Corinna Underwood, Author Interview
Tell me a bit about yourself.
I grew up in central England in a city called
Stoke-on-Trent, but I’ve lived in several different parts of England and also
in Wales for a time. I settled America in 2000 and I am happy to stay. I love
the southern climate and hospitality.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
When I was eight years old I decided I wanted to be a
writer, and I talked my parents into buying me a typewriter. I used to sit in
my father’s garden shed at weekends an write away. That’s where I wrote my
first novel, when I was fourteen.
What books have influenced your life most?
This is a tough question because there have been so many.
The first that spring to mind are Little Big by John Crowley, The
Waves by Virginia Wolf and A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles
Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
What book are you reading now?
I’m reading Richard Bachman’s The Regulators, The
Savage Garden by Mark Mills and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and
other stories by Charles Bukowski.
What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
I like to read, watch old movies and spend time outdoors
walking with my dog Laszlo.
Where do you get your ideas for your books?
Everywhere. Reading other books, watching and listening to
people, my dreams. I think you have to
be able to draw on all available resources.
If you couldn’t be an author, what would your ideal career
be?
Then I would like to be an anthropologist.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on a novel called Elsewhere. It’s a magical
realism adventure into lives and deaths of the folk who live on an island that
is the doorway between the mortal realm and that of a much more ancient race.
A Walk On The Darkside
Pearl Blackthorn is a novelist and investigative reporter
for Darkside paranormal magazine. Armed with her digital recorder and
accompanied by her friend and photographer Harry Raymond, Pearl is sent by her
editor J.J Benson - affectionately known as Benny - to the four corners of
Great Britain, (and sometimes further), to investigate stories of spirits and
specters, demons and doppelgangers, prophecy and possession. The problem is,
Pearl doesn’t believe in the supernatural; her creative imagination is tempered
by a strong skepticism. She is immovable on her stand that there is always a
simple, rational explanation behind every report of paranormal activity. But
Pearl soon realizes that the intricacies of paranormal events are often far
from simple and not always rational. This is the first book in the Pearl
Blackthorn series.
Uprooted from the heart of England and transplanted in
America twelve years ago, Corinna Underwood has been sowing seeds of
imagination ever since. She enjoys combining her fascination for the paranormal
with mystery, history and folklore. Corinna is also the author of Haunted
History of Atlanta and North Georgia and Murder and Mystery in Atlanta.
Here is the link to my website www.ambiguousmedia.net
Here is the link to the book http://www.amazon.com/Walk-On-The-Darkside-ebook/dp/B009Z61SYW
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