{"id":5598,"date":"2013-09-09T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicabrody.htnwbil5-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T01:28:08","slug":"guest-star-diana-rodriguez-wallach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessicabrody.com\/2013\/09\/guest-star-diana-rodriguez-wallach\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Star: Diana Rodriguez Wallach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ReflectingEmmy_LowRes\"<\/a>It’s time for another Guest Star! Our guest this week is Diana Rodriguez Wallach<\/a>, author of the new release, Reflecting Emmy<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Background About Reflecting Emmy<\/em> and the Mirror, Mirror<\/em> Trilogy:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Diana Rodriguez Wallach, author of the award-winning YA series Amor and Summer Secrets<\/em>, has created a modern take on the myths of Narcissus and Nemesis in a contemporary teen setting.<\/p>\n

Her Mirror, Mirror<\/em> trilogy debuts September 3rd with \u201cReflecting Emmy,\u201d followed by \u201cNara Gazing\u201d in October, and \u201cShattering GiGi\u201d in November. Each title will be a $0.99 short story sold in digital ebook format for Kindle, nook, and kobo. The titles will be combined to create the complete Mirror, Mirror<\/em> trilogy, along with bonus materials and a prequel short story, in December 2013.<\/p>\n

In early 2014, Diana\u2019s Mirror, Mirror<\/em> trilogy will be combined with the works of YA authors Jammie Kern and Magda Knight to create the Mythology High<\/em> anthology, available in ebook and paperback through Buzz Books.<\/p>\n

About Reflecting Emmy<\/em>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Eighteen-year-old Emmy is in the family business-trapping vapid narcissistic souls into her silver compact mirror for all eternity. It\u2019s what the Rhamnusia family has been doing for thousands of years, all under the direction of Great Grandmother. Only Emmy\u2019s latest assignment, Nara, is about to prove more challenging than she ever expected.<\/p>\n

Gorgeous and self-absorbed, Nara is unflinchingly cruel to her classmates. Even her boyfriend, Luke, can no longer tolerate her actions\u2013much to Emmy\u2019s relief since she finds Luke a little more than intriguing. But when Emmy tricks Nara into gazing into her mystical mirror, what she finds there is not what she\u2019s expecting.<\/p>\n

In honor of UNREMEMBERED, I\u2019m asking all my guest stars to tell us about a memory they wish they could “Unremember.” Here’s what Diana had to say!\"DianaWallach_HeadshotLowRes\"<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

When Jessica asked me to come up with a time in my life I\u2019d like to \u201cunremember,\u201d I\u2019ll be honest, my first reaction was panic. I don\u2019t really have a good humiliation story\u2014I never dropped my tray in the cafeteria, I never puked during a school play. That\u2019s not to say embarrassing things haven\u2019t happened to me, but most were in college and involved alcohol, thus making them a bit a fuzzy and \u201cunremembered\u201d as it is.<\/p>\n

So I turned to my husband for help. What would be a good story I\u2019d want to forget?<\/p>\n

\u201cIkea,\u201d he says. \u201cI think we both want to forget Ikea.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why I married him, folks. So I bring you, the Ikea story.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t seen the 30 Rock<\/i> episode where Tina Fey (a local girl from my hometown in Delaware County, PA) talks about the amount of relationships that end at the Elizabeth, NJ Ikea, outside of Manhattan, please take a minute and watch the clip now.\u00a0 Go ahead, I\u2019ll wait:<\/p>\n