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What is the favorite book you remember as a child?
I had a real fondness for A Wrinkle in Time. I loved the idea of going to other worlds and discovering a world outside the confines of your home. I don’t know the book rubbed off on me that much as a writer, but I say that and it’s clear The Black Thing took root in my subconscious somewhere. In Between: Stories of the Eververse doesn’t feature a nameless, formless evil except it does hint at one, a force mentioned elsewhere in the series that fans can expect to become a larger threat.
What is your favorite book today?
I don’t know if I have a favorite book. I have lots of favorite books depending on my mood. Some days it’s something by Kevin Barry, which right now is That Old Country Music. I go back to The Hours a lot, by Michael Cunningham. I love the poetry in the language. I’m in love with This Is How You Lose The Time War. It’s a book I’d love to have written, which I suppose is the default writer reaction to it.
Tell us about your current book in 10 words.
Kit Baldwin can’t touch anyone, but everyone needs her help.
What are you reading right now?
Quite a bit. Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen, Voices of the Banished by Shelly Campbell, and a lot of comic books. I’m always reading comics and sometimes it’s X-Men comics from when I was a kid or something brand new like Saga or Stray Dogs.
E-Reader or print? and why?
I’ve gotten used to reading digitally. I work on my laptop all day long and a lot of that is reading, whether it’s journalism or fiction or comics again. I prefer print, though. I love books. I love the tactile quality of them. Their weight, and smell, and the history in the lines and creases.
When do you do most of your reading?
I really don’t have a dedicated time to read anymore. I’m always reading throughout the day, and it’s in chunks here and there. Sometimes that’s for work and sometimes just for myself. One bad habit I’d love to get away from is not having a retreat or a block of time to escape to with a book.
Re-reader or not?
Re-reader. I’m always returning to books. I often go back to my favorites to revisit a passage or a scene that lingers in my memory and try to understand why that is. Sometimes I just want to revisit the world. There’s an immersion in great fiction that simply consumes you, regardless of how many times you’ve experienced it.
Keep books or give them away?
I love to give books away. Books always come back to you. Stories stay in your mind and in your heart so you can’t be precious about the actual copy. Letting go of books I think is a good way to learn to appreciate experiences in life and also accept letting them live where they live, which is your memory.
Fifty years after an alien ship crashed in Break Pointe, the only protection in a strange new world is Great Power, a corporation of superhumans. If you can afford them. Most people can’t.
Enter Kit Baldwin, a young woman who helps people to help people. Except her power is the alien’s power, and she may be more of a danger to her city than she is a help.
This collection of stories and novellas follows Kit's journey in a series that's been called 'the next logical step after Watchmen.'
Bloodback
The sky bruises over The Derelicts. I didn’t know what to expect when I started defending the city a few months ago, but I figured full moons would mean less criminal activity.
So far, my most effective super power is being wrong.
The thief runs through the wreck of the alien ship. I hold my position, hovering in the night. Used to be I put on a big light show and scared the daylights out of them soon as they snuck in through the breached hull. That got old.
Now, I let the ship do the work for me. A gauntlet of maroon shards scarps the strange cave of the ship. Bird bones crunch under his boots, hard as rocks. Never a good idea to run here. A gasp caroms around the gutted candle of the interior as he trips and plunges headfirst into a narrow crevice of specious crystal.
Lucky for him, it’s not that deep.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading the interview and the excerpt and In Between Stories of the Eververse sounds like an entertaining read for me! Thanks for sharing it with me and have a wonderful day!
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