Featured Interview With V.M.Sang
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in the north west of the United Kingdom, in the centre of the county of Cheshire. Now I live in the south east, not far from the south coast. When growing up, I had a border collie called Laddie. He was a lovely dog, and very clever. I have no pets now, and have not had any all my married life. My lifestyle does not lend itself to pets, unfortunately, as I love animals.
I enjoy travel and go abroad frequently, mainly to Europe, although I have been to the USA a couple of times.
I like doing a variety of crafts as well as painting and drawing. I also like cooking.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always been fascinated by books. My mother tells of me ‘reading’ a book when I was very young, well below school age, and reciting the story, which I knew by heart. She also said it was no use talking to me when I had my head in a book. Even now, I read everything, including signs.
The first thing I remember writing was a story of a dog. I couldn’t spell very well and spelled ‘of’ as ‘ov’ all the way through. I wrote a very bad romance for my friends in my teens, and then I wrote some poetry, all of which has been lost except one. I did write a dungeons and dragons scenario when an adult before I started writing books seriously.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy most fantasy writers. No, that’s rather a sweeping statement. I like Weis and Hickman’s Dragonlance Saga, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, Brandon Sanderson. I also like historical fiction.
I suppose the above writers have been an inspiration, especially the Dragonlance Saga, as it came from a D&D scenario, and my Wolves of Vimar is based on the scenario I wrote. I thought of turning it into a novel after reading their books. (It hasn’t finished as one novel, though. It’s kind of morphed into several books.)
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Vengeance of a Slave is my first foray into historical fiction. It started after many years, no decades, of simmering away at the back of my brain. When a child, I saw an old, derelict house on the moors in Derbyshire. It had once been a grand house and I wondered about the family that had lived there. Decades later, I decided to try to imagine the story from the earliest times, and write about the family that lived there. It starts in what is now Germany, where a young boy, Adelbehrt, and his sister see the Romans crucifying their father and other village men in retribution for a raid on their city. The Romans take the children for slaves and they are sold to a merchant who takes them to Britain.
Adelbehrt develops a hatred of the Romans because of what he decides they have done to him and swears to escape with his sister and get revenge. But taking on the Roman Empire when you are only one young man is quite a task. How can he do so? And will his hatred of the Romans eat into his soul and destroy him?
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