Meet My Character Blog Tour
Sarah Potter, blogger extraordinaire over at sarahpotterwrites , has invited me to take part in the Meet My Character Blog Tour.
Sarah has told me to say that she posts haiku and tanka poetry, nature photographs, writerly stuff, music and the occasional updates on her allotment. Modestly, she has missed out the numerous and rather impressive awards her blog has won, which you can (and should) check out at http://sarahpotterwrites.com/blogging...
Thank you Sarah for including me on this blog tour. Now it’s my turn to choose one of my characters to introduce you to and that’s less easy than you might think.
Selecting My Character
Before I even start, I have regretfully abandoned the casts of character that frequent my individual short stories and poems. They all have stories to tell, but perhaps lack the bulk for a blog tour stopover. That still leaves me with Abe, the complex and complicated narrator from my first novel, A Darker Moon; Steelyard Sue, the feisty mechanoid female from my poetry sequence, Songs of Steelyard Sue and Holly, the main character in my second novel, Witchlight and its sequel (which is still in the development stage). Witchlight has been accepted for publication by Vagabondage Press, but we are still at the stage of working out publication schedules. I am very fond of Holly, but just a little hesitant about publically introducing her before publication. Also, I am still getting to know her via the sequel to Witchlight, but that means she is foremost in my mind, so Holly it is.
1. What is the name of your character? Is s/he fictional or historical?
Her name is Holly and she’s wholly fictional.
2. When and where is the story set?
Witchlight is a contemporary novel set in the UK. I think of the story as fantasy, but I guess, that, technically speaking, it’s a paranormal tale. Holly, like her author, lives in Cambridgeshire, but aspects of the novel are set in London and Oxfordshire.
3. What should we know about her?
Holly is a short, attractive woman in her late thirties with something of a short fuse and a string of failed relationships behind her. At the start of Witchlight, she lives on her own in a Cambridgeshire village with her pet cat Barny. Although Holly is thirty eight years beyond her birth, for all of those years it has never occurred to her, even once, that she might be a witch, which leads us nicely to question four.
4. What is the main conflict? What messes up her life?
As I said, Holly has been happily mortal for all thirty-eight years of her life and in all of those years it has never occurred to her that she might be a witch, but at the start of the novel her fairy godfather turns up to tell her she has witchlight running through her veins and that he is here to teach her how to use her inherited power. His name is Partridge Mayflower, but the question is, is he the fey, avuncular charmer he appears to be or are appearances deceptive in a world fuelled by magic?
5. What is the personal goal of the character?
Holly finds she has a lot to learn and suddenly the world is a more confusing and complicated place than she has previously imagined. Everything she has previously taken for granted is changing and even her beloved pet cat Barny must now become a familiar. Holly is going to have to come to terms with love, loss, Coven bureaucracy and exploding rosebuds before she can uncover the truth behind her recently revealed heritage and confront the darkness flowing at the centre of her newly illuminated witchlight.
6. Is there a working title for this novel and can we read more about it?
I think I’ve already given the game away on this one. The working title is “Witchlight” and I’m really hoping it’s a title that sticks, but we are at that stage in the publication process where it might not (see, I said I was hesitant about introducing Holly prior to publication). When the publication schedules become clearer, you’ll be able to read more about Holly and the novel over on my website, http://www.jswatts.co.uk
7. When can we expect the book to be published?
I’m afraid we are waiting on those dratted publication schedules again, but I promise to let everyone know publication dates just as soon as I know.
...and the tour carries on
The writers who are taking this blog tour ever onwards and are picking up where I have left off are (in no particular order):
M.A. McRae, prolific author of the Shuki series of novels, including Not a Man and the Penwinnard Stories, whose wide ranging blog covers her own writing, the writing of others and whatever happens to capture her interest. http://mamcrae-author.blogspot.com.au... and her blog is also featured here on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Richard Sutton, American writer and author of books such as Home and Troll, a wearer of many hats and a lover of the sea. You can find his website at http://www.sailletales.com/?page_id=2 , his Goodreads blog at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and his take on Meet My Character at http://www.sailletales.com/?p=3125
Tracey Scott-Townsend author of the intriguing The Last Time We Saw Marion and owner of the blog "Traces in Time" where you can find Tracey's continuum of the blog tour http://traceyscotttownsend.com/2014/0...
Geoffrey Gudgion author of the mythic and mysterious thriller Saxon's Bane which blends a present-day archaeological dig with an Anglo-Saxon legend. Geoffrey describes himself as ‘the scholarship boy who was never bright enough to realise he’d have been happier as a writer than a businessman’. Until, that is, he had a spectacular row with his boss and stepped off the corporate ladder. Long before that epiphany, he left school at 17 to join the Royal Navy, and was later sponsored by the RN to read Geography at Cambridge University. He made his first attempts at writing fiction during long deployments in warships. He lives in the Chiltern Hills between London and Oxford, and his love for the rural English landscape gives his stories a powerful sense of place. Geoffrey's blog on the subject of his character can be found at http://geoffreygudgion.com/2014/07/19...
Sarah has told me to say that she posts haiku and tanka poetry, nature photographs, writerly stuff, music and the occasional updates on her allotment. Modestly, she has missed out the numerous and rather impressive awards her blog has won, which you can (and should) check out at http://sarahpotterwrites.com/blogging...
Thank you Sarah for including me on this blog tour. Now it’s my turn to choose one of my characters to introduce you to and that’s less easy than you might think.
Selecting My Character
Before I even start, I have regretfully abandoned the casts of character that frequent my individual short stories and poems. They all have stories to tell, but perhaps lack the bulk for a blog tour stopover. That still leaves me with Abe, the complex and complicated narrator from my first novel, A Darker Moon; Steelyard Sue, the feisty mechanoid female from my poetry sequence, Songs of Steelyard Sue and Holly, the main character in my second novel, Witchlight and its sequel (which is still in the development stage). Witchlight has been accepted for publication by Vagabondage Press, but we are still at the stage of working out publication schedules. I am very fond of Holly, but just a little hesitant about publically introducing her before publication. Also, I am still getting to know her via the sequel to Witchlight, but that means she is foremost in my mind, so Holly it is.
1. What is the name of your character? Is s/he fictional or historical?
Her name is Holly and she’s wholly fictional.
2. When and where is the story set?
Witchlight is a contemporary novel set in the UK. I think of the story as fantasy, but I guess, that, technically speaking, it’s a paranormal tale. Holly, like her author, lives in Cambridgeshire, but aspects of the novel are set in London and Oxfordshire.
3. What should we know about her?
Holly is a short, attractive woman in her late thirties with something of a short fuse and a string of failed relationships behind her. At the start of Witchlight, she lives on her own in a Cambridgeshire village with her pet cat Barny. Although Holly is thirty eight years beyond her birth, for all of those years it has never occurred to her, even once, that she might be a witch, which leads us nicely to question four.
4. What is the main conflict? What messes up her life?
As I said, Holly has been happily mortal for all thirty-eight years of her life and in all of those years it has never occurred to her that she might be a witch, but at the start of the novel her fairy godfather turns up to tell her she has witchlight running through her veins and that he is here to teach her how to use her inherited power. His name is Partridge Mayflower, but the question is, is he the fey, avuncular charmer he appears to be or are appearances deceptive in a world fuelled by magic?
5. What is the personal goal of the character?
Holly finds she has a lot to learn and suddenly the world is a more confusing and complicated place than she has previously imagined. Everything she has previously taken for granted is changing and even her beloved pet cat Barny must now become a familiar. Holly is going to have to come to terms with love, loss, Coven bureaucracy and exploding rosebuds before she can uncover the truth behind her recently revealed heritage and confront the darkness flowing at the centre of her newly illuminated witchlight.
6. Is there a working title for this novel and can we read more about it?
I think I’ve already given the game away on this one. The working title is “Witchlight” and I’m really hoping it’s a title that sticks, but we are at that stage in the publication process where it might not (see, I said I was hesitant about introducing Holly prior to publication). When the publication schedules become clearer, you’ll be able to read more about Holly and the novel over on my website, http://www.jswatts.co.uk
7. When can we expect the book to be published?
I’m afraid we are waiting on those dratted publication schedules again, but I promise to let everyone know publication dates just as soon as I know.
...and the tour carries on
The writers who are taking this blog tour ever onwards and are picking up where I have left off are (in no particular order):
M.A. McRae, prolific author of the Shuki series of novels, including Not a Man and the Penwinnard Stories, whose wide ranging blog covers her own writing, the writing of others and whatever happens to capture her interest. http://mamcrae-author.blogspot.com.au... and her blog is also featured here on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Richard Sutton, American writer and author of books such as Home and Troll, a wearer of many hats and a lover of the sea. You can find his website at http://www.sailletales.com/?page_id=2 , his Goodreads blog at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and his take on Meet My Character at http://www.sailletales.com/?p=3125
Tracey Scott-Townsend author of the intriguing The Last Time We Saw Marion and owner of the blog "Traces in Time" where you can find Tracey's continuum of the blog tour http://traceyscotttownsend.com/2014/0...
Geoffrey Gudgion author of the mythic and mysterious thriller Saxon's Bane which blends a present-day archaeological dig with an Anglo-Saxon legend. Geoffrey describes himself as ‘the scholarship boy who was never bright enough to realise he’d have been happier as a writer than a businessman’. Until, that is, he had a spectacular row with his boss and stepped off the corporate ladder. Long before that epiphany, he left school at 17 to join the Royal Navy, and was later sponsored by the RN to read Geography at Cambridge University. He made his first attempts at writing fiction during long deployments in warships. He lives in the Chiltern Hills between London and Oxford, and his love for the rural English landscape gives his stories a powerful sense of place. Geoffrey's blog on the subject of his character can be found at http://geoffreygudgion.com/2014/07/19...
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Thanking you and there's no need to blush.
Cromercrox wrote: "I'd like to read this when it's published!"Thank you!
.. and Geoffrey Gudgion has joined the tour...
Thanks for those lovely comments about my blog. Blushing.