What are four things you can’t live without?
Access
to the internet, some good quality chocolate, a bottle of carbonated water and
a comfortable bed.
What is your favorite television show?
Ouch,
though to name just one. I watch a lot of TV. When I was younger I was drawn to
films, but my attention shifted to series these past couple of years, because
there’s more character growth in those. I like that a lot in a show.
Bearing
that in mind, I think my answer would be “Breaking Bad”. I cannot think of
another show that had such emphasis on character growth. If you look at the
main characters both in the first and the last episode…they’re entirely
different people—complete opposite. And that is good television.
If you could be any character, from any literary
work, who would you choose to be? Why?
Again, difficult
to choose just the one. If “Doctor Who” makes the list (there’s a lot of books
too afterall), I wouldn’t mind being the Doctor and having “all of time and
space” to enjoy. Just with a touch less running for your life type of
situations and a dab more getting laid instead—if at all possible.
What have you got coming soon for us to look out for?
“Evil
Embers” the second book in my Vale
Investigation series just came out. It’s a mix of classic noir detective
and urban fantasy. Each book can be read as a standalone, and chronicles the
exploits of private investigator Bellamy Vale, Death’s envoy on Earth.
In “Evil
Embers” Vale is desperately looking for a simple, vanilla case—no monster of
otherworldly creatures involved. When businessman Eli Smith hires him to find
his missing sister, Sarit, Vale is all too happy to oblige. Of course, if he’d
known what monsters and unsavory creatures were lurking about in Smith’s
shadows, he might have thought about it twice.
What books or authors have most influenced your own
writing?
One of
my favorite authors is Jim Butcher; I love his Dresden Files series. A few years ago, Jim posted writing tips on
the web and explained some of his creative process—I think it was on
LiveJournal or something like that. I read it all, copied the lot on Word,
printed it and still have it in my desk. There are some great gems in there,
especially on story structure.
BLURB:
After narrowly preventing the destruction of Cold City, PI Bellamy Vale
needs a rest. Or rather, he needs a plain and simple vanilla case—no monsters
or otherworldly creatures involved!
When
foreign businessman Eli Smith shows up at his doorstep with a thick wallet and
a request to find his missing sister, Vale doesn’t think twice before agreeing.
If he’d
known body-hopping demons and smoke monsters came attached to this job,
however, he might have.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Cristelle Comby was born
and raised in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, on the shores of Lake
Geneva, where she still resides.
She attributes to her
origins her ever-peaceful nature and her undying love for chocolate. She has a
passion for art, which also includes an interest in drawing and acting.
She is the author of the
Neve & Egan Cases series, which features an unlikely duo of private
detectives in London: Ashford Egan, a blind History professor, and Alexandra
Neve, one of his students.
Currently, she is hard at
work on her Urban Fantasy series Vale Investigation which chronicles the
exploits of Death’s only envoy on Earth, PI Bellamy Vale, in the fictitious
town of Cold City, USA.
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