Featured Interview With Ellie Firestone
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Well, I’m a bit of an introvert, for starters. I like being by myself, and if I have a book with me, then so much the better! I’m currently living in England, in the Cotswolds, which is a very nice place full of cream teas and sheep (though I’m not such a big fan of the weather). However, I visit my relatives in Texas for several weeks of the year, and it’s there that I indulge in all sorts of horse-y stuff. Horses are my favorite animals, but I don’t have one of my own … yet. Right now, I just make do with a load of pet fish, which, since I can’t really tell them apart from each other, are all called Rainbow. I also have a dog, who’s an English Toy Terrier named Bonnie.
I also like superheroes. As I have already mentioned, I like books and horses, too, so maybe that has something to do with why I write children’s books about superhero horses (or maybe I’m just a bit strange).
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started reading and writing books at around the age of three. Well, I say ‘writing’ — I couldn’t actually write as such, so I dictated my stories to my mother to write down! All my earliest books were about animals, but mostly (you guessed it) horses.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
There are many authors whose work I enjoy reading, including (but not limited to) Mark Twain, Eoin Colfer and Madeleine L’engle (a diverse bunch, I know!). I don’t really have a favorite genre, but I tend to like sci-fi, fantasy and mystery the most. There are two people who inspire me in my writing: Mary Shelley, and the aforementioned Madeleine L’engle. Mary Shelley inspires me because she wrote her amazing book Frankenstein when she was just 18, and Madeleine L’engle inspires me because of her fantastic book A Wrinkle in Time, which taught me that reality and imagination are not all that different.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is the seventh in my Super Sporty series. It’s called Super Sporty 7: The Fight Before Christmas. As you can probably guess, the story is set at Christmas, and when I was writing it last year I realised that it would be nice to release it at Christmas. Trouble was, it was August and I was only ten pages in. Fortunately, I worked on the book every free moment I got, and the book was released on Kindle on December 12th 2014.
So what’s it about? Well, it’s about a pair of superhero horses, Sporty and Harley, who are back home with their families for Christmas. After their last crazy adventure, everything is back to normal — but it doesn’t stay that way for long. A local horse is caught robbing the Horsecitty bank … but swears that he didn’t do it. Another horse is caught shoplifting … but she denies all knowledge of it. Sporty suspects that mind control is the real culprit, but she’s going to have trouble proving it with no evidence and no clues. And time is running out….
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