INTERVIEW
WITH AUTHOR Paul Kater
Today, for a special treat, I’m interviewing fellow Alexandria Publishing Group author Paul Kater. His latest work, "Hilda - Magic on the
Rocks" is a humorous fantasy book and will be released on January 12th of
this year.
Please
tell us a little bit about your book.
This is going to be the tenth part of the Hilda the
Wicked Witch series. In this book, Hilda and her partner William are called
upon as the magical people in fairyland (where they live) start killing each
other without a sensible reason. As they progress the search to the reason of
this, they assemble quite a large group of magicals around them with which they
are going to get to the bottom of this, even when that's covered in a lot of
ice and snow.
What
is the book’s genre?
I call humorous fantasy. It's definitely fantasy, but
Hilda inspires me to throw in a lot of fun, jokes and wordplay.
Is
this the only genre in which you write?
No, I also write science fiction (real and the
steampunk variety). In the same genre as Hilda (which is a series for adults
despite the witch-theme) I have also written a children's book called Charisma
the Young Witch, and I once unleashed a humorous book which makes fun of just
about any religion.
What
is it about this or these genre(s) that interests you?
Fantasy is
versatile. You can do a lot of things in a fantasy story, and the challenge is
to keep it 'credible' in a way. Having an invincible super-someone is hardly
fun, they need their weaknesses and flaws and quirks, so a reader can relate to
the main character.
Science
fiction is fascinating to me. What will happen in the future? What species will
mankind discover? Will there be a mankind to go out exploring?
How
did you come up with this latest plot?
The idea for
"Magic on the Rocks" had already come as I was writing Hilda's 9th
adventure. Somewhere in that book I wrote and deleted a chapter about magicians
trying to kill each other, and somehow that idea took hold in my mind. At that
point there was a layer of snow over everything outside near my house, so I
thought it would be fun to put that in too.
What
is your writing routine like?
Since I'm
not a full-time writer (I have a regular job, bills need to be paid) I write
whenever I feel like it and have time for it. Mostly that means during lunch
breaks and in the evenings and weekends, if nothing else comes up.
What
is the most rewarding thing about having finished this latest book?
That the wait for Hilda's fans for
"more" is almost over. :-)
What’s
next in the writing queue?
At this moment I have already started Hilda 11 (the
idea for that came from the end of Hilda 10), and I am doing an experiment in
writing a story in two languages at the same time. It's scifi about a man who
literally gets dragged into an adventure on another planet.
BOOK
BLURB
Book 10 of the series around Hilda the Wicked Witch.
Hilda and William receive a visitor with a peculiar message. Things in the land
of the magicals are going very wrong as wizards and witches start to have
problems. One thing leads to another, and through all of this the magical
heroes are facing snow and ice, which doesn't make things much easier.
Fortunately they don't have to face these challenges alone.
AUTHOR
BIO
How
can we buy your book?
It will be available in all Amazon stores, through
Smashwords.com and its affiliates like Barnes&Nobel, and I am working on
getting the paperback version done on Lulu.com. More details and exact
locations will appear on my website (www.paulkater.com) as soon as they are
available.
And now, some fun questions:
1)
Favorite
author? Frank Herbert
2)
Favorite
character in a book you’ve read? Alexia Tarabotti
3)
Favorite
vacation? Seattle, where my girlfriend
lives
4)
Coffee
or tea? Tea
5)
Favorite
color? Blue
6)
Favorite
dessert? Ice-cream
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