Check out Kathy Steinemann’s post about free holiday reads.
https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/free-stories-2019/
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WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – H. L. Brooks
Welcome to WOLF NOTES, where interview questions stray from the rest of the pack. It’s nice to know the usual stuff like where an author gets their inspiration and why they write, but sometimes we need a little fun in our lives.
H.L. Brooks writes contemporary fairy tale and paranormal romances with an emphasis on strong female characters. Her Red August series is available at many major online retailers. She is also an artist and photographer. Her coloring book “The Yoni Coloring Book” can be found on Amazon and other online retailers. You can read her sensual observations and micro-fiction in the Sensual Sunday series at her blog. H.L. is currently developing a series of short bedtime stories for adults, in collaboration with William Hardy, to be released as podcasts.Wolf: Let’s get to know you a bit more. Describe a meal you would be served while visiting another world.
H. L.: I’ll go ahead and choose this funny little flatbread I saw on an episode of Stargate once. It was so obviously an attempt at something “exotic” but it came off more like “hey, kraft service has some of these little personal sized flatbreads, run over to the caterer next door and buy some edible flowers, the props master forgot to design food for this shot.” And DESPITE that, I enjoyed the aesthetic and, clearly, still remember it. Also, the food had some special properties.
Wolf: I remember that episode. If you could be any animal in the universe, what would it be and why?
H. L.: I think maybe a cat. I feel a bit like I’m already a cat. I’m fluffy and I like sunny little spots to nap.
Wolf: Sun. Warm & cozy. Sleep… If you had to pick a weapon, what would it be and why?
H. L.: Broadsword for close combat. I enjoyed swinging the big “waster” (wooden practice sword) around. It felt pretty badass. But for further away, the bow and arrow. I took some classes to study for my Red August series, because I wanted to know what it was really like to shoot. Write what you know and if you don’t know it, learn it. When you can. Some things you can’t ever know, but you can have good guesses. I like to write as authentically as possible.
Wolf: I don’t think I could lift a broadsword, but love bows and arrows. While walking in the woods you come across…
H. L.: A lot of rocks. And mosquitos.
Wolf: Must be damp in your part of the woods. You’ve just been turned into a plant. Describe yourself.
H. L.: I’m soft and long-stemmed. I don’t like full sun, but I can bare it if I have to.
Wolf: We better take this interview inside. There is a door at the end of a dark, damp corridor. You hear rumbling. What do you do?
H. L.: I would likely never been by myself at the end of a dark damp corridor. You know, the rumbling might be there and I’m not about that.
Wolf: How about disasters? What five items would you want to have in a post-cataclysmic world?
H. L.: I assume you mean aside from water and such. Lip balm, Advil, matches/lighter, sewing kit, multi-tool.
Wolf: Good choices. What is your favorite body of water and why? (river, ocean, waterfall, puddle, bottle…)
H. L.: A brook. Bonus for a little arching footbridge.
Wolf: Of course it is. What story are you working on now?
H. L.: I’m working on the third book of my Red August series. Book one is “Red August” and book two is “Red Archer.” Book three will be “Red Hunter.”
Wolf: Do you have a favorite character?
H. L.: That’s really hard to say. Of the secondary characters I love Brigid and Abel. But the best parts of Faolan is based on my husband, so clearly, he’s my favorite.
Wolf: It’s so hard to choose. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
H. L.: I like to connect to other women writers. I started a book salon for women writers. I really love the idea of women supporting each other instead of tearing each other down. I couldn’t find a local writing group that was strictly for women so I started Women Authors of Maryland group on Facebook. Then shortly after I decided to create The Write Women Book Fest, which will be at Marietta House in September. Other than that, I like hanging with my sweetie, cooking, checking in with my kids, and fighting the patriarchy.
Wolf: If this question were any question in the world, what question would you want it to be and how would you answer it?
H. L.: Inception question! A mystery wrapped in a riddle. I think that it would ask me why I write. And the answer is, because I like making lemonade from lemons.
Wolf: Thanks for visiting. You can find H. L. Brooks on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook – @hlbrookswrites
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BLOG TOUR: NEON EMPIRE – DREW MINH
Rare Bird Books and California Coldblood Books are proud to bring you the remarkable debut novel from social media maven and marketing expert Drew Minh, Neon Empire.
About Drew:
Drew Minh is a digital advertising executive in Los Angeles, with firsthand knowledge of our current social media revolution. He’s lived in Barcelona and Paris, where he worked as a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and digital consultant. He’s had fiction published in 3AM magazine, Word Riot, Litro Magazine, and other publications. He also wrote a fictional crime column for weekly newspapers in Spain.
NEON EMPIRE
In a state-of-the-art city where social media drives every aspect of the economy, a has-been Hollywood director and an investigative journalist race to uncover the relationship between a rising tide of violence and corporate corruption.
Bold, colorful, and dangerously seductive, Eutopia is a new breed of hi-tech city. Rising out of the American desert, it’s a real-world manifestation of a social media network where fame-hungry desperados compete for likes and followers. But in Eutopia, the bloodier and more daring posts pay off the most. As crime rises, no one stands to gain more than Eutopia’s architects―and, of course, the shareholders who make the place possible.
This multiple-POV novel follows three characters as they navigate the city’s underworld. Cedric Travers, a has-been Hollywood director, comes to Eutopia looking for clues into his estranged wife’s disappearance. What he finds instead is a new career directing―not movies, but experiences. The star of the show: A’rore, the city’s icon and lead social media influencer. She’s panicking as her popularity wanes, and she’ll do anything do avoid obscurity. Sacha Villanova, a tech and culture reporter, is on assignment to profile A’rore―but as she digs into Eutopia’s inner workings, she unearths a tangle of corporate corruption that threatens to sacrifice Cedric, A’rore, and even the city itself on the altar of stockholder greed.The Blog tour is just getting started. Check out these other sites.
September 1 Booklover Book Reviews Q&A and Giveaway September 2 Bookshine and Readbows Review September 5 AL Kaplan blog September 6 Books, Life and Everything Blog September 7 Tehben Review September 8 Books of All Shades September 9 The Bookwormery September 10 (release day!) Suanne Schafer interview September 14 Don Jimmy Reviews September 19 Suanne Schafer review Thanks for visiting ALKaplanAuthor.com. Check out some of my other posts before you leave and stop by again.
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Sometimes it’s hard to be who you are meant to be.
Eighteen-year-old Tatiana is running from her past and her star-touched powers eight years after a meteor devastates earth’s population.
Her power to heal may be overshadowed by more destructive abilities. Fleeing the persecution of those like her, Tatiana seeks refuge in a small town she once visited. But this civil haven, in a world where society has broken down, is beginning to crumble. Will Tatiana flee or stay and fight for the new life she has built? Only by harnessing the very forces that haunt her can Tatiana save her friends…and herself.Wolf Dawn
A Hidden Past – A Deadly Secret
Gifted with the ability to wolf-talk, Kara has lived with the wolves since she lost her memories eight years ago. Now at sixteen, snippets of her past send her searching for answers.
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Check out the interview I did for JVJ Podcast
I had fun chatting with Josh and the gang at JVJ Podcast. Stop by their website and give it a listen.Don’t forget to get your copy of Star Touched
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WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – Lauren Monroe
Welcome to WOLF NOTES, where interview questions stray from the rest of the pack. It’s nice to know the usual stuff like where an author gets their inspiration and why they write, but sometimes we need a little fun in our lives.
Lauren Monroe is a Maryland novelist and Pittsburgh-native who grew up appreciating beautiful scenery and nautical life. She learned to drive a boat long before a car! From Western Maryland and later to the DC suburbs, she has experienced life in small towns and large. Currently she resides, along with her husband and family, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Letting Go: Book One of The Maryland Shores and Second Chances: Book Two, women’s fiction in The Maryland Shores series, are her first novels. She’s at work on a third book in the series.Wolf: Glad you could get away from the shore and visit. What is the nicest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Lauren: My characters, at least in my first two novels, had to have functional families with close relationships and pretty good interpersonal interactions, give or take typical sibling banter and a dose of parental embarrassment. That strength made them connect with one another, and I do believe, made them endearing.
Wolf: It’s nice to read about families that work once in a while. What is the meanest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Lauren: Ah, now that might trigger a spoiler alert. Many readers report, and I do believe, that Second Chances: Book Two of The Maryland Shores was more the page-turner than the sweet story that started off my series. Happily ever after would not keep readers engaged. So my characters needed a few life rings tossed their way. While my fans told me of their surprise at a few plot twists, I stand behind all of them because they simply had to happen.
Wolf: I understand. Do you consider yourself a cat person, or a dog person?
Lauren: I’m definitely a dog person. I owned a cat many years ago, but in adulthood developed watery, itch eyes to felines. I grew up with a beloved, shelter-rescued dog, and so far in my adult life, our family adopted two dogs who needed forever homes. It’s no wonder then that my characters in Second Chances became dog lovers as well.
Wolf: I was adopted by a sweet lovable dog as well. If you could have a super power, what would it be?
Lauren: Hands down, it would be to eliminate anger and promote civility, better conflict resolution, kindness, and understanding.
Wolf: Great idea. Which of your characters is your favorite?
Lauren: Tough question! If I had to pick one, I’d say Steve, the sexy guy I created in Letting Go: Book One of The Maryland Shores. However, I love and identify with Maren who has nautical interests and a home-based career, Liz being a therapist (which I am when not my pen name writing novels!), Paul as a proud Pittsburgher, and Pam pushing back against gender stereotypes and forging her own path.
Wolf: Not playing favorites. You’re a good parent. What is your favorite body of water and why?
Lauren: I grew up on a lake in Maryland and landed later in life living near the Chesapeake Bay. Never the same view, crossing over it several times a week still brings a certain calm and beauty that puts one’s mind at ease. Both sides of the Chesapeake became the setting for my novel series.
Wolf: Nice. What story are you working on now?
Lauren: Book Three of The Maryland Shores which is yet unnamed.
Wolf: What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Lauren: The urge to create never quite goes away. When not at the keyboard, I’m cooking, baking, reading, developing info-graphics for book promotion, swimming, watching movies, spending time with friends/family, and travelling when I can get away…that’s my life.
Wolf: Sounds like you have a busy life. Why do you think reading is more vital than ever in our frantic, often discordant world?
Lauren: Being surrounded by books brings comfort, and we know from recent studies conducted in the UK that reading as little as six to ten minutes when losing oneself in a character’s world lowers heart rate and lessens muscle tension. With such immediate, relaxing results, I’d ask why in the world wouldn’t people want to part the covers of a good story and just lose themselves for a little while?
Wolf: The only thing better is reading while petting a dog. Thanks for visiting. You can connect with Lauren through these links:
Social Media Links:
www.laurenmonroenovels.com
www.facebook.com/laurenmonroenovels
https://www.pinterest.com/novelistlaurenm/
www.goodreads.com/laurenmonroeStar Touched
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WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – Charlie N. Holmberg
Welcome to WOLF NOTES, where interview questions stray from the rest of the pack. It’s nice to know the usual stuff like where an author gets their inspiration and why they write, but sometimes we need a little fun in our lives.
Charlie N. Holmberg is a Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling author, whose debut series, The Paper Magician, has been optioned by the Walt Disney Company. Her stand-alone novel, Followed by Frost, was nominated for a 2016 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance, and her novel The Fifth Doll won the 2018 Whitney award for Speculative Fiction. She is a board member for Deep Magic Ezine. Visit her at http://www.charlienholmberg.com.
Wolf: Thanks for coming to Wolf Notes today. I hope Disney decides to do The Paper Magician. If you could be any animal in the universe, what would it be and why?
Charlie: Probably something that flies. A bald eagle, maybe. Flies, strong, and it’s protected.
Wolf: Beautiful birds. If you had to pick a weapon, what would it be and why?
Charlie: A machine gun because it’s thorough.
Wolf: Remind me not to get on your bad side. What is the nicest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Charlie: Give them a happy ending. 😉
Wolf: What is the meanest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Charlie: Read my Numina trilogy and find out! 😉
Wolf: I’ll have to do that. You’ve just been turned into a plant. Describe yourself.
Charlie: I’m thick as an ancient tree trunk, tall and strong, with giant flowers that smell wonderful but also eat any bugs that try to nest on/in me.
Wolf: Cool. While walking in the woods you come across…
Charlie: A beautiful cottage that is available for sale at an amazing price…
Wolf: Sold. If you could have a super power, what would it be?
Charlie: The ability to intimidate people. Kind of like the rioters in Mistborn. Especially if it works through the Internet.
Wolf: Yikes. There is a door at the end of a dark, damp corridor. You hear rumbling. What do you do?
Charlie: Most likely I would not open it and run. I’ve seen horror movies, you know. My sense of self-preservation is very high.
Wolf: What happened to the machine gun? What five items would you want to have in a post-cataclysmic world?
Charlie: A gun, ammo, my scriptures, glasses, and one of those water-purifying straws (off the top of my head)
Wolf: Do you have a favorite character?
Charlie: Alvie from The Plastic Magician.
Wolf: You seem to have a few magicians. What is your favorite body of water and why? (river, ocean, waterfall, puddle, bottle…)
Charlie: Being generic, probably a lake. A smallish lake. Oceans kind of scare me (but I do love watching shark movies…).
Wolf: What story are you working on now?
Charlie: A troll romance.
Wolf: Sounds fun. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Charlie: Spending time with my family!
Wolf: So do I. Thanks for visiting. You can connect with Charlie through these links:
Social Media Links:
Facebook.com/cnholmberg
Twitter.com/cnholmberg
Instagram.com/cnholmberg
Twitch.tv/typecastrpgStar Touched
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WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – Harrison Demchick
Welcome to WOLF NOTES, where interview questions stray from the rest of the pack. It’s nice to know the usual stuff like where an author gets their inspiration and why they write, but sometimes we need a little fun in our lives.
This week on Wolf Notes, we have Harrison Demchick.
Raised in Baltimore, Maryland on a steady diet of magical realism, literary fiction, science-fiction, and Spider-Man comics, Harrison Demchick spent most of his formative years inside his own head, working out strange thoughts and ideas that would eventually make their way into stories, screenplays, and songs.He went to Oberlin College to attain one of modern day’s most notoriously useless degrees, a BA in English with a creative writing concentration, but then actually used it, working for over a decade as a developmental editor of fiction and memoir. Harrison is also an optioned screenwriter, winner of the 2011 Baltimore Screenwriters Competition, and an inaugural fellow of the Johns Hopkins University/Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund. His first film, Ape Canyon, is currently in production.
The Listeners, his first novel, was published by Bancroft Press in 2012. Short stories “Magicland” and “The Bead” were published in 2019. Otherguy, his debut EP, launched in 2018. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his girlfriend and their two cats with a combined seven legs. He’s working on a series of short stories, a couple screenplays, a pair of musicals, a concept album, and whatever else keeps him distracted from the dark void that will one day consume us all.
Wolf: I beat your BA in English with a Masters in Sculpture. If you had to pick a weapon, what would it be and why?
Harrison: Yo-yo. Because no one ever picks the yo-yo, and I don’t want it to feel left out.
What are we picking this for again?
Wolf: Just curious. Yo-yos are fun – and dangerous. What is the meanest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Harrison: Well, I’m a horror author. So.
In my genres (tossing in magical realism and dark fantasy), it’s fair to say that some very bad things are going to happen in some very weird ways. But one thing that scares me more than anything is the notion of losing yourself—of forgetting the basics of who you are, and knowing that you have. Even if your life before was terrible. That happens in a yet-unpublished novelette called Rugaru, Montana, and my protagonists are more or less faced with the choice of letting themselves forget everything or embracing the lives they were desperate to escape. That may be the meanest thing I’ve done to my characters.
Though I also do some pretty mean things to Daniel, the protagonist of my novel The Listeners.
Wolf: Forgetting who you are is mean. I’ve done that to my characters as well. What is the nicest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Harrison: I co-wrote a musical with a friend of mine. It was a zombie musical, so terrible things still happened, but at least they got to sing some fun songs beforehand.
Wolf: Too funny. Do you consider yourself a cat person, or a dog person?
Harrison: I’m a cat person. Actually, honestly, I have a major phobia of dogs. But in my defense, this is only because all dogs secretly want to eat you and eventually overthrow humanity. My cats will also eat me, but only after I’m dead, which when you come down to it is more thoughtful than spiteful.
Wolf: Interesting way of looking at things. I hope you don’t mind being interviewed by a wolf. While walking in the woods you come across…
Harrison: Bigfoot. It has to be Bigfoot. I did a school project on Bigfoot when I was in fourth grade. I taught cryptozoology as a college class. I wrote a screenplay about searching for Bigfoot, and now Ape Canyon is my first film. I’ve earned Bigfoot.
Wolf: You have indeed. There is a door at the end of a dark, damp corridor. You hear rumbling. What do you do?
Harrison: Well, hold on. There are a lot of variables in that scenario. First off, from which side of the door is the rumbling coming? And what sort of rumbling is it? Is it the rumbling of a train over tracks? An earthquake? The growling stomach of some unseen monster?
These latter questions will not be answered because I will be heading briskly in the opposite direction. The door is irrelevant. My characters go through these things so I don’t have to.
Wolf: Great answer. What five items would you want to have in a post-cataclysmic world?
Harrison: Oh, I wrote about one of these! The first and most important thing I would want is the most important thing Daniel in The Listeners suffers without: a friend. I happen to have a friend who owns a sword. I think a friend with a sword is a good bet in a post-cataclysmic world.
My second item would be a second friend, which is good to have in case the first friend dies or goes full-on zombie. Or if I do.
Actually, at least four of the five items would be friends. In all seriousness, there are all kinds of basic necessities you need to survive in a post-cataclysmic world, but it’s not worth surviving if you don’t have a reason to live. Friends will give you that. Friends will make the end of the world okay. One of them would be my fiancée, because she makes everything okay.
The fifth item is a guitar. I don’t know how to play the guitar, but if the world has ended I’d have plenty of time to learn.
I shouldn’t have evoked the concept of having time enough at last in a post-cataclysmic context. Now something terrible and ironic will happen.
Wolf: You want to live, not just survive. Friends are important for that. Which of your characters is your favorite?
Harrison: I’ve been writing a lot of shorter fiction the last couple years, and the nature of short fiction is such that you don’t live with an individual character for all that long. So it stands to reason that I become more attached to the ones with whom I spend the most time. There’s a special place in my heart for Cal Piker, the protagonist of Ape Canyon. Though I may identify most with Mindy, the protagonist of my screenplay Time-Traveling Idea Bandits. She’s a wildly enthusiastic aspiring writer struggling with serious self-doubt. That describes too many of my friends for me not to love her.
Wolf: What story are you working on now?
Harrison: I’ve just wrapped up a short story called “Sophie Anne” about a mother, her young daughter, and the Honey Tree Baby (think Cabbage Patch Doll) the mother gives her for her birthday. That sounds like the setup for a creepy possessed doll story. It’s not. Or not in the way you expect at least. It’s actually become one of the saddest things I’ve ever written. I’m very hopeful about it once I start submitting it to literary magazines and anthologies.
Wolf: Hope it does well. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Harrison: Wait—there are other things—?
Wolf: Perhaps not. Thanks for visiting. You can catch up with Harrison at these links:
http://www.harisondemchick.com
www.facebook.com/HarrisonDemchick
https://www.facebook.com/ApeCanyon/
https://twitter.com/HDemchickStar Touched
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WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – Elsa Wolf
Welcome to WOLF NOTES, where interview questions stray from the rest of the pack. It’s nice to know the usual stuff like where an author gets their inspiration and why they write, but sometimes we need a little fun in our lives.
Today’s guest is Elsa Wolf.
A George Washington University graduate now living in the suburbs within the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Elsa Wolf began with a theater background, which developed into public relations and eventually into the ownership of a small equestrian business. Elsa spends her time writing, traveling, helping rescued horses, and supporting soldiers.
Wolf: I always liked horses. If you could be any animal in the universe, what would it be and why?
Elsa: If I could be any animal, it would likely be a wolf running free with my pack. However, I would like to be reincarnated several times with my companions. We could learn from our mistakes and make each life better than the last.
Wolf: Excellent choice. What is the nicest thing you’ve ever done to your characters?
Elsa: The nicest thing I’ve done for a character is help them find the lost bits of themselves through unexpected sources. In my current novel, Buried Truths-A Daughter’s Tale, the adopted daughter decides to find her birth-mother when she accidentally comes across a novel about a mother giving up her baby.
Wolf: I hope she finds the answers she is looking for. Do you consider yourself a cat person, or a dog person?
Elsa: I have had cats and dogs over many decades. My cats while loving and independent, cannot match the devotion of my dogs. One in particular, gave me unconditional love and was a wonderful hiking companion. He helped me feel secure in any environment.
Wolf: I’m partial to dogs myself. If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
Elsa: If I had a superpower, I would want to be able to teleport at will from place to place with another person holding my hand. I love to travel and explore new sites as well as visit old haunts. Teleporting would give me lots of options.
Wolf: That’s cool. I’ve been working on a series with a teleport. What five items would you want to have in a post-cataclysmic world?
Elsa: In a post-cataclysmic world, I would have a pot for cooking and purifying water, a flint to lite fires, a pair of comfortable hiking boots, a layered water-proof jacket as well as a knife.
Wolf: Great picks. What story are you working on now?
Elsa: I am currently working on a novel with a military man who falls in love in Savannah, Georgia and then is traumatized in combat. He only sleeps a few hours a night and has mystical experiences in Savannah and then Portugal.
Wolf: I’d like to read that. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Elsa: When I’m not writing I like to take long walks or spend time with friends locally or while traveling. During my solo times, I listen to audiobooks or sew quilts and costumes.
Wolf: Costumes. Awesome. How do you find your characters?
Elsa: I find my characters while I sleep and dream, I find them out in public spaces, I find them in people I know and morph them into a new character, and I find them when I’m traveling.
Wolf: Thanks for visiting. Connect with Elsa through these links.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100022567891468
https://twitter.com/WolfElsaWolf
https://elsawolfbooks.com/Star Touched
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WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – Esther T. Jones
Welcome to WOLF NOTES, where interview questions stray from the rest of the pack. It’s nice to know the usual stuff like where an author gets their inspiration and why they write, but sometimes we need a little fun in our lives.
Wolf: Give a big wolf welcome to Esther T. Jones.
A voracious reader, Esther T. Jones has been writing stories in her head since she was five. She calls the United States her home, and when not writing can be found gardening, playing flute and piano, and designing costumes centered around her novels.At present, Jones is working on her second novel: Thorunn, an exciting new Young Adult Sci-fi work.
Wolf: It’s always nice to meet a fellow dreamer/writer/costumer. If you could be any animal in the universe, what would it be and why?
Esther: If I could be any animal in the universe, I’d choose to be a cat. They’re fierce and independent and very aesthetically pleasing.
Wolf: That they are. What is the strangest food you’ve ever eaten?
Esther: The weirdest thing I’ve ever eaten (on New Year’s, as part of a friend’s family tradition) was an insect that is apparently a delicacy for pregnant women in South America. Never again. Never, never.
Wolf: I have to admit; I’ve never tried to eat any bug on purpose. If you had to pick a weapon, what would it be and why?
Esther: I favor the bow. One of my absolute favorite stories growing up was “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (and I’ve had the wonderful privilege of being able to visit Sherwood Forest) so I’ve practiced archery on and off since childhood, and I enjoy making my own bows for cosplays and such.Wolf: I LOVE archery. If you could have a super power, what would it be?
Esther: I think being able to fly would be so neat! I’d be a world traveler.
Wolf: That seems to be a very popular super power. There is a door at the end of a dark, damp corridor. You hear rumbling. What do you do?
Esther: Depends on whether or not I have my bow with me. But if I do, I see myself creeping toward the door, holding my breath as it opens a crack, just enough to let a sliver of light peep through. Slowly, I knock an arrow to the bow string and drop into a half crouch, ready to face what lurks just beyond…
Wolf: Spoken like a true adventurer. What is your favorite body of water and why? (river, ocean, waterfall, puddle, bottle…)
Esther: This might seem odd, but I love the gym swimming pool. It’s a place I’ve always associated with peaceful calm, and doing laps is very soothing. The ocean is a close second however – the sound of the waves washes away all stresses or worries.
Wolf: Interesting. I can smell chlorine just thinking about a pool. What story are you working on now?
Esther: Currently I’m working on “Thorunn” a YA novel that is a bit of a culture clash, a little bit of a conspiracy, and a good bit of an adventure story, featuring two teen protagonists – Laine and Kenton – who could not be more different. It’s sci-fi, so I’ve had a lot of fun making up new planets, moons, weapons and transportation, flora and fauna, the weather, and even some deadly diseases that may or may not impact the lives of the main characters.
Wolf: Creating new worlds is a lot of fun. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Esther: When I’m not writing, music is my life – I teach and play flute and piano almost every single day and am actively involved in my alma mater’s community music ensembles. I also love gardening and taking close up pictures of the vegetables and flowers. There’s nothing like fresh grilled zucchini or a sweet-smelling bouquet I picked myself. And of course, I love to read!
Wolf: Sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for stopping by. Connect with Esther at these links:
Social Media Links:
Website: www.etjwrites.com
Twitter: twitter.com/etjwrites
Instagram: instagram.com/etjwrites
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/15844192.Esther_T_Jones
Tumblr: etjwrites.tumblr.comStar Touched
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News from the Wolf
It’s been a busy few weeks for me. Wolf Dawn came out on Kindle.
Two weeks ago I attended the 7th Annual Book Festival in College Park, Maryland with a few special edition hand-bound copies of Wolf Dawn.
Last weekend I helped run the Maryland Writers’ Association From Brain To Bookshelf Writing Conference. I got to meet lots of people and hang out with Crystal Wilkinson.
Here is a before and after picture of my display in the bookstore.
On Tuesday, Star Touched came out on audio. Steve Campbell did a great job with the reading. If you act quickly, you may still be able to get a free version through Audio Book Boom.
Saturday, I’ll be participating in the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at RavenCon from 2-4 PM. If you’re at the Con, make sure you say hi to me and Fifi.
Keep your eye out for my Balticon schedule.