Space-Time Interview Author Hargrove Perth

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IDENTIFICATION OF HUMANOID: Hargrove Perth

I am that geek girl who loved sci-fi and fantasy growing up. I also love horror. Still, do.

My husband could tell you that if there’s a B movie on SYFY, she’ll watch regardless of how bad it is. The worlds created there to intrigue me; they take me to that far-away place.

I also love to twist it up by adding other genre elements to sci-fi to keep it exciting and different. I remember seeing Star Wars when it first came out in theatres, running home and telling my dad about it. We went to see it. It became our thing to stand in line for all the movie releases no matter how long we had to wait.

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I am an award-winning author in the sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal genres. Writing happens in my spare time or whenever it can be squeezed. I will be publishing my 50th book this year, that’s something I am proud of accomplishing.

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ALEXA WAYNE (AW): When did you find out you would want to write novels?

HARGROVE PERTH: I majored in English literature in school, but my love storytelling came from long before that. My mom and dad were, and still, are, avid readers.

Dad could tell the most amazing stories when I was a kid. I was always writing stories for school. Writing composition was my favorite class! So yes, it started young.

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AW: You mentioned your work, all set in science-fiction or cyborg settings, would you let our readers know why you are attracted to that genre?

HARGROVE PERTH: Science is fascinating. You see how much the world has made changes since the day you were born, what advances have been made in the last two centuries, and you know the possibilities are unlimited.

[image error]The Gaslight Girl by Hargrove Perth

I lean more toward dystopian and steampunk when I write sci-fi, but there are a couple of more traditional off world books in the works that I just haven’t finished yet.

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AW: When writing about sci-fi, do you do research and if so, how far do you go with your research?

HARGROVE PERTH: I put an enormous amount of research into every one of my books. Because what I write isn’t limited to just the future, it’s important for the details to be accurate, or at least have an accurate base for the twist put on it, well, to me it’s essential.

AW: What is most important to you when writing your novels?

HARGROVE PERTH: What has always been the most important to me is allowing the character to tell their story. The novel belongs to them, so allowing them to tell the story is essential.

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My books always feature very strong-willed female antagonists and protagonists, so their voice, them having the ability to show how they feel, why they feel that way, what circumstances brought about those feelings is important to me.

AW: Which authors influenced your writing in science-fiction?

HARGROVE PERTH: That’s a tough one because there as so many great authors, and I do read quite a bit. I would have to say, Fred Saberhagen, Neil Gaiman, Algernon Blackwood, HG Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well as Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens.

AW: Which of your novels is your favorite and why is it your favorite?

HARGROVE PERTH: Right now the Blood Tithe series is my favorite. It’s set in a dystopian London after a plague hits that leaves the majority of the population affected with some immortal trait. It fits sci-fi only because it’s dystopian though.

[image error]Alice Through The Glass Darkly by Hargove Perth

Alice Through the Glass Darkly is my favorite for the sci-fi, steampunk because unlike other steampunk books, it deals with alternate worlds, time continuums that no one knows exists. Plus, cool machines. A great steampunk always must have those ultra-cool gadgets and machines.

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AW: Do you believe in alien visiting our world, by that I mean in abduction or close encounters of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th kind?

HARGROVE PERTH: Anyone who thinks we are the only planet in the universe that has sentient life needs a reality check. I believe they check us out. My question has always been are we food, are we medical experiments, are we a survival resource…The answer to that question is still unknown.

AW: What made you decide to be self-published?

HARGROVE PERTH: I was ecstatic when first published, but unfortunately my tale mirrors many others. I never got my royalties and paid to get the rights back to my book. After that happened, self-publishing was the way to go for me. It still is until a publisher changes my mind.

[image error]Slither – Blood Tithe Series Book 1 by Hargrove Perth

AW: What sets you apart from other science-fiction and cyborg authors?

HARGROVE PERTH: I honestly believe it’s the characters along with the fact that they tell the story. I never have a preconceived notion about a book, so they all begin the same. It starts with a title only. That’s it. From there, character names, descriptions of them, etc. all start to pop into my head.

AW: What can readers look forward to from Hargrove Perth in 2019?

HARGROVE PERTH: To be honest, over 30 unfinished manuscripts are begging for attention in some parallel world attached to my laptop so that it could be anything! There will be the fifth book in the Blood Tithe Series, and there are 2 other books that will be published before summer, with the luck of the Gods.

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