop Bryan’s bleeding. So for the first time in his life, he
thinks he can be reckless and have fun like the other guys because if he gets
hurt, I can just patch him up.
Jesi: So what’s the
problem then?
Cady: The
healing...takes a toll on me physically. Wipes me out, causes M.S. like
symptoms. Honestly, I don’t want to do it anymore, but I don’t know how Bryan
will take it when I tell him.
Jesi: Do you think he
will break up with you?
Cady: I don’t know. I
mean, I don’t think he is purposely using me because I can heal him--We started
dating before either of us discovered my talent--but there is a small part of
me that wonders if he lost interest in me, if he wouldn’t keep me around
because I give him some sort of safety net.
Jesi: Sounds like you
have some decisions to make there. *Cady nods.*
Okay, well let’s talk about your new friend, Bastian Night. Any romantic
feelings there?
Cady: *chuckles* No!
Bastian is hot. I mean, need-a-fire-extinguisher-on-stand-by hot. And we have
become very close. But it’s not like that between us. For one thing, he is six
years older than me, and at seventeen, that’s a big difference. We are at
different places in life. What we have is really more of a brother/sister
thing. We have both been tortured and tormented, and now we need each other if
we are
Jesi: Well, Cady, I
thought we would end this interview on a fun note. If you were on a cross country road trip, who
would you want in the car with you? And
who would be the driver, the navigator, the backseat driver and the person who
leads the car games?
Cady: Ha! Okay, I
guess I’d have Bastian drive. Like I said, he makes me feel protected, and I
trust him behind the wheel for long distances. I would totally navigate. Cane
would be the backseat driver. He is always trying to tell me what to do and how
to run my life. And the car games? That would have to be my telepathic friend,
Jinx. She is hilarious.
Jesi: You would travel across country without taking your
boyfriend, Bryan, with you?
Cady: *sighs* I think this interview is over.
Contact & Social Media Links:
Email: jesilea@charter.net
Twitter: @Jesilea https://twitter.com/Jesilea
Published Works:
Four Thousand Miles (2010)
Arcadia’s Gift (2012)
Arcadia’s Curse (2013)
Purchase Links:
Amazon Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Arcadias-Gift-Jesi-Lea-Ryan/dp/061571885X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Arcadias-Gift-ebook/dp/B008S6K3OG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Audible: Coming soon!
