To get us started can you tell us a little about
what you are working on or have coming out?
My
most recent release is The Dragons of Winter, a paranormal gay erotic novella
about shapeshifting dragons. As well, I have a re-release of a heavily revised
L.A. Bytes, a gay thriller in my L.A. Series, now called L.A. Storm. We changed
the title since the rewrite has quite a few changes to it. I have an historical novel coming out later
this year. It’s my first non-gay novel and it’s called Ashes & Ice and is
set in New York City in 1888. It follows the lives of 2 Irish immigrants and a
smart ass native New Yorker for one year as they try to survive in Five Points.
That, and all my historicals will be published under the penname GK Parker.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Los
Angeles. I lived there for 8 years and have wanted to go back ever since. I
visit, but it’s never long enough. It inspires me to write and every time I
manage to get back it inspires me.
Do you have a book that was easiest to write or one
that was the hardest?
Geography
of Murder was the easiest book I ever wrote. I completed the first draft of
73,000 words in three weeks. The hardest novel to write was Latin Boyz. Since I
was venturing into new territory with two gay Latino characters I sweated over
that. I think it’s one of the better novels I’ve written, but it’s intense and
has some tragedy in it as well. But it’s more daring than any of my other
novels and I’m very proud of it.
If you could collaborate with one author
who would it be?
Ken
Bruen. He writes the sort of dark book I’ve been doing lately.
Coffee, tea or other drink to get you moving in the
morning?
Grapefruit
or real orange juice.
What is coming up from you in 2014? Anything you
want to tease us with?
I
have an historical novel coming out later this year. It’s my first non-gay
novel and it’s called Ashes & Ice and is set in New York City in 1888. It
follows the lives of 2 Irish immigrants and a smart ass native New Yorker for
one year as they try to survive in Five Points. That, and all my historicals
will be published under the penname GK Parker. I’ve finished, but haven’t sold,
an historical noir called Indifferent City. It’s set in Los Angeles in 1929 and
is about a cop who makes the wrong enemies.
If you had a reporter follow you
around for the day, what would the readers get to see in your daily schedule?
Enough to put them to sleep. At least 3 times a week I go the gym for
aquafit and a workout. Then I usually walk to the library—sometimes with a stop
at the Tim Horton’s on the way. I always have a pad of paper with me and can
fill several legal size pages with either research material I’ve looked up or
actual writing. Other than that I go to
a movie occasionally and have dinner at my brother’s. Otherwise I’m at home
reading, writing or watching TV.
When you begin your
stories, do you go with the flow, or go with an outline?
I can’t outline. At best I might have a vague storyline, but that often
changes as the story grows. I like the organic story telling. Sometimes the
most amazing ideas come that might never have occurred to me if I’d outlined.
Is it hard coming up
with titles or characters names?
Titles yes. Character names not so much. I will often go through half a
dozen titles before I find one I like.
Character names usually come to me on the fly—a character appears and a
name pops up. But even they aren’t written in stone. The names of my main
character change sometimes, in other stories that have been revised over the
years, the names have remained the same. Terik u Selhdun from my science
fiction Fall Into the Night. Another one is Johnny Wager from Memory of
Darkness. I first conceived him in the early 80s for a screenplay I was writing
in Los Angeles. The screenplay didn’t happen, but the character stayed,
although he wasn’t gay in the first version.
Is there any books
coming that you are itching to read (either electronic or print)from your
favorite authors?
Influx by Daniel Suarez. He wrote my favorite thriller—Daemon and its
sequel, Freedom. I recommend his books to anyone who love a fast paced techno
thriller. I pre-ordered it and I’m waiting for the right time to read it.
If you were to
replenish your cabinets with one junk food, what would it be?
Captain Crunch. I love the way it stays crunchy in milk. :-)
Has there been any character that started off as supporting character, but then developed into a more prominent character?
Nikoli
in Fall Into the Darkness was meant to be a character who played a small role
and was murdered by the main character in the novel. Instead he refused to die
and ended up being a major player. At one time I had three books in the series,
but I lost two of them over the years. In the series, Nikoli turns out to be
the main character, superseding the main character from Fall Into the Night
How do you like to relax after a day writing?
I
have to confess I play games on my Galaxy. Angry Birds ( I have all of
them), Jelly Splash, Farm Heroes Saga
and Pet Rescue—all the intellectual, mind challenging games. (I think the
characters are cute) When I want something more serious, I play Plague where I
get to kill off the world in imaginative ways. Lol.
If you weren’t a writer, what would you be doing?
I
was good at science and math in school. I think I would have made a good
veterinarian. Or a marine scientist.
What is the next book you'll write?
Right
now I’m working on something totally different for me. A cop story where the
cop is a totally bad guy – in this case a psychopath who terrorizes the city of
Los Angeles during the 1984 Olympics. I’m calling it Unleash Hell or Bone
Season, haven’t decided which.
Its summer in my part of the world and that means
summer blockbuster movies are coming out. Do you have a list of movies like me
that you are itching to see or have seen? What about ones coming up? Any that
draw your eye to it?
I’m
waiting to see Transcendence and How to Train Your Dragon 2. The Signal looks
interesting.
It's a muggy summer by me. What is your favorite
cool drink to enjoy during the summer?
Alchoholic: Frozen Margarita
Non-alcoholic: Real Lemonade
Genre M/M paranormal
Publisher: Midnight Frost Books
The Dragon’s of Winter Buy link: http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Winter-P-Brown-ebook/dp/B00H130U5O/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397045409&sr=1-5&keywords=the+dragons+of+winter
Dragons aren’t supposed to fight dragons.
Eighteen year old Alecca is set to join Ciburon,
the new leader of the Realm of Xua and become the most powerful rulers of
Telen, their world. But amid the ceremonies that will bind the the two
dragonshifters forever, Kytam, a rival from a smaller realm seeks to take
Alecca for his own, thus gaining control of the world. There is no history of
war on their world, but war comes anyway. Kytam must be stopped if there is
ever to be peace again among dragons and frails.
Teaser Excerpt:
Alecca and Ciburon left the house when Vรกlka, the first moon rose. He was naked,
as the gods demanded. Ciburon held his hand and ignored his shivering. Once in
the center of the courtyard Ciburon turned to face Alecca. He laid his open
palm against Alecca’s
chest and held his gaze. His eyes were bottomless pits and Alecca fell into
them.
“You
must bring it from here.”
He traced a circle over Alecca’s
heart.
“But
how will I know?”
“You've
had dreams, right?”
Startled, Alecca looked down at the hand splayed
above his heart. How did he know that? “I never told anyone—”
“You
don’t need to. We all
experience the dreams before our first shifting. They help us find our form.
You have to remember them now.”
Alecca closed his eyes, focusing his inner eye on
memories of those dreams that had come with increasing regularity over the last
year. Now he understood them. He thought of wings stretched wide, of twisting
muscles and tendons that gave them the strength to lift and carry him for
hours. A sinuous neck and tail, glorious claws burnished deepest ebony. Jaws
and teeth that could rend the thickest drakken skin and would never feel the
deepest cold.
The touch on his chest changed and he opened his
eyes. Where Ciburon’s
hand had spread over his heart, curved black talons now rested. Alecca raised
his head and looked into flashing golden eyes in a massive, wedge-shaped head
of obsidian that morphed before him. Wings unfolded as dark shadows, blurred,
then grew solid in the growing light.
Alecca reached inside himself. He saw his soul
change. Pain shot through him, radiating out from his chest. It was worse than
the pain of Ciburon entering him. Sharper. Cleaner. He doubled over, falling to
his knees on the packed snow.
Get
up.
At first he ignored the voice in his head. Then it
came again. Ciburon?
You
must stand and face the pain, Alecca!
He struggled upright, staggering while wave after
wave of agony rolled through him. In horror he stared down at his hands and saw
them shift. Soft skin became elongated claws of bronze; he stretched them out,
marveling at the taut web of wing. Pain ripped through him.
Rise!
Rise! Now Alecca, rise up.
Alecca threw his head back to scream, but instead
he found himself bugling and his face and mouth felt... wrong. He snaked
around, looking right then left. Delicate crimson wings stretched wide; he
flexed shoulder muscles and watched, in awe, as his new wings moved. He did it
again. Faster this time. He could feel energy flow through him. The wind from
his wings created vortexes of snow that swirled around him. New snow fell,
obscuring both first and second moon. He was no longer cold.
Rise!
The ground beneath his clawed feet fell away and he
rose into the heart of the storm. The snow should have blinded him, but his
vision was unimpaired. He knew where the ground lay, where all the stone
structures of Kalec’s
estate were. He knew where Ciburon crouched on the ground below him watching
his first flight.
About the Author:
Pat Brown doesn’t remember a time she didn’t want to write. It runs in the family
you might say—great
uncle John Defoe was the renowned editor-in-chief of the Winnipeg Free Press
pre WWII. Pat Brown's approach to life was tempered in the forges of Los Angeles and after eight years in the City of Angels she was endowed with a fascination for
the gritty side of life. She explores those worlds in her various stories.
Ashes & Ice is her first historical novel and arose from her passion in
history.
On a personal level, over the years she has worked a variety of jobs from house keeper, horse groom, aquarium manager, hospital porter, census taker, movie extra, and for nearly 10 years she worked in the IT field. Her final position was as a Network Engineer for a law firm in Bermuda.
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