Featured Interview With Cearúil Swords
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Dublin. The one in Ireland, not California. I have never been to the California namesake though the public library looks nice in a photo I saw 😉 I have lived in several other countries including Canada, Scotland and Spain. I recommend them all.
I am in Croatia at the moment. Drop in some time if you’re passing through.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
It goes back a while. I enjoyed messing around with papers even before I could read them. We have photos that attest to that fact. Actually for a period when I was a child I went completely off them and wanted nothing to do with them but it didn’t last. If it did I would be an unusual kind of writer.
I started writing video game scripts during the summers when I was in my early teens. I still have them in case Konami or Capcom come a knocking 😉
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Probably Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal and countless non-fiction books about historical or political figures as well as books on history, society, culture and the environment.
Who inspires me? Events and situations inspire me to write, people don’t factor in as much.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Well it’s called ‘Bed Time Stories for Grown Ups’ and mixes fairy tales with everyday common deeds and activities. It’s about the more ordinary souls of the magical realm. Stories of a brave knight buying an affordable car, a young man who buries his feelings by the tree in the back garden, a grumpy ogre’s long-suffering clerk who yearns for a new job on her day off and a college student struggling to overcome the violent and vocal resistance of the blank, white walls of his new room. There are more tales included – ten in all. So forget Goldilock, Sleeping Beauty and Rumplestiltskin and instead enter the real(ish), modern and still magical world of Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups.
The stories actually came together quite quickly, I wrote one everyday and then put them through several drafts until the stories came out pretty much as they are. Then an editor took them through another stage and that’s it really.
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