Interview with Simon Rose, Author of Fantasy Fiction for children

Carma: I liked the eretico's Tomb, and I liked the way Annie in the past and the walled-up room in the abbey. What was your inspiration for The Heretic's Tomb '?

Simon: I'm glad you enjoyed the book. It 'was inspired by my love of history and I always liked time travel stories. Many novels have medieval settings, but for me some historical periods, as the time of the Black Death or the mystery of the Princes inTower box, as shown in The Sorcerer's Letter ', for example, are the most fascinating and most appropriate settings for a good adventure story.

Carma: What are your writing habits? Do you work on a research before the real story?

Simon: Yes, I know. I work mostly on a structure that provision, all the intricacies of the plot, before the novel proper. This design is usually at least a paragraph for each chapter andUp to 5000 words.

Carma: What fantasy in the mind of its author?

Simon: All kinds of things - the ancient mysteries, the unexplained, paranormal, science fiction themes, ideas, time travel, parallel universes, alternate realities, strange and wonderful characters and a whole series of "what if" scenarios.

Carma: What advice would you give to aspiring fantasy writers who tried to violate theGenre?

to copy Simon Test as original as possible, and not something else, even if popular. Write what interests you about this particular genre instead of jumping on a moving train.

Carma: Who is Simon Rose Describe an ordinary day in your life.

Simon: I'm not sure it's a normal day. If I'm not traveling or in a local school or library, I spend most of the day working on current book project, as well as marketing,Correspondence, etc., but also have children to feed, to take the animals to feed, to clean and so on.

Carma: What type of books you read as a child?

Simon: I was in the midst of Science Fiction, as a boy and read a lot of science fiction novels and short stories as CS Lewis, Tolkien and other fantasy authors. In high school, I studied a lot of history and have preserved My interestthe issue today. I also read an enormous number of comics as a child. Escapist, perhaps, but the comics were great for the imagination. On television, the original Star Trek series springs immediately to mind, along with many other influences.

Carma: How do you put on promoting your novel? How many hours per week you spend on book promotion?

Simon: I know some kind of promotion every day, whether for books or for me, though typically onlinethe Web site, blog or e-mail to author visits, summer camps, writing services, festivals and other events.

Carma: What was your experience in finding a publisher? What advice would you offer to these authors, a newcomer to the search?

Carma: There are a lot of resources online and elsewhere, in terms of publications, but to make a good thing is to research, publishing houses are of the same type of material thatwriting. If you are aged fantasy writing for ten years to see who is doing, and then on their website to see if they accept applications, even if you write fiction, Teen, to see who is doing it, and be sure again, to check their policy of submission. There are also publishers, the only non-fiction, specializing in issues rather than regional, the only books or images that do to pound image, but those not accepted, animal stories, and soon. It can be a long process but worth it.

Carma: What type of book promotion seems to be the best job for you? Any special strategies you'd like to share?

Simon: All authors must be prepared as everything possible to promote their work. Get a website or blog, or both, even before your first book published forge a good relationship with your local library for book signing events, certain knowledge in order to talk about your workFestivals, events and in particular to schools and libraries. You can be the greatest book ever written. However, nobody wants to see if your book has not lost to potential readers.

Simon is available for presentations, workshops, programs, writer-in-residence in Canada and the United States. Simon's next book in the spring of 2009 Doomsday Mask.

Thanks for this interview Simon.

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Interview with Tanya Huff Vicki Nelson, author of Vampire books

We will see the first stories of the TV series that fall into one of your future stories?

No, the show and books are two distinct creative work. The producers of the show have the right to pay the Five Books of Blood Ties Vicki Nelson as the basis for its use, but not to work in another direction.

According Talk about your collaboration with executive producer Peter Mohan and writers blood ties.

Although noObligation to do so Peter kept me involved from the outset. Came to me at the beginning room of the writer and talk to authors about the characters and their interaction. I was incredibly honored that they ask me, one of the episodes of Season One - Episode Nine, Stone Cold - and during this process that is patient and sensitive, and will, time has certainly not used hesitate to write to help me make the best episode possible. He came to show loveBooks and this is shown in everything he did.

While the third set to take the director or actors to get your input?

While I'm on set, I'm doing my best to remain out of his way. The actors and director to work - and work very hard, the hours are crazy on TV - they say hello and then virtually ignored me.

Fourth I loved the books is Henry in a romance writer. Why this change the graph?

Unfortunately, a man - a man as attractiveKyle Schmid - sitting and watching a computer screen graphics makes it boring. Television is a visual medium, and a graphic artist Henry has opened a number of different visual possibilities. Drawing Henry, the same books, the comic shop ...

Fifth When you actually have 'the show. Sunday night with the audience? Or do you want a peak in advance so you can go to your blog?

In fact, I'm in Canada, where he will begin the show is not airing until August so Iwatching DVDs of wonderful people Kalidescope provided. I saw the pilot, at least a dozen times, and many of the first twelve episodes nearly as often. 've Just rewatch every episode on Sunday night, as aired on Lifetime and then when he wrote the blog right away. (Okay, honesty compels me to confess that I have two of them soon because I was traveling and writing, had until Monday morning instead.)

Sixth Discuss your experience as a screenwriter for Cold Stone thanWrite a novel by Vicki Nelson.

Writing a novel is a solitary experience. I walk into my office and I write about six hours a day for nearly a year and then I ended up sending the book to my publisher. write a screenplay is a collaborative experience - all the writers involved in the exhibition hall, entrance hall, the producers, the network entry and, especially, are responsible for entering checkbook. (There is never enough in the budget to shoot all the originalConcept but one could also aim high.) By the book, there is almost no difference between what I have in hand and what you read. But with the script, change is constant. The scripts are not sequential, they are simultaneously so that each script is written before the camera changes to cascade in all following episodes. Peter rewrote lines of dialogue while the cameras are rolling.

I love writing novels, but I had a huge amount of fun writing and I'm Stone Coldincredibly grateful that he gave me the opportunity.

What is the seventh of the paranormal attraction for you?

Originally, I wrote a novel about vampires, because I wanted to go out of town, and do I need a loan. I was working in a library at the moment and I noticed that readers are incredibly loyal to their vampire genre. You can read what a number of teeth on the cover with the hope that something decent so I thought if I wrote a book about vampires,I had an audience. And I did.

8th What has been done to modernize relations Vicki Nelson books for your blood?

One of the few things that actually dates Vicki Nelson lbs total lack of phones and the Internet. Both were added to the show. The cultural references are present - instead of the mid-90s - even though Peter would not let me Coreen say, "Dude." (I will try once again should be able to write another script.)

How is the ninth TV seriesinfluenced the popularity of books out of print? I know that have been reprinted.

The series, in particular the fact that it has been demonstrated throughout life, gave me a new set of readers. Lifetime population usually does not tend, though his fantasy and science fiction and paranormal romance readers "has become very popular in recent times came in 1991 the price of blood - it is sixteen. If, as you might learn parallel parking is could get a driving licenseLicense. There is a whole generation of readers to discover that the books too young to read the first time - and many of them were to be seem a bit 'annoyed at the end. This fall, the new edition of books with DAW Blood Ties tie-in cover.

10th I think that the stories of Vicki Nelson, followed by Buffy's Joss Whedon trend started with a strong female main characters interact with vampires, and told with chunks of humor. Any thoughts onit?

I would be thrilled and honored to be components of a movement that Joss Whedon will be heard - I give the man a kidney if he wanted. Why am I in the middle of nowhere to live, I'm a little touch with what's happening in that genre as a whole, but I know that the paranormal romance novels have one of the main performers competing in the market now and if I was one of the people who took kick you ... Well, it's pretty cool.

11 Anything else you might sayLibrary Community Blood Ties Vicki Nelson on the pounds or series?

There were a number of people who have expressed dismay, the changes were in the books. I would remind them that the books have not changed. No matter, what makes the ties of blood, whether for a half-dozen seasons or running you do it, do not show any effect on the books. Are exactly as they were when I wrote and you can find them at any time. If it helps, think of the show how theseincredible alternate universe that expands the myth, as I wrote, rather than detract from it.

In general, I would say thanks for your support. Libraries rather keep me sane while I was growing up, and thought that my books are now in libraries is one of the best parts of the entire company.

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An interview with science fiction author Darrell Bain

In recent years, Darrell Bain has become one of the best-selling authors in the field of electronic publishing, and won almost every honor to publish in this area. He has now moved actively publishing in print and is currently working on a collaboration with the sale of fiction and author of best-scientist Travis S. "Doc Travis Taylor. Most of Bain's books are in print or planned to print and all are availableE-books. Produced a very popular monthly newsletter, talking about various topics of fans with or written by their voracious reading habits, in an informal, narrative style.

Welcome to Beyond the Books, Darrell. We can start by telling us whether you are published for the first time or are more published?

Are multipublished.

What was the name of your first book, regardless of whether it was published or not, and if notpublished, why?

The Pet Plague was my first, after writing my first computer and learning how easy it is to write and correct mistakes with him.

For your first book published, you must go through a lot of waste, has found a mainstream publisher, self-published before it, or pay a vanity press to publish?

For seven years I wrote, I was the subject of a huge fraud by a series of wrong "agents". I was rejected becauselied when I said my manuscripts sent to publishers. My first book was published Medics Wild, a publisher in the league with crooked crooked agents. A few hundred copies of the book were ever printed.

How is the rejection you feel and what you have done to overcome the blows?

I almost stopped writing after discovering how bad I was cheated. The e-book industry has been my salvation. I became one of the best-selling authors veryE-books, and that is in competition with the top names in the printing industry who have posted their e-book.

If your first book was published, who published and why did you?

Commonwealth Publishing, the company name wrong now defunct, published Medics Wild. I have them on staff recommendation wrong.

How does it feel to become published for the first time and how to celebrate?

I felt wonderfulNow until I learned all the facts. I was celebrated by creating a lot of purchases, I do not pound for it.

What was the first thing you did as the time for promotion, if the first were published for you?

Signatures.

If I had to do it again to him, had chosen a path different from yours, to be published?

Sure! I was very naive. Dealing with these agents wrong, probably my career back ten years, and at my age it is difficultthat many of the savings! After an agent is the best way to go, but never pay an agent whatever.

Have you been published since then and how did you become an author?

Yes, I have had at least three dozen books and published many stories. I became an icon of e-book industry and have won every major award possible (Fictionwise Author of the Year, better known best science fiction novel in 2002, Double Eppie Award for best young adult and the bestAction / adventure novels of 2007, and the dream realm Award, best science fiction novel of 2007). Almost all my books are in print today. higher the sun, I had enough of being science fiction novel growth induced by Travis S. Taylor together. And 'co-author with John Ringo of the best seller of von Neumann's war, and has published several books with Baen Books. Our book will be published in July 2008. After asking me aCo-author was the best compliment of my writing career. I would add that my writing has evolved over the years I've learned some improvement from the little tricks of the trade, but nothing can replace the more for writing and writing.

the first days, when you try to publish the benefit of hindsight, what he could do to speed things differently? What mistakes can be avoided?

I doubt that could speed things up quickly by the declaration area real agent, or simply try to find a publisher without an agent. The same applies to defects. I had to do some research on agents rather than pick a name at random, as I did. I was incredibly lucky to choose the worst evil criminals in the business.

What has happened to the largest since he became've earned?

Asked to meet with Travis and published under my first hard disk, Savage Survival. All these prices are not badare!

If you could chose a different profession, what would the profession?

Astronaut

Want to stop being an author by profession or have you combined the best of both worlds?

Yes, at this stage of my life, I would. My wife says it would accept a ride on the Space Shuttle, even though I knew that beating 30 seconds after launch.

How do you see yourself in ten years?

Alive, I hope! Seriously, I am still writingBooks and stories, but sells more than me today.

Any final words for writers who dream of one day publish?

Yes Writing is hard work. And writing fiction IIS a profession in which the supply, demand far more street is ready to be the toughest for a long time. One more thing to write: the best way to improve your writing. And write. And write. And .....

You can visit the Web www.darrellbain.com Darrell

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