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Today we have the distinguished honor of interview best-selling author, Margarita Felices. Her book Judgement of Souls has hit various best-seller lists and continues to make an impression on readers. So thank you, Margarita, for visiting with us today. 1) Did you always want to be an author? If not, what else would you have done?
I
always dreamt of being a journalist. I
did a little writing at school for the school magazine and then became Editor. But things have a way of changing as you grow
up and I decided that writing stories for magazines was much better. You can lose yourself in your own stories and
as a journalist, you can’t embellish anything, it has to be the truth however
boring it might sound. It would have
driven me mad not to pep the story up, so I’m glad I didn’t pursue it.
2) What is the strangest job
you ever had and why?
(Smiles)
I’ve worked for the BBC for 22 years. I can’t say that before that I had any
strange jobs. But I guess the strangest
job I’ve had so far has been working for Torchwood. When I began there, I had worked for BBC News
for 15 years so working for drama was the strangest job ever. You get to work in an environment where you
meet characters that were made up inside someone’s head – much like being an
author I guess, except these characters come to life – I’ve spoken to
characters (not real people) about their situation, I’ve sat with monsters,
I’ve had lunch in the TW Hub, I’ve driven fake police cars on the roads of
Cardiff and I’ve been scared ****less by a colleague sitting inside a Dalek! Is
that strange enough? My dream is to one day write a script good
enough for Doctor Who or even Torchwood, if it ever came back to 3) What is your favorite book of all time and why?
(LOL) But there are so many, which ones to
mention…. I loved the Green Mile by
Stephen King, just something about the pain that the guard was suffering and
the man who could cure people who were sick and they were going to execute him,
even though he was innocent. Misery, the
tension of the lead character and the author confined to his bed, I was
disappointed that the film changed so much.
But I love the classics, Withering
Heights
4) Describe your ideal hero
or heroine (details please! *wink wink*)
I
have several pictures on my Facebook page about my ideal characters. I wish I could name them but they are just
faces found on other sites that I associate with my characters. Go check them out see what I mean.
5) What comes first for you:
plot or character?
Plot. (stops and thinks). No, actually I created Rachel (my lead
character) first and then the plot just wrapped itself around her.
6) Who is, hands down, the
sexiest actor of all time?
(Snigger). That changes every week!
7) Describe your writing style please.
Plotter. I need to know what’s coming up to help me
write. I worked for BBC News for 15
years; each programme is made up of a running order so we know what’s coming
up. I’m used to working that way, so
when I began to write, I adopted that.
Each page has a few lines as to what should be happening at that
point. Sometimes I get an idea for a
storyline but its ages into the book, so I write it out and leave it until I
catch up.
8) Who is your favourite
author and why?
It’s
a toss up of Anne Rice or Stephen King.
I’ve read a lot from both, although I find Stephen King easier to
read. Stephen King gets right into the
nitty gritty of the story and before you know it, you’re being knocked out of
your chair and hiding under the covers!
Anne Rice tends to be more descriptive in the way she writes. She describes everything so beautifully, so
poetic. Once you get to the story, you’re transported into that world, but it
does take a bit of reading before you get to it.
9) What is on the horizon
for you? Any interesting news or books we should know about?
Well
I’m writing the second part of the trilogy.
It’s proving a bit tricky because I need to have the timelines correct
and they are passing through several events in history. I have two stories buzzing around in my head
that need to be written down. Then I’m
getting straight into Book One. After
that it’s going to be a few stories about Rachel and Daniel as archaeologists
working with the Righteous… Those are my
plans at the moment, somewhere in-between all that I should set up a website
and a blog….
You can find all of Margarita's books by clicking here!
And thank you, Margarita for the wonderful interview.
