Featured Interview With TF Walsh
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Well, I was born in Romania and moved to Australia with my family at the age of eight. My dad has always loved writing and is quite well known in Romania, so I guess from an early age I started to show interest in writing. Sure, they were only poems or lyrics, but it was a start☺ It was only when I finished university that I considered trying to write stories. Fast forward many years later, when I was home sick from work that I attacked my first novel, and no looking back from there. Aside from writing, I’m a huge baking fan with snickerdoodles being my all time favorite cookies. I live with hubby and two gorgeous kitties.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I grew up listening to bedtime Romanian stories that could only be compared to the Brothers Grimm tales, and ever since then folklore and mythology has fascinated me. I’ve been scribbling stories from a very young age. These influences have trickled into my stories, and in particular Cloaked in Fur, which is based in Transylvania—a place seeped in legends. Now, when it comes to love, I’m a sucker for stories about two people from different worlds falling madly in love and fighting against the odds to stay together. This is the story I wanted to tell in Cloaked in Fur; showing how far someone was willing to go to hold onto true love.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love anything by Richard Laymon who writes suspense and horror fiction. I’m also a huge fan of Laurel K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series. At the moment I’m addicted to Maggie Stiefvater’s stories. I just finished reading The Raven Boys. Love! Can’t wait for the sequel to come out.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Cloaked in Fur is book one in the Wulfkin Legacy series. Here’s a little blurb:
As a moonwulf, Daciana never expected to fall in love with a human. Hell, she never imagined that she’d abandon her pack, endanger everyone around her, and break the worst rule possible. But she did.
A rogue werewolf is killing Daciana’s friends, and she sets on capturing the creature. She’ll do whatever it takes to stop the beast. The police and her boyfriend, Inspector Connell Lonescu, are starting to question her involvement in the murders, which is endangering the pack’s secret existence. But when the pack alpha kidnaps Connell, revealing the awful truth about the creature and its connection to the pack, Daciana must choose between saving the man she loves and saving her pack family from certain death.
A bit of insight: as I wrote Cloaked in Fur, I was becoming infatuated with Enre, one of Daciana’s ex-lovers. He is so raw in his approach to life and naïve at the same time, which is why he’ll be playing a much bigger part in book 2.
Speaking of which, the sequel, Cloaked in Secrecy is set to come out very soon. I’m so excited to be telling Enre’s story.
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Graeme Ing says
Cloaked in Fur is a great read. I’ve been super lucky enough to read an early draft of Tania’s upcoming Cloaked in Secrecy, and it’s even better. Tania is destined for great things as as an author.