What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Stoneslayer (Fallout Book 2)?
The Stoneslayer series is based on four of my past lives, and the past lives of family and friends. The story started bugging me when I was a preteen and has not let me alone for more than six decades. I write for peace of mind, heart, body, and soul.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Stoneslayer (Fallout Book 2), what would they be?
Theme song for Helen Andros: I Gotta Try by Kenny Loggins.
What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
Anything except horror and literary fiction, lowbrow for me!
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
I will devour any new novel in the Ghost Walk series by Melissa Bowersock; the Miss Fortune series by Jana DeLeon; the Genevieve Lenard series by Estelle Ryan; and the Fallowtide sequence by M.C.A. Hogarth. Yum!
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
Helen Andros fights with the medical establishment to win permission to conduct an experimental procedure to heal her best friend. This is very self-revealing for both Helen and me.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
No morning caffeine, no words. Not so much a quirk as sheer necessity.
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
From Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
Helen Andros is your basic Timex, takes a licking but keeps on ticking.
Candace Lynn Talmadge is the author of the new book Stoneslayer (Fallout Book 2)
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