Featured Interview With Zoë Routh
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born in England, grew up in Canada on the prairies, and have been living in Australia since 1996. So basically, collecting Commonwealth passports. Most of my career life has been in the outdoors – leading canoe trips, working for Outward Bound. All this adventuring stayed with me, and I still put the pack on for little gambols in the hills.
It’s also always been about people. I’ve been running leadership development programs for over 36 years now.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I must have been eight or nine, maybe younger, when my parents gave me a book about King Arthur, It was marvellous and magic! I have not been without a book since then. Except for five years after my English literature degree where I could not read a book for pleasure.
I remember my first story from about eleven, called The Pirate. My parents kept it and I recently re-read it – hilarious! Apparently the worst thing that ‘Louis Bourg’ ever did was ‘falling in love with a young girl’. Bahaha!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Favourite authors…changes all the time! Current obsessions: Kate Quinn, David Brin, Pierce Brown.
Favourite genres: speculative fiction, historical fiction, spy thrillers.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The most recently published book, Terra Blanca: Insurrection, asks the question, “can we really live and lead collaboratively”? It sets in the near future, in a climate ravaged world, where we are experimenting with new habitats, man-made islands. I wanted to explore best leadership intentions struggling against our more primal nature.
I started writing in December 2022 and finished the first draft in March. Editing rounds and production took forever, and it was released in September. Each book is getting a little faster, but not as fast I’d like.
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