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@merieshenanigans

Hi, Merie! I love your username and your profile pic (the dog is so cute!)! Is that your dog? If he/she is, what breed is he/she?

 It’s hard to pick favorites, so I’ll just list a few of my favorite authors: L.M. Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, Brandon Sanderson, Shannon Hale, Adelaide Thorne, Nova McBee, A.M. Sohma, Melanie Cellier, and watch me go on and on…

I have the same problem in picking a favorite author and an even harder time with books. I could go on forever. XD Which of L. M. Montgomery’s books do you like best? I personally enjoyed Anne of the Island and Anne of Green Gables. Also, which of C. S. Lewis’s books is your favorite? For this one I am able to name just one book: The Last Battle.

I also love fairytales–not Disney, though they’ve done a decent job, but the real gritty stuff. (Actually, I prefer Andersen over Grimm because the latter is a bit too gritty, if you know what I mean.) That stuff sneaks into my writing all the time as well.

I’ve actually been shocked at how gory and violent fairy tales can be. *cough* “Juniper Tree.” *cough* And yes, Anderson is much more…child directed in his writing than Grimm. What’s your favorite(s) fairy tales?

My current WIP! I first wrote it two years ago, and I spent way too much blood sweat & tears on that thing to just abandon it now. It’s an epic fantasy set in a relatively non-magical world BUT it has fairies so that’s okay. To put it simply… Pax ah’Liba is a young man who’s never been able to look a fellow human in the eye (Aarne-Thompson type 513A   ), and what starts as a risky venture to find a captive [talking] tiger soon puts him directly at odds with the emperor of his great nation. Am I the kind of writer who revels in large casts of characters? The more the merrier. Curse makers and curse breakers, law makers and law breakers, kick-butt old men (okay, so maybe old is a bit of an exaggeration), and one too many secret identities float around the confused, lonely, and just a little angry human that is my main character. And no, I am not the cause of his anger. *backs away*

Your WIP sounds fun/intriguing! And there can never be too many secret identities (at least in books; real life is another matter)! Who’s your favorite character out of your cast?