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Please tell the readers a little about yourself:
I’m a professional flutist by night, writer by day.
I use visual imagery to make the music come alive, and over the years my flute
students told me to write my stories down. So here I am today!
How about your latest release?
Paradise 21 is an action adventure sci fi romance
with space pirates. If you liked Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars,
Serenity, or even Pirates of the Caribbean, you might enjoy Paradise 21.
What was your primary inspiration for this book?
I thought: what could be better than pirates in
space?
And, seriously, I always wondered how humankind will
battle the upcoming population crisis, and what we’ll do when Earth’s resources
are used up. Paradise 21 is about colonizing different planets, and surviving after
Earth’s demise.
Do you have any muses?
Yes: my Jack Sparrow pirate head beads: still in the
plastic case they came in, because they are too precious to take out. They are
my lucky charm for writing. I also have a fairy godmother figurine whose wand
is aimed at my computer screen.
Do you control your characters or do they flog you
into shape?
I start by controlling them, but soon they take
control and take me for a ride! I learn things about them I never knew, and
they surprise me each and every day. Probably the most horrifying aspect is
that each one of them has a piece of me in them. Which piece I won’t tell!
When you write, is there a special routine you
follow?
I usually write early in the day before I teach
flute lessons, and then late at night before bed. I always read the previous
day’s writing before I start to keep the narrative continuous and fix up any
typos or consistency issues I made in the first draft.
If you could be one animal, person, or at a place for
a day what/who/where would it be?
Animal: Unicorn- because they live forever and are
magical and beautiful
Person: James Galway (famous flute player)
Place: Tatooine from Star Wars (Although I’d need a
bodyguard. It’s a pretty tough place!)
Five random facts about you:
- I have way
too many guppies. They all started having babies, and now I have two tanks
with about thirty of them in each. (Anyone want to adopt a fish or maybe
six or sixteen?)
- I love
candy- so much that I have to hide it or throw it away or I’ll eat the
whole bag.
- I watched
every episode of LOST and am sad that it’s done. L
- I tried to
write horror stories and realized I’m just not scary.
- I used to
be afraid of E.T. growing up. It was the first movie my mom took me to and
I hated him. (Now I know he’s a good guy!)
Are you working on any new releases later this year?
I just finished edits on Tundra 37, the sequel to
Paradise 21. This will come out in January (for anyone who enjoyed Paradise
21). Currently I’m working on Haven 6, the third book in the series.
A novella tie-in tentatively called A Hero Rising is
coming out this spring about the fall of Old Earth. It even has zombies!!! (Not
sure if they are scary. I’m working on it).
Anything else you’d like to say?
Thank you for having me on your blog today!
Aubrie Dionne can be found at:
Twitter:
@authoraubrie
Website: www.authoraubrie.com
Blog:
http://authoraubrie.blogspot.com
Book
Blurb:
Aries
has lived her entire life aboard mankind’s last hope, the New Dawn, a
spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew—a planet that
won’t be reached in Aries’ lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable
women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce
the next generation for this centuries-long voyage.
But
Aries has other plans.
When
her desperate escape from the New Dawn strands her on a desert planet, Aries
discovers the rumors about pirates—humans who escaped Earth before its demise—are
true. Handsome, genetically imperfect Striker possesses the freedom Aries
envies, and the two connect on a level she never thought possible. But pursued
by her match from above and hunted by the planet’s native inhabitants, Aries
quickly learns her freedom will come at a hefty price.
The
life of the man she loves.
Excerpt:
“Might
as well stay here and make camp for the night.”
His casual tone stung her composure. How
could he talk of such mundane things when they’d almost been captured, when
she’d touched him so tenderly?
“We’ll let them get farther away,” Striker
explained, reasonable as always. “We’re going in their direction
tomorrow.”
The sting of rejection grew, burning a hole
in her heart. “Why?”
“Why what?”
Her lips trembled. “Why not kiss me like
you did before?”
“I can’t.” He shook his head, and the air
cooled between them; so much so, Aries wondered if the desert had turned
into deep space.
He’d teased her with such affection before,
it was cruel to take it away. “I don’t understand,” she said, wishing she
didn’t care, wishing she could stop all the emotions he’d started in her
heart.
Aries caught a glimpse of pain etched in
the wrinkles around his eyes. Striker turned away and started pulling
supplies out of his backpack. “I can’t do this.”
“Do what?”
Striker shook his head and Aries prompted,
“Can’t kiss me, can’t trust me? What?”
“I can’t allow myself to get tangled up
with someone. Not again.”
The thoughts of Striker with another woman
confused her. On the New Dawn, everyone had one lifemate and that was it.
“You mean you loved someone before?”
Striker’s hand tightened on the backpack.
“I trusted someone a long time ago, allowed myself to love, if you will.
She hurt me so much I lost my entire life and ended up here. I can’t experience
that kind of pain again.”
Aries clasped her hand over her heart. “I’m
so sorry.”
He waved her apology off as if it meant
nothing. “It’s a tough world, Aries. And it’s dangerous to love. If I were
you, I’d keep my heart well-guarded, because you never know when it will
affect your decisions, when it will make you weak.”
Aries couldn’t take his advice. Watching
him talk about his past made her realize she’d already given up her heart.
He had it.
Aubrie is an author and flutist in New England. Her
stories have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade, A Fly in Amber,
and several print anthologies including Skulls and Crossbones by Minddancer Press, Rise of the Necromancers, by Pill Hill
Press, Nightbird Singing in the Dead of Night by Nightbird Publishing, Dragontales
and Mertales by Wyvern Publications, A Yuletide Wish by Nightwolf
Publications, and Aurora Rising by
Aurora Wolf Publications. Her epic fantasy is published with Wyvern
Publications, and several of her ebooks are published with Lyrical Press and
Gypsy Shadow Publishing. When she’s not writing, she plays in orchestras and
teaches flute at Plymouth State University and a community music school.
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Thank you for this fantastic interview!
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