An Interview, An Author, and a Magic 8 Ball - Angela Carlie Edition

Angela Carlie is, quite possibly, one of the awesomest people on the planet. Seriously. I wish she lived closer to me instead of on the other side of the country. I've known her online for a few years now and last year I begged her to join DarkSide Publishing. She agreed, making me one happy chickie!

Read on to learn more about her!!!!


MJ: Tell me a bit about your novel, Loramendi's Story, in your own words - not the official synopsis.

AC: Loramendi's Story isthe first novel in the Lords of Shifters series. It's about a teenage girl namedLora whose mother has been missing from her life since she was one year old.She falls for a hot windsurfer and she discovers that her life has been afaçade. When she begins to go through a physical change, the truth about herlife is finally revealed and she's forced to accept her destiny.This novel is full ofadventure, romance, and sexy shapeshifters.
MJ: Did you pants or plot while writing your first draft?
AC: 100% pantsed this one.
MJ: What's your next release going to be?
AC:   I'm currently workingon the second novel of the Lords of Shifters series. It's not yet titled, but Ihope it will be available to the public sometime early 2012.
(note from MJ: since this interview, Angela titled her book Spider Wars and it has this amazing cover!!!)
MJ: Now for the fun stuff!!!
MJ: Wolves or vampires or zombies?


AC: Zomvamplows

MJ: When you were a teen were you a cheerleader, a sporty girl, the smart one, the band geek, or something else?

AC: Something else. I wasa loner with literally only one friend who I never saw because she always hung outin the art room while I hung out in the auditorium or … somewhere else. ;) Ihad daisies painted all over my car, wore bell bottoms and leg warmers, but notat the same time, and worked at a veterinary hospital.

MJ: Do you have any pets? 

AC: Yes! Four cats and twodogs live with us at the moment.
MJ: Now, I need YOU to ask ME a question about absolutely anything under the sun. It has to be a yes or no question and will be answered by my 9-year-old's all-knowing Magic 8 Ball! The question can be serious or silly - it's up to you.

AC: I recently read onyour FB page how fearful you are of scary movies. I used to be a paranormalinvestigator once upon a time. We investigated hundreds of locations. At onelocation in particular, we investigated a building that had been reportingactivity for years. It's now a famous haunted location. But, at that time, ataround 1 am, a fellow investigator (a psychic) and I were on the third floorthat once housed a brothel, in a room where abortions were performed and womenoften died. We were alone and setting up equipment in the dark. The air wasthick and we felt like we weren't really alone at all. In the room next to us,one of our motion alarms went off, screaming at us through the wall. We bothshot up and made a run for it (very unprofessional, I know). In the process, mylarger psychic friend pushed me out of her way to make her escape. My right legfell through a hole in the floor and I was stuck, laughing and crying at thesame time, all by myself.
My question: If youand your best friend were in the same situation, and you were the psychicfriend, would you have gone back for your friend stuck in the hole near thescary room with possible activity or would you have kept running all the waydown the stairs to safety?

(Do you have any idea how long it took me to read all of that to my Magic 8 Ball?!?!?!)


M8B: Outlook Good

MJ: Well, of course that's the answer! I would never leave a friend stuck in a hole in a possibly-haunted house. I grew up in a possibly-haunted house. Not afraid! :D




Thank you SO MUCH to Angela Carlie for participating in my interview series. You have to read Angela's books. Why? (1) Her books rock and (2) She's made of all things fabulous

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