Hello, welcome to
One on One Wednesday, we are so very glad to have you with us.
How are you doing today?Good, I have a writing group tonight, and I hope to get some time in on a new book as well.
Dawn: You have a story coming out soon
though Hellfire entitled Was Once A Hero and a little later this year the
sequel Fearful Symmerty. What is that about?
I tell people that Was Once a Hero is a battle for
survival on a haunted planet by a very diverse crew of people, crew of the
privateer Sidhe who are as much in conflict with each other as with what is
hunting them. Fearful Symmetry continues these characters in a political
thriller of assassination and intrigue on a breakaway world of the Confederacy.
Dawn: What made you choose that title?
Was Once a Hero is an oblique reference to a character in the story who
in several ways is not what he/she/or it appears to be. As for Fearful Symmetry, it is a line from a
poem and a reference to a the antagonist of the second book. I prefer classical references in my SF titles
when I can do them. I am not sure why
but it seems to work.
Dawn: What is your preferred genre to write
in?
I write in Science Fiction and Fantasy primarily with the occasional
foray into literary or crime fiction and I have written on the visual arts.
Dawn: Please tell us about any future
projects you are planning.
I will be with Hellfire publishing doing the complete Robert Fenaday/
Shasti Rainhell trilogy,
Was Once A Hero out now
Fearful Symmetry in 2012
Points of Departure in 2013
The short story prequel, “Regrets and Requiems” is available on Amazon
as well
We will continue bringing out the Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess
series of shorts stories in collections of three stories with the idea being to
eventually do a collection of all of them with new material as well.
I am bringing out my Jeremy Leclerc Urban Fantasy series as a solo
effort on Amazon later this year or early next.
Look for Knight in Charlotte soon.
Dawn: How many books have you written?
I have written four more beyond the three under contract to
Hellfire. I am working on a series on a
character names Maauro, an ancient android befriended by a disgraced military
pilot and the story of their adventures.
Shasti Rainhell and I are not through dancing either.
Dawn: Do you work at job outside the home
or is this only career?
Well to paraphrase Hemingway while it would be pretty to think I could
support myself in the style to which we are accustomed by writing, it is not
practical just yet. Maybe your kind
readers will make it practical in the future-
For now I hold down a full time day job, too many hobbies and write like
a maniac in the odd moments.
Dawn: Do you have a special writing method?
My method is organized organic chaos.
I write what is in my heart to write, in a kind of creative frenzy. So I work like someone putting together a
puzzle, I work on the parts that I can recognize, each piece yielding the next
piece or at least defining what is missing.
Then I do a front to back and make sure it is all connected and
coherent.
Dawn: Are you married?
Yes we just celebrated our 25th anniversary in Venice and
Verona. I have no idea how I will top
that when we get to the next big anniversary?
Are there any good restaurants on Mars?
Dawn: What’s your favorite thing to do?
I am foremost a martial artist, but ballroom dancing is close behind
it. Yet both leave pride of place to
writing. I simply do not feel healthy if
I am not writing,
Dawn: Are you a reader?
Voraciously but that includes now the material from my writing
group. So I do not devour as many books
as I used to.
Dawn: Tell us something special about you.
I think that kindness is one of the greatest virtues and I practice it
as much as I can.
Dawn: Can you tell us a secret?
Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Dawn: Do you judge a book by its cover?
No but I do notice the cover, especially if there is a pretty girl on
it. ;-)
Dawn: What is your motto?
Don’t let the bastards get you down or they will.
Dawn: Can you share your blurb with us?
Was Once A Hero
Reluctant
privateer Robert Fenaday searches the stars for his lost love, Lisa, a naval
intelligence officer whose ship disappeared near the end of the Conchirri War .
He’s joined by the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell, whose cold
perfection masks her dark past. Both are blackmailed by government spymaster,
Mandela, into a suicidal mission to the doomed planet Enshar. Leading a team of
scientists and soldiers, they must unravel the mystery of that planet’s death
before an ancient force reaches out to claim their lives.
Fearful Symmetry
Having survived the nightmare world of Enshar, Robert Fenaday abandons
privateering and his quest for his lost wife to begin life anew with the
genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell. But spymaster Mandela has other plans for the
pair, intrigue and murder on Shasti’s home planet of Olympia. Fenaday must fight his way to Shasti, facing
her deadly creator and an alien mystery that could destroy the Confederacy.
You can find Edward McKeown at:
You can find your books at:Amazon and local book stores in
Charlotte (Park Road Books, The Book Rack, and Poor Richards Book Shoppe) and
the Book Knack in Rock Hill SC.
Dawn
Binkley
www.hellfirepublishing.com
A special thanks to Juniper Grove Solutions for making our lives so much easier.
A special thanks to Juniper Grove Solutions for making our lives so much easier.
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