Featured Interview With Kathy Miner
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in the farm country of western Michigan, and thought I was a “town kid” because I lived one house inside the village limits of a one-stoplight farming community. For the last 20 years, though, I’ve lived along the front range of Colorado – I’m looking out my office window at Cheyenne Mountain as I type this. I have two pets – a fluffy golden-mix who we rescued as a puppy, and an imperial cat I saved from abandonment in the parking lot of the building where I worked. The dog continues to be grateful. The cat never was.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have no memory of not knowing how to read – I would follow along as my mother read to me before I started kindergarten. I have called myself a writer since the fourth grade, when a poem I wrote won a contest. It was the first and last good poem I ever wrote.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Alice Hoffman, Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, and Patrick Rothfuss, just to name a very few. I love reading in many different genres, from romance to literary to young adult to sci fi/fantasy – my only requirements are good writing and a good story. Stephen King impresses me on many levels as a writer, though I can’t read his stuff (too scary!) – his memoir on writing is a must-read for any aspiring author.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
At the end of May 2015, I’ll be releasing the second book in my Colorado Chapters trilogy, “Where the Light Enters.” (The first book is entitled “What Survives of Us.”) My books follow a group of survivors of a devastating pandemic as they try to put their lives back together, reunite with loved ones, and cope with the changes the plague wrought in them. It’s post-apocalypse without the zombies and machine guns. What would you do, to ensure your survival, and the survival of the ones you love? Both books demand an answer from the characters, and readers are telling me it makes them contemplate the question as well.
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