Featured Interview With Lenita Sheridan
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. My parents bought property in the Goldstream Valley which is outside of Fairbanks. I enjoyed playing in the woods there and got much of my imagination and inspiration from my years growing up there.
I now live on Whidbey Island, in Washington state where I own a house. I have a pet dog who is a Japanese Spitz named Haley. I love to take her on walks.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My parents loved to read and they passed this on to me. I learned to read at the age of two. I started writing in first grade when a made a picture book. I decided to become a writer in fifth grade. My fifth grade teacher was a fantastic teacher and had us do a lot of writing (among other things). I wanted to take after my grandfather, Maxwell Sheridan who had worked with Ray Bradbury and published in the pulp science fiction magazines of his day.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Cornelia Funke, and Angie Sage. I like to read fantasy. I am most inspired by C.S. Lewis. His style of symbolic and allegorical writing is what I write like in my books. Each of my books is based on a parable from the Bible.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The latest book I published is “Guardian of the Gauntlet, Book II.” The Princess Camari from the first book receives a note attached to a bird from the Gnomes of Nurrocon. She realizes she must enlist Isryk’s aid. (She met Isryk in the first book and they became friends.) She and Isryk are about to voyage across the ocean to help the gnomes retrieve crystals from the Magnite Sea which is guarded by a monster named the Great Vanthor. She has a gauntlet which only works through her faith in a higher power to aid her in this quest.
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