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Author Pen Name: Sapphire Phelan/ Pamela K. Kinney
Pamela K. Kinney, for horror, SF and fantasy and a nonfiction ghost book, Haunted Richmond, Virginia, published by Schiffer Publishing.
CA: What genre(s) do you write? Why do you write the stories that you write?
SP: I generally write in both erotic and sweet paranormal, fantasy (includes urban fantasy), and science fiction romance. I also have published a sweet historical romance short story, “Old Friends” that appeared in Cobblestone Press Quarterly’s December 2007 issue. So I may do a straight historical romance again someday. I write what I write as that is what I enjoy reading and I like to even go beyond what is out there—go beyond the usual, instead take the unusual that stretches the boundaries.
CA: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
SP: When I was eight-years old and started making up my own stories. Told my parents I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. (smiles)
CA: Who or what was your inspiration for writing?
SP: Writers that I read when younger were all my inspiration: Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Madeleine L’Engle, Anne McCaffrey, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, J.RR. Tolkein, Nora Roberts, both Bronte Sisters, Heinlein, and many others. Books that inspired me: the Narnia books, Peter Pan, Wrinkle in Time, The LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The raven, The Black Cat, Tell Tale Heart, Wuthering heights, Jane Eyre, and many others.
CA: What is your work schedule like when you're writing?
SP: I get up in the morning, go exercise, shower and breakfast, watch early Show on CBS, check my email while I’m at it, and then start writing. I do that during the week, during the daytime. I have written at night and on weekends with a book due.
CA: Your book is about to be sent into the reader world, what is one word that describes how you feel?
SP: Excited. Nervous. Feeling like a proud, worried mother watching her baby head off to a school for the first time.. Hoping that the readers will want to read the books of my heart.
CA: What do you like to do when you're not writing?
SP: Like to act (done both on stage and in films in past). Create and sew up costumes that my husband and I wear to Sci-Fi conventions and Ren faires. Also read and watch DVDs or go to movies with my husband or adult son. I also enjoy going to Sci-Fi conventions too. Bake.
CA: How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
SP: Including those whose rights were given back into my hands as the publishers close: six in e-Book form. One of those with rights reverted back to me, Crimson Promise, was published as an Oz HeatSheet with more stuff added to it, plus more to the ending by Phaze March 17. I also have stories in the three Forbidden Love print journals published by under the Moon, and in two anthologies by Phaze, Coming Together: Under Fire and Phaze in Verse.
CA: Do you tend to base your characters on real people or are they totally from your imagination?
SP: Though I am sure that my characters are based on some of me and in people I know or have met, still they are totally from my imagination. None of my heroes or heroines are based off actors/actresses or models. Which is good for the reader—let them imagine how the hunky hero looks! (smiles)
CA: How can a reader contact you or purchase your books?
SP: My email: PamelaKKinney@comcast.net or through my MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/SapphirePhelan%20.They can also go to my website at http://fantasticdreams.50megs.com/ and use the email links there to contact me. Or subscribe to my newsletter at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SapphirePhelansParanormalNewsletter .
To buy any of my books (e-Books and Print):
Beast Magic: ISBN: 978-1-59426-786-4: http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Beast+Magic+by+Sapphire+Phelan Also at Fictionwise: http://fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook52252.htm and All Romance eBooks at http://allromanceebooks.com/product-beastmagic-4888-153.html .
Crimson Promise: ISBN: 1-59426-728-6 978-1-59426-728-4
eBook ISBN-13: 978-1-59426-728-4 http://phaze.com/
Coming Together: Under Fire: download for $7 (ISBN 978-1-59426-857-1), or in print at $16 (978-1-59426-881-6) at http://www.kingcart.com/Phaze/product=Coming+Together+Under+Fire+by+Alessia+Brio+and+Will+Belegon,+eds Or in print at Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594268819. As e-Book, also at Fictionwise: http://fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook54018.htm and All Romance e-Books at http://allromanceebooks.com/product-comingtogetherunderfire-5708-166.html
Phaze in Verse: http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Phaze+in+Verse+by+Phaze+Authors
Wedded Magic: http://www.loveyoudivine.com/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&cPath=1&products_id=16
To Save the Day (Amazon Short): http://www.amazon.com/To-Save-the-Day/dp/B000R7GA50/ref=sr_1_4/103-0687312-5804636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180489026&sr=1-4
Forbidden Love: Bad Boys: ISBN: 1934153141 At Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Love-Bad-Boys/dp/1934153141/sr=1-1/qid=1169420587/ref=sr_1_1/103-4820911-4322244?ie=UTF8&s=books
Forbidden Love: Wicked Women: ISBN: 1934153370 At Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Women-Forbidden-Love-2/dp/1934153370/ref=sr_1_1/103-0687312-5804636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179883563&sr=1-1 .
Forbidden Love: Sacred Bands (all Male/male romance stories): ISBN: 1-934153-22-2 On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Love-Issue-Sacred-Bands/dp/1934153222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197296147&sr=1-1
Find “Old Friends” in Cobblestone Press Quarterly’s December issue and get the download for free: http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/cpq.htm
For anything by Pamela K. Kinney, check my website for links at http://fantasticdreams.50megs.com/ . As for Haunted Richmond, Virginia, it can be found at Schiffer at http://www.schifferbooks.com/newschiffer/book_template.php?isbn=9780764327124 Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Richmond-Virginia-Pamela-Kinney/dp/0764327127/ref=sr_1_1/103-0687312-5804636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181040113&sr=1-1, Barnes and Noble athttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780764327124&itm=10 , Borders at http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=57302520&srchTerms=haunted+richmond%2C+virginia&mediaType=1&srchType=Title , target.com athttp://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-0501644-7774522?asin=0764327127&afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd&lnm=0764327127Books_:_Haunted_Richmond,_Virginia&ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060 , and Books A Million at http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=3900666326975&isbn=0764327127.
CA: Sapphire, your book covers alone make me want to get them all! Thanks for dropping in this week!!!
Pamela K. Kinney, for horror, SF and fantasy and a nonfiction ghost book, Haunted Richmond, Virginia, published by Schiffer Publishing.
CA: What genre(s) do you write? Why do you write the stories that you write?
SP: I generally write in both erotic and sweet paranormal, fantasy (includes urban fantasy), and science fiction romance. I also have published a sweet historical romance short story, “Old Friends” that appeared in Cobblestone Press Quarterly’s December 2007 issue. So I may do a straight historical romance again someday. I write what I write as that is what I enjoy reading and I like to even go beyond what is out there—go beyond the usual, instead take the unusual that stretches the boundaries.
CA: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
SP: When I was eight-years old and started making up my own stories. Told my parents I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. (smiles)
CA: Who or what was your inspiration for writing?
SP: Writers that I read when younger were all my inspiration: Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Madeleine L’Engle, Anne McCaffrey, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, J.RR. Tolkein, Nora Roberts, both Bronte Sisters, Heinlein, and many others. Books that inspired me: the Narnia books, Peter Pan, Wrinkle in Time, The LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The raven, The Black Cat, Tell Tale Heart, Wuthering heights, Jane Eyre, and many others.
CA: What is your work schedule like when you're writing?
SP: I get up in the morning, go exercise, shower and breakfast, watch early Show on CBS, check my email while I’m at it, and then start writing. I do that during the week, during the daytime. I have written at night and on weekends with a book due.
CA: Your book is about to be sent into the reader world, what is one word that describes how you feel?
SP: Excited. Nervous. Feeling like a proud, worried mother watching her baby head off to a school for the first time.. Hoping that the readers will want to read the books of my heart.
CA: What do you like to do when you're not writing?
SP: Like to act (done both on stage and in films in past). Create and sew up costumes that my husband and I wear to Sci-Fi conventions and Ren faires. Also read and watch DVDs or go to movies with my husband or adult son. I also enjoy going to Sci-Fi conventions too. Bake.
CA: How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
SP: Including those whose rights were given back into my hands as the publishers close: six in e-Book form. One of those with rights reverted back to me, Crimson Promise, was published as an Oz HeatSheet with more stuff added to it, plus more to the ending by Phaze March 17. I also have stories in the three Forbidden Love print journals published by under the Moon, and in two anthologies by Phaze, Coming Together: Under Fire and Phaze in Verse.
CA: Do you tend to base your characters on real people or are they totally from your imagination?
SP: Though I am sure that my characters are based on some of me and in people I know or have met, still they are totally from my imagination. None of my heroes or heroines are based off actors/actresses or models. Which is good for the reader—let them imagine how the hunky hero looks! (smiles)
CA: How can a reader contact you or purchase your books?
SP: My email: PamelaKKinney@comcast.net or through my MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/SapphirePhelan%20.They can also go to my website at http://fantasticdreams.50megs.com/ and use the email links there to contact me. Or subscribe to my newsletter at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SapphirePhelansParanormalNewsletter .
To buy any of my books (e-Books and Print):
Beast Magic: ISBN: 978-1-59426-786-4: http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Beast+Magic+by+Sapphire+Phelan Also at Fictionwise: http://fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook52252.htm and All Romance eBooks at http://allromanceebooks.com/product-beastmagic-4888-153.html .
Crimson Promise: ISBN: 1-59426-728-6 978-1-59426-728-4
eBook ISBN-13: 978-1-59426-728-4 http://phaze.com/
Coming Together: Under Fire: download for $7 (ISBN 978-1-59426-857-1), or in print at $16 (978-1-59426-881-6) at http://www.kingcart.com/Phaze/product=Coming+Together+Under+Fire+by+Alessia+Brio+and+Will+Belegon,+eds Or in print at Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594268819. As e-Book, also at Fictionwise: http://fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook54018.htm and All Romance e-Books at http://allromanceebooks.com/product-comingtogetherunderfire-5708-166.html
Phaze in Verse: http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Phaze+in+Verse+by+Phaze+Authors
Wedded Magic: http://www.loveyoudivine.com/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&cPath=1&products_id=16
To Save the Day (Amazon Short): http://www.amazon.com/To-Save-the-Day/dp/B000R7GA50/ref=sr_1_4/103-0687312-5804636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180489026&sr=1-4
Forbidden Love: Bad Boys: ISBN: 1934153141 At Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Love-Bad-Boys/dp/1934153141/sr=1-1/qid=1169420587/ref=sr_1_1/103-4820911-4322244?ie=UTF8&s=books
Forbidden Love: Wicked Women: ISBN: 1934153370 At Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Women-Forbidden-Love-2/dp/1934153370/ref=sr_1_1/103-0687312-5804636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179883563&sr=1-1 .
Forbidden Love: Sacred Bands (all Male/male romance stories): ISBN: 1-934153-22-2 On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Love-Issue-Sacred-Bands/dp/1934153222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197296147&sr=1-1
Find “Old Friends” in Cobblestone Press Quarterly’s December issue and get the download for free: http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/cpq.htm
For anything by Pamela K. Kinney, check my website for links at http://fantasticdreams.50megs.com/ . As for Haunted Richmond, Virginia, it can be found at Schiffer at http://www.schifferbooks.com/newschiffer/book_template.php?isbn=9780764327124 Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Richmond-Virginia-Pamela-Kinney/dp/0764327127/ref=sr_1_1/103-0687312-5804636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181040113&sr=1-1, Barnes and Noble athttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780764327124&itm=10 , Borders at http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=57302520&srchTerms=haunted+richmond%2C+virginia&mediaType=1&srchType=Title , target.com athttp://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-0501644-7774522?asin=0764327127&afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd&lnm=0764327127Books_:_Haunted_Richmond,_Virginia&ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060 , and Books A Million at http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=3900666326975&isbn=0764327127.
CA: Sapphire, your book covers alone make me want to get them all! Thanks for dropping in this week!!!
8 comments:
Great interview, Sapphire and Crystal!
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Destiny :))
Great interview...thanks.
What a fun interview. I always love to get to know a little bit more about an author. Just their personality can have me rushing to get their work.
Love your 8 year old self...saying I want to be a writer...what an empowered woman...
ADELANTE!!!
Zulmara
Thanks, everyone! :D
Enjoyed reading your interview, I now have some new books to add to my wish list.
I haven't read your book yet but I am going to :)
Awesome interview :) I added some of your books to my "to get" list.
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