3Q’s – Christi Nogle doesn’t wanna be buried in a pet sematary!
Bonjour and welcome to another 3Q’s!!
Today’s guest is a great one and has some truly exciting things coming down the road here!
Please welcome, Christi!!
Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try to write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?
Christi: Like many writers, I have a preferred process and also a way to write when I can’t do what I prefer. Ideally, I write in the evenings after completing the day’s obligations. The dogs are sleeping next to me, my partner watches TV. I feel calm and focused, and I write from seven or eight until bedtime. Even more ideally, the idea I’m working on is so compelling that I have to begin work again as soon as I can in the morning. Very often, the ideal thing does not happen and so instead I do what I can. Notes in the notebook, thinking through stories while I do chores, etc.
Steve: If you could write a story for another author’s fictional world/series, which would it be and why?
Christi: I’d have to go with Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. When my mom and I read it at the same time years ago, we started using the lingo from the books, “thankee sai” and “palaver” and so on. Last year she died, and while I was cleaning out her house, I listened to the series on audiobook, so it has a lot of emotional associations for me.
Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
Christi: My first novel, Beulah, came out from Cemetery Gates Media in January, 2022. It’s about a haunted small town in Idaho and a young girl named Georgie. She’s trying to live in the real world while feeling compelled to explore the world of the dead, which she can see but can’t really understand. As anyone would say of their first novel, it’s dear to my heart. Here’s the Goodreads page for Beulah, and I have some other information about it on my site.
If short stories are your thing, watch for my first collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future from Flame Tree Press in February 2023.
Steve: Bonus Question! Do you have a cherished book?
Christi: I love being surrounded by books and cherish them all! Pet Sematary is one that I think of a lot, as it was the first horror novel I went and picked out from the bookstore.
Awesome! Thank you so much for doing this, Christi!
To find more of her work – check the links!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Christi-Nogle/e/B087Z1S274
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristiNogle
Website: http://christinogle.com/
