Giveaway: ‘Snake Eater’ by T. Kingfisher
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Interview with T Kingfisher About the Book:
What inspired you to write SNAKE-EATER? I’ve always loved the desert. I lived in Arizona for a number of years and missed it fiercely, and one day I found myself writing about a dog lying down on the porch, thinking about dusty roads and saguaros and little quail scurrying along the side of the road, and the rest just kind of fell into place as I wrote.
What about the fantasy and horror genres appeal to you as a writer? I’ve never been able to get the hang of realistic fiction. After a point, I start to think “You know what would solve this? Ninjas. Or dragons.” Your writing is a combination of creepy and humorous.
Why the balance between laughter and unease? It’s a combination of two things. First of all, many humans in terrible situations make jokes. (See also the entire run of M*A*S*H*.) It’s how we cope with things. But also you can’t rachet up the tension on something indefinitely. There comes a point where the spring is wound as tight as it will go. So you need to release a little tension for the reader so you can start ratcheting it up again, and I find that humor’s the best way to do that.
With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt's house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. The scorpions and spiders are better than what she left behind.
Because in Quartz Creek, there's a strange beauty to everything, from the landscape to new friends, and more blue sky than Selena's ever seen. But something lurks beneath the surface. Like the desert gods and spirits lingering outside Selena's house at night, keeping watch. Mostly benevolent, says her neighbor Grandma Billy. That doesn't ease the prickly sense that one of them watches too closely and wants something from Selena she can't begin to imagine. And when Selena's search for answers leads her to journal entries that her aunt left behind, she discovers a sinister truth about her new home: It's the haunting grounds of an ancient god known simply as "Snake-Eater," who her late aunt made a promise to that remains unfulfilled.
Snake-Eater has taken a liking to Selena, an obsession of sorts that turns sinister. And now that Selena is the new owner of his home, he's hell-bent on collecting everything he's owed.
About the Author:
Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher is the author and illustrator of far more projects than is probably healthy. She has written over fifteen books for children, at least a dozen novels for adults, an epic webcomic called “Digger” and various short stories and other odds and ends.
The daughter of an artist, she spent her youth attempting to rebel, but eventually succumbed to the siren song of paint (although not before getting a degree in anthropology.) Ursula grew up in Oregon and Arizona, went to college at Macalester College in Minnesota, and stayed there for ten years, until she finally learned to drive in deep snow and was obligated to leave the state.
Having moved across the country several times, she eventually settled in New Mexico, where she works full-time as an artist and creator of oddities. She lives with her husband and his chickens.
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