Author Interview with Alexis Duran
This week I am so excited to share an author interview with Alexis Duran! Alexis is a talented author, AND she’s got a new book out! Check out To Catch a Threeve, you won’t be disappointed.
A bit about Alexis: She was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. At the University of Oregon, her fascination with people and relationships led her to major in Sociology, but her main love has always been creative writing. She’s worked in museums, fashion, finance and film production, but her favorite job so far was Administrative Assistant in a haunted Victorian Mansion.
Now, hold onto your socks people!
What are some of your absolute favorite things other than writing & reading?
There are other things? Well, I do love to travel. I adore being a tourist, taking gazillions of photos and eating in outdoor cafes. I’m also bordering on Crazy Cat Lady-hood and I love my poor dog, who puts up with all of us.
If you could read only one book for all the rest of your days (a horrifying terrible thought, I know!) which book would it be?
That’s a very tough question, but I think it would probably be a Tom Robbins novel, either Even Cowgirls Get The Blues or Jitterbug Perfume. I never want his stories to end, so I guess that makes for a good forever book.
Give us one of your absolute favorite lines from a book you’ve read.
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. (Referring to the search for one’s dream) from” The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. The book is basically one long spiritual prose poem. I’ve been wowed, floored and flabbergasted by Tom Robbins, Barbara Kingsolver, John LeCarre and Amy Tan on a regular basis, but unfortunately I don’t keep track of which notebooks those lines have been recorded in.
Halloween or Christmas?
Christmas, because my Czech mother still puts real candles on her tree. This is the most magical moment of the year for me.
What are your favorite times/places to write? (As an example, I love writing while riding trains across country in Europe – something about being held captive on a train while the landscape blurs by your outside your window.)
I don’t write well while traveling because I’m so absorbed in where I am. My favorite time to write is early morning, before my brain gets bogged down with reality. I have this ideal of a cabin on the coast, writing in front of a window with a view of a stormy ocean, but so far, that’s theory. I also love writing in coffee shops with friends.
Who is your favorite character from your books?
I love my bad boys, I really do and my favorite tends to be the one I’m trying to redeem at the moment. I’m still infatuated with Bryn Darrow from To Catch a Threeve. He wants me tell more of his story and I find he keeps getting more interesting even after his supposed HEA. Yup, I’ve added a Threeve sequel to my already full dance card.
If you were the last person on earth, what would you do?
Read and write. Wouldn’t be too much different from my life write now. But I suppose Amazon would stop delivering and Netflix would stop streaming. Oh, dear. This is more serious than I thought.
To Catch a Threeve
• Author:
Alexis Duran
• Length:
Novel
• ISBN:
978-1-62300-537-5
• Genre:
LGBTTQ, Fantasy & Paranormal
• Cover Artist:
Fiona Jayde
Axel Blackwood catches a thief and is astounded to see that he closely resembles Liam Alloway, the love he lost seven years ago in an attack by the evil woodland folk known as threeves. Axel suspects he’s fallen prey to dark magic, but can’t help becoming infatuated with his prisoner. He’s overwhelmed with the hope that he can at last bring his lost lover home, despite everything that warns him it’s all a diabolical trick. Bryn Darrow, the half-threeve, half human orphan sent to trick Axel and rob him of much more than a simple gem finds himself equally as fascinated with his handsome human captor and the lure of someplace to call home, but he knows deep down that the constable is in love with a dangerous illusion. When he’s commanded by the threeves to murder Axel and steal a witch’s powerful grimoire, he’s forced to decide between the only family he’s ever known and the one person who might rescue him from a life of isolation and pain. Will Axel and Bryn be forced into a deadly confrontation before they can discover the truth?
Alexis has had several short stories published in the mystery, horror and literary genres and is the author of the Masters and Mages erotic fantasy series. Her fiction has won several awards including the Rupert Hughes Award from the Maui Writers Conference. She lives with one dog and four and half cats. She is currently working on the next Masters and Mages novella and several other erotic novellas. You can find her:
www.facebook.com/alexis.duran.18294
http://www.loose-id.com/authors/a-f/alexis-duran.html
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8332457.Alexis_Duran
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