Publisher: Lightning Platypus Press, (January 10, 2022)
Category: Paranormal Romance
Tour dates: February 20-March 31, 2023
ISBN: 979-8985603859
Available in Print and ebook, 263 pages
Description Saving the Selkie’s Heart by Ella Rose
A selkie warrior, a newly transfigured selkie princess...what happens to love when loyalties clash?
Lyall wants desperately to find out where she belongs. When the opportunity comes to visit the Great Elder and save her father’s damaged sealskin, she sneaks away to join the clan in their migration. The only problem? Being born a human, she hasn’t the first clue how to survive on her own as a selkie!
The last thing Ceannas needs is babysitting duties, and Lyall only has eyes on her mission. But as Ceannas teaches Lyall how to exist in her new element, the attraction growing between them grows stronger. Can their love withstand their honor-bound duties? And what will it cost each of them to do so?
Saving the Selkie’s Heart is a sexy guardian/ward paranormal romance and the second book in The Selkie Seas series by Ella Rose. Get lost in love today!
Review Stealing the Selkie’s Heart by Ella Rose
Review by Suzie
“He let his breathing even out, unaware of the way he
began to inhale on her exhale so that their lungs moved back and forth in tandem
with each other, pushing and pulling in an easy rhythm.” - 'Saving the Selkie's
Heart,' by Ella Rose.
A sexy, romantic and action-filled story from the
writer of 'Stealing the Selkie's Heart.'
This is the second book in Ella Rose's, 'The Selkie
seas,' series, and this one is just as compelling and steamy as the first! I
was on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading this book, and found
myself really drawn in by the narrative.
I was rooting for the main heroine, Lyall in her quest
to find the Great Elder, the wisest member of the selkie clan so that she could
ask him to fix her father's selkie skin. Selkies cannot transform into their
seal self unless they have their seal skin—and it has to be fully intact. Unfortunately,
Lyall's father, Lord Prion's selkie skin was damaged decades before the events
of the book.
Now, afflicted with a mysterious illness that is
killing him, Lord Prion is unable to transform into his seal form in order to
heal. So, without his knowledge, Lyall takes it upon herself to consult the
Great Elder to see if he can fix it. But will she be successful? That's
something that you'll have to read the book to find out!
One thing is for sure, when Lyall meets Ceannas, one of the top soldiers in their clan, she feels herself drawn to him in a way that she cannot explain. When Ceannas discovers her mission, he realizes that he must help her, especially since he is drawn to her, as well.
This is an excellent novel, and I can't wait to read more from this series! Five stars!
Interview with Author, Ella Rose
Suzie: What initially got you interested in writing?
Ella: I’ve been writing all my life, but I didn’t really think it was worth consciously pursuing until my 5th grade English teacher let us write, illustrate, and bind our own book. I remember sewing the pages together and covering the cardboard cover with sticky wallpaper strips, as the project required, and thinking this had to be the best job in the entire world. And, thankfully, I’ve gotten the opportunity to find out that it absolutely is!
Suzie: What attracts you to writing Paranormal Romance, etc?
Ella: I love the sometimes-spicy interplay between characters that’s common in the romance genre, in general. But I have a huge affinity for mythology and folklore. So, when I was deciding what my next series needed to be about, I didn’t want to write the one without the other. So Paranormal Romance is, to me, the best of both worlds.
Suzie: How and when did you first learn about Selkie folklore?
Ella: I’ve always been fond of Ireland and Scotland and the mythological creatures those cultures have. I mean, Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn, for crying out loud! It doesn’t get any more immersive than that.
But when I first learned about selkies, I was intrigued at the way the stories always seemed to revolve around a human man stealing a female selkie’s sealskin—this gave him control over her, and usually the story ends with her becoming his wife and bearing him preternaturally beautiful children. It seemed like such a heartbreaking power dynamic that I decided I wanted to give the woman the power. So, in my first novel, Stealing the Selkie’s Skin (The Selkie Seas, Book 1), I did just that.
And now, with Saving the Selkie’s Heart (The Selkie Seas, Book 2), I made sure that the female heroine, Lyall, retained a fair equilibrium of power with her guardian, Ceannas.
Suzie: How did you decide to make the move into being a published author?
Ella: It was always a dream of mine, but I knew that unless I was Stephen King, I wasn’t likely to make any money as a writer. So, instead, I was a Technical Writer working for government contractors in Washington, D.C. I made good money, but I was only able to get writing time available in 10–15-minute spurts during my lunch breaks or for an hour after the kids went to bed at night. Some days, if I really needed to get a story done, I’d wake up at 4 am, chug a 5 Hour Energy drink I kept on the nightstand, then pull out my laptop and start writing in bed before the household woke up.
It was a difficult slog to make writing time a priority, especially when I wasn’t willing to trade time with my family to do it. That went on for about 14 years, until my husband got an opportunity to be able to work remotely for his job. It seemed the perfect time to move back to Tennessee to be near our families.
That move was the catalyst for me making the jump to being a full-time writer. In conjunction with the move, my son was finally old enough to start Kindergarten, so with both my kids out of the house at school, I had the time to devote to writing in earnest. Immediately my productivity tripled, and I knew it was the right thing to do.
Suzie: What do you want readers to take away from reading your works?
Ella: That love and HEAs are possible! I like reading/ writing couples that seemed fated to be together and I hope my readers feel like their chance, in real life, is possible too.
Suzie: What do you find most rewarding about writing?
Ella: What’s most rewarding to me is the cradle-to-grave process of being a self-published writer. I get to do all the jobs myself (from writing to managing the promotion for each book), and I have complete control over every step of the process. It’s wildly satisfying to take a book from a rough draft to having eBook and paperback options for someone to buy.
Suzie: What do you find most challenging about writing?
Ella: The most challenging part, to me, is the time management portion of the job. It’s a hard task to manage your time when you need to incorporate writing and book promotion and maintaining a social media presence alongside the day-to-day responsibilities of managing a household and keeping it clean and everyone fed. It’s tough to juggle life as a self-published author, especially when you have small kids. But it’s definitely worth the effort—all of it.
Suzie: What advice would you give to people want to enter the field?
Ella: Stick with it! Hands-down, the most vicious critic for a new writer is their own brain. It insists all the myths you’ve heard about being a successful writer are true: you can’t do it unless you make it big like J.K. Rowling or Stephen King; if you didn’t have a Masters in Fine Arts from a university, then you’ll never make it; nobody will read your work except your mother and best friends.
All lies.
It took me 2 years after completing my MFA for me to write anything—I’d gotten burned out trying to fit my Speculative Fiction writing into the Literary Fiction writing mold my university program insisted on. Then another 14 years to publish short stories in various anthologies. Finally, at 39, I published my first novel and novella in the same year: Losing the Selkie’s Skin (Book 0.1) and Stealing the Selkie’s Heart (Book 1).
Absolutely stick with it. Each rejection you get is another one step closer to the acceptance you’re looking for. You might get 100 rejections… you only need one acceptance.
Suzie: What is next for Ella Rose, will there be more Selkies?
Ella: Definitely! I’m taking a break at the start of 2023 to pursue a different writing project, but come summer, I’m planning on tackling Book 3 in The Selkie Seas series, Binding the Selkie’s Heart, with a Fall 2023 release date planned. And after that, I intend to chase that selkie trail as long as I can come up with decent ideas for it. Just know: I’m nowhere NEAR done with the island of Selbane or its inhabitants!
About Ella Rose
Ella Rose is a paranormal romance author who loves kink, ink, and cake, and hopes you do too. She is a bi-sexual author writing through a Bi-Polar Disorder lens and thinks representation and mental health matter. She is the author of The Selkie Seas series, which includes Losing the Selkie’s Skin and Stealing the Selkie’s Heart. Her latest selkie short stories will appear in Dark Rose Press’s Worlds Apart and Dragon Soul Press’s Beyond Atlantis anthologies. 
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