Featured Interview With L. Salt
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My pen name is L. Salt and I am an emerging, multi-genre writer from the UK. I studied History of World Culture and did Master’s Degree in Art Expertise at the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts.
I was born in Belarus and have lived for many years in Ukraine and Russia, then finally settled down in the North of England, where I currently live with my husband and my fury baby, Rocky the cat, My interest in writing dates back to my teenage years. Apart from creative writing, I have a passion for travelling, arts, history, and foreign languages.
My debut novella “His Personal Reich” was release in April 2018 by Crazy Ink Publishing. My novel “The Ways We Follow”, a futuristic urban drama was released on in May 2018 by Wild Dreams Publishing. I have a new upcoming release. My thriller/mystery novella “Legacy of the Iron Eagle” will come out 24th February. My short stories appeared in different anthologies and magazines, both on-line and in print.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I always liked to tell stories, creating new, fancy worlds. I started to write at school, at the age of 12-13. I wrote a sci-fi series about time travel and another dimensions.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
So many of them…It’s difficult to pick up just a couple. In my teenage years I read a lot (I wish I could read that much now). I was all about travels, adventures, history, I enjoyed sci-fi as well as horror like Stephan King type of stories. At University, I preferred more philosophical and sophisticated reading like Albert Camus, Sartre, Herman Hesse, Carlos Castaneda. Nowadays, I read historical fiction (authors like Philippa Gregory, for example) and intellectual thrillers in Dan Brown’s style.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book called “Legacy of the Iron Eagle”. It’s a thriller/mystery novella with some elements of history and suspense. The main character, Philip Rutkowski, a son of a Polish immigrant, “enjoys” all the benefits of big city life—a boring, routine office job, the everyday long commute, a massive mortgage, and rare nights out with a few friends. Everything changes for Philip, when his colleague and best friend, David Zilberschlag, gives him a vintage mirror to help his friend to decorate his newly-bought apartment. The mirror belonged to David’s deceased granddad, a Holocaust’s survivor, who believed that the mirror hides some dark secrets from the past.
Both friends don’t believe in old man’s “fairy tales”, but when Philip continues to see visions of a German SS-officer in the mirror who tries to talk to him, he has nothing to do, but to try to find the answers to the questions he doesn’t know.
The investigation leads the two friends to a tiny town of San Augustine del Agua, hidden deeply in the woods of Misiones Province (Argentina). There, they meet Claudia Alvarez and her friendly grandparents, the proud members of a huge German community.
Eager to find out the truth behind the mirror, lost in the woods full of evil and possessed by his visions, Philip slides deeply into madness.
Philip tries to fight evil, but he’s not strong enough to resist it…
I love history of WWII. This dramatic period of history still leaves more questions than answers for historians and researchers, and continues to tease imagination of authors and writers with its theories and conspiracies. This is my second novella dedicated to this subject. It took me about five months to write it, including time for research and editing.
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Thank you for this amazing opportunity!!
I’ll share it as much as I can:))
You are very welcome!