1--What is the title of your latest release?
WINTER LOST
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Coyote shapechanger Mercy and her werewolf husband encounter blizzard in Montana while trying to find out what happened to her brother. As it turns out, if they can’t fix what her brother broke, the world is going to end.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
My trusty assistant and I stayed in an amazing and haunted inn-with-hot-springs and I decided it would make a wonderful setting for the end of the world.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Only between adventures. I don’t want to get caught up in the action and encounter the proper fate of a red shirt (person who is important to plot only because they die).
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Trouble-seeking missile.
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
A lot of Norse mythology. And I thought I was pretty good at Norse mythology. And Americans pronounce Bifrost incorrectly.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Pizza. I am boring. But I will eat almost anything. Except haggis. And bugs. I won’t eat bugs.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I have a beautiful office with my favorite drop-center typist’s desk and a very expensive chair designed to be ergonomically correct. Currently my muse prefers my kitchen table with chairs designed to be sat on for the fifteen minutes it takes to eat. Stupid muse.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Lois McMaster Bujold
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I read it(often) when I was very impressionable. Picked it up again to read to my children and realized that not only do I still have large portions of it memorized—most of my moral beliefs come from this book. “Pick your feet up well when you trot. And never bite or kick, even in play.”
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I got a letter from Laura Anne Gilman (who was a very new editor at ACE) that said, approximately, “This book (Masques) has a lot of problems. If I had worked with you before, I would buy it and work them out with you. How about you make it twenty percent longer, fix these (innumerable) problems and send it back to me.” I sat down to fix it and didn’t look up for about two weeks and sent it back to her. Twenty-five years and a bit more later, I still pinch myself occasionally to make sure it’s not a dream.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
It depends on my mood. Sometimes I read nothing but urban fantasy. Sometimes I’ll read Westerns (mostly written in the previous century) for a month and switch to mysteries. I read a lot of fantasy, science fiction and romance. I am more likely to follow an author’s work than a particular genre.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
The Lord of the Rings. Other movies come and go according to mood, but I can start TlotR anywhere and watch it until I have to go do something else.
15--What is your favorite season?
Autumn
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
On horseback. Everything is better on a horse’s back.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Slow Horses (on Apple TV.) Terrific writing. Never a wasted reaction, word, or scene. Amazing cast of actors anchored by Gary Oldman.
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Food. But if I have to choose…Thai.
19--What do you do when you have free time?
I am a writer with a horse farm. If I am not occupied with one of them (for writing that might include such things as staring into space, playing stupid phone games, or watching whatever snagged my attention on TV/Internet) I am occupied with the other. Horses are a wonderful time-sink. If I am not feeding, grooming, or training baby horses, I am fixing fences, mowing, or trying to figure out what is wrong with the irrigation again. Or I am holding horses for farrier or at horse shows. I am sure that in my former life, I was a hitching post, otherwise how would I be so good at it?
20--What can readers expect from you next?
I am working on the next Alpha and Omega, which continues from the epilogue of Wild Sign (picture me with an enigmatic smile on my face).
Mercy Thompson #14
Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions in this exhilarating entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
In the supernatural realms, there are creatures who belong to winter. I am not one of them. But like the coyote I can become at will, I am adaptable.
My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe. It’s a hard job, and it doesn’t leave much room for side quests. Which is why when I needed to travel to Montana to help my brother, I intended to go by myself.
But I’m not alone anymore.
Together, Adam and I find ourselves trapped with strangers in a lodge in the heart of the wilderness, in the teeth of a storm of legendary power, only to discover my brother’s issues are a tiny part of a problem much bigger than we could have imagined. Arcane and ancient magics are at work that could, unless we are very careful, bring about the end of the world. . .
Fantasy Urban [Ace, On Sale: June 18, 2024, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593438985 / eISBN: 9780593439005]
It’s so easy to get lost in a book when it’s penned by Patricia Briggs.
Coyote shifter and her werewolf mate must stop the Ending Of the World
Patricia Briggs, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series, lives in Washington State with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses. She has written 17 novels to date. Briggs began her career writing traditional fantasy novels, the first of which was published by Ace Books in 1993, and shifted gears in 2006 to write urban fantasy. In Fall 2010, Patricia made another foray into traditional fantasy, when Ace published a revised version of her very first book, Masques (2010), and its never-before-published sequel, Wolfsbane (2010), both of which debuted on the New York Times bestsellers list for Mass Market Fiction.
In 2006, Ace Books published Moon Called, the first book in her #1 New York Times bestselling—and signature series—about Mercy Thompson. The non-stop adventure left readers wanting more and word of this exciting new urban fantasy series about a shape-shifting mechanic spread quickly. Blood Bound (2007), the second book in the series, debuted at #12 on the New York Times bestsellers list. After the incredible success of Iron Kissed (2008), which landed at #1 on the New York Times list, the Mercy Thompson saga continued to win the hearts of readers and grew in popularity with the release of each book. Bone Crossed (2009), the fourth book in the series and first to be published in hardcover, debuted at #3 on the New York Times Hardcover bestsellers list, where it stayed for four weeks. The most recent hardcover, Silver Borne (2010), debuted at #1 on the New York Times Hardcover bestsellers list and stayed on the printed list for a total of three weeks!
Briggs also writes the Alpha and Omega series, which are set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson novels. What began as the novella “Alpha and Omega” in an anthology called On the Prowl (2007), was then expanded into a full new series. The subsequent books were Cry Wolf (2008) and Hunting Ground (2009), both New York Times bestsellers. The third book of the Alpha and Omega series is Fair Game (2012) and debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestsellers list.
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