Name
Devorah Fox
Hometown
Port Aransas, Texas
Author of...
The Lost King (the sequel, The King’s Ransom, coming soon!)
Why I like reading fantasy
At a book chat I was asked my
opinion as to why fantasy is so popular these days. I answered that I thought
many people, myself included, study and work hard, yet we don’t feel as though
we have much control or influence in our day-to-day lives. It’s cathartic to
escape into a universe where people have the power to manipulate reality and to
read of people very much like ourselves who rise to the challenge, battle and
triumph over the most powerful and pernicious evil in the world (or any world).
Why I like writing fantasy
Writing fantasy challenges me to
be extra imaginative, go a little over the top, take full advantage of the
suspension of disbelief readers bring to a fantasy novel.
Fantasy books/authors I
enjoy
Ursula leGuin and Janet Morris’s
“Kerrion Empire” and “Silistra” Series, fantasy on the sci-fi side of the genre.
When I was in High School,
I thought I'd grow up to become...
I thought I might like to be a
spy like James Bond or a rock star like Grace Slick but since I couldn't keep a secret nor could I play or sing... I went off to college
and majored in Linguistics and Anthropology. Maybe I could
have gone into forensic anthropology and grown up to be Dr. Temperance Brennan,
but that particular discipline didn’t even really get started until around the
time that I graduated.
I've been writing since
...the third grade when I wrote a
novel about a Korean orphan immigrant to the U. S. (What part of “write what
you know” didn’t I get?) I illustrated it, too.
My greatest accomplishment
so far as a writer
Putting
my fiction “out there.” I’ve been writing professionally (promotional,
journalistic and technical writing) for decades, and I know that my writing has
helped and informed people. Having my fiction published has been a totally
different experience. It’s not only entertained them, it’s emboldened them to
take some risks themselves.
Welcome, Devorah! OMG, an orphan immigrant story, how DID you write that one at such a tender age? :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the post Devorah. Also am enjoying the Lost King which is the first fantasy title I have tried. I think I may be hooked.-John
ReplyDeleteI loved getting to know you a little more. You're certainly accomplised with writing skills. Do you still have the book you wrote in the third grade? So often, wonderful records like this are tossed aside.
ReplyDeleteIt's always so great to get to know fellow authors! :)The stories that have inspired us to be who we are today are such rich veins of creativity. I love them.
ReplyDelete