Tell us about your Love Affair with Writing
My love affair with writing began in the third grade when I read The
Chronicles of Narnia and fell in love. I fell in love with Narnia (my deep
imprint for how Faerie should be), and with storytelling. I decided then I
wanted to be a writer when I grew up.
I wrote my own Narnia story, but with a few twists. What I remember now is that
there was no High King, instead a High Queen. I think her name was Louise.
Instead of centaurs, I had bucentaurs (half-human, half-cow). These creatures I
found in some forgotten mythological resource or from browsing in the
dictionary. The other detail that comes to mind all these years later is that in
this Other World country there was a Plain of Fire and a Plain of the Moon. The
former, golden grass; the latter, silver. I had it “bound” in a 3-ring notebook
wrapped in a blue-and-white cloth I rescued from my mother’s scrap basket.
I’ve never looked back. I’ve been in love with writing, with storytelling, and
with one author or another ever since. I try to write every day, even if that
means just one paragraph, or re-reading and revising the work from the day
before. If I am not able to sit down and write for a while, I begin to feel out
of kilter, or somehow disconnected from the universe. I won’t be getting the
charge I require. The world seems a bit skewed then.
I love words and language. I read dictionaries for fun. I am fascinated by
metaphor and etymology and symbols. I collect words and books about words.
I write to make meaning, to interpret and explore the human condition, to
explore answers to the question of what it means to be human. I write to
understand and celebrate love, perhaps the most powerful force in the universe.
While I read all kinds of fiction, I have found the genres of science fiction (I
think the Mushroom Planet books got me hooked on SF) and fantasy
provide the metaphors and the stories I need to delve deeply into these questions,
I write because I have to. I write because that’s who I am.
Their leap of faith could unleash magic-or plunge them into
darkness.
Henry Thorn has worked at Larkin's since graduating high school. He likes
it-especially when he can use his secret skill of hiding inside shadows so his
boss can't find him. Without that talent, he would never have survived growing
up different.
When a new hire enters the store, Henry's other latent talent kicks in. He
can smell an emotional response even before he lays eyes on the redhead.
Jamey Currey came out, and his conservative parents promptly kicked him out.
He, too, is different-he senses Henry's attraction the moment they meet. The
first time they kiss, torrential rains fall from skies split by lightning.
Their kiss also awakens the Watchers, diabolical hunters who will stop at
nothing-even extermination-to keep magic suppressed. With the help of a coven of
friendly witches, the boys embark on a quest to discover an ancient key to
restoring magic to the world, and to understand the mysteries of their own
hearts.
Warning: Contains a werewolf and a godling, prescient dreams,
bloodthirsty monsters, annoying pets, (mostly) friendly witches, dark secrets,
sex in hardwares, and meddling gods.
Romance Gay | Romance Paranormal
[Samhain Publishing, On Sale: September 27, 2016,
e-Book, ISBN: 9781619233492 / eISBN: 9781619233041]
Warren Rochelle is a Professor of English at the University of Mary
Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His short fiction and poetry are
published in such journals as Aboriginal Science Fiction, Forbidden Lines,
Crucible, The Charlotte Poetry Review, the Asheville Poetry Review, the North
Carolina Literary Review, Romance and Beyond, and Icarus. A critical book,
Communities of the Heart: the Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le
Guin, was published by Liverpool University Press in early 2001.
Golden
Gryphon Press published his first novel, The Wild Boy, in the fall of 2001, and
his second novel, Harvest of Changelings, in 2007. His third novel, The Called,
also published by Golden Gryphon, was published in July 2010.
The Werewolf
and His Boy, his fourth novel, releases on September 27, 2016 from Samhain
Publishing.
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