Author Rhiannon Held Interview and $20.00 Amazon Gift Card Contest
BBB: Tell us 3 things not in your bio we don’t know about you that might make us leery of befriending you. LOL
RH: What, you want me to admit to them? 
I often listen to a Top 40 music station when in the car, because I hate eighties music, and too many of the mix stations use that heavily in their mixture. Top 40 is repetitive, but if I’m in my car for longer than their usual repeat cycle, I find something else. I also watch reality TV shows. Not the heinous shouty wife-swap ones, but a few of the ones more focused on their subject matter, like Masterchef and PBS historical reenactments like Frontier House.http://www.bittenbybooks.com/53973/bitten-by-books-needs-you/I also hate going to arthouse movies. Note that I don’t hate watching them, but I hate being trapped in a theater if I happen not to like one. I reserve the right to recognize a movie I don’t like and turn it off! I’m a fan of a strong narrative and likeable characters, and while movies can be great when they experiment with ditching either or both, I don’t happen to like them. It’s like I’m an anti-geek-prejudice poster child!
BBB: What actors would you choose to play some of your characters if your book were made into a movie or a TV show?
RH: I haven’t been able to find an actress for Silver yet, but I do know the one I’d choose for Andrew: Matt Bomer. He’s a little shorter than Andrew, but he has just the right build and dark hair. If you’ve seen him in White Collar, you’ll have a sense of what I mean: Matt Bomer is lean and plenty muscled, but when you stand him next to Tim DeKay, you realize he’s definitely not a burly guy. Tim DeKay isn’t quite right for another character in the book, John, the Seattle alpha, but he’s got the right solid build.
BBB: How do you keep track of your world building?
RH: I have a computer file that’s the equivalent of old-school scribbled notes. I write down names or phrases, just enough to jog my memory, and I have a couple lists, like of alphas I’ve mentioned. The exception to the freeform note style is everyone’s wolf form colors. I have a table of those along with their human appearance details. As I go along, I’m sure I’ll start to be a little more structured for the other things.
BBB: Please tell us more about Silver and the storyline that drives it.
RH: Werewolf Andrew Dare is the enforcer for the Roanoke pack, and is haunted by his past failures. He encounters a wandering Were who has been injected with silver nitrate. She can no longer shift and hallucinates, so she can’t tell him who did it to her. He has to let his failures go and work with her to figure out who injected her before Silver’s attacker visits the same torture on other Were. The two of them also embody a fundamental culture clash of the Were world: Andrew is a staunch atheist and Silver considers herself to see the spirit world, and walk with the personification of the Were Death. Chasing her attacker makes both of them face their belief in themselves and their gods.
BBB: Will there be other books in this world?
RH: I plan to keep writing books in this world as long as my publisher keeps buying them! I’ve done a lot of work to set up the werewolf culture and religion, which I feel gives me a backdrop to explore a whole variety of character types. Someday if this first series does well, I also have an idea for a shorter spin-off series in the same world.
BBB: Did you do any kind of research to determine the details of your characters lives / lifestyles?
RH: I brushed up on my wolf behavior, of course. I also drew heavily on the principles of hunter-gatherer peoples that I learned in graduate school for anthropology. If you think about it, packs are similar to individual tribes, and I used a lot of that anthropology to figure out how the werewolf packs might relate to each other. I also did plenty of research on the setting of the novel. Part takes place in the Pacific Northwest, which I know well, but part takes place in Virginia and other places on the East Coast, so I had to make sure I got my details right and didn’t have the wrong trees or something like that.
BBB: Are you a plotser or a panster? or a Planster (a combo of both – lol)
RH: I’m a combination of both that leans more toward plotter. I don’t formally outline, but I do plan ahead. When I start writing a novel, I have a general sense of the ending and the high points on the way. I’ll sometimes type the electronic equivalent of scribbled notes to myself to make sure I don’t forget any of them. I’ve encountered a concept in articles about TV writers that I really like: at a certain point writers “break” the episode. They sit down and figure out exactly what will happen in it before they write anything. I’ll break a novel, and then break large chunks of it as I near them, and each day before I sit down to write, I’ll break a couple of scenes. In my case, breaking means doing something like driving or taking a walk to free up my mind while I run the scene start to finish through my imagination.
BBB: What types of creatures can readers expect in your world?
RH: Werewolves are the basis of my world, and I made a conscious decision to keep them that way. Vampires used to exist, but they were hunted to extinction during the Inquisition. And that’s real extinction, not fake “shows up frozen in a glacier to surprise everyone in book seven” extinction. I wanted to be able to focus on one creature’s culture and religion without getting caught up in adding more and more creatures every book. When you have a lot of creatures, I think it shows you the external dynamics among the different creatures and humans, but you don’t have as much chance to show the internal dynamics of one type of creature among themselves. That’s what interested me the most!
BBB: Why did you choose werewolves to focus on?
RH: I chose werewolves for several reasons! One is the kind of metaphors they could provide. Vampires offer metaphors about lifestyle choices and secret societies that you join as an adult. Since that’s been done, I wanted to explore something different rather than doing it again. I made my werewolves a species, so they’re only born, not turned. Given that, I knew that they’d have to deal with a different, secret culture at home than they interacted with in the rest of their lives. It provides an interesting metaphor for geek culture or immigrants dealing with the dominant culture in their new home. Werewolves also give interesting opportunities for showing pack social dynamics as interpreted by humans. Also, with werewolves as a species, I could think about a whole bunch of cool biological and social aspects of them. How might they have evolved? How do they avoid interbreeding? What kind of taboos might they have? Creating all that detail was fun, and also helps them feel more real to the readers.
BBB: What’s coming up for you in 2012 and 2013?
RH: My next book in this series, Tarnished, should be out spring or summer next year. Right now I’m revising book 3, though I might take a break and dive into the first draft of book 4 for fun. This month I’m pretty busy with signings, and I have several cons lined up for the rest of the year. I’ll definitely be at both Worldcon and World Fantasy. Next year, I’m hoping Silver will have done well enough that I can do some road trips to do signings in parts of the country I haven’t gotten to visit as much as I’d like, such as New England.
Questions for the Readers:
What’s your favorite urban fantasy creature? Why?
If you could choose to live in anyone’s urban fantasy universe, which one would it be? Would you want to be human, or something else?
What themes haven’t you seen before in urban fantasy that you’d be excited to see explored?
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Hi – Rhiannon
I like that you’re focusing on weres and no other. Sometimes I feel there are too many creatures competing for the pages of books.
. I’d like to be a Valkyrie if I couldn’t stay human. +2
I really have no idea how to answer your questions because I have such a terrible time figuring out which genre is which. If I’m right, I love Thea Harrison’s world and dragons have become “it” for me
What about you, what creature would you be or would you stay human? +1
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Dragons are a cool one!
Picking a Were would be too easy, I think, but I do like the idea of being a creature that has some other kind of senses about the world! With werecritters, that’s their sense of smell, but there are plenty of other things like fae that can sense magic, or whatever. Having a completely different and non-human insight onto the universe seems pretty cool. I’d rather not kill to survive, though!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
What
I used to make up stories in my head quite young, as I’m sure most writers do. It took me a while to think about writing them down, though. What tripped it for me was I got heavily into role-playing, initially in a play by email game. It wasn’t stat heavy, so I got practice taking an idea of a character, and translating it onto the page. Once I realized I could do that, things developed from there!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 If you could be any Disney charactor, who would it be?
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Almost missed this one, oops! I think I’d like to be the older sister in Lilo and Stitch. Her life gets pretty crazy, but she’s got a lot of great family and friends to rely on.
Lisa R smalltown, USA
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Do you have any unusual or special talents exclding your storytelling abilities?
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I can wiggle my ears (I’m not kidding, find me at a con and I’ll show you!) I used to be a synchronized swimmer, too!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
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What is your favorite thing about the writing experience and why?
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There’s a particular rush of emotion that you can get, when a story (be it written or visual) grabs you down in the subconscious somewhere, and your emotions are like WOAH. Imagining my stories in my head, I court those woah moments, but in the first draft, sometimes that doesn’t always translate out onto the page. The best part about writing is when you check the particular sequence of letters you’ve picked and you still get WOAH, or someone tells you that your writing evoked that in them, and you know you did something right!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 What books are on your nightstand or in your TBR pile right now?
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Forged in Fire, J.A. Pitts (I’m getting it signed by him tonight!!)
Poltergeist, Kat Richardson
On the Edge, Ilona Andrews (both are the will of the library gods, because I reserved a whole stack, and they’re the next that have come in)
Parliament of Whores P.J. O’Rourke (gift from a friend)
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 You woke up this morning and realized you had been reincarnated as a pair of shoes.
Describe yourself.
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Black lace-up boots, really comfortable on the inside, but not combat-stompy. Low-key, with a couple of buckles to jazz them up and make them suitable for steampunk or fantasy costuming, but still fine for dinner with the folks.
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 What five characters from other authors would you invite to a dinner party?
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Hm. Five, huh? First off would be Mercy Thompson and Adam Hauptman, of course. (Patricia Briggs) I think they’d have really fun werewolf insights to share. I’ll step outside the sub-genre and say Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin (Patrick O’Brian) because they’re both so adventuresome, and Stephen would be able to talk science with me. Finally…Phedre, from Jacqueline Carey’s series. I’d want some tips!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 What five characters from other authors would you NOT want to be trapped in an elevator with?
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A tough one! Johnny Marcone, from Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series. A really great bad guy, I wouldn’t want to be near him! Clay, from Kelley Armstrong’s series. I think I’d get along with Elena, but I think he and I wouldn’t hit it off. Definitely not Blind Michael, from the October Daye books. He’d eat me for lunch! I think most characters I’d be at least interested to talk to for a little while in an elevator, to get insight into their life, so I think I’ll stick with those three for now. If I think of more I’ll come back!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
+1 Any mytical or paranormal creatures that you have a story brewing in the back of your mind, you’d like top write about?
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I have a novel knocking around at the back of my skull that has creatures/people who are tied to an element of daily life. One of the main characters is tied to keys, so she can unlock or lock anything.
Rachel flesher / raonaid luckwell
Another vote for dragons. Interesting!
I’m not sure what you mean by literal, but for fictional worlds I think I’d pick Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel world, maybe in the future it seems like the books are heading for. It seems like a really rich, magical place, with some good people looking out for its future.
For some reason the “y” did not get in there. Literary.
Aha! That makes sense! I’ll probably still stick with my original answer, though, since I don’t read that many books in the literary genre. Getting into literature, I think it would be fun to visit a Jane Austen book! But not to stay, since I’d probably end up dying in childbirth or of fever.
In my defense… some fellow dragon lovers noticed the lack of dragon books out there. We compiled a list of dragon books and there was really not a whole lot of them which made me sad.
Hopefully there will start to be more in the future! That’s what I’ve noticed about urban fantasy, is that people are always experimenting with tons of different critters, and the ones people respond to end up getting more books about them (like vampires…)
What is your favorite mythical creature?
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I think it would have to be a Celtic critter like a selkie or kelpie. I love Celtic stories, and shapeshifters are always awesome!
Celtic junkie here.. Oh man so in love with druids…
What is your favorite mythical story ?
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Of course, I’ve always loved the Welsh stories about Rhiannon! As a child, my parents would read to me and the sister from a book of Greek myths and a book of Norse myths. I loved the Norse myths the best, though the Greek were also fun. A male god shapeshifting into a mare and giving birth to an eight-legged horse? Cool!
I have a friend who’s named Rhiannon. How I learned how to spell the name very well.
If you could pick a theme song for your story and/or characters what would they be?
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I don’t have a song for the whole novel, but in Silver (less so in later books), the character Andrew’s song is 21 Guns, by Green Day. It captures the feeling of picking up after you’ve let your life be shaped by the violence you participated in. The character Silver’s song is King of Anything, by Sara Bareilles, because she might seem weak, but she definitely doesn’t need anyone running her life.
What do you do when you have two of three scenes crying out for your attention / or characters demanding to tell their stories? How do you choose which one to work on?
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I’m a pretty disciplined writer. I write from the beginning to the end of whatever I’m working on. I might step away from it and pick up another project, but I’d never write scenes out of order. To decide between projects…mostly, I try to stick mainly to the one project that’s on deadline, and take breaks with other ones to refresh myself. But I keep track so I don’t wander off and forget about the first project.
What is your secret indulgence?
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I might have said reality TV, but that’s no longer a secret!
It would probably have to be new socks, the more violently colored the better. Chocolate can make you gain weight, but no one knows what neon-striped socks with flamingos you’re wearing under long pants!
Lisa R smalltown, USA
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+1 What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done?
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Sending out my very first story was pretty darn scary! I’m an introvert, so my first con party was pretty intimidating too. I think the time when I felt the most physical, visceral fear was the high dive at the pool. The pool I went to as a child had 1 meter and 3 m boards, which weren’t too bad. The 3 m took some practice, but I got comfortable with it. They also had a 5, 10, and 15 m Olympic set of diving platforms, though. I went off the 5 once in my life, and it took weeks for me to work up to it.
My favorite urban fantasy creature would be cat shifters. I always wanted to be one. I used to dream about it all the time.
I think I would like Jennifer Estep’s world of Elemental Assassins. Of course I would change it up a little to include me as a cat shifter.
I would love to see someone take on the true Celtic Gods, Goddesses and others like the green man, in a way that gives them some of the dignity that they deserve.
Have you heard about this anthology? http://urbangreenman.com/
It seems like it might be right up your alley when it comes out!
Okay I’ve answered your questions now it’s my turn. What do you like to eat when you are writing?
I usually try not to eat anything! Since I’m concentrating, it’s too easy to continue snacking and snacking forever. That way, proper meals also provide a nice break from writing, for my creativity to refresh. I do drink a lot, though, often sparkling water for a little bit of interest.
What do you wear when you’re working?
The same things I wear the rest of the time! I generally wear jeans, so they’re pretty comfortable for a variety of situations. I am firmly against ever writing in my PJs.
Getting dressed is one of my brain’s signals that it needs to wake up.
Do you listen to music while you work and if so what?
I’m a little bit of a weirdo in that I’ll listen to the same one or two songs for an entire writing session. For some reason, it doesn’t bother me because I’m not really listening to them. If I did turn on a whole playlist, or the radio, I would listen, and that would take my attention away from my writing. As for the songs I pick for various sessions, I like bands like the Decemberists, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford and Sons, Ellie Goulding, Florence + the Machine, and anyone else who combines evocative lyrics with a strong melody.
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Facebook share = 1 as Miranda Wood
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Thanks for the chance.
Miranda W
Canada
Hi Rhiannon
* I love Were Creatures a lot in books lately.+1
* Not Sure witch urban fantasy Universe I would want to be in but I would want to be a Werewolf or Were Cat of some type if I was in one.+1
* I Spread the word via twitter and here is the link https://twitter.com/sasluvbooks/status/215655161186623490 & via facebook here is the link https://www.facebook.com/sasluvbooks/posts/429056937117319 +1
* I RSVPed to be here with Rhiannon +25
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Hi,
I’ve always been quite into vampires, as long as they are not just mindless bloodsucking monsters. I find their immortality, mystery and ‘alieness’ the most attractive and intriguing.
I quite like the Sookie Stackhouse book series, so I’m going to choose that universe. And it’s got Eric:) I’d want to be either a human or a fairy because they have all those powers, can become angels and I don’t like lemons anyway:)
I’d like to see more UF books with angels and especially fallen angels, there aren’t many of those. I love how the Supernatural TV series are handling angel themes, I’d like to seem something like that in UF books.
What is your all-time favorite supernatural TV series or movie?
Thanks!
Dovile P., Lithuania
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Wolf Lake! It’s a little known one with only one season, but the characters are well-developed, and the werewolves have hints of the kind of background history that I love. (Something to do with Vikings!) I was bummed when it got cancelled.
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MARY P
AUSTRALIA
My favorite urban fantasy creature would have to be vampires. They live such a dark existence.
I would never willingly choose to live in an urban fantasy universe. I’m too chicken. If I did I would want to be human.
My imagination does not go beyond the themes I Have already read.
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Hi, Rhiannon. THanks for joining us here at BBB!
I have a difficult time choosing a favorite UF creature. I enjoy reading about vampires, weres, ghosts, magic-wielders, and fae depictions. I really like the variety.
I will have to think a bit about your other two questions. However, I can say I would rather be human, whatever the fictional world is.
Rhiannon, what kinds of things do you enjoy doing for fun?
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I love to sing! I’m part of a community choir. I also like English Country and Contra dancing, though I don’t always get to do as much of those as I’d like. I do role-playing when I can, too.
I love the paranormal world created by Patricia Briggs. If I were living in her paranormal world, I think I would want to be Mercy because she is unique. But, I love urban fantasy and paranormal of all types. I have read quite a bit of urban fantasy but I haven’t seen many example of incorporating the less common pantheons in the stories. I have seen it in a few paranormals, though. = 1 point
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Jen B. – USA
Hi there! I have to say I love all types of creatures, but right now I’m on a vamp kick. I do like reading about weres too. And I saw this listed above, but I’d like to live in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar world. I’m actually doing a re-read of her books right now and I’d like to be a Herald. I also love Anne Bishop and I’d love to be a Witch in her world, but only under the reign of Janelle, or after her once the taint was cleansed. More types of shifters would be nice, I like some aspects of the whole steampunk genre, maybe mix some of that with more fantasy creatures/situations, but then I guess it wouldn’t be steampunk anymore. I don’t know.
I have this in my wish list at amazon, it looks good, I will be checking it out.
What are your thoughts on audiobooks?
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3. I would love to be Bella in Twilight, Edward Cullen’s love interest
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