Good Morning, Booklovers!
Welcome to this week’s Coffee Chat. My guest is Alledria Hurt, featuring her YA supernatural/paranormal, Wearing His Ring (She Becomes Death Book #1).
It's nice to meet you Alledria. How do you take your coffee?
AH: Coffee is perhaps my favorite drink in the whole world. Depending on what’s available, or what kind, I might very well drink it black. When I fix it at home, I generally have coffee with a little bit of Sweet Cream creamer and no sugar. Just as an aside, I don’t think there is a bad time for coffee. I’ve literally had a cup, climbed into bed, and slept like a baby.
Ally: I envy you. If I drink coffee past three o’clock in the afternoon, I’m up all night. Or maybe the problem is the quantity I drink before three. Hmm. Anyway, I’ll have that coffee ready in a moment. While I pour, please tell readers a little of your background.
Welcome to this week’s Coffee Chat. My guest is Alledria Hurt, featuring her YA supernatural/paranormal, Wearing His Ring (She Becomes Death Book #1).
It's nice to meet you Alledria. How do you take your coffee?
AH: Coffee is perhaps my favorite drink in the whole world. Depending on what’s available, or what kind, I might very well drink it black. When I fix it at home, I generally have coffee with a little bit of Sweet Cream creamer and no sugar. Just as an aside, I don’t think there is a bad time for coffee. I’ve literally had a cup, climbed into bed, and slept like a baby.
Ally: I envy you. If I drink coffee past three o’clock in the afternoon, I’m up all night. Or maybe the problem is the quantity I drink before three. Hmm. Anyway, I’ll have that coffee ready in a moment. While I pour, please tell readers a little of your background.
Bio:
Alledria Hurt is a Northern transplant. Born in Pennsylvania, she currently resides in haunted Savannah, GA with her husband and two cats. She genre hops like a frog on a hot rock, though she most often returns to the adventures of Melina Camp (She Becomes Death).
Something Unique/Unusual not in my regular bio: “I’ve tried working in sales on a number of different occasions. Perhaps the strangest time was when I worked as a door to door salesperson of vacuum cleaners.”
Find her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Email:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ourladyofashes
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alledriahurt
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/alledriaehurt
Email: alledria@alledriahurt.com
Alledria Hurt is a Northern transplant. Born in Pennsylvania, she currently resides in haunted Savannah, GA with her husband and two cats. She genre hops like a frog on a hot rock, though she most often returns to the adventures of Melina Camp (She Becomes Death).
Something Unique/Unusual not in my regular bio: “I’ve tried working in sales on a number of different occasions. Perhaps the strangest time was when I worked as a door to door salesperson of vacuum cleaners.”
Find her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Email:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ourladyofashes
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alledriahurt
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/alledriaehurt
Email: alledria@alledriahurt.com
INTERVIEW:
Ally: What is your favorite social media? Why?
AH: Twitter, hands down. I love being able to put a thought out there and see it go around the world. I mostly use Facebook for keeping up with people I actually know whereas my Twitter is an open free-for-all of people I’ve been in contact with for every reason under the sun. Plus, I’m still learning Instagram. It’s mostly so I can show off pictures of my cats.
Ally: If you met Stephen King, what would you talk about?
AH: I’d probably gush inappropriately for several minutes about how I’ve been reading him since my wee formative years and how much I adore the breadth of his work before asking why the Dark Tower series feels like a very, very long discussion on obsession.
Ally: Do fans influence your writing? If so, in what way?
AH: You’re gonna laugh. My first novel length work was Chains of Fate, which I wrote as a standalone. When my mother, who is a busy teacher, finally got around to reading it a year after it came out, she came to me and said, “Well, where’s the rest?” I blinked a moment. “That’s it. Story over.” She refused to take that as an answer, so she badgered me into writing book two, Blades of Fate. Then I realized I wasn’t finished yet and wrote book three, Ruins of Fate. So the reason the Fate Circle Saga trilogy exists is because my first and biggest fan threw a mini-tantrum.
Ally: Have you written or considered writing in other genres or other forms, such as short stories or screenplays? Why or why not. Would they be easier, harder, or just different?
AH: Oddly enough, I have written short stories, screenplays, and just regular old theater plays. I like timed challenges such as Nanowrimo, which is what helped me write my very first novel length work which will never before God see the light of day. Yes, it’s that bad. However, it showed me it was possible. I have since participated in a self-run 30 stories in 30 days, 24 Hour Playfest, and 48 Film Project. Each of these challenges has taught me something a little different. However, what they have all taught me is: I can. If I want to, I can.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
AH: My work process is me writing one thing while editing another. I’m currently editing Rescue at Parmlir: Flights of Near Two for release in about two weeks, end of June. However, I’m writing Sisters which is a book about two sisters and their struggle against one another in a fantasy setting. There are demons and monsters and witches, but there is also a lot of intra-family angst.
Ally: I’m curious to see which of the short answer questions you chose to answer.
AH:
Ally: What is your favorite social media? Why?
AH: Twitter, hands down. I love being able to put a thought out there and see it go around the world. I mostly use Facebook for keeping up with people I actually know whereas my Twitter is an open free-for-all of people I’ve been in contact with for every reason under the sun. Plus, I’m still learning Instagram. It’s mostly so I can show off pictures of my cats.
Ally: If you met Stephen King, what would you talk about?
AH: I’d probably gush inappropriately for several minutes about how I’ve been reading him since my wee formative years and how much I adore the breadth of his work before asking why the Dark Tower series feels like a very, very long discussion on obsession.
Ally: Do fans influence your writing? If so, in what way?
AH: You’re gonna laugh. My first novel length work was Chains of Fate, which I wrote as a standalone. When my mother, who is a busy teacher, finally got around to reading it a year after it came out, she came to me and said, “Well, where’s the rest?” I blinked a moment. “That’s it. Story over.” She refused to take that as an answer, so she badgered me into writing book two, Blades of Fate. Then I realized I wasn’t finished yet and wrote book three, Ruins of Fate. So the reason the Fate Circle Saga trilogy exists is because my first and biggest fan threw a mini-tantrum.
Ally: Have you written or considered writing in other genres or other forms, such as short stories or screenplays? Why or why not. Would they be easier, harder, or just different?
AH: Oddly enough, I have written short stories, screenplays, and just regular old theater plays. I like timed challenges such as Nanowrimo, which is what helped me write my very first novel length work which will never before God see the light of day. Yes, it’s that bad. However, it showed me it was possible. I have since participated in a self-run 30 stories in 30 days, 24 Hour Playfest, and 48 Film Project. Each of these challenges has taught me something a little different. However, what they have all taught me is: I can. If I want to, I can.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
AH: My work process is me writing one thing while editing another. I’m currently editing Rescue at Parmlir: Flights of Near Two for release in about two weeks, end of June. However, I’m writing Sisters which is a book about two sisters and their struggle against one another in a fantasy setting. There are demons and monsters and witches, but there is also a lot of intra-family angst.
Ally: I’m curious to see which of the short answer questions you chose to answer.
AH:
- a. Favorite Book: Cell by Stephen King. I come back to this book about once a year. I have a funny story about the first time I read it. I was sitting in a Best Buy. I had just bought the book because I wanted to read it and I had time to kill because Geek Squad was working on my car stereo. I open the book and get sucked in. Just as I get to the part where everything goes apeshit, my little red Nokia starts ringing. I think my heart stopped out of fright. (Cell is about a group of survivors dealing with the world after an electronic pulse carried through cellphones causes most of the world to go batty and homicidal.) I declined that call so fast.
- b. My Pets: Two cats. Black and white, Uhura, and orange tabby, Tegami.
- c. Author I’d like to take to lunch: Edgar Allen Poe.
- d. High heels or sneakers: I wear sneakers more often, but I’m a sucker for a chunky heel.
- e. Favorite Quote: A writer isn’t a person. They are a lot of people trying to be a person. Or something like that.
- (Google says the author was F. Scott Fitzgerald —“Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”)
Wearing His Ring (She Becomes Death Book #1)
Genre: YA Supernatural/Paranormal adventure
Melina Camp’s life is far from enviable.
She’s the foundling daughter of a powerful magical family for whom only one person cares. Yet when the entire family is cursed to stone, it is up to her to free them within 28 days or watch them all die.
Faced with such a choice, she turns to her truest friend, the Immortal Death, for help, but Death has his own problems. As things deepen, it becomes clear someone wants to destroy Death and the Camp family, but who?
Buy Links:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wearing-Ring-Becomes-Death-Book-ebook/dp/B019HPF3O6/
iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/wearing-his-ring/id1084836211
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/601308
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wearing-his-ring-alledria-hurt/1123150633?ean=9780692643914
Other books in the She Becomes Death series on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KBD7WX4?ref_=dbs_r_series&storeType=ebooks
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