Jaliza Burwell's Self Published E-Book "Reyna's Blood: Her Reality" to be Released October 3rd

Akwesasne's Jaliza Burwell has done something not many people can say they have done. She has written a book. The book, titled "Reyna's Blood: Her Reality," will be available on October 3, 2015 as an e-book. The e-book will be available on Amazon and Smashwords on October 3rd and a week or so after the release date it should be available on Kobo and B&N. Check out Jaliza's website: http://www.jalizaburwell.com for updates.

Here is a bit about the book:

Warriors: Big strong beings who keep the order among the supernatural.

Reyna is supposed to be a warrior, but she isn't. The real warriors don't like her for it. She's a half-breed, a weird genetic mutt, and they've done nothing but tell her so since she was a little girl, predicting events yet to happen and picking up emotions that should have been hidden. And when they learned she really wasn't one of them when she turned age eighteen, well she couldn't get away fast enough.

Now as an adult, she's finally away from the warriors. Living on her own, making an income through writing, what else could she ask for? But then her apartment is broken into and she's forced to go back to her childhood home. It doesn't take her long to figure out the warriors are up to no good. And why do the Fae want their greedy hands on her?

The e-book Reyna's Blood will be a series and Her Reality is book one. The next e-book is currently in the editing process and the third book is being written. Jaliza hopes to release the second book in winter 2016 and then the third one in the summer. There are currently no plans to release hard copies, but Jaliza is contemplating audio books.

Jaliza is the daughter of Catherine Cole and Kenneth Burwell and granddaughter of Rita Cole. She is currently living in Boston working on her Masters in Publishing and Writing, and working at Tufts University.

She took the time to answer some questions for us.

What inspired you to write?

Inspiration? I really don't know. My dreams? My mom? I've loved writing even as I learned to write my ABCs. And my parents used read to me as a little girl and all I could think is "Wow, I want to create worlds just like this." Plus I have an overactive imagination and many of my stories come into existence because of those dreams. It's hard to say what inspires me. I write because I can and because I love to. The idea of not writing is a nightmare all on its own. I love words. I love putting them together and learning how to make them flow and its been like that for as long as I remember.

What inspired you to write this book?

A few years ago, probably about five years ago I wrote a scene out that occurs at the beginning of book one. It was just motivation, a little hit of inspiration. Words grew in my mind and the scene practically wrote itself and I had to get it down on paper and so I did. Then my undergraduate teacher, Dr. Alan Steinberg from SUNY Potsdam, had us write the beginning of a full length novel for a fiction writing class and I ended up choosing that scene to develop and it turned into a story. His class forced me to flesh out all the details and to really create a book out of a little scene.

Do you have future plans, besides writing, in your career?

Moving to Boston has really opened up a lot of possibilities for me. I don't have any current career goals, other than self-publishing. I'm just going to keep moving forward and see where I end up. I've learned I have an interest in research administration, nothing to do with publishing I know, but my current job is very interesting to me and I like it. My career goals when it comes to the publishing field are always shifting because I'm learning so much at Emerson. I probably won't know even after I graduate. Right now, there is a magazine I want to develop and I kind of want to open an independent bookstore in Akwesasne. That would be fun. But as I said, my career goals keep changing. Who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll want to be an editor instead. I still have a long way to go and a lot I need to learn.