Are you ready for a new segment of the Colorado Authors Interview Circle? Well, you better be! This episode is an interview with the great Rebecca Hodgkins, author of This Dance, These Bones.Watch her interview and go buy the book!
Rebecca Hodgkins has a background in magazine journalism and graphic design. She lives in Colorado with her husband and twin sons, a dumb-but-loveable Jack Russell Terrier named Sam, and a big, fluffy Norwegian Forest Cat named Grace but referred to as Kitteh.
For episode three of the Colorado Author Interview Circle, we sat down with the fantastic Travis Heermann, author of the Ronin Trilogy. Watch the video below, and don’t forget to visit his website to find out more! (Oh, and like us on Facebook, too!)
Travis Heermann has been a freelance writer since 1999. Publishing credits include dozens of magazine articles, role-playing game content for both table-top and online MMORPGs, short fiction.
In early 2012, he added Award-winning Screenwriter to his list of accomplishments. His screenplay Death Wind (as yet unproduced), written with Jim Pinto, was awarded first place in the Screenwriting Contest at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA.
Nowadays, he writes full time. When he’s not writing, he’s probably playing a game of some sort, these days preferably Texas Hold ‘Em, reading novels or history books, cooking, cycling, or exploring strange and wondrous places. His long-cherished dreams are: a NYT bestseller, a produced screenplay, and a seat in the World Series of Poker.
Sixteen-year-old genius Matty Ducayn is the son of The Hill’s commandant. As such, he’s expected to conform to a strict, unspoken code of conduct. Small acts of defiance over years—such as walking on the grass—have earned him a reputation for being unruly. When sarcastic test answers finally get Matty expelled from school, King Hadrian offers him a diploma if he can answer a deceptively simple question, and then dismisses the only answer.
To prove his worth to society, Matty wrestles with the king’s word games, the kingdom’s historical record, and laws that don’t make sense. He meets Iris Locke, a street smart gardener, along the way. After enchanting him at a glance, Iris helps his research, keeps him out of trouble, and finally breaks his heart.
Alone again, Matty finds himself on collision course with a deadly law, one he will have to break to answer the king’s question. Was Hadrian challenging him, or teaching him a lesson? Without Iris, it won’t matter, because Matty won’t stand down for anyone else.
January Black is the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal winner for YA-Coming of Age.
January Black will be available for pre-order on Amazon 11/28/2014.
About the Illustrator
Liliana Sanches started studying Visual Arts at the age of 16 and soon felt attracted to the Romantic artwork from the 19th century. The Pre-Raphaelites and Friedrich were her biggest inspirations at the time, and she felt compelled to explore this graphic language of desolated landscapes that were the reflection of the painter’s emotions.
After graduating college, specializing Graphic Design, she created her own business under the name of “Princess of Shadows.” Her style had now evolved and had technical knowledge to support it. Intricate concepts with a much better grasp of image composition and visual balance, and also used color and shape psychology to imprint her work on the viewer.
Along the years she has been working with musicians, authors and even other designers who have allowed her to express her creativity, develop visual communication skills and explore different graphic styles to better suit each project.
Nowadays, here personal work has been exploring the human psyche, imbuing it with a dark surreal feeling. Her biggest inspirations are J-Horror movies, dreams/ nightmares and mental health pathologies.
About the Author
Wendy S. Russo got her start writing in the sixth grade. That story involved a talisman with crystals that had to be found and assembled before bad things happened, and dialog that read like classroom roll call. Since then, she’s majored in journalism (for one semester), published poetry, taken a course on short novels, and watched most everything ever filmed by Quentin Tarantino. A Wyoming native transplanted in Baton Rouge, Wendy works for Louisiana State University as an IT analyst. She’s a wife, a mom, a Tiger, a Who Dat, and she falls asleep on her couch at 8:30 on weeknights.
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