Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2020

Highlights & Book Tours


TOP TEN HIGHLIGHTS OF MY LIFE!

1.      The year I played Mary in the Christmas Play. I've never felt so humbled or honored.
2.      The day I stepped off a plane in Fairbanks, Alaska. I'd finally found a home.
3.       My first apartment and the purchase of my first car. After I found my first job in Alaska as a payroll clerk. I bought a used car and found a great apartment. Finally, total independence. It was the best of times!
4.       My first view of the aurora borealis. I would lie on my bed and watch them dance across the sky. So beautiful!
5.       Falling in love for the first time. It was everything every romance book ever said it would be. But alas, it wasn't meant to be. Unrequited is not one of my favorite words
6.       The birth of my two sons. The very best of my creative abilities! Handsome, smart, and independent! I'm very proud of them.

7        Graduating with High Honors and achieving my master's degree. Another goal marked done, but I still want my Ph.D.! I hoped my writing would fund that, but...
8.       The publication of my first novel. One of those naïve, impulsive, and totally in the dark experiences. Now I know everything I did wrong, but that day, that moment will always be special.
9.       Doing a Blog-Talk Radio Show. Getting out of my comfort zone to create the first book talk radio program. It was a blast, and I miss doing it.
10.     Buying a condo on the beach. I feel blessed to be able to isolate here.


Tell me a highlight or two of your life.

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Monday, October 21, 2013

A WAGGING TALE OF FUN!


Very cool Halloweeny fun here! Hi, I'm Charmaine Clancy, I write children's and teens fiction. My most popular novel is very suited to Halloween, it's called My Zombie Dog...

Take one shy teenage boy, a dopey best mate, a granny who's lost her marbles (and teeth), a kid sister who bites back and a smelly demon dog. 
What you'll get is My Zombie Dog. 



All Zane wants for his birthday is a dog. A real dog. A guy's dog. But his mom brings home this little mutt and wants to call it 'Fluffy'. Seriously? It's shaggy, smells undead and bites people. And why does its victims all turn sluggish and keep asking Zane for brains? One by one, everyone he knows is becoming infected. Join Zane as he takes on the neighborhood zombie plague.





Now, onto Yolanda's cool Halloween quiz, I'm a bit scared to find out what happens if I get any wrong answers!

1. You're the last person to die in your favorite horror movie, what's the name of the movie and how do you die? 

I'm the fool who goes and prods the 'dead' body of the killer. Who knew he'd rise for one last kill?

2. In a remake of Friday the 13th – you play Jason – what would be your method of execution for all your victims? 

I'd read memoir-poetry about lost love and the abyss before the kill. This is the kind side of Jason, prepping victims so they want to die.

3. In a remake of Halloween, you are one of the victims – describe the scene and your grisly death. 
The stake skewered her like a marshmallow kebab and she fell, not a 'Hundreds and Thousands sprinkling', but 'dropping a raw egg, cracking the shell and spilling the yolk to fry in the pan' type of fall. On the pavement, her life spread beneath her, like sauce on a meat pie. She'd always hated meat pies.

4. In a remake of the 1974 movie Young Frankenstein – which character would you play and why. 

The lesser noticed stalker who thinks Frankenstein is just misunderstood and needs her love to set him straight.

5. In the Walking Dead, you and another character have survived the zombies, so far. You're on the move, but the individual with you is a wimpy scaredy cat, but oh so hot, still they keep drawing attention to you and your position and it's almost certain they will get you killed. What do you do - leave them for the zombies and save yourself? 

My opinion on what's hot changes after the zombie apocalypse -- baby blues and cheesy grins are out, being a sure-shot with a crossbow, tattoo adorned and knowing how to fry up squirrel is the new sexy.

6. You're headed to a Masquerade party as your favorite horror character and at midnight, you are transformed into your character until sunrise. Who is this character and how many victims would you claim by sunrise? 

I'd probably copy Anya from Buffy and go as a big pink rabbit. Not too many victims, just that annoying neighbour insisting I try her carrot dip.

7. Share with us your scariest ghost story – or nightmare – or tell us what scares you the most and why. 

I have a saying that drives my kids crazy, '... it's the ONE thing that scares me.' This is mostly because I actually have a list of about 42 things that make me squeal and run. But the thing that scares me the most, more than needles, flying, spiders, balloons, street performers, talking on the phone to strangers... well anyway, more than those, is ZOMBIES! I would prefer to be chased by a speedy werewolf than a shuffling zombie any day. It's not the death or the eating of the brains that scares me--those guys are all icky in a festering way. I don't want them to TOUCH me.

Phew! I think I survived the quiz. Thanks for hosting me on your site Yolanda... wait... what's that scraping noise coming from the basement? Hmm, seem the lights are out and my torch batteries are dead. Wait here, I'll go down and check it out with only these last three matches to light my way... I'll be right back...

Charmaine never returned... Bwahahaha ... but you can find her online 'presence' haunting these spots:
 
Websites: 
iTeenWrite.com (this one has writing workshop videos)


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    Be sure to check out Charmaine Clancy's Blog
    and her interview with
    Detective Steven Quaid!

    Friday, October 18, 2013

    A SOROITY OF HORROR!

    I aim to please! 
    Tamara Thorne meet zombie Fred Astaire.
     Fred, all she wants is one dance 
    before you bite off her face!
    The newest victim of the 
    Bwahahaha Halloween Interview
    will scare the pants off - all of you!

    Me? I'm outta here!
    I'll be over at Charmaine Clancy's
    she's interviewing Detective Steven Quaid!
    Watch your step! 




    You're the last person to die in your favorite horror movie, what's the name of the movie and how do you die? 
     
    Ghost Story. I want to die dancing with the moldering corpse of zombie Fred Astaire!

    In a remake of Friday the 13th – you play Jason – what would be your method of execution for all your victims? 
     
     I would prepare a very large bowl of mixed greens, scallions, shredded fingernails, tomatoes, and cucumbers, then I would attack each sex-crazed camper with my trusty Salad Shooter. I’d add the best bits to the salad for protein, make a lovely red balsamic dressing and have a very healthy lunch.  I’d give the leftover parts to the opossums, raccoons and Jed, the caretaker.

    In a remake of Halloween, you are one of the victims – describe the scene and your grisly death. 

     I would compliment Michael on his sexy white Shatner mask and attempt to seduce him.  When he gets his (allegedly) huge, throbbing weapon out and threatens me with it, I would snap a picture and upload it to the internet. Then he would kill me by beating me over the head with it.
     
     In a remake of the 1974 movie Young Frankenstein – which character would you play and why.  

    I would be The Monster so I could sing and dance to Puttin’ On the Ritz and then do Elizabeth until her eyes bug out.

    In the Walking Dead, you and another character have survived the zombies, so far. You're on the move, but the individual with you is a wimpy scaredy cat, but oh so hot, still they keep drawing attention to you and your position and it's almost certain they will get you killed. What do you do - leave them for the zombies and save yourself? Or take pity on them, because their hotness makes up for their stupidity, and teach them not to be a wimp? Or do you have another solution. 

    Two words: Kobayashi Maru .

    You're headed to a Masquerade party as your favorite horror character and at midnight, you are transformed into your character until sunrise. Who is this character and how many victims would you claim by sunrise? 

    Ash from the Evil Dead movies. I’d spend the night in Wal-Mart killing zombies and demons.

    Share with us your scariest ghost story – or nightmare – or tell us what scares you the most and why.

     I was at Band Camp with Alistair Cross and he had a ghost on his face. I couldn’t pry it off, no matter what I did, and I thought he was going to die.  I’m terrified of dead bodies, though I enjoy ghosts on my face. 

    Share with us your favorite Halloween experience, costume, and candy. 

     My favorite activity and costume are intertwined .  I like to dress as Pennywise the Clown and bite fingers off children. Yum!  My favorite sweet treat is Alistair’s leftover candy corn. He’s so good to me. 


    They are the envy of every young woman—and the fantasy of every young man. An elite sisterhood of Greenbriar University’s best and brightest, their members are the most powerful girls on campus—and the most feared…


    Eve

    She’s the perfect pledge. A sweet, innocent, golden-haired cheerleader, Eve has so much to gain by joining Gamma Eta Pi—almost anything she desires. But only a select few can enter the sorority’s inner circle—or submit to its code of blood, sacrifice, and sexual magic. Is Eve willing to pay the price?

    Merilynn

    Ever since childhood, Merilynn has had a sixth sense about things to come. She’s blessed with uncanny powers of perception—and cursed with unspeakable visions of unholy terror. Things that corrupt the souls of women, and crush the hearts of men. Things that can drive a girl to murder, suicide, or worse…

    Samantha

    Journalism major Sam Penrose is tough, tenacious—and too curious for her own good. She’s determined to unearth the truth about the sorority. But the only way to expose this twisted sisterhood is from within…

    “Tamara Thorne has an uncanny knack for combining the outrageous with the shuddery, making for wonderfully scary romps and fun reading.” —Chelsea Quinn Yarbro






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    Tamara Thorne has been haunting the horror market for twenty years. Her books include Haunted, Moonfall, Bad Things, and The Sorority. All of these and more are available via your local bookstore or your favorite online bookseller in print or electronic format.  Her influences include Ray Bradbury and MAD Magazine. Currently, she’s writing a sequel to her vampire novel, Candle Bay, and finishing a wacky-scary-sexy horror novella with collaborator Alistair Cross. Look for it soon.  








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