Featured Interview With Shawnda Currie
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Well, I am a wife and a mother of two teen aged boys. I also work full time as a Resource Management Support Clerk. I grew up in Northern Ontario and after I was married I moved around with my husband to Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba. We currently live in Eastern Ontario.
I am a huge animal lover. Currently I have two cats and a dog. My kids always try to get me to go to the Humane Society because they know I won’t leave there without an animal! I would love to run an animal sanctuary.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
There is close to a nine year age gap between me and my younger brother, so I spent a lot of my time entertaining myself as single children can attest to. I read often during those years, and also played with imaginary friends to act out tales of fantasy and adventure. I was told on numerous occasions that I had a very active and vivid imagination. I took that as a compliment. I grew up during a period when we played outside, and where TV and video games were not the norm in every household. I took advantage of my local library and didn’t necessarily have a favorite author though I did read many V.C. Andrews novels as a teenager. I didn’t own a computer until I was in my twenties.
I always said I was going to write a novel one day but didn’t get serious about it until 2009 when I wrote the rough draft of book one of The Evolved Trilogy: Altered – Revelations of the Evolved. Because my husband and I moved around for work, I didn’t actually publish until 2012. The first book gave me the motivation to complete book two and three: Broken – Afflictions of the Evolved & Choices – Complications of the Evolved. Please check them out if you enjoy YA about time travel and psychic abilities.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Alyson Noel and highly recommend The Immortals series and The Soul Seekers series. I tend to read young adult fiction since that’s the genre I write. There’s too many authors to list that inspire me but I do have a variety of authors on my bookshelves so I can appreciate different styles of writing.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Without giving too much away, I am working on a zombie novel. It focusses around a group of teenagers that experience firsthand the start of an outbreak. I thought it would be fun to start at the beginning of the end instead of just telling a story about surviving the aftermath.
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Shawnda….you are amazing!!!!!