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The Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea Campbell Publication Date: May 11th, 2010 Published by EgmontUSA 352 Pages, Hardcover Source: Egmont, Teen Book Scene Blog Tour Summary from goodreads: "Sixteen-year-old Damien Locke has a plan: major in messing with people at the local supervillain university and become a professional evil genius, just like his supervillain mom. But when he discovers the shameful secret she's been hiding all these years, that the one-night stand that spawned him was actually with a superhero, everything gets messed up. His father's too moral for his own good, so when he finds out Damien exists, he actually wants him to come live with him and his goody-goody superhero family. Damien gets shipped off to stay with them in their suburban hellhole, and he has only six weeks to prove he's not a hero in any way, or else he's stuck living with them for the rest of his life, or until he turns eighteen, whichever comes first. To get out of this mess, Dam...

I'm thrilled to have Chelsea Campbell, author of The Rise of Renegade X , here with us today! She was nice enough to answer some questions about RRX, as well as some other things, so let's get to it. ~~~~~ Question 1: The Rise of Renegade X is an interesting mix, evil mastermind and superhero, how did you come up with the idea to meld the two together? Chelsea Campbell: I wanted to write about a bad guy character who had to save people. That's pretty vague, but it's how I got started, and I just played with that concept until I figured out my MC was a supervillain teen. And then I decided that the worst thing that could happen to this kid was for him to find out he's half superhero and that none of his villainy dreams are going to come true. Q2:  Before you started writing did you plan on having a boy MC or is that just how it came out when you actually started the book? Chelsea: I don't remember deciding that he should be a boy—it just came out that...