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Felinity Interview – Will Macmillan Jones

 

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

2014-01-15 08.50.08I have an official bio.  Here it is:

Will Macmillan Jones lives in Wales, a lovely green, verdant land with a rich cultural heritage.  He does his best to support this heritage by drinking the local beer and shouting loud encouragement whenever International Rugby is on the TV.  A fifty something lover of blues, rock and jazz he has just fulfilled a lifetime ambition by filling an entire wall of his home office with (full) bookcases.

His major comic fantasy series about a dwarf rhythm and blues band, released by Safkhet Publishing, can be found at:

www.thebannedunderground.com.  Five stand alone instalments are now out, with a sixth ready for release soon.

Shortly to be re released by Safkhet Publishing Ltd will be The Showing, a rather frightening paranormal work which is actually derived straight out of my personal/family history.  How much exactly is true?  That would be telling, but it is based on my personal memories.  In fact Memories was the original title.

http://www.willmacmillanjones.com

And in addition, I have a bedtime book for children, aimed at the 6 – 10 year old group who are just starting to be confident in reading for themselves ( and at those parents who, like me, are addicted to the joy of reading aloud to children at night).

Snort and Wobbles can be found via my website, or on Amazon, KOBO and Smashwords.  Although you can’t yet get the line drawings by my talented friend Sophie E Tallis (who is also in this collection) on Smashwords.

Oh, and there’s a blog.  Isn’t there always a blog?

www.willmacmillanjones.wordpress.com

Or Twitter: @macmillanjones

 

 

What inspired your story for Felinity?

-Cheese.  I’d snacked rather late at night on some cheese and crackers, and that night I had a dream. Yes, I know.  Fateful, isn’t it?  I grabbed the notepad and pen that are permanently on or beside my bed and started scribbling.  By 4 am I had the story down, and just needed to shrink the word count to match the requirements.

 

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

– I love it!  Snort and Wobbles, the bok I have on release for 6 – 10 year olds has loads of illustrations, and I think they help bring the stories alive.  I recall as a child reading Enid Blyton books and loving the line drawings, and extra dimension they brought to the reading.

 

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

– As I mentioned above, I have a fantasy series running with a publisher.  I’m under contract to write up to twelve instalments of books about The Banned Underground and their friends and enemies, and I have  books seven and eight in that collection under way at the moment.  A second book about Snort and Wobbles aimed at children will be released in the late summer, and hopefully I’ll have finished the next of my paranormal works this year too.

 

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

– Both!  I’m a bloke and it is well known that we do not make decisions, right?  For many years I bred Golden Retrievers, and absolutely love those dogs.  I’m still in touch now with several people who bought puppies from me, and I think it is safe to say that they all love those fabulous animals.  Perfect family pets in every way.  However, I’ve just been adopted by a stray kitten who turned up on my yard one day, and decided that I seemed to make an adequate pillow and provider of food, milk and shelter.  Well, she hasn’t left after around ten days, so I must be an acceptable human in her eyes.

 

 

Inkling Interrogation

  1. It’s the zombie apocalypse, how do you survive?  –  I live in Wales.  We will set a dragon on the Zombies, and stop them at the border with England until they can pay the toll on the M4 bridge.
  2. Who would you like to say sorry to?  – My English teacher at school.  I should have listened harder to his excellent advice, and not had to relearn it from scratch later on.
  3. If you could sit down with your 15-year old self, what would you tell him or her? – Buckle up.  It’s going to be a wild ride.
  4. What is your worst character trait? – I’m congenitally bone idle.  I have a tendancy to over compensate  for this by over working instead of getting out on the hills and hunting for dragons.
  5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?  – The Lake District.  I just love that area, and return whenever I can.  My fantasy series is based there, so it’s a good excuse to go travelling.
  6. What do you think of garden gnomes? – I am suspicious of them.  They always seem to be smirking, as if they live a secretive (and possibly obscene) life when no one is watching.
  7. Do you believe in magic? – Isn’t it a more pertinent question to ask if magic believes in you?
  8. What’s your biggest regret? – I left the first redraft of my first published book, with all the characters, the plot, and a lot of the early jokes, under my bed for fourteen years, untouched.  I should have got on with it.  (See item four.  Congenitally bone idle.)  Maybe I’d have been published a lot earlier.

 

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Felinity Interview – Rachael Brown

 

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

What inspired your story for Felinity?

I was reading an online publication about the devastating deforestation of jungles across eastern Asia, and the effects on the large cats which inhabit them while watching a weather forecast for the following week I was initially struck with the idea of a bizarre panther stuck atop a weather cloud who secretly controlled the weather and was luring weather forecasters with premonitions to their deaths out of spite over what atrocities were being done and still are done to his kind. This idea remained with me for several weeks, and I frequently dreamt about the events of it as a possible short story. However I wanted an outlet for it, which I found with the felinity contest.

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

Fantastic! Its eye-opening to see a piece of writing visualised because you get a real perspective of how others interpret your characters and your writing. Sadly, without the ability to share perception it’s easy to get caught up in your way of seeing while writing. Also the illustration will be absolutely exquisite with the talent that these illustrators I am sure possess.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

Currently I’m writing a sci-fi novel on Watt pad

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

I would have to say cats, personally. Dogs are lovely with their loyalty, spirits and energy but there is a deeper sense of comfort and contentedness I feel when with a cat. You can rely on them and you don’t have to fuss and fend for them, because their indepent detached animals, unlike Dogs which need constant attention, which isn’t a bad thing but for quieter people can be difficult to handle. I personally, curled up with my cat and a classic film is one of my favourite pastimes.

 

 

 

Inkling Interrogation

1. What genre of music do you love? – First and foremost classic rock from the 60-70’s, I just can’t get enough of the sweet sounds of Queen, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. I also enjoy gospel music, jazz, classical music (mostly game soundtracks), traditional Japanese music and a guilty pleasure- Lithuanian folk music.

2. What’s the worst present  you’ve been given? – The worst present ive ever been given was for Christmas. It was a bizarre hairstyling device for creating ‘hot buns’ as it said on the label- I spent over an hour attempting to wrestle my hair into a bun, getting tied up and fuming in the process until I banished it to the space underneath my bed, where it has now been assimilated beneath unwanted clothes and old socks, never to be seen again.

3. If you were an animal, what would you be? – I would like to think I would be a dolphin based on their intuitiveness and sensitivity, but in all honesty I would probably be a sloth. The rate in which I get out of bed in the morning is appalling….

4. Pick 2 celebrities to be your parents, why them? – Hayao Miyazaki, mastermind behind animation behemoth Studio Ghibli, I would make my father, because of his abundant creativity, wit intellect and open-mindedness as an individual. As a feminist his films provide strong three dimensional female role models which speak to me as an independent person, and the hidden meanings behind all of his films speak volumes about what he could communicate to me about wisdom, politics and the state of the world. Also he has an incredible beard, like threads of snow. Meanwhile Marie Curie, influential and outstanding physicist and chemist I would make my mother. With her drive and determination, sparkling brainpower and raw dedication to her craft she would serve as a true inspiration for me. Hopefully she would also encourage me with goals of my own, as one of the key female figures of history in the STEM area of work.

5. What was the last gift you gave someone? –  The last gift I gave someone was a Nintendo 3D’s console for their birthday, along with the newest Mario Kart game. This is awesome considering I now have someone to play with and aim all my blue shells at. Heheheheh

6. A penguin walks through your front door wearing a flat cap and smoking a pipe, what does he say and why is he here? – The penguin screeches “the eels are coming, high-lord Rachael. The eternal ice-wars begin.”  To warn me, as me and my penguin armies prepare in my top-secret base located in the heart of the polar Alps to engage in battle with the eels, a noble race that simply wishes to bring socialism to the polar Alps, which we strive against.

In my mind.

In reality the nurse who has diagnosed me with schizophrenia is just walking into the room to give me my medicine, proclaiming to my shrieking and squealing that no, she is not a penguin.

 7. What’s your favourite food? –  Im personally a real glutton, so something like tiramisu would have to be my answer. The velvety layers of rich cream, coffee and soaked sponge are simply to die for, especially when washed down with a steaming mug of coffee. Mmmmm, I’m feeling hungry already just writing about it. How do the Italians have such a culture of perfect food?!

8. If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out? – I would request for whoever had placed me in the blender to also pour in cream, which they would then lightly blend until it turned into butter and buttermilk. Then I would form a slippery staircase using the butter, not forgetting to throw some nearby to cushion my fall as I jump out. Then I would ask for some French toast or mini toast to eat with the butter to celebrate my escape.

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Felinity Interview – Ian Richardson

 

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

What inspired your story for Felinity?

I saw two cats sitting together and wondered what they were doing

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story? 

Great. A picture paints a thousand words.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment? 

A follow up to my steampunk e-book. Available at https://www.jukepop.com/home/read/105/

The most important question – Cats or dogs? 

De-feline-ately CATS!

 

 

Inkling Interrogation

  1. If you could meet any one person (from history or currently alive), who would it be? –  T. S. Elliot
  2. What was the best day in your life? – The day I was 21.
  3. Tell us a secret about yourself. – I talk to my cat.
  4. What’s the worst thing anyone has ever said about you? – I was mean to their cat.
  5. You’re a new addition to a crayon box, what colour are you? – A bluish yellow.
  6. Who or what do you dream about? – Black cats drinking milk?
  7. Is the glass half empty or half full? – Half full.
  8. What was your most embarrassing moment? – Saying ‘I meant to do it!!’

 

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Felinity Interview – Selina Carr

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

What inspired your story for Felinity? 

I have two cats, and no cat door. I work from home. My job is to let the cats in, and let them out again. It should be no surprise I dream of a magic cat door. Or even a regular, non-magic cat door.

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

It’s always a thrill to see an artist’s rendering of something that came out of my head. I’m lucky that this is now the fourth time I’ve had an artist give one of my ideas form and shape, and I’m very excited to see Squiggle live in the fur.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment

Right now I’m throwing about some ideas for a 4-6 year old audience, but nothing solid there just yet.

The most important question – Cats or dogs

Pfft! Cats, of course!

 

Inkling Interrogation

1.How would you guide an alien through making a marmite sandwich? –  I wouldn’t. It’s Vegemite all the way, baby!

2. What’s your greatest achievement? –  My daughter. Yes, yes, corny, I know. But seriously, she’s amazing.

3. Who is the living person you most despise? –  I try not to send hate out into the world. But there’s plenty of room for putting bad people in books, and then defeating them.

4. Do you take the shampoo and soap from hotels? – I used to, until I realised it’s terrible quality. Now I only do it to reuse the tiny bottles.

5. What would be your motto? – You’re never too old or young for a good fairy tale

6. What did you want to be when you were little? – I wanted to be Lois Lane. She got to write, go on amazing adventures for her work, and she got to smooch with Superman.

7. Who do you admire the most and why? – I admire anyone who can paint, draw, sing or dance well; all things I wish I could do, or do better.

8. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4 – what is it? –  “ ‘I believe I can steal the swans’ plumage from the two good-for-nothing princesses!’ said father-stork.”

Yes, it just so happened to be Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales.

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Felinity Interview – Lance Cross

 

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

L Cross PicWhat inspired your story for Felinity?

I have no idea. When I‘m given a topic or theme to write on I sit for a minute and have a think. If nothing has popped into my head at the end of the minute I conclude that it wasn’t to be. Something must have popped in.

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

I think it’s an excellent idea. Short stories rarely have any visual interest and even novels at least get a cover.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

I am currently re-drafting my first book Diary of a Man Being Driven Around Africa on a Truck with Some Other People. (Or DOAMBDAAOATWSOP for short.)

It’s a man’s diary. He’s on a truck that’s going around Africa, and there are some other people on it.

Doesn’t that sound gripping?

It’s very entertaining.

No, really. It is.

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

Cats.

Dogs are filthy creatures that can’t take care of themselves. And they’re so, so needy.

 

 

Inkling Interrogation

1. If you could meet any one person (from history or currently alive), who would it be? – I have no idea. What am I suppose say to them when we met? Do I just get to wave hello or do can I go to the nearest pub with them?

2. What was the best day in your life? – How can I narrow that down?! I’ve had a few good ones. I don’t think I’ve had the perfect day yet though.

3. Tell us a secret about yourself. – Then it wouldn’t be a secret. (And it certainly wouldn’t be printable.)

4. What’s the worst thing anyone has ever said about you? – I can’t actually remember anything too devastating. I’m sure lots of people must have said lots of stuff but I can’t remember anything too specific. It must have been a while ago.

5. You’re a new addition to a crayon box, what colour are you? – Black, but with random orange bits throughout.

6. Who or what do you dream about? – My grandparents old wooden house seems to be a popular setting for bits of my dreams on a regular basis. The layout and location changes but I always know what house it is.

7. Is the glass half empty or half full? – Half empty. Although as long as its got wine in it does it matter?

8.What was your most embarrassing moment? – There’s been a few. Mostly revolve around the theme of drink and loss of motor skills.

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Felinity Interview – Clare Neilson

 

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

My name is Clare and I lived in Bristol for six years of my life before moving back to my home city of Manchester to go back into education and became involved in food and nutrition. My friends in Bristol are heavily involved in the sci-fi and fantasy writing scene and I always like to proof read their work. I have started my own bakery business and my twitter handle is @c_confec

What inspired your story for Felinity?

I have a knack for telling made-up short stories, with an emphasis on the telling. Writing stories is hard as I tend to go back over the words and tinker with what I have already written rather than add to them. The word limit made it a challenge and I am very glad I finished it in time. The father in the story is influenced by the toy maker in Blade Runner, I thought about his collection in steam form, what large steam-powered toy cats would look like, and who would buy them.

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

Very excited! I cannot wait to see what visuals go with the words!

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

Hahaha, a very silly story that is a present for a friend of mine. He complained there weren’t many steam-punk wizard stories, so I started writing him one. I’m trying to make it more of a novella size so the pacing is quite fast. Maybe if it’s good enough I’ll send it to my friends in Bristol and they can help me make it better.

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

Dogs used to scare me but now I know only some dogs need to be feared. I’m still going for cats though, they are the perfect fluffy companion for me.

 

Inkling Interrogation

1. How would you guide an alien through making a marmite sandwich? – I would tell him to make a peanut butter one instead. Marmite is disgusting!

2. What’s your greatest achievement? – Setting up my own business. Still in the early months but it’s getting on nice.

3. Who is the living person you most despise? – Rupert Murdoch

4. Do you take the shampoo and soap from hotels? – Nope, I don’t need to.

5. – What would be your motto? – There’s always room for beer.

6. What did you want to be when you were little? –  A lollipop lady. Every single one I met was always so friendly and helpful.

7. Who do you admire the most and why? – JK Rowling because every single thing I read about her is always positive. The best I heard was she gave so much money to charity she was no longer a billionare.

8. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4 – what is it? – “This was just the beginning of the spread, before anybody knew anything about what was coming.” World War Z by Max Brooks.

 

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Felinity Interview – David Cohen

 

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

April 2013 B+W smWhat inspired your story for Felinity?

 The interaction between cats and humans is always interesting, and placing them both in an environment where they are interdependent seems like a logical step.   The rest was just fun with physics.

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

As someone who grew up with “Analog” and other SF magazines, where illustration was always a significant part of the publication, it’s like I’m 14 again.   So for this story, I like it.  A lot.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

 Two short stories about a doctor with an unusual diagnostic method and a simple interaction between a student and two police.   An essay/short story (not sure which, yet) on the decision making around the personal effects of the dead.   A novel outline set in the late 1930s.   And yes, I need to focus more.

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

I like dogs a lot as I grew up with them, but I’m away from home a lot, so not an option.   I like cats a great deal for their self-contained and independent nature, so if forced, cats.

 

 

Inkling Interrogation

1. On a scale of 1-10, how weird are you and why? – 7 – I could have a nice secure job with dental, medical and a pension, but I simply have nothing better to do than write.   Surely, that makes me at least eccentric…

2. Tell us a joke. –   (With thanks to a friend’s 5 year old daughter) Question: What’s brown and sticky?  Answer: A stick :-).

3. You’ve won the lottery. What do you buy first? –  A trip to research material for a novel – and do it with some panache.   Comfortable travel, decent hotels, congenial company and entertaining food and drink are superior to jouncing along in cattle cars while backpacking in the company of people seemingly on release from an institution.   But I am of a certain, crusty, age – so I could be wrong.

4. What inspires you? – Wondering what humanity is going to come up with next, for we are an endlessly inventive species.

5. You’re prime minister for the day, what’s the first thing you’d do? – Abolish parliamentary democracy in favour of a Canton system (something like the Swiss).

6. How do you fit a giraffe in a fridge? – Uh, this question makes me wonder if you’ve done something bad and are looking for ideas about how to dispose of the evidence: would it be more pertinent to look for a good solicitor?   Other possibilities are also to either buy a really big fridge or an industrial Mincer.

7. Would you rather fight a horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses? – What??   This line of questioning is worrying (see 6)!

8. How would you explain Facebook to someone from the 19th century? – A device that allows you, should you choose, to publish am illustrated, unexpurgated diary of thoughts and actions to the world and no matter how ill-judged those entries might be, they will be deathless.   And to be secure in the knowledge that no matter what you place there, there will be someone else who has done things that make any errors of yours pale by comparison and is, moreover, proud of it.   As such, it is useful but must be treated with the caution you would accord a slavering dog: it may be friendly, but then again, it may bight if make a misjudged motion.

       

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Felinity Interview – Kieran Mathers

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

kieranWhat inspired your story for Felinity?

The idea of a clock-work cat causing  trouble was far too good not to write…

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

Absolutely fine

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

A longer novel to complement the novella I wrote “The Brother Baern” – it’s a swords and sorcery style novel involving three brothers.

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

Cats! (clearly)

 

Inkling Interrogation

1. What sort of child were you? – Quiet, introverted and relatively shy. Never happier than when I was left on my own to create stuff in my head – or with cardboard boxes, if available.

2. If you could be a superhero, who would you be? – Superman (Always be yourself, unless you can be Superman. In which case, be Superman)

3. What’s your earliest memory? – Not hugely interesting, this one. Just waking up in a crib and staring at the ceiling. It wasn’t a hugely interesting ceiling, to be honest!

4. If you could sing one song on the X-Factor, what would it be? –  A composition of my own: “Simon Cowell, you’re destroying music with your over-hyped karaoke show, la-la-la”

5. What’s your biggest disappointment? – When another publisher, having specified a 50K words long manuscript, sent back my 50K words long manuscript saying it was too short.

6. If you could enroll in a PhD program, with your tuition paid in full by a mysterious benefactor, what would you study — and why? I would study anthropology and the effects of charity and empathy in social interactions – after all, I’d want to work out why my mysterious benefactor had decided to do this. Or it’d be English Literature in the late 19th century, with a particular focus on Dickens and his novel “Great Expectations” J

7. Who would play you in a movie of your life? – Dylan Moran or Kate Blanchett – but I’d make sure I get a screenwriters credit.

8. Do you sing in the shower? –  Of course – I mostly sing Les Miserables. “One day mooooorrrreeee…”

 

 

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Felinity Interview – Rob Bayliss

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

rob bWhat inspired your story for Felinity?

I remember a great story in 2000AD’s Nemesis the Warlock – The Gothic Empire ; it’s a Steampunk classic! I loved the idea of Victorian spaceships.

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

Brilliant! I’m looking forward to seeing the image the my words inspired.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

I’m working on a clockpunk fantasy series. I self published my debut; The Sun Shard for Kindle. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shard-Flint-Steel-Fire-Shadow-ebook/dp/B00DKV6HMQ
I’m currently up to on Chapter 22 of the sequel. I also have a blog which allows me to express my ramblings.http://sunshard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/why-in-beechwood.html

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

Sorry Grim, sorry Bold, but I’m a pack member: Woof!

Inkling Interrogation 

1. How would you guide an alien through making a marmite sandwich? – First obtain two slices of baked yeast grown on a culture of ground cereal paste. On one side of each slice spread a thin covering of churned, lactic fat (usually of bovine origin). On one of these spread a dark brown yeast concentrate over the lactic fat. Bring the two spread covered slices together and you now have the delicacy the Terrans refer to as a marmite sandwich.

2. What’s your greatest achievement? – Giving up smoking and running a half marathon.

3. Who is the living person you most despise? – It will be a politician, but I cant narrow it down to an individual.

4. Do you take the shampoo and soap from hotels? – Certainly, even with a shaved head, this beard wont clean itself.

5. What would be your motto? – Question everything!

6. What did you want to be when you were little? – A brain surgeon.

7. Who do you admire the most and why? – Alfred the Great. If it wasn’t for his tenacity and vision there wouldn’t be an English language.

8. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4 – what is it ? – “I am alive and drunk on sunlight.” – A Storm of Swords – GRR Martin.

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Felinity Interview – Jane Dougherty

Hi and welcome to Team Grimbold! Felinity is set to be the first publication under the Kristell Inkling imprint, and we’re thrilled to have you on board. Tell us about yourself. (Please include links to blogs/sites/Twitter/published works etc)

IMGP4852 4What inspired your story for Felinity?

Well, you asked for strange so it wasn’t going to be a story about a moggy stretched out on the radiator. Cats are strange creatures, on the cusp of domesticity but with their ears open for the call of the wild. My story is set in a strange, unsettling world. If there was to be an animal appear in it, the chances are the animal would be a cat.

 

How do you feel about having an illustration accompany your story?

I’m looking forward to seeing it. I know what I imagine for the story, but each reader will have a different idea.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment?

My first project, a YA fantasy series, The Green Woman, is almost finished, or it was. I’m waiting to get the third volume back from my trusty editor/critique partner, but I’m also revising the first volume with the intention of rereleasing it as it looks as though I have recovered my rights. I’ll self-pub this time unless I get a wild offer from a big publisher.

I’m also querying a historical fantasy set in an alternate tenth century. I have a collection of stories, retellings of Irish myths, waiting to be polished, and a YA post-apocalyptic fantasy, in theory finished, and waiting for me to get round to doing something with it.

The most important question – Cats or dogs?

I’m easy with both. They’re all unique so I take them as I find them, like people. I think we get more attached to pets that appear to depend on us, so dogs score on that point, but cats balance things up with their go-to-hell attitude.

 

Inkling Interrogation

1. It’s the zombie apocalypse, how do you survive? – I’d get my husband to think of something. He’s good with his hands and terribly practical. He’d rustle up some kind of zombie blaster and make the house zombie proof. Left to my own devices I’d be one of the first to get zombified.

2. Who would you like to say sorry to? – I’d apologise to my children for not being a good role model. I haven’t been able to show them that working hard at school and spending years at university will get them a good job and a carefree existence.

3. If you could sit down with your 15-year old self, what would you tell him or her? – Not to worry about the crappy job you’ll take straight after university; it has it’s advantages. They’ll send you to work in Paris and you’ll never look back.

4. What is your worst character trait? –I procrastinate.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? – In a little stone house in a garden surrounded by trees and no neighbours.

6. What do you think of garden gnomes? – This might not be the right answer but I think they are an abomination. They should be rounded up, melted down and recycled as something useful. Anybody who thinks plastic gnomes have a place in a garden should be told about flowers.

7. Do you believe in magic? -Depends what you mean by magic. Nature is magic as far as I’m concerned: the way our planet hangs in the middle of nothing, rotating round the sun; why the sky is blue and rivers run; what makes the tides flow, and flowers and babies grow.

8. What’s your biggest regret? -That I didn’t start doing what I really enjoy doing years ago.

 

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