Featured Interview With Elizabeth Andrews
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Growing up in rural Dorset, I became fascinated with the folklore of the countryside. I worked in advertising, running a design business with my husband on the south coast before moving to Cambridge for a number of years. Interest in my artwork and writing increased online and my first illustrated book ‘Faeries and Folklore of the British Isles’ was published in 2006. A second Illustrated book ‘Faerie Flora’, was released in 2013, a seasonal guide to the country’s most common flowers and plants including faerie stories, spells and charms. The Lavender Witch, the first in the Psychic Sisters series of novels was released 2014, followed by The Cunning Man, The Haunting of Stoke Water and the fourth in the series, The Doll.
A change of style followed with a number of illustrated short stories for children under the ‘Mice of Horsehill Farm’ series and ‘The Faeries Tea Party’.
I am also a regular contributor of folklore articles to a number of popular magazine titles.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My older sister taught me to read at an early age and I created little picture books for myself. As I grew older I have become a voracious reader of anything I can lay my hands on.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy many genres of fiction, from Dickens to Terry Pratchett. The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley scared me silly when I was younger( I must have read this under the covers so my mum wouldn’t see!) so I try to emulate that feeling in my own writing.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, The Doll, is the fourth in The Psyschic Sister series.
A mysterious doll, a centuries old curse and a vengeful witch.
What have the tea guzzling OAP’s Queenie and Sybil got involved in now!
Queenie’s peaceful Sunday afternoon reading the papers is interrupted by the arrival of the local Vicar, Paul Goodfellow.
He has recently come into possession of a strange doll; worried because it is having such a strange effect on his three young daughters he reluctantly consults the local parish witch, Queenie.
Hearing that the previous owner, a young woman, committed suicide in the most horrific way Queenie becomes increasingly disturbed as she realises that the doll has an evil curse attached to it. It becomes evident how dangerous the situation is when the owner of the doll, an evil witch, forces her way into Queenie’s home in search of it.
The witch is the most formidable adversary Queenie has ever faced and it is only with the help of her sister Sybil and Paul the Vicar that they manage to overcome her, her coven and the Hell Hounds that she sets against them.
To stop her wreaking vengeance on the inhabitants of Queenie’s home of Dorchester and laying waste to the town Queenie must dig deep and use every bit of cunning and occult knowledge that she has.
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