The Artist’s Inheritance has plenty of paranormal activity. Your lead
character Caitlin develops precognitive abilities. What is she able to sense
with her unique skills?
Caitlin begins seeing ghosts, most
especially the ghosts of Trevor (her husband)’s dead brother and sister. But
she can also sense there’s something not quite human about the men and women
who start coming to call on her husband. She can’t exactly say what they are,
at the outset, she just knows they’re different—and in some cases, extremely
dangerous. Not to mention something very strange about the chair Trevor’s
making.
These abilities are new to Caitlin. Do they frighten her? Does she deny them or eventually come to accept them?
She doesn’t really deny them, but they confuse her as much as frighten her. However, she gains three friends who are witches, and they help Caitlin make sense of her new ability. Through them, she becomes very comfortable in her new skin, so to speak.
The ornately carved chair that her husband, Trevor, seems driven to create attracts dark forces. Describe what these forces are like. Does he realize those forces are there? What effect do they have on him? On Caitlin?
The main one is an imp who takes on a human form (a being that harries humans just for its own amusement)—though Cait and Trevor’s is more of the life-threatening variety. Unfortunately for Trevor, he doesn’t understand the danger of the being. In fact he sees the “man” as his mentor—despite the fact that it keeps pushing him away from what he needs to do: sell his work. Instead, it keeps his artistic drive way up and keeps him working and reworking it, to the point of exhaustion. Caitlin realizes there’s something strange going on and tries to convince Trevor to ease up. Give the chair away, sell it, abandon it, whatever, and this causes tension between them and strains their marriage.
Why does Caitlin suspect those are the same dark forces that drove Trevor’s siblings to insanity and suicide?
What hope does Caitlin have to help save Trevor from the same fate? What can
she do?
These abilities are new to Caitlin. Do they frighten her? Does she deny them or eventually come to accept them?
She doesn’t really deny them, but they confuse her as much as frighten her. However, she gains three friends who are witches, and they help Caitlin make sense of her new ability. Through them, she becomes very comfortable in her new skin, so to speak.
The ornately carved chair that her husband, Trevor, seems driven to create attracts dark forces. Describe what these forces are like. Does he realize those forces are there? What effect do they have on him? On Caitlin?
The main one is an imp who takes on a human form (a being that harries humans just for its own amusement)—though Cait and Trevor’s is more of the life-threatening variety. Unfortunately for Trevor, he doesn’t understand the danger of the being. In fact he sees the “man” as his mentor—despite the fact that it keeps pushing him away from what he needs to do: sell his work. Instead, it keeps his artistic drive way up and keeps him working and reworking it, to the point of exhaustion. Caitlin realizes there’s something strange going on and tries to convince Trevor to ease up. Give the chair away, sell it, abandon it, whatever, and this causes tension between them and strains their marriage.
Why does Caitlin suspect those are the same dark forces that drove Trevor’s siblings to insanity and suicide?
There are certain similarities in the way
Trevor’s brother and sister acted before their deaths. And of course with this
being a thread throughout their family’s long history, and with Caitlin’s own
dreams (and possible past life) tied into the lot, she can’t believe these
things aren’t connected.
The side of me that’s the evil creator of the villains wants to say
“Absolutely Nothing! Muwahaha!” but
of course, that’s not so. The good side of me says that she, knowing the
family’s history, listening to the dreams she’s been having, and the little
nudges from her guardian ghost, make her determined not to let Trevor fall prey
to this…whatever’s going on, if it kills her. She’s very stubborn like that.
She’s going to have to learn some things she never thought possible in order to
save her husband: magic and to fight, not with him but for him. She’s going to have to stop backing down and force him to
make a choice: Their love, or his art. Which would you choose?
Blurb:
Settling into their new
home in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Caitlin finds strange changes coming over her
husband Trevor. He seems obsessed with a beautiful chair he’s carving.
When the nightmares deepen
and ghosts begin lurking—she knows something’s not right, and not just her
newfound precognitive abilities. It’s the damned chair, she’s sure. Could it be
just what it seems: a mundane piece of furniture? If so, why is it attracting
dark forces—the forces she suspects drove Trevor’s siblings to insanity and
suicide?
Before the same happens to
Trevor, Caitlin must convince him to sell his art. But armed with only a
handful of allies, and little experience of the supernatural, she must proceed
with caution against the hellish forces besieging her family. If she succeeds,
she will break the ancestral curse. If she fails, she may lose forever the one
thing she cares about most: her beloved Trevor.
The Artist’s Inheritance is
coming soon in paperback to Createspace; meanwhile, the Kindle book is
available now at Amazon:
and it’s also in various
formats at Smashwords:
Author Bio:
Juli D. Revezzo has long been in love with
writing, a love built by devouring everything from the Arthurian legends, to
the works of Michael Moorcock, and the classics and has a soft spot for classic
the “Goths” of the 19th century, in love of which she received a Bachelor’s
degree in literature from the University of South Florida. Her short fiction
has been published in Dark Things II: Cat Crimes, The Scribing Ibis,
Eternal Haunted Summer, Twisted Dreams Magazine and Luna
Station Quarterly. She also has an article and book review or two out
there. But her heart lies in the storytelling. She is a member of the Romance
Writers of America, the Tampa Area Romance Authors, and the special interest
RWA chapter Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal. The Artist’s Inheritance is her
first novel.
Juli
D. Revezzo’s site links:
on
twitter: http://twitter.com/juliannewrites
on
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/JD-Revezzo/233193150037011
on Good Reads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5782712.Juli_D_Revezzo
Thanks for having me here
today!
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Marsha A. Moore is a writer of fantasy romance. The magic of art and nature spark life into her writing. Read her ENCHANTED BOOKSTORE
LEGENDS for adventurous epic fantasy romance: Book One, SEEKING A SCRIBE, and Book Two, HERITAGE AVENGED.
She has also authored the Ciel's Legacy series, with fast action mermaid/pirate storylines: TEARS ON A TRANQUIL LAKE and TORTUGA TREASURE. For a FREE ebook download, read her historic fantasy, LE CIRQUE DE MAGIE, available at Amazon and Smashwords.
3 comments:
Thank you for hosting me today, Marsha! It's always a pleasure visiting with you!
Always glad to have you spend a day! Wishing you much success with your new release.
I appreciate that Marsha. Been looking forward to this for a while, my friend. :)
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