Author Interview: Raven Bower

Today, we have the lady half of the writing duo behind the Vengeance urban fantasy series - Raven Bower! She came to talk to us about werewolves, writing with another author, and more! We're all in for a treat.

Raven and Lain Bower are a wife and husband team. They live in North West Michigan with their four kids, two Hell Hounds and alien doom cat. When not occupied with the aforementioned minions or writing, they enjoy creating worlds, gaming, reading, target shooting and gardening.

Raven is the author of the Bailey Khane supernatural suspense series - Apparitions, Wendigo and Rags Beneath (spring 2012). Apparitions, is currently under production as a feature film.

They're the authors of the Vengeance urban fantasy series - Primal, Smoke (2013) and Dead Moon (2013/14).

The first novel in their Weeping Dark fantasy series, Bleeding Edge, is set for release in late 2012, early 2013.

And the romantic adventure fantasy, Nymph's Lair, out this summer/fall!

Raven, thank you so much for taking the time to answer questions for us at Bibliophilia, Please. Your new book Primal released last month – can you tell us a little bit about it in your own words?

Primal is a saucy, gritty urban fantasy with a strong romance line between a brutal werewolf and a modern druid.

What do you think sets Primal about from other urban fantasy and werewolf novels?

Thankful Thursday (1)

In order to cut down on memes in favor of more reviews and features, I'm going to start doing a "Thankful Thursday" on the last Thursday of each month. It won't be just the books that I receive, but it will also consist of bloggers, authors, lolcats, aliens, and other entities on the interwebz that have made my month amazing. (This month will also have the general wrap-up incorporated into it so I don't swamp you with posts today.)

Books

First things first, I would like to cover the various books I have received. There are two that will be in the May RAK Wrap-Up tomorrow, but I'd like to cover a few that I got in the mail at the tail-end of this month. (If you'd like to see what I got earlier this month, go look here, here, and here.) You'll have to excuse the quality of the picture, but the camera on my phone is quite terrible.

Author Interview & Giveaway: Peter Giglio

PETER GIGLIO is a Pushcart Prize nominated novelist, screenwriter, and anthologist. He is the author of three novels—Anon, Beyond Anon, and The Dark (with Scott Bradley)—and two novellas—A Spark in the Darkness and Balance. His short fiction can be found in several books, including two anthologies edited by John Skipp, where he had the honor of sharing TOCs with Thomas Harris, George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Chuck Palahniuk, and many other literary icons. He is also the editor of the anthologies Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror and Evil Jester Digest, Volume One.

Peter lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and three cats. He stays busy but always has time for readers at his website.




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Peter, thank you so much for taking the time to do an interview for Bibliophilia, Please. Just looking at your bibliography speaks volumes about how busy you are. When did you know that you wanted to be a writer?

For as long as I can remember. My dad, a respected historian, is a writer. The scent of aging paper, the sight of overflowing bookshelves and manuscript pages strewn all over the floor—good memories. I used to write and illustrate by own little books as a kid, mostly James Bond and Star Wars fan-fiction. I’m sure my mom kept all that stuff. Hope she keeps it away from me.

When did you write start writing things that you intended for other people to read?

Author Interview: Travis McBee

Look - another interview! Today we have Travis McBee, the author of Bridgeworld.

William Haynes was the type of guy that everyone either wanted, or wanted to be. He was an honor roll student and captain of his middle school football team. He was dating the most popular girl in the school and had dozens of friends.

Yes, life was perfect for Will…that was, until a strange man showed up and forced his parents to reveal a secret they had kept hidden since he was born.

Will is told that he has been given a scholarship to a prestigious private school that his parents attended, a private school that happens to be in space. Will must choose between a life many would die for and a life none could imagine. A life where he is no longer perfect, where he must make new friends, and where he must survive a school rivalry like no other.

Travis, first I would like to thank you for taking the time to answer some questions here on Bibliophilia, Please. According to your bio on Hydra Publication’s website, you wrote Bridgeworld during your sophomore year of college. I have to ask – were you fantasizing about alien abduction as an escape of the course load?

Ha! Not really, but the course load – it was nice getting away from all of that work.

In all seriousness, what was your inspiration in writing Bridgeworld?

Author Interview: Gwen Perkins

I have another great author that I would like to introduce you guys to today - Gwen Perkins, author of The Universal Mirror. She was kind enough to stop by and answer some questions about her book, writing, and some inspirational historical events.

On the island of Cercia, the gods are dead, killed by their followers and replaced with the study of magic. Magicians are forbidden to leave their homeland. Laws bind these men that prevent them from casting spells on the living—whether to harm or to heal.

Quentin, a young nobleman, challenges these laws out of love for his wife. His best friend, Asahel, defies authority at his side, unaware that the search for this lost magic will bring them both to the edge of reason, threatening their very souls. The Universal Mirror shows how far two men are willing to go for the sake of knowledge and what they will destroy to obtain it.

This is the first novel of the new fantasy series, Artifacts of Empire.

Hi, Gwen! Thank you so much for being so kind as to answer some questions about your book. In your own words, can you tell us a little bit about The Universal Mirror?