Featured Interview With Azzurra Nox
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Catania, Sicily, but have led quite the nomadic life since birth. I’ve lived in several European countries, and Cuba. I currently reside in the Los Angeles area. I’m a sucker for cats, but if I see a cute dog, I can’t stop myself from petting it.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always loved books, even before I knew how to read, because my mother would always read to me the Grimm fairytales. The moment I learned how to write, is when I began writing stories. At that time, they were mostly ghost stories or dolls being possessed by demons. I had one too many viewings of Dolls and Child’s Play, as a kid.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Some of my favourite authors include: Oscar Wilde, Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, Isabella Santacroce, Christopher Rice, and Charles Dickens. There’s others that I love, but those authors are the ones that I obsessively gush over to the point that I’ve read every single work by them. Music is a huge inspiration for my writing. I always listen to music whenever I write, and usually it helps spark a mood or a scene. Movies inspire me as well, especially when trying to keep the pace going. I watch a lot of horror movies, and usually the pace for those movies is very fast, as everything has to happen in a 90-minute frame. Another source of inspiration is just the people around me. Living life and trying to experience new things always helps in getting the creative juices flowing.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
CUT HERE is a YA Paranormal Urban Fantasy. This is a quick blurb about it:
Sixteen-year-old Lena Martin’s idyllic world shatters the night her mother dies due to a hit and run accident. Two years later, her dad relocates her from Italy to Los Angeles to help her put behind the time spent in a psychiatric ward following her mother’s death. But the move only proves to be a fatal mistake. Shortly after her arrival, the classmates of her new private school begin to commit suicide under mysterious circumstances after reading a cult book called Cut Here.
Determined to unravel the mystery behind the suicides, she bands together with loner Jonathan Russe and outcast Hope Peters to figure out exactly what is happening, not realizing that this places them under a dangerous radar. During this same time, Lena falls for a mysterious and attractive guy named Michael, who is as equally disarming as he’s dangerous.
As her attraction grows, so does the body count at St. Lucy Academy. Soon, Lena needs to decide whether to stay away from the guy she’s falling for, or to trust him. Is Michael behind the suicides, or is he the key that can unlock the mystery that can stop the bloodshed? Deceptions run high and Lena soon learns that nothing is what it seems.
I initially got the idea for the novel in 2008, after a vivid nightmare about mysterious deaths and the cause behind it being a book called CUT HERE. I go more into detail about the behind the scenes of the book on my website: http://azzurranox.com/
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