Today on the Blog Ring of Power, we have Vera Nazarin, author of The Cobweb Bride, a book I read and enjoyed. She's here to tell us about her latest work.You can read the rest of the interview at the links below:About You : The Writing Life : The Creative Process : Words of Wisdom
Tell us about your new book and when it is out? Where can people purchase it?
Cobweb
Forest is book three of the Cobweb
Bride trilogy, and it concludes the very intricate Renaissance
historical epic fantasy romance story that is also a retelling of the
Persephone myth. More so than the first two books, this book is somewhat more
dark and yes, very intense. But it is also transcendent. The book was released
on December 31, 2013, in trade hardcover, trade paperback, and various ebook
formats. You can buy it anywhere online (Amazon, B&N, etc), and you can
also have your bookstores and libraries special order it. See the official
website for more info and buy links.
I really think this trilogy
has a fresh and original plot, and many mysterious twists and turns, and some
truly intense character relationships. I take the old trope of “death takes a
holiday” and twist it around and use it in a historical and mythic context,
plus throw in a whole bunch of cosmology and philosphy. To say any more would
be to give the story away.
What was the hardest part of writing this book?
The ending of a series is
always particularly difficult because the author is gently saying goodbye to
the characters and the world, and at the same time is responsible for a
satisfactory resolution, for tying up of all the plotlines and loose ends, and
that goes double (or triple, or quadruple) for an epic novel. In addition,
there is one part of the story which I cannot reveal now, but it nearly
destroyed me, while writing it. It was the single most difficult thing I’ve
ever had to write, and I cried all through it, both in first draft and during
edits. But it was cathartic, and necessary, and it turned out very well, I
believe.
What was your favorite chapter (or part) to write and why?
The long awaited appearance
of the various Greek Gods, especially sexy enigmatic Hades, was highly
enjoyable for me. There was one particular chapter that was extremely sexy and
erotic, and it revealed some interesting secrets. However, my absoltue
favoirite places involved romantic revelations for the major characters, with
much long awaited joy and exultation for the reader.
I learned that, as I wrote
in the beginning of the novel, “There is only Love—and Stories. All else is but
a shadow dream.”
Tell us about your book’s cover – where did the design come from and what
was the design process like?
As an award winning artist,
I myself designed and created all of the covers for this series. I use elements
of classical world art to put together magical and beautiful images that are
steeped in history and antiquity.
VERA NAZARIAN is a two-time Nebula Award Nominee,
award-winning artist, member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America,
and a writer with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder,
true love, and intricacy.
She is the author of
critically acclaimed novels Dreams of the Compass Rose and Lords
of Rainbow, as well as the outrageous parodies Mansfield Park and
Mummies and Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons, and
most recently, Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret in
her humorous and surprisingly romantic Supernatural Jane Austen Series,
and the epic Renaissance fantasy Cobweb Bride Trilogy.
After many years in Los
Angeles, Vera lives in a small town in Vermont, and uses her Armenian sense of
humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make
art.
Her official author website
is www.veranazarian.com
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The world is broken... A
dark Goddess rises. A mortal maiden must stop her.
COBWEB FOREST (Cobweb Bride
Trilogy, Book Three) is the third and final book of the intricate epic fantasy flavored by
Renaissance history and the romantic myth of Persephone, about death's
ultimatum to the world.
Percy Ayren, ordinary girl
from the small village of Oarclaven, and now Death's Champion, has delivered
the Cobweb Bride to Lord Death--or so she thinks!
But nothing is ever as easy
as it seems. Percy and Beltain Chidair, the valiant and honorable Black Knight,
discover that even more is at stake than anyone could have imagined, when
ancient gods enter the fray.
It is now a season of winter
darkness. Gods rise and walk the earth in unrelieved desire, and the Longest
Night is without end...
Meanwhile, landmarks
continue to disappear throughout the realm. The cruel Sovereign's dead armies
of the Trovadii clad in the colors of pomegranate and blood march north... As
the mad Duke Hoarfrost continues to lay siege to the city of Letheburg, it is
up to Claere Liguon, the Emperor's dead daughter and the passionate Vlau
Fiomarre who killed her, to take a stand against the enemy.
But Percy still has a
difficult task to do, the greatest task of all... For in the end the Cobweb
Bride awaits, together with the final answer.
At last all the occult
mysteries are revealed in this stunning conclusion to the Cobweb Bride trilogy.
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Is your book in print, ebook
or both?
Ebook, Trade Hardcover, and
Trade Paperback.
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