Many thanks to Tammy Jo Ekhart for
tapping me to do this.
What is the title of my current work
in progress?
Blackhall's Transtemporal Medicine Show
Where did the idea come from for the
book?
A friend and I were goofing around,
dong some roleplaying and I asked “What would happen if a bunch of
my characters ended up on a cooking show judged by your characters?”
So, we pulled a bunch of my more popular characters from a variety
of books and dumped them into an episode of “Chopped.” We played
with the concept and made it something other multi-universe Chopped
fanfiction.
What genre does your book fall under?
Contemporary fantasy
What actors would you choose to play
the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
There are a lot, so I'll just hit some
high points.
Phineas Featherstone, our medicine show
man turned mayoral candidate is Jason Carter, especially after
meeting the man at ConTraception.
Kathleen Gallagher, our fire mage, is
Allyson Hannigan.
Eliza Masterson, poisoner
extraordinaire and mayoral opponent, is Thandie Newton
Donal Gilroy, who was Phineas' boy and
is now working for Eliza, is Aaron Stanford
And Mark Strong is Drael, aka Mr.
Blackhall, the god of blood, pain and fertility, who has sent this
motley crew (and their cohorts, including Tommy Flanagan as a
post-apocalyptic Scottish priest and Ron Howard (ca 1972) as his boy)
to stop a human supremacist movement.
What is the one sentence synopsis of
your book?
Atlantean god assembles cross-time team
to fight human supremacists and save the aliens who have lived
alongside humans since dawn of time.
Is your book self-published or
represented by an agency?
Neither. It will be small press
published, without an agent. We're submitting it to Storm Moon Press
as a serial.
How long did it take you to write the
first draft of the manuscript?
We've been at it since September and
still aren't done. Of course, I took a break in the middle to finish
a short story and write a space bounty hunter novel.
What other books would you compare this
story to within your genre?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is
the most common one. There are elements of The Dirty Dozen, and of
Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth Conceptions. Except with more Gay Scottish
Priest Wing-sex.
Who or what inspired you to write this
book?
Cat Emerson, my co-author.
What else about your book might pique
the reader’s interest?
Gay Scottish Priest Wing-sex wasn't
enough?
We have a dozen people with deeply
different life experiences and conflicting goals stuck together for
several years to take on one of the biggest, most brutal
organizations on the planet. A teacher, a terrorist, a flim-flam man
and his assistant, a pair of priests, two escaped slaves, a
mercenary, a wheel-chair bound hacker, and a redneck mechanic against
a secret society of rogue Vatican agents, and getting help from
aliens and gods.
To see what some of my writer friends
are doing, I’m going to tag.
Gabriel Belthir, Elizabeth Donald,
Stephen Zimmer and Sara Harvey
All of these folks are up to something
exciting. Smetime around next Wednesday, I'll put a link to their
tales.
