Featured Interview With JC Compton
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am French and American. I was born and grew up on the coasts of France. We lived in an American household, so we had plenty of classic books in English at home, but I also loved the French classic authors we read in school, such as Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Emile Zola. I then studied in Montreal, Canada, for 4 years, earning a degree in East Asian Studies and History (subjects I am very passionate about), then moved to the USA to pursue a career as a writer.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I know that I could read fluently by the age of 4, though I don’t remember how I learned. I was that kid who borrowed the maximum number of books at the public library and the school library each week, not only fiction but also encyclopedias about plants and animals. I started writing in elementary school. Despite loving to read and write, my handwriting was atrocious, and my teachers would make me tear out and rewrite pages from my notebooks up until high school!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite genre to read is dark fantasy, but I also enjoy fantasy, mystery, paranormal romance, romance, and philosophy. My favorite authors are Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Stephen King, George Orwell, and so many others!
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, Undertakers Inc., is a vampire romance and mystery story set in Victorian London with a twist: all the main characters are antisocial vampires, who, rather than seek to rise in the vampire society and claim the places they are offered, fight instead for the right to live humble lives – the lives they want. Tim, the main character, is a dark and pessimistic young man who has lost all his family. He begins to work for an undertaker business in the East End of London, without knowing it is run by a high-ranking but very antisocial vampire. As he enters the vampire world, he finds love with a vampire named Cyril, and begins to come back to life. But everything changes when he suddenly becomes a vampire “naturally” – without being bitten – and finds out he is the son of one of the most powerful vampires in England, and he belongs to an ultra-dominant clan. He goes to the vampire court of England and is reunited with his late sister – also a vampire now – and she too struggles to find her place between their narcissistic, power-hungry father, and her own desire to be free with the vampire she loves. This is the story of many characters thrown into a dangerous and unforgiving world, and each one finds the path to their own happiness, whatever it looks like for them.
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