Featured Interview With Sasha Pruett
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born in the mid-west and raised in the south I’m a country girl at heart. I spend my days taking care of my home and husband and trying to convince my cat to get off my computer and let me work. My writing like my life is varied, from horror to poetry, science fiction to comedy and so on. There’s so many good ideas out there I refuse to limit myself to one genre.
Random is the one setting on my mp3 player that’s always active and I bounce around my hobbies like I do my music. I’m very old fashioned and the person I admire most is my grandmother.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve been creating stories and writing since I can remember. It’s always been a part of me, of who I am. I would write even if my stories were nothing more than filled spiral notebooks and doc files on my computer; for me there is no such thing as retirement. I get antsy if I’ve gone too long without writing something, anything really; a poem, a short story or a journal rant (that I usually insert in one of my books). Life is stranger than fiction and by using my personal experiences it enriches the story and adds realism to the characters.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love to read, always have and it helps me to hone my own craft. I learn from what I like and even more from what I don’t. Some of my favorite authors are Jane Austen- Mansfield Park is my personal favorite, Shakespeare (his words not only make you sigh but he has an amazing sense of humor) Much Ado About Nothing is one of my favorites, C.S. Lewis, Frank Peretti, and Terri Blackstock. I also like the Hunger Games Trilogy by Susanne Collins and the Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa.
I bounce between genres depending on what mood I’m in sometimes bingeing on one book after another until my eyes scream at me to stop.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Costly Obsession: Unleashed, the final book of the Costly Obsession Trilogy was released a few months ago, featuring a detective, a supernatural serial killer and an eleven year old boy. It takes place in Medford Oregon where the skinned bodies of seemingly random victims start popping up in unbelievable locations, but the victims aren’t so random and the murderer will be much harder to capture than Detective Sloan Massey could ever imagine. What can eleven year old Timothy Hawthorne do to stop a psycho who filets his victims then leaves a suit of skin for police to discover like a fleshy riddle? Who would believe Timothy’s tales of angry spirits when Detective Massey refuses to see anything but a human killer in his midst no matter how impossible the evidence.
The Costly Obsession Trilogy has taken me more years to write than I ever thought, but considering that half of that time my writing has been packed in moving boxes from one move after another I try not to be too hard on myself. It took fifteen years to complete the trilogy, but it was so worth it and I’m not done there. I have a binder under my couch right where I can grab it easily, filled with over 120 ideas for future books so thankfully I’ll be busy for a very very long time.
Now I’m working on From Darkness- Aging rocker Bane Bronson never thought his trip through Hell itself would have been the easy part.
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