Character Interview: Eve, the heroine of Hooked: A True Faerie Tale

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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Michaelbrent Collings</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a true faerie tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>And like all true faerie tales, it is bloody, violent…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And there is no guarantee that good will win in the end.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Those words begin <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hooked:
A True Faerie Tale</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s a
book that has been described as “Twilight done right” – a book that has
vampires, love triangles, and teen angst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>But no sparkles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Today I’ve arranged for an interview with the heroine of the
book, a high school senior named Eve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Like most high school seniors she’s very busy, what with school and
homework and the whole “vampires trying to woo/kill me” thing, so our time will
be short, but we’ll do what we can!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Hello, Eve!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Hey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: First things first: no iPod?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Can’t afford one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I live in South Central Los Angeles,
and the only kids there who wear iPods are the ones who want to get killed on
the way home from school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Yikes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">school</i>
is safe at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In sorta the same way that East Germany
was safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Unless you did something
wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Or someone <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thought</i> you did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: So the administrators are
tough?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Who’s talking about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’m talking the kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Cross the wrong guy or girl in my school, you end up in a body bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Huh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Pleasant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How’s home life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[NOTE: at this point Eve begins
laughing semi-hysterically and the interview breaks for a few minutes.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Sorry about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Home is… complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Leave it at that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Let’s try a word association
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’m going to say a word,
you say the first word that comes to mind, okay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Sure, I’m game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[NOTE: Eve is silent, refusing to
answer.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Let’s try another one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Vampire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Complicated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: You want to elaborate?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: Not really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You wouldn’t understand, or believe it
if you did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Suffice it to say that
nothing – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing</i> – of what you’ve
heard about vampires is 100% correct, either for good or for bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They’re far worse than you know, but
not for the reasons you might expect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: But isn’t there good in
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’ve heard that some might
have feelings for – </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eve: This interview’s over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[Eve stands to leave.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: Wait!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Just one more question I have to ask!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[Eve pauses.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MbC: What do you think about
sparkly vampires?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[Eve laughs and leaves.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blog..." name="_GoBack"></a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And there you have it, folks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I tried to arrange a follow-up interview, but she’s since
dropped off the face of the earth, as it were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>A complicated lady.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>Tough, but I think there was a lot of hope covered over by an armored
attitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Let’s hope that she can
find something to get through that armor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And that whoever it is… doesn’t just kill her.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Michaelbrent Collings has
written numerous bestselling novels and is a produced screenwriter and member
of the Writers Guild of America, Horror Writers of America, and a couple of
other fancy-sounding things.  His wife and mommy think he is a can that is
chock-full of awesome sauce.  His most recent book is </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hooked-True-Fae... style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Hooked: A
True Faerie Tale</span></i></a><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span> </span></i></span></div>
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