Featured Interview With M. K. Theodoratus
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a California gal … when California ends on the northern side of the Tehachapis. Nothing chauvinistic about me, even when I’m not thinking about water being wasted on swimming pools.
Now live in Colorado, but nothing in the Rockies inspires me like the California Mother Lode where many of my Andor stories are set.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Actually, I didn’t know I could read until the fifth grade. I’m dyslexic and could never finish the reading workbooks.
I started writing in the sixth grade when the teacher assigned a short story. Started a Nancy Drew pastiche which I finished the next summer. Got a “C” in the class through because at 25 pages my story was incomplete.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I’m a fantasy and mystery reader … though I don’t write mysteries. I can’t think linearly. Some favorite writers are Lee Child [who I wish I could write like], Patricia Briggs, Simon R. Green, Sharyn McCrumb, Mary Balogh, Carol O’Connell, Jim Butcher, Karen Marie Moning,Neil Gaimon, and Tamora Pierce … as a sampling of current writers. Also must mention Andre Norton — both her Witch World series and her space operas.
My inspiration is more a question than a person: What if? Or maybe, what happens? Like, what happens to the politics of a hybrid elf-human population over time. Voila. My grumpy Far Isles Half-Eleven, where the ruler leans towards the feudal and his nemesis leans towards the new merchants and artisans.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
First, I’ve only indie e-pubbed novellas and short stories while building an author platform for a novel in process — There Be Demons, set in my alternative world of Andor where demons roam. It’s publication is delayed due to the illness of the publisher.
As usual, my story doesn’t follow the usual path of a hot, young chick with the ability to see ghosts as the main character. Dumdie, my protagonist in Ghost, is a forcibly-retired, homeless woman who finds a room in a private shelter threatened with closure because of a missing will. When she connects with the ghost of the former owner of the converted mansion, Dumdie must overcome her fears of exposing her weird abilities to save the shelter.
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