Featured Interview With Tammy Ruggles
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’ve been a professional writer since the age of 40, but started writing short stories and poetry at 12.
As far as where I’ve lived, both city and country, and enjoy both.
No pets at my home, but the “family cat”, Widdy, is with a family member. Big, friendly, playful dogs are my favorite, and I’ve had a few. Kind of wish I could have one now.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Have loved books for as long as I can remember, and started writing for fun at age 12.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Cormac McCarthy, Peter Benchley, William Peter Blatty, Poe, Dickinson. I lean toward suspenseful drama, crime dramas, true crime, or horror. Sci-fi has never been my go-to genre, but it is the genre for my current and probably last book, “Verboten”.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
“Verboten” is a sci-fi romance with a dark side, about forbidden love between an Earthly man and a lovely extraterrestrial woman: A man with nothing to lose, a woman with a kingdom to reclaim, and a love worth fighting for. Sort of “Avatar” meets “Game of Thrones” meets “O”.
What inspired it was that, while deleting files on my computer, I found a 2-page short story I’d forgotten about for 10 years and never published, and when I heard Amazon Kindle Vella was launching, decided to develop it into a serial just for their platform. Each chapter (which they call episodes) ends in a cliffhanger. It was so much fun to write, since sci-fi romance has never been my go-to genre. I even named my main character Vella.
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