What type of book promotion seems to work the best for you?
I don’t know yet.
What is(are) your favorite book/author(s)? Why?
I would love to write like Connie Willis. Her fabulous time-travel novel “The Doomsday Book” is one of my very favorites. I’ve read it many times with pleasure. And I like George R . R. Martin, and Suzy Charnas.
What is the best writing advice you’ve ever received?
That one is simple: write from your heart.
Do you have a website/blog where readers may learn more about you and your work?
Yep. PhoebeWray.net. It’s under construction, but readable.
Do you have another book on the works? Would you like to tell readers about your current or future projects?
JEMMA7729 is my first published book. I’ve got four setting on my desktop. A magic realism series, Tales of the Winter People, and a thriller.
The Winter People series is partly based on my adventure of being a working environmentalist for eleven years, I worked several times with Native American people, and became fascinated with the old tales of how the tribes integrated new technologies into their societies without losing their culture.
Anything else you’d like to say about yourself or your work?
I think people who can write ought to. We’ve become so wi-fi and anime and other techno things that sometimes we can feel overwhelmed. But I’m about to teach Drieser’s “Sister Carrie,” published in 1900, and it captures the fin de siecle in America as nothing else. Words are.
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Article comments
1 - Lisa Damian
Nice interview. Enjoyed reading it. The Jemma book and the Tales of the Winter People series both sound like interesting concepts.