I am just your average mother and
wife. I work all day at a desk job that doesn't pay enough and is rather
boring. But, I am grateful to have the job and I get to practice writing
while there b/c I have to write a lot. I love to play MMORPGs when I get
a chance, but between my fantasy worlds in the books and the fantasy art I
create I don't have a lot of time to game anymore. Oh and then there is
day job work. BLEAH!
2) How did you get into writing?
I went to a lot of schools where
you had to write. I've written many technical papers and many technical
things at the jobs I've had. However, creative writing actually started
for me with poetry. I don't know what it is about poetry, but in 3
seconds I can tell if what I wrote is good or trash. Prose isn't that
easy. I tried many times to make stories, but it took me until 2004 to
actually get an idea and start writing it. That turned out to be The
Secret of Genetic Corp X. Then I had an idea for another story that I
thought was trash and gave up. I later resurrected it to become a major
part of Athine Verses: The Beginning.
3) Let’s talk about one of your
books. What is it about?
Verses of Athine: The
Daughter of Ares Chronicles is about Athine, the Daughter of Ares, and the world she lives in.
Through out the story she meets and interacts with notable mythological
characters you may know...Zeus, Hera, Ares, Dragons, Vampires, Vlad....or do
you know them? I have been told I take mythology of all kind and turn it
on its ear. You really should visit the trailer I made for the book too.
I'm not the best trailer maker, but the art work is all my own and it is
set to some cool music I purchased at Renderosity.
4) What inspired you to write the
book? Are the characters based on anyone?
I love fantasy and things with
strong female leads. I have watched too much Buffy, Xena, and Red Sonja
to ever write a lady in distress romance. My ladies pick up giant weapons
and have larger than life powers. I think Athine is probably a part of
myself. Really all of the main characters can be said to be small pieces
of me, but what writer doesn't have at least one character that is the
embodiment of them.
5) Are you working on another
book at the moment?
The next book in my series Cursed
Bloods has been started and outlined. I am trying to sit down
and write it. I find it hard to do sometimes! I think this one may
be close the 50,000 word mark because I have 12,000 in and no chapter has been
completed yet AND I don't have half of them written :) I also have a
brief idea about what book 6 in the series may bring and possibly a few short
stories.
main site:
www.shannonmcroberts.com
book site:
www.daughterofares.com
twitter:
@obsidianpoet
trailer: http://youtu.be/NzWjYUkZq60
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