Featured Interview With Emily Wibberley
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Seven Things about Me:
1. I’m just starting out so I’m not “the best-selling author” of anything, but…
2. I did once stand in line to meet Joss Whedon at a comic book signing when I was in middle school and got him to autograph a Buffy the Vampire Slayer poster for me.
3. I was the flute section leader in my high school’s marching band.
4. I graduated from Princeton University in June 2014 with a bunch of people who are a lot smarter than I am.
5. Besides YA, some of my favorite reading material comes from Jane Austen and the Preacher comic book series. I also like to spend my free time playing video games like The Last of Us.
6. I have two rescue German Shepherds. One is really sweet and the other thinks he’s a NAVY SEAL and that every cat, skateboarder and motorcyclist is a terrorist.
7. L + R = J.I
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
When I was in the 4th grade, my dad gave me Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. I don’t think he realized how much older the intended reading audience was. I read it. And then I read all the sequels. I still wonder what my 5th grade teacher thought when I told her to read The Vampire Lestat because “it’s the best book ever.”
I have been reading voraciously ever since–mostly YA–but I didn’t start writing until I had the idea for this YA Fantasy/Action series, which was inspired by everything I’ve ever read and great heroines like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite authors are Jane Austen, Cassandra Claire, Vladimir Nabokov, Charlotte Brontë, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, and George Eliot who’s not a guy. I read everything YA. Joss Whedon inspires me and everyone else.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My debut novel is a YA Fantasy/Action Adventure/Romance.
Here’s the blurb:
Fifteen-year-old Clio should have never been the Oracle of Sheehan. That power is passed from mother to eldest daughter, and Clio is the youngest of four sisters. But when her entire family is murdered by Mannix, the king’s adviser, Clio is left all alone and heir to a power she never wanted and doesn’t understand.
Hunted by Mannix, Clio seeks refuge in a foreign city where oracles are absolutely forbidden. If she’s found out, she will be sacrificed atop its great pyramid.
Clio has no choice but to win the trust of Riece, an enemy warrior. Despite the growing feelings between them, Clio knows that if he finds out who she really is, he won’t hesitate to kill her.
Clio tries to hide her budding powers, longing to be a normal girl who can fall in love, but the visions she has of Mannix bringing a barbarian army into Sheehan torture her conscience. She alone has the strength and foresight to stop him, but only if she can embrace her destiny and sacrifice everything.
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