LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE UNDEAD

 

Courtesy of Milo James Fowler:

http://www.milo-inmediasres.com/

 

I get to answer the following questions about my current WIP:

 

1. What is the working title of your next book?

 

 

 

{Image of Victor's Mother done by the genius of Leonora Roy}

 

 

2. Where did the idea come from for the book?

 

In THREE SPIRIT KNIGHT

Victor speaks of his time in the Carnival of the Damned

as an aerial act -

 

the adventure that occurred right before he took that fateful bus to New Orleans.

 

The acts we think inconsequential send ripples down the years:

 

Each smallest act of kindness—even just words of hope when they are needed,

reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose loving spirit was the source of this good echo.

 

I wanted to show how Victor's actions in that dreaded Carnival

sowed seeds that bears both bitter and sweet fruit in his present.

 

I believe all human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined—

those dead, those living, those generations yet to come—

that the fate of all is the fate of each,

and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

 

3. What genre does your book fall under?

Undead Romance/Urban Fantasy

veined with threads of those questions

each of us asks in the dark of the soul which comes to us all.

 

4. What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

 

Cate Blanchett as the Angel of Death

Ellen Fanning as Alice Wentworth

A teenage Robert Downey, Jr. as Victor Standish

Brad Pitt as DayStar

Tom Selleck (the age of QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER) as Sam McCord.

 

5. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

 

A damned teenager discovers the only weapons you have

in Hell are the acts of love you did while alive.

 

6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

Unless HarperCollins Voyager accepts Victor Standish,

this latest adventure of his will be self-published.

 

7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

I'm only in the fifth chapter of this tale.

I hope to have this done by

the Ides of April.

 

8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman

INFERNO by Jerry Pournelle

FEAR NOTHING by Dean Koontz

 

9. Who or what inspired you to write this book?

 

Sandra Thrasher, my best friend, who believes in me

and my dream.

 

10. What else about the book might pique the reader’s interest?

 

Despair.

We all have felt it.

 

I wanted to tell a tale whispering that

when faced with the end of one dream, we must build something new and better in the ashes,

 

just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope.

 

 For each of us is a thread crucial to the strength—

to the very endurance of the human tapestry.

 

Every hour in every life contains such unknown potential 

that the smallest act of kindness

becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.

So, who's next?

 

If any of you reading this would like to take the baton,

write a post answering these questions

about your own WIP.