Featured Interview With KC Cowan
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and grew up in Portland, Oregon, which was a small “big city” but had great schools and neighborhoods to run around in. I still live in Portland, in the Pearl District, which was once a warehouse area that has been turned into a trendy area with condos, apartments, restaurants and stores.
I have owned many cats during my life, but my husband is allergic, so we don’t have any pets just now. 🙁
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My mother taught me to read when I was four. I was jealous that my older siblings got to go to school, so we “played school” and she taught me how to sound out words and soon I was reading. We were not rich, but I can honestly say my mother NEVER denied us a book! She was a voracious reader and all three of us kids are the same way. Getting lost in a good story is still my favorite activity.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I am working my way through the Game of Thrones series, but I am a latecomer to fantasy. Mostly, I have always enjoyed stories with strong female characters. Going way back, the Secret Garden was a favorite growing up. I love Any Tan, Elizabeth Gilbert, Anita Shreve, Isabel Allende.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Journey to Wizards’ Keep was a collaborative effort that I wrote with my two best high school friends, Nancy and Sara, while we were in college. It sat forgotten for 30 years before we dragged it out again, finished it and then I spent 3 years polishing and pitching it for publication. While I was doing that, Sara and I decided to continue the story of our heroines, Irene, Nan and Kay. The first book has our heroines having to overcome tremendous obstacles to get to Wizards’ Keep to ask the last remaining wizards to come out of “retirement” and help defeat an evil wizard who threatens the land. There’s romance and humor as the three girls with very different personalities find a way to work together. Nan is all heart and almost too nice for her own good! (she gets into trouble for being so trusting, too!) Kay is the feisty one, who challenges any one who stands in her way and often speaks before she thinks. And Princess Irene is the sensible, practical one who is the true protagonist of the book.
Suitable for readers 12 and up, we have had great feedback from those who have read it — even some women in their 50’s! I think the universality of the story of strong girl friendships is what they respond to.
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