Everyone give a warm welcome to author S. C. Alban!
1. What’s the title of your latest release? Link?
My most current release is A Life Without Living. A paranormal romance, it’s the first book in The Strega Series. The second installment Barely Living Alive is currently in contract and undergoing edits. It will be released later this year.
2. Why do you like writing in this genre?
I like writing paranormal because I love the unexplained. I am a huge believer in the improbable and am fascinated with the realm of the unexplainable. I love how this genre pushes one’s imagination past everything that is known to be true in the current world.
3. What do you like to read?
I am a huge Anne Rice fan. I love her witch series and, of course, her vampire stuff. I love Richelle Mead, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Stephen King, but mostly, if it’s a good book, I’ll read it. This includes YA, SciFi, mystery, contemporary fiction, and straight up romance (including historical).
4. Favorite movie?
I am a HUGE movie fan and I love everything from slapstick comedy, to documentaries, to horror. But, there are two movies that I can watch over and over and over again. The first is Chocolat (2000), and the second is Cousins (the 1989 film). When it comes down to it, they’re both really about relationship intricacies, so, I suppose I’m really drawn to those types of films that focus on that.
5. What are your writing habits? Music or silence? Daily regimen or spurts of creativity?
It really depends on how I’m feeling. Sometimes, I pop on the headphones, crank up the music and just flow. Other times, I need total silence. I try to write something everyday. When I’m trying to finish a novel, I give myself a word count goal. When I’m working on a script I give myself a scene goal. It really just depends on what I’m doing that day and where the deadlines are.
6. What was the most surreal moment you’ve had as an author?
I think that would definitely be when I was scheduled to do a book signing at a pretty popular bookstore in my area. When I arrived, there was a huge sign out front that said “Author Signing Today.” My first thought was, “Great. I’m supposed to be signing here today, too. Why would they put two of us here on the same day.” I was a bit bummed. Then, the friend I was with informed me that I was the author, that the advertisement was for me. It all kind of hit me at that moment. I realized that I was an author, and everything that went along with it. It was definitely surreal.
7. How can readers find you?
Readers can find my all over social media. I also have a website. The links to my contacts are below:
http://www.facebook.com/scalban
http://www.twitter.com/muchasfloras
http://www.instagram.com/s.c._alban
8. What do you know now about being published that you wish you’d known before submitting?
The number one thing I wish I would have known before embarking on this journey was to start a blog way before I actually did. It would have given me such a better understanding of how things work and I wouldn’t have felt that I was learning it at the same time as I was trying to get my book to publication.
9. Favorite snack/drink while writing?
Actually, I often have to be reminded to eat when I’m working, and I work with a water bottle by my side. But, occasionally I’ll have something crunchy like popcorn or pita chips. Nothing too greasy though, I like a clean keyboard. 🙂
10. Look at your writing area…what’s the item you keep to inspire you (piece of artwork, figurine)?
I always have a candle burning while I write, I don’t know why, it just is nice. And, lately, I’ve been keeping a few crystals/stone within reach as fidgets…. Something for my hands to do when I’m thinking about how I’m gonna write myself out of the mess that I inevitable create.
Thanks for stopping by, S.C.!
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