Interview with Author Jamie Marchant
I’m pleased to have the opportunity to interview Jamie Marchant, author of The Goddess’s Choice and Demons in the Big Easy.
Thank you for joining us today. How are you?
Quite well. Thank you.
Tell us about yourself—outside the world of writing.
I have a Ph.D. in English and teach writing and literature at Auburn University. I live in Auburn, Alabama, with my husband, son, and four cats. I’m told this officially makes me a cat lady.
What does writing mean to you?
When my fingers fly across the keyboard, I feel truly free to be myself. I can express what is deep inside myself without the same kind of self-consciousness that comes in face-to-face interactions. And it is an escape into a new and different world of my own creation, being able to live in another’s skin, and see and experience things I would never see or do in real life. I am most alive when I’m writing!
How long have you been writing?
From early childhood, I’ve been immersed in books. My mother, an avid reader herself, read to us, and my older sister filled my head with fairy tales. When I was about six, I started writing stories for my older sister about the Man from Mars. I devoured every book I could get my hands on, and I wrote my first fantasy novel while in high school—not that it was publishable. Taking into consideration my love for literature and the challenges of supporting myself as a writer, I pursued a Ph.D. in American literature, which I received in 1998. I started teaching writing and literature at Auburn University, but in doing so, I put my true passion on the backburner and neglected my muse. Instead, for a few years, I wrote literary criticism. Then one day, in the midst of writing a critical piece...
Read the rest of the interview at http://www.lunarisen.com/alltheotherb...
Thank you for joining us today. How are you?
Quite well. Thank you.
Tell us about yourself—outside the world of writing.
I have a Ph.D. in English and teach writing and literature at Auburn University. I live in Auburn, Alabama, with my husband, son, and four cats. I’m told this officially makes me a cat lady.
What does writing mean to you?
When my fingers fly across the keyboard, I feel truly free to be myself. I can express what is deep inside myself without the same kind of self-consciousness that comes in face-to-face interactions. And it is an escape into a new and different world of my own creation, being able to live in another’s skin, and see and experience things I would never see or do in real life. I am most alive when I’m writing!
How long have you been writing?
From early childhood, I’ve been immersed in books. My mother, an avid reader herself, read to us, and my older sister filled my head with fairy tales. When I was about six, I started writing stories for my older sister about the Man from Mars. I devoured every book I could get my hands on, and I wrote my first fantasy novel while in high school—not that it was publishable. Taking into consideration my love for literature and the challenges of supporting myself as a writer, I pursued a Ph.D. in American literature, which I received in 1998. I started teaching writing and literature at Auburn University, but in doing so, I put my true passion on the backburner and neglected my muse. Instead, for a few years, I wrote literary criticism. Then one day, in the midst of writing a critical piece...
Read the rest of the interview at http://www.lunarisen.com/alltheotherb...
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