Any weird
things you do when you’re alone?
I tend to talk to myself. However, it’s not casual
conversation, I start to sound like a motivational coach for myself. Do I need
to clean the house? “You can do this, get to it, go, go, go.” You’d think I was
training for the Olympics as I bark at myself. Eventually, I catch myself doing
it. I laugh at myself a lot, but this is when I think it might be time to start
talking to a professional!
What is
your favorite quote and why?
“Dear me, there will be another breath.” – Shane Koyczan He’s
a spoken word poet and through many poignant, thought-provoking verses, this
one has become my creed. My life is stressful and frequently hectic, but I
continue to remind myself, just stop and breathe, it’s not the end of things.
It seems to be working, gives me a moment to relax and then the determination
to move forward.
Who is
your favorite author and why?
The author that has most impacted me would be R.A.
Salvatore. When I was younger I would read his Drizzt Do’Urden Forgotten Realms
series and I ate up each of those books. That’s probably where my love of
fantasy novels began. However, as I grew up, so did his writing. While he is
still writing that series, his Demon Wars series crippled my adult self. As
characters went through gut-wrenching scenes, I genuinely felt for them. I want
to go back and read it again, but knowing the journey ahead of his characters,
I’m still trying to emotionally prepare myself.
What, in
your opinion, are the most important elements of good writing?
For me, the most important element in good writing is a
connection with the characters. I don’t have to agree or even like the
character. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite characters is somebody who I
loathed through an entire series, but I was impressed with how much I felt
hatred toward him while reading. I want to relate to them in some way that
builds a bond. This is partly why I only read books in series, once I find a
literary friend, I want to stick with them for the long haul. Without this
connection, I find the characters become dismissible and I have no desire to
push forward.
Where did
you get the idea for this book?
Children of Nostradamus: Nighthawks was originally
created when I was thirteen. My best friend and I would come home after school
and come up with these big ideas. We wrote what we were currently reading for
comic books. I would write the stories and he would draw the panels and we
thought of ourselves as a dynamic duo. Nearly twenty years later, I found all
our creations and the disk I wrote the scripts on. I would spend days reading
through them laughing at youthful attempts. However, it gave the source
material of what Nighthawks would eventually become.
BLURB:
His debut
exhibit features the transformation of his high school friend, Sarah, as she
went from a shy, soft-spoken girl to a Child of Nostradamus—an individual
gifted with extraordinary abilities. Living in a society where the Children of
Nostradamus are captured by the government, Conthan’s exhibit draws attention
from officials and protesters alike.
A
government psychic may be dead, but that doesn’t stop her from manipulating the
future…
The
deceased White House aide is only remembered for her failed assassination
attempt on the president decades before Conthan was born. Foreseeing her own
death, she scribed letters to bring together specific Children of Nostradamus
on a mission that will change the world.
On the
night of the gallery exhibition, Conthan receives one of those letters…
ispers
from the past direct him to visit Sarah, the subject of his paintings, who like
many Children of Nostradamus, is being detained in a government research
facility. It’s there he finds himself aligned with a rogue group of Children on
a mission to prevent a dark future.
As a dark
future unfolds, there's only one hope to stop the destruction of the world...
The
Children of Nostradamus.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I’m high school graphic design
and marketing teacher, at a large suburban high school in Massachusetts.
Working as a high school educator and observing the outlandish world of
adolescence was the inspiration for my first young adult novel, “Suburban
Zombie High.”
My inspiration for writing stems
from being a youth who struggled with reading in school. While I found school
assigned novels incredibly difficult to digest, I devoured comics and later
fantasy novels. Their influences can be seen in the tall tales I spin.
I took the long route to becoming
a writer. For a brief time, I majored in Creative Writing but exchanged one
passion for another as I switched to
Art and Design. My passion for reading about superheroes, fantastical
worlds, and panic-stricken situations would become the foundation of my writing
career.
I participated in my first
NaNoWriMo in 2006 and continue to write an entire novel every November. Now I
am the NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison to the Massachusetts Metrowest Region. I
also belong the New England Horror Writer’s Association and to a weekly writing
group, the Metrowest Writers.
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