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Waldenbooks
Padre Staples Mall
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O. Henry Writing Clubs Celebration
Saturday, May 3 @ 2 PM
Barnes and Noble Westlake
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Austin, TX 78746
May 29th - June 1
Book Expo America
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Los Angeles, CA
The Forgotten Past Interviews
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Monday, April 14
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"The Frank Truatt Morning Show"
New York, NY
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Friday, April 25
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KZTV-TV "Action 10 News at Noon"
Corpus Christi, TX
Hi-Sci-Fi
To Save the World Interviews
Chick Lit goes sci fi in new novel
Tori Brock from The Huntsville Item interviewed me about writing "chick lit" for the sci-fi/fantasy genre.
Heather Hayashi on her novel "To Save the World"
Interview from Roger Altizer at About.com Gaming about my motivations behind writing the novel, and how it connects to gaming.
Girls Gone Wired
Gamer girl discussion from GameOn! The Columbus Dispatch
Press Release
Reviews
By MELONIE ROBERTS
To Save the World: The Arkha Chronicles
Author: Heather Hayashi
Publisher: Synergy Books
Strong female characters and fantastic sci-fi scenarios blend together to form a new genre of literature, Sci-Fi Chick-Lit, and in To Save the World, this new form melds the fantasy world and female perspective. Author Hayashi focuses her first work of The Arkha Chronicles on the action-adventure fantasy that takes the reader into the otherworld of Arkha, where dragons and vampires wage war to control and wield the planet¹s source of magic.
Not only does the novel pace the action typical of adventure, but also explores the underlying reasons for each character¹s motivation. The story interweaves warring races in their quest for power against the loyalties and values of the human characters brought into their world. Based on her own life experience, Hayashi bases her writing on the strong female component she identifies with and developed following her parent¹s divorce and living as the child of a single mother. Hayashi has taken her own love of science fiction and fantasy and combined it into her first debut novel. She resides in Austin, Texas, where she continues working on The Arkha Chronicles.
This novel is targeted more toward young adults, but any sci-fi fan will find it an entertaining read.
To Save The World - Book Review
Colorful art on the hardcover novel To Save The World is also encased in protective slipcover that is printed with the same image. This fantasy adventure is easy-to-read with a nice sized font that increases the appeal to the younger audience. The author, Heather Hayashi, uses a style that is loaded with strong female characters and explores deeper understanding of human relationships.
Three powerful and strangely gifted Earth-women are brought to Arhka where the very bonds of their relationships are tested. Arkha, similar to Earth, is a world of small landmasses and oceans along with two main larger continents where four known intelligent beings co-exist… but not in peace.
Stephanie, her mother Elise, and her best-friend Eris travel between worlds and are forced into prejudiced wars that threaten the existence of two humanoid species on Arkha. Two distantly related humanoid races, the Vampires and Teregians, continue a war that has been going on for generations, while the Derus and Dragons battle a violent unknown species. Somehow, the planet must band together if they have any hope of overcoming a powerful and mysterious menace that threatens to harm many other worlds.
Zayr, emperor of Teregians, and handsome, valiant Desh learn to bury grudges and bitter memories while working with Drustag, the dragon agent who was sent to end the war between the two humanoids. Trust between the peoples may be an impossible task and they can’t seem to put their anger or the idea of bettering their own kind behind during this time of strife.
Powerful energy called Ith’rya is tapped into by many of these peoples but only Stephanie and her mother are able to yield it to their will. Stephanie proves to have a great skill with Ith’rya and becomes the focus of the races. She soon stands out as a teenage hero and is the strongest lead character in To Save The World.
Though the story of this battle ends, the war does not. The hard work only bought a reprieve and so much is left to discover – a perfect ending for The Arhka Chronicles, Vol. One.
Author: Heather Hayashi
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 1-933538-35-8
~ Book Reviewer: Lillian Brummet - Co-author of the book Trash Talk, a guide for anyone concerned about his or her impact on the environment – Author of Towards Understanding, a collection of poetry. (Official Website)
From Virtual Bookcase:
Score: 5.0
The Virtual Bookcase Reviews of 'To Save the World: The Arhka Chronicles, Volume I (Arhka Chronicles)':
Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote:
Described as 'Sci-Fi Chick-Lit', "To Save the World" is indeed Sci-Fi with a female touch, although it also has serious influences from the fantasy genre. The book describes a parallel world with an eerie link to our world. The book uses the surprise of Stephanie that she has a connection with this other world to describe this world, with strange forms of energy (although one could also describe this as magic). The story in the book works as a single story with a good ending, but is also a buildup to more storylines playing in the same world. All in all a great book to read. I'm looking forward to the next volumes.