Featured Interview With Phoebe Matthews
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Urban fantasy is my favorite reading. I like a mixture of current events and fantasy and I set my stories in places where I have lived, from Scotland to Washington State where I now live.
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My Mudflat Magic series combines sword and sorcery with a neighborhood in Seattle where old magic runs amuck through the families. The first book, Tyrant Trouble, won the EPPIE for Best Fantasy of the year. Book seven, Jimmyed Coffin, was published October 21, 2014.
Vampire Career, first novel of the Turning Vampire series, is set in vampire country (the Olympic Peninsula) and features suspense plus a bizarre romance. The fourth novel was released in January, 2015. About the boyfriend, a fan wrote, “Cute guy. He reminds me of my DH.” Now I wants to meet that DH.
Demonspell is the first novel of the Sunspinner series and is set in a neighborhood across town from Mudflat. The heroine would like a lovelife but that is hard to do when the family is being attacked by demons. So far no fan thinks the demons are cute.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was lucky enough to grow up in a house filled with books, plus big sisters who read aloud to me, probably before I understood the words, as they were learning to read and wanted an audience.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite authors write books that have strong plots and characters that make me laugh. Included in that group are mystery writers, urban fantasy writers, and so many others, I can’t remember all their names.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
A few years ago I went on a vacation with friends that took us to vampire country. That’s the area near Forks, Washington, as vampire fans know, and the setting for a very serious series that then became movies. We visited the gift stores in Forks and nearby communities, were charmed by the movie posters, sweatshirts, jewelry, and tons of other things tied to the books. But those books are very serious, and as we were on vacation and being silly, the way friends can be, we joked about the problems of being a vampire. By the time I returned home I had an idea for a short story, and somehow that grew into an idea for a book and then a series. A publisher loved the idea and that’s how I ended up writing the Turning Vampire books, with the newbie vampire who is clueless when it comes to surviving.
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