Feature & Follow #6

Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read.

The purpose is to meet new people and gain more followers in the book blogging community.

I'm this week's feature!!!

Hooray!

You can check out my interview below:

When did you start blogging?

Well this little baby has only been in operation Since August, I decided since I was going to be a professional author ;) that I needed a website. The poor thing gets neglected a lot due to all the time it takes to run my review site Book Me!

What is your favorite part of book blogging?

 Well, on my other site it's partaking in memes and visiting the lovely followers I've made. I've formed some very close friendships with some terrific girls and I'm so thankful to have them in my cyber-life. Carmen Jenner.com is so new but I'm hoping to be able to really use this site as a writing tool. Eventually I'd like to be build a fanbase, post snippets of stories I'm working on, as well as some flash fiction and not just use it as a place where I say, "Oh look, I write books, you can buy them here." 

 What is your favorite book(s)?

There are way too many! I'm a sucker for an Armentrout book, I'll read and love anything by her. But I think my favourite would be Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma. That book almost killed me! It was absolutely devastating and so courageous of Tabitha to tackle such a taboo subject, especially in YA. I remember reading the synopsis and thinking, "What would possess anyone to write that, and I wonder whether she pulls it off?" I had to read it immediately, and I'm so glad I did. It's weird how one little fiction book can teach you so much.

What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?

Being published, without a doubt. I started blogging on Book Me! just to have somewhere to vent after I'd read a book, none of my friends are particularly Bookish people, and since I spent so much time reading and writing, I really felt like I was missing out on some sort of vital connection. I never really grasped just how big the book blogging community was until I started doing the Feature Follow. I'd been working for years at my writing, but it's the writing to an audience that's really helped me hone my voice and have the courage to seek publication.

Q: What writing device or trick most irritates you when reading a book? For example, if an author employs an omnipotent narrator that is sometimes considered bad form.

Third person narrative!

There's a few little writing tricks that annoy the holy bejebbies out of me, the first is definitely a Third Person Narrative! Before Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series,  a Third Person narrative used to send me running for the hills. Now I can tolerate it a little more, but I still find it such an impersonal way of conveying a character's story. I know, I know, there are millions of authors that write this way everyday and their books are a huge success, it's certainly easier to cover all your bases with a TPN and to follow multiple story lines that the protagonist may not be present for, but to me it's a writing style that really lacks emotion. 

A big, huge thank you to the lovely girls who make this meme possible, Alison and Rachel!

You Ladies are incredible for bringing all of us bloggers together to share in the love!

 I adore new followers, drop by my FF on Book Me!  and I'll be   

  sure to follow you back! And don't forget to enter into my giveaway for the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop. Click here to win a Paperback of FEAR: A Modern Anthology of Horror and Terror Volumes 1 & 2

What's your FF this week? Don't forget to get Commenty-with-it below!