Featured Interview With Kelly Wyre
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in the Southeastern United States, and while I’ve lived elsewhere, I have returned home to the same small town where I was born. I live with my partner and our dog, Connor. He’s half Schnauzer and half Poodle and thinks he’s all Dragon.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My parents read me stories every day. I had a bedtime story every night. Both my parents were avid readers, and I can remember being very little and playing in the living room with my dad in his recliner and my mom on the couch, both of them reading, and I was thinking to myself, “I’ve got to figure out what’s so fascinating about these books of theirs.”
I was telling stories when I could talk. I had a big problem learning the difference between reality and my stories, actually. Oftentimes, if the story went better in my head, that’s how reality would get bent in the retelling, and I got in a lot of trouble for telling falsehoods when I was a kid.
When I learned how to write, I started committing those falsehoods to paper, and everything worked out just fine.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Oh, I read anything and anybody. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, Craig Johnson, David Eddings, Anne McCaffery, George R.R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Pat Conroy and the list goes on and on. They all inspire me; any good story has the potential to inspire one in me.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is MEET ME AT THE GATES. It’s a contemporary supernatural romance.
The idea actually came to me via a book journey, so to speak. I bought one book and there was a bookmark in it for another book. So I bought the second one, too, and that one turned out to be a graphic novel that was loosely based on a Japanese folk tale about a fox, a badger, a monk, and a raven. The graphic novel got me to thinking about what it’d be like to remember your lover across every lifetime you’d ever lived, and thus the plot of the book was born.
Initially, MEET ME AT THE GATES was called, “Fox and Monk.” The characters are named after the original inspiration, and the book also features a “badger” and a “raven.”
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