Featured Interview With Rebekah R. Ganiere
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hey Everyone! I’m Rebekah and I’m a SAHM of four wonderful kids that I homeschool when I’m not writing. I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Connecticut, Virginia and Idaho. I’ve also lived in Utah, Hawaii and Kansas. I went to college all over the place and studied theater. I love the theater and especially musicals and opera. I have over 100 musical/opera soundtracks. I listen to just about everything but ragae and rap. I can’t write in silence. I always write with the tv or music on.
I currently live just north of Los Angeles with my kids, my husband, English Bulldog, Border Collie, Two Tortoises, Two Bearded Dragon and handful of fish. The escaped snake is still missing. If I’m not writing I am usually running kids to dance team or auditions, watching television, or drinking tea. I love herb tea. mmmmmmm…. it keeps me from drinking soda 🙂
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
You know growing up I had dyslexia and I Hated reading. It was horrible and hard and I didn’t want to do it. But as I reached high school I fell in love with Stephen King, Dean Koontz and John Saul. I started writing horror at that time.
In college I began a terrible novel about the mafia (I was obsessed with The Godfather and The Untouchables). I wrote several short stories in college but it wasn’t until my son was born about six years ago that I got the first real idea for my novel Dead Awakenings. What if you entered an unsanctioned drug trial and woke up strapped to a hospital bed with no memory of who you were or how you got there, only to find you’d become, A Deader. It’s a Zombie Romance 🙂
It was at that time that I decided that if I was going to write, I was going to write what I love to read. Fantasy, Paranormal and Romance. I’ve been obsessed with Vampires and Werewolves since I was a girl. So it made sense that that is what I would write. Hence my logo of Vampires Werewolves Zombies.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Oh man! I am kind of strange. I love the classics, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Brother Grimm. I love to read them and they have influenced my writing the most. Their amazing storytelling and characters inspire me to write.
I love fantasy and romance and paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and some sci-fi. I especially love Paranormal authors Lara Adrian, Jennifer Ashley and JR Ward.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Because of my love of fantasy and fairytales, I decided to put my own twist on fairytales. I’ve always wanted fairytales that happened in the same world. Like in Into the Woods. So when I decided to write in the fairytale realm I thought of which fairytales I wanted to tell the most. The first one to come to my mind was Little Red Riding Hood. I loved the idea of Red being a werewolf hunter. What if she fell in love with the werewolf king, but didn’t realize he was a werewolf because she’d been lied to her whole life about what werewolves really were.
From there I had the idea for Snow White. But what if Snow White had seven brothers who were Vampire Slayers, and she falls in love with the deposed vampire prince who is trying to reclaim his kingdom from his uncle who stole it.
Currently, I have out both Red the Were Hunter and Snow the Vampire Slayer as well as a novella for one of Snow’s brothers out. The next story in the series, Rapunzelle – Zelle and the Tower, is releasing the beginning of April and Cinder the Fae is releasing late summer.
I’ve had a lot of fun plotting out the nine books in the series. I was not really a plotter before I started this series, but since I have characters that move from book to book I realized I had to plot them all out to keep them straight. Both Sage, my Vampire Prince and Dax, a werebear with amnesia are in books one and two. You also see the werewolves in the first two book and the first novella. One of Snow’s brothers is the hero in Zelle and the Tower and he goes to visit Cinder from book four. Weaving everyone together takes a lot of plotting! Especially naming all the secondary characters. I swear I’ve tried to name about a half a dozen men Liam.
It takes me about a month to write the books but then about six months to edit them. I’m getting faster at editing, but I like to take my time on them to make sure I’m happy before I release my babies into the world.
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Thank you so much for having me!
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Wow, it’s hard enough to write, but to do it with dyslexia…kudos to you for pursuing your dreams.