Featured Interview With Adri Sinclair
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am a 42 year old Afrikaans [South African] mother, wife and now… writer. I grew up in the Transvaal as the only girl among 4 boys. Needless to say, I had to cultivate a thick skin and a VERY good sense of humour – which I hope is well reflected in my writing.
We live in London, Uk – out of the City, in Epping Forest. I love London, and we have been here for 10 years now.
We have three cats – Schizophrenia, Domino and Chloe – though arguably my daughter fancies herself a bit of cat too!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Oh I grew up with my Grandma and my Aunty, practically owning the local libraries on a continental basis. Though, reading as a young girl was not a priority, and I spend a lot of time in the school library from very early on.
I only started writing for myself – Mid 2013. Before then, I worked in online Media, where I had to write website content, promotions, news articles and blogs. Not very fun, but it paid the bills.
I started writing poetry in primary school, and enjoyed the tasks of writing essays for school projects. Of course, I wrote in Afrikaans then, as it is my native language – and only wrote in English from the age of 12 onwards. I never could get to grips with grammar, and while I still go through one course after another – sometimes my own enthusiasm and excitement over a new world, or idea trip me up and send me tumbling down the barbed wired fence of entangled grammar!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
You know, I will read anything put down. On the train, on a label, on a sticky note – I’m a little obsessive about words, and have been found to pick up pieces of torn paper just to read what was on them. [Sounds a bit creepy doesn’t it?! ]
I love Sir. T. Pratchett and Mr. N. Gaiman. Of course I enjoy Douglas Adams, and Adams Douglas. Two different authors, two different styles, both very funny. My shelves are filled with self published authors of late.
As for inspiration – my word the stuff is everywhere! I get excited over strange things – like a piece of string on the carpet, you can write an entire essay about the life of a string! Inspiration is not something I seek, it is something that finds me, I think. I try to look at the world without the jades adult shades on; often getting me into trouble might I add.
I think the world around us, and the people we associate with, are inspirational. You just have to choose the better genre for yourself.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Oh! Hidden Carmina… It was meant to be a short story. I couldn’t stop writing. When it was finally ‘done’ – it wasn’t done at all. So I started on a second book, and finished a third. It became a series.
Carmina Nightshade is a 22 year old human girl who discovers the truth about her family and clan – they are not human.
To love eternally, she has to die, to die she has to live and to live… she has to learn the difference between Myth and Truth – if there is any. As life would have it, the voices she’s heard in her head since birth has a purpose far more sinister than just being annoying. When Carmina meets the big, dark-haired Liam Moretti, she turns the entire immortal world upside down – breaking all the rules and changing history as as they know it.
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