Featured Interview With Rachael Wright
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am from western Colorado raised on a ranch with a ton of animals and currently don’t have any pets because I exhausted myself early on! I do have two kids though!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination with books began as soon as I could read but when I was 13 I was introduced to Lord of the Rings by my father, who is a massive nerd, and I fell head over heels in love. I began writing not long after I finished the whole series because the words and stories just would stay in. It’s that way to this day … I can’t seem to stop.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favourite author is JRR Tolkien. I doubt I’ll ever be able to get bored of him. I also read Sherlock Holmes regularly as if I’m meeting an old friend for drinks. But I also adore England Regency period novels including Jane Austen, the Bröntes, Thomas Hardy. I think I wanted to escape from modernity and phones and explore a different world.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My book, The Twins of Strathnaver, will be published by Green Avenue Books in September 2025. It’s an Outlander meets Ghost Whisperer novel set in late August 1997. What you wouldn’t guess is the sheer amount of research I undertook in order to get the historical events, from 1746, that I reference in the book all straight and correct. I spoke to the French National Military Archives, Dunrobin Castle in Scotland, the English National Archives, Blair Castle Archives, the list goes on. Here’s the blurb:
The Mackay Rules: Never Tell and Never Leave.
The Witching Mackays have endured centuries of suffering and ostracism all because of their powers and the ghosts they can see. As August 1997 draws to a close, and Hugh and Margaret Mackay enjoy a more peaceful life than their ancestors, a mysterious Londoner arrives in desperate pursuit of fame and long-lost Jacobite gold.
Louis Talbot is much more than a treasure hunter wielding a metal detector. Armed with a strange book and its tantalizing account of a family who can speak to ghosts; Louis sets his sights on the vulnerable, lonely Margaret Mackay.
As sides are chosen, Hugh and Margaret are forced to confront the reality that the gold isn’t all the ghosts are protecting and that the consequence of their failure will be nothing less than the destruction and death of everything they’ve ever known.
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