The Green Wizard was invited to join in with 'My Next Big Thing' (started by Andy Duncan, author of The Badger-Boy Brouhaha)by his sorceror's apprentice and dear friend, Ngaire Victoria Elder, who writes cutting edge illustrated children's stories and is currently working on her third book somewhere in deepest Spain. Near a big mountain.
http://adventuresofceciliaspark.blogspot.co.uk/
Now, for me, the next big thing is er, not writing a book for about six months as I'm bolloxed. So bear that in mind when you read this.
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What is the working title of your book?
Currently not writing a new book until I've sold a few of the six I've already written. You can find all six to your right as you look. Click on them if you fancy a further look on Amazon.
Where did the idea come from for the book?
I wrote six books in just over three and a half years, including five in a year and I think the world has seen enough of my work so far. I need to recharge my batteries. I get my ideas mostly when running.
What genre does your book fall under
I write fiction novels. Pure and simple. They have no genre. Genres erect illusory and limiting boundaries between authors and provide a dumbed-down, one-dimensional landscape for the reader. If you just read romance, YA, or erotica, then it is likely that you and I have little to say to each other and I wish you all the best.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I wrote the first draft of my 60k football hooligan novel "Ultra Violence" in 18 days. I wrote the majority of "Carla", my best reviewed book, over a weekend in late April 2012. Professional writers should be able to do this. Literature is full of similar stories. The 2.5k per day grinders are okay, but I need inspiration and a free playing field. I need to fly.
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Lots of different ones.
Who or What inspired you to write this book
The knowledge that I was rapidly becoming unemployable in the modern gel haired, crocodile skin loafer, hundred and thirty pound per tie minor professional labour market was a major influence in my decision to form Green Wizard and write the six books.
What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
If readers enjoy innovation, being challenged, old fashioned writing - with prologues, purple descriptions, necessary exposition and a complete lack of trendy but boring Chucky P influenced skeleton writing - then they will like Green Wizard. My books are generally well reviewed. Readers in Nottingham and Southwell are well catered for.
And now, I'll pass the baton to 3 writers who kindly agreed to participate in the blog-chain ... stay tuned to read about their Next Big Thing.
Mary Ann Bernal - www,maryannbernal.com
Brenda Perlin - http://www.homewreckerthebook.com/
Bathsheba Dailey - http://newbeginnings-bathsheba.blogspot.co.uk/
Mark Barry - http://greenwizardcarla.blogspot.co.uk/
Good luck everyone!
"Who in their right mind wouldn't want to read a book by Mark Barry!" (Mary Quallo, St Louis)
Coming next week - Carla Eatherington
Showing posts with label K-Trina Meador. Show all posts
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Monday, 12 November 2012
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
An Interview with Bathsheba Dailey
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| Bathsheba Dailey |
By great fortune, I was introduced at the last minute to Bathsheba Dailey, poet and advertising guru, and with no preparation, and despite never having heard of Wizards and Cauldrons and such, she agreed to have a chat with me over the Wizphone, somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Your Wizard is a huge fan of poetry and his mien brightened when he found out that the resident of West Virginia was indeed an Odesmith.
And extremely pleasant too. I caught up with her on a lake where she was fishing and here's what she had to say!
Hi Bathsheba.
Hi Wiz. Nice to meet you.
The feeling is mutual. Tell us a bit about
yourself. Who are you? Where do you live? Do you write full time? How do you
come to be here?
I am
a 35 year old single mother of three girls and I am pursuing my degree in
business. I am the author of the "Hearts
and Souls poetry book" and the upcoming poetry book "The Unhidden reflections of the
heart".
I am
also pursuing a venture which advertises other authors and businesses.
I
have walked a long road of failures and I have decided that I will chase many
dreams at once to ensure that one comes true. Life is only what we make it,
so make it the best that you can.
My
favorite hobby other than doing things with my girls is writing and fishing.
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| Fishing:West Virginia Style! |
Sounds of the water calm me when everything seems to be going in the wrong
direction. I live in a small town in West Virginia where everyone knows
everyone - and they are pretty sure they know those people better than they do themselves! Hahaha.
I try to write as much as I
can but with three girls, school and all the household things that need doing,
it is sometimes hard to find time to just be me and write.
I've
been singing the John Denver song all morning, Bathsheba hahaha.
It's very catchy isn't
it, haha.
It is, yes. Grew up
with that song. How long have you been writing poetry?
I
have written since I was a young child. I had a very hard and abusive life
until the age of fourteen when I was finally placed with the
greatest parents a girl could have. My foster dad who was to me my real father
passed away last week and this has been the hardest and most unbearable time of
my life even after a tormented childhood.
I have always said in my case "water is indeed thicker than blood". I follow any writer or style that heart and soul can be reflected in.
I have always said in my case "water is indeed thicker than blood". I follow any writer or style that heart and soul can be reflected in.
Give us an
example...
The ink in my quill has
started to dry with the
words I no longer want
to share with a world so
full of hate and self
loathing egotism.
I try to see the world
with a clear mind and
an opened heart but the
tales of life's bittersweet
anger is forever stepping
in my way of a worlds
deepest emotion being
that one of hate.
exquisiteness surrounds
us everyday with just the
opening of our eyes and
the air that we so enjoy
to intake.The flowers are
abloom with a beauty we
so deny,too worried are we
of our own sinful thoughts
that we no longer care
about human life unless it
is in the words that commit
their distraught.
That's a lovely poem, Bathsheba. Thank you for sharing. So, tell us about your
current projects?
I am currently getting
together my alter ego's poetry book "at at no names yet" I have kept
her a secret for a year and a half and only very close friends know who she is.
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| Latest work |
You have an alter ego?
It's a secret, Wiz! Not telling you yet! I am also writing two novels. One about my alter ego, which will tell her
fictional biography of why she turned to a world of darkness and a romance novel that
is in the setting of times past when raising cattle was how you ate. I am
writing my true story biography of who I really am and how I ended up as a state
ward. I have also nearly finished with my third poetry book.
The Baltimore Ravens,
under pressure from the City, decide to emulate the Colts in 1983 and do a
moonlight flit. You are taken hostage for a month to help the Mayor to see
sense. A henchman is sent out to supply you with three books to pass the time.
What would they be?
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| Magnificent Cover for ancient Mitchell Bodice and Butler classic |
Three books hmmmm. That would have to be "Gone With The Wind". The second would be the sequel to "Gone With The Wind" which is called "Scarlet", after whom I named my third daughter, and the third would be "The Killing Fields".
How does an author of
Independently Published Fiction get known out there? It seems like a thankless
and impossible task. Have you any tips for our readers?
A great way to improve awareness is to join as many groups as you can, even though it can get tiring at
times and make sure you have looked into as many online outlets as possible.
Some of the best would be Goodreads, Blogs, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and tons more. I have to say this, though, it does not matter how many places you find to promote yourself; if you forget who you are you will fail.
Some of the best would be Goodreads, Blogs, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and tons more. I have to say this, though, it does not matter how many places you find to promote yourself; if you forget who you are you will fail.
Thanks for that sound advice! What would be on the menu at a meal chez Bathsheba?
My favorite meal is of course a country meal; Fried chicken, homemade chicken gravy on mash potatoes, corn and fresh green beans and then for desert brownie cupcakes.
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| Country Meal - I'm off to the cafe! |
I've been to West Virginia. Visited Charlestown Races!
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| One of the world's finest and cheapest buffets at Charlestown Races. |
Have you? It's beautiful, isn't it.
It certainly is! What do fans of
Bathsheba Dailey have to look forward to in the coming year?
The coming year I hope
to have all my books done but we can never guarantee what life will throw
our way so I just have to take one day at a time! There are two quotes
that I wrote and I try to live by them both;
"A new beginning
is better than an old ending" and "Never forget who you are or where
you have come from, while in the process of being found by others"
If
you forget who you are so will everyone else!
Bathsheba, it's been an absolute pleasure to talk to you and I wish you all the best in the future!
Thank you, Wiz! You too...
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Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Interview with K-Trina Meador of Hawaii
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| K-Trina Meador |
It's my pleasure today to introduce Wizardwatchers to Honolulu's finest
K-Trina Meador.
As a confirmed admirer of Hawaii since my surfing days in Newquay (and even before that, the laid back adventures of Jack and Danno in "Hawaii Five-O", and later, the iconic caterpillar moustached Tom Selleck in "Magnum"), I've been looking forward to talking to the cooly named K-Trina Meador.
The hyphenation is genuine, by the way. That really is her name! I am super impressed already. Anyway, enough - here she is. Enjoy!
Hiya K-Trina. Welcome to Wizardworld. Tell us about yourself? Who are you? Where do you live? Do you work? Where is
the name Meador from?
Hiya Wiz! Pleasure to be here. I attribute the unique spelling of my name to my mom
who spelt it that way on purpose. Little did she know that I would live up to
the unique name with a unique personality and career or that the computer
generation was right around the corner.
I
grew up outside a small town of 1,000 people on a small farm of 70 acres in the
heart of Texas, where life lessons were learned at an early age. Being the
youngest of five children, I often found myself tagging along with my older
siblings much to their chagrin.
My
father was in the US Navy for twenty-two years and his primary job was
aviation. Out of their five children I am the only one who pursued a career in
aviation like him. After he retired, he opened a carpet business and I am well versed
in laying carpet and tile as well as cleaning carpet and farming. As a
teenager, I assisted my mother and father in building their five bedrooms,
three bath home.
I
am currently living in Honolulu, Hawaii working as an aircraft mechanic/avionics
technician with a small based company that delivers the mail to the other
islands. It is an interesting job to keep me challenged and pays the bills as I
pursue my writing in my spare time.
I
have been divorced for thirteen years and I have two wonderful sons who are
pursuing their own life as young adults.
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| A relaxed K-Trina Meador in big sun hat |
Why did you start to write books? Have you always written? Are you a novelist,
a poet, a short story writer?
Writing
is something inbred in me. I have never known a time I didn’t write whether it
was scribbling something down in a moment or keeping a journal.
"Writing is like
an addiction to me. I have to have it – I have to do it and I love it."
I
have always written whether I allowed people to read it or not was a different
story! In high school there was a competition with the theme being “Say No to
Drugs”. I had forgotten about the assignment and within in one class period I
wrote a four page short story that won first place in the competition and I
received my first royalty check of $15.00
It
amused my sons as they were growing up that we would be going somewhere in the
truck and without notice, I would pull over to the side of the road and find
the nearest napkin and scribble down the thought that was going through my head
while “ssshhhing” them so I could get it all down before I forgot it. It didn’t
take them long to learn “that mom was being mom” and they would laugh about it.
Now
I write novels and poetry. None of my poetry has been published as I am concentrating
my efforts on my novels.
Tell Green Wizard about your current work?
Recently, I just published my first
novel
Journey to Freedom.
Journey to Freedom is a
novel set in the American Civil War Era and takes the tale of the racism,
hardships, survival, death and loyalty to heart.
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| Massive Civil War Era Howitzer Classic Civil War Duel Scene ("You see, there's two kinds of people in this world, my friend. Those with loaded guns...and those who dig!") |
Both the main male and female
characters are of mixed race and are independently journeying to their dream of
freedom when they meet. Obstacles and the hard reality of life rears its ugly
head and for a time they are separated but fate brings them back together again
just to separate them again. This is a story that travels much through young
America as their journey grows from year to year.
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| Exciting US Civil War Drama "Journey to Freedom" by K-Trina Meador |
That's fantastic, K-Trina. I wish you the best of luck selling this. Where do you live? Do you live in Hawaii? Most
Brits are in love with those islands.
Currently
I live in Honolulu Hawaii and I have made it a personal goal to take a sunset picture each night. The sunsets are absolutely gorgeous and a perfect way to melt away the
days stresses. There are so many wonderful things about the island – the people
rank up above all with their kind and courtesy ways, the sunsets, paddle
boarding, surfing, snorkeling, hiking, scuba diving…there is so much to do. On
the future agenda is skydiving - when the timing is right you can skydive
through rainbows.
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| Honolulu Sunset - magnificent inspiration for writing! |
Cavern scuba diving, sunset horseback riding and so much more.
One
of my most recent and fun adventures was a one hundred foot dive to the Sea Tiger
where I saw seashells as big as a football, had a school of fish swim right up
to my mask and then darting to the left or right, seeing a spotted eagle ray
and the graceful way it swam and then the bonus…..having an octopus on my arm,
inches away from my face. Wow, that was just amazing!
(and great music!)
What's your favourite film, TV programme and/or music about Hawaii?
I
don’t actually have time to watch tv but I have been told that Lost, Jurassic
Park and Soul Surfer were actually filmed at different islands in several
locations. So it is neat to know that the beauty of this state is being shown
for others to see.
Which three writers would you like to share dinner conversation with?
Ted
Dekker (best selling novelist of many novels), A.M. Hunter (author of The
Final Possession) and Terry Ambrose (author of Photo Finish). I actually
know A.M. Hunter and Terry Ambrose through networking on Facebook but have yet
to meet them in person. It would be a great honor to meet them in person and
share dinner with them! Ted Dekker is a renowned author who
writes suspense thrillers and lives in Austin, Texas. I would love to meet him
just because I love his books so much.
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| Viggo Mortensen plays Ted Dekker |
How do you relax away from the typewriter? What does a typical day involve chez
Meador?
Being in Hawaii, relaxation time is
easy to find. I love to go to the quiet beaches and spend my time reading,
writing, snorkeling, paddle boarding or photo taking. When I am wanting to see
something different, the numerous hiking trails keep me in awe of the Island’s
beauty and mysteries.
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| K-Trina's relaxation |
Tell us about your book signing on Facebook? It looked fun!
I have had two book signings since I
have published in April 2012.
The
first one was in my home town of Cross Plains, Texas at the local library. I
was very excited and it went really well. My family supported me by helping me with
setting up and the staff of the library where really friendly and helpful.
The
second book signing was in South Caroling at a dog park – yes a dog park. Max,
my wonderful dog loved to go there and “play” with the other dogs and I saw
that as an opportunity to expose my book to a new niche of possible fans.
What
a great time we had with oysters roasting, corn toss, dogs playing and a local
band. Good times!
What do fans of K-Trina Meador have to look forward to in the coming year?
The Chamber and Impact
both titles are working titles and are subject to change.
The Chamber is a suspense – thriller based in Afghanistan and involves the kidnapping and trials of several adults. The kidnapper is trying to break one woman’s faith to prove that those who believe in God are hypocrites. However, there is a twist to the story that makes you applaud the courage that is shown and your heart break as other events occur. It is a story of hope, faith and love and the courage to survive.
Impact is a family drama that takes two young people starting their life together and realize that it isn’t what they thought it would be. The decline of their marriage starts with unresolved anger and lack of communication skills when life sends them a blow that knocks both of them to their knees. Can their family survive? Will Cal and Jana fight for their marriage or give in to divorce?
Sound's exciting! This is has been great fun,K-Trina. Thanks for talking to us at Green Wizard and we wish you every success in the future!
Thanks Wiz. Have a Great Day!
Wizardwatchers can contact K-Trina Meador on:
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Amazon: (16 Reviews) http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Freedom-K-Meador/dp/1617771139
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKMeador
Twitter: @authorkmeador
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