Featured Interview With Iscah
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in a hospital, raised in a house, educated in a school, and have been known to revisit such places as the need arises. Now that I’m grown, I work at a job and frequently write in coffee shops. Clearly I am a unique individual, whose inner life must be more exciting than my outer one.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Books have always been a pleasant part of my life, first being read to and then reading for myself. At some point in Middle School I realized the only way to put my daydreams to any practical use would be to write them down for others.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Dickens, Zahn, Snicket, and Eth Clifford are some of my favorites, but I enjoy a large range of authors and genres and alternate between fiction and nonfiction. However writing may also be inspired by music or an unusual tree or that peculiar habit of a third grade teacher. It’s all story fodder. But I really couldn’t say where every idea comes from. Many of my characters feel more like they just happened to wander into my head than people I created.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
“The Girl With No Name” is the first of four “Before the Fairytale” book which tell about the younger years of my main characters from “Seventh Night”. “Seventh Night” is a romantic, comic, action, adventure fantasy. But I’m playing with style a bit in the Before the Fairytale set.
“The Girl With No Name” is written in a folklore style. The main character is orphaned before she can be named, and she’s a shapeshifter, who doesn’t have a face to call her own either. So the story is mainly her wandering about, trying to find her place in the world. One reviewer called it a Grimm’s Fairytale mix with Shelley’s Frankenstein, and I really liked that description.
The next book “Horse Feathers” will have a stronger sense of realism, but magic invades there too.
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