Reading this book was like watching a scary movie...ya know the kind i mean where your yelling at the screen "DONT GO IN THE BASEMENT YA DUMMY!!!!!!!!!! Ya know whats gonna happen especially with the chants you have been hearing!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yeah that kind of movie. Wow all the stuff that happens in this book was dreadful!! I WANT MORE!!!!!!!! I do believe I finally have an opinion of Jonathan.....Even though he likes to act like nothing is going on he steps up to the plate when it really matters!!!!!!! I think I understand why everyone likes Skye...she's so easy to get along with and so likable. Poor Emily =( I feel so sorry for her having to deal with everything that has been happening! Half the time she cant tell if shes seeing things or if its all real. I can't wait to dig into book 3 to see what happens!!!!!
This book isnt my usual read......I dont get into ghost stories very often.........But I am glad I started reading this one! This book was scary, frustrating, creepy and so much more! The way everyone just ignores everything that happens is unreal and to say your imagination is running wild.....I think I would have gone insane. The lovely Jonathan McArthur.....I'm still unsure what to think of him hopefully by the end of book 2 I will have a better idea. The nice lil turn of events at the end...Wow
Years ago I did a Bachelor of Arts majoring in creative writing and media, but I didn't do anything with it after graduating. I started writing again seriously in 2010.
Can you tell us something about yourself that we can't find anywhere else?
I have a third nipple. It's quite small, and actually looks like a birthmark (most people I've shown it too have said that's what it is). But it's an actual nipple.
Where is your favorite place to write?
I do most of my writing on the computer at home, but I don't have a problem writing somewhere else. I know some writers get very particular about this, and claim they can only write in one particular room, and it has to be on an old typewriter and so on, but I've never had that problem.
What do you like to do when your not writing?
My other main hobby is coding online games. I spent several years writing an online game called Age of Fable (www.ageoffable.net). I don't have any plans to do more on it, but it's still online, and you can play it for free. I'm currently working on an online 'card' game, like Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon. I've also done a few smaller projects. For example I did an online version of the computer game Oregon Trail.
Which story or poem was your favorite?
Probably 'The God of the Poor'.
Is there any type of music you like to listen to while you write ?
No, I find music distracting when I'm trying to write.
What was your inspiration for all your stories and poems?
Some ideas just pop into my head, without me knowing where the idea comes from. Other ideas come from experiences in my life. For example a while ago I found three injured birds in the space of a few weeks. I took all of them to the local vet. As I was carrying one of them, I thought that the woman at reception might wonder where I was finding all these injured birds, and that was the inspiration for my story 'Lost, Feral or Stray'.
I've written a lot about cats, based on having been a cat owner. But I'm a lot more cynical about them than some cat-lovers. One reviewer said he couldn't work out whether I loved cats or hated them.
Of course other fiction is a big inspiration. In some cases it's obvious. I've done poems directly based on stories by HP Lovecraft and other writers for example. In other cases it's more subtle: for example the city of Teleleli or Telelee is partly based on Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar, partly on Terry Pratchett's Ankh-Morpork, and partly on Port Blacksand in the Fighting Fantasy series. the dialogue in Lord of the Rings had a big influence on how my characters talk.
Which story or poem can you relate to the most?
'The Perfect Woman'.
Are you planning to write any other book?
The main thing I'm working on right now is a poem set in the old West, called 'Confession of a Bounty Hunter'.
I've been encouraged to write a novel set in the fantasy city of Telelee, which is the setting of a few of the stories in 'The New Death and others'. I have a lot of background for this world, because I blog every day (http://www.apolitical.info/teleleli) and most of it is setting detail. I also have a half-finished novel called 'All-American Detectives', which is a combination of a detective story and a story about superheroes, which I'll probably come back to in the future.
Is there anything else you would like us to know??
At night I fight crime as Poetic Justice. During the day I make my living from acting, using my stage-name 'Brad Pitt'.
Thank You James for the wonderful interview!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yall feel free to ask questions!
So I will be doing my first Author Interview and Giveaway with Author James Hutchings this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know about y'all but im super excited!!!!!!!!!!!! The book is The New Death and others. Let me tell ya, this book has so many short stories and poems in it and I really enjoyed reading it! The stories and poems are twisted and yet make you stop and think. I mean take The Enemy Within...It was disturbing and yet i can see so many people doing something like this (well not this exactly but a form of it). Y'all should check it out!
Loved it!! The story line was great. The characters easy to like. Each person, whether its vamp or vamp slayer, human or witch, working together was fantastic!!! Jennifer did a great job of writing the ending. She left it to where she can leave it how it is or write a second book! Really hope to read book 2 if she makes one.
The only part I wasn't thrilled about (although I understand why it needed to be there) was all the praying. Don't get me wrong it was a major part of the story line but just wasn't my cup of tea.
So Rafflecopter is having a Launch Party where they are giving away an iPad and 2 Kindle Fire's!!!!!!!!!!
Its easy to enter!! They are doing a kick ass job with with this app and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
Check it out..........Make sure you tell them I sent (referred) you
SO I went in for surgery yesterday and am still pretty sore :( Kinda sad because everytime I try to read I get a few pages in and then I start to doze off.
I am trying to get done with The New Death and others by James Hutching so I can do my first Interview and Giveaway, hoping to have it done by the weekend!!!
Hope yall enjoy your day and keep up the reading!!!
PS if you have any suggestions feel free to share!
Malevolent Spirit by Pauline Holyoak
