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Rosemary Jones
genre young adult fantasy
home town Seattle, WA
home on the web
www.rosemaryjones.com
novels:
City of the Dead (Waterdeep #4), published by Wizards of the Coast
Crypt of the Moaning Diamond (Dungeons #4), published by Wizards of the Coast
current projects:
I'm currently finishing or have just completed stories for three anthologies
coming out between December 2009 and June 2010: Cobalt City Christmas (Timid
Pirates Productions), Realms of the Dead (Wizards of the Coast), and Close
Encounters of the Urban Kind (Apex).
places where books are available for purchase
All the Wizards of the Coast books are currently available at bookstores
stocking the Forgotten Realms line as well as most online outlets. The other
anthologies are available online or by special order from the publishers.
Interview questions
How did you get your start in writing?
I won an essay contest in high school and received $50 and publication in our
local daily newspaper: the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The newspaper closed its
print edition this year but I'm still writing.
who are your biggest influences
For writing, it varies by the time of day or year that you ask that question. I
have a huge collection of books and some days it will be Dickens or Kipling,
other days Tanith Lee or Stan Lee. Tomorrow it will be someone else.
What is your biggest inspiration when creating?
Deadlines. Quite seriously, having a deadline makes it easier for me to glue my
fingers to the keyboard. It comes from having a long history as a journalist and
having to produce work week after week, whether I was feeling inspired or not.
Could you give us the details of your current project?
I've been busy finishing up three very different short stories for anthologies.
The one for Realms of the Dead adds a bit more to the Carver family legend, the
heroine's family in City of the Dead. I finished a short Christmas story with
superheroes for Cobalt City Christmas -- that was great fun as I'm a fan of this
series. And, finally, I'm completing a science fiction/horror story for Apex:
something quite different from my usual fantasy fiction.
What is the next goal you would like to achieve with your writing?
I'd love to start a series and hang out with my characters for more than one
book or short story.
Final four (questions we ask all interviewees)
When the zombies take over the world where will you be?
Under the bed, calling for help. I am not going down the dark staircase with
the faltering flashlight.
Jedi, Ninja, vampire, were-wolf, pirate, fairy or Spartan?
For a date or as a role model? Dinner out with a pirate -- although it has to be
on land! Would love to have the personal discipline to be a Jedi.
What one piece of art, be it music, book, film or picture, do you think people
must experience before they die?
Eeek, just one? Can I say complete works of William Shakespeare? Is that
cheating? But you should also take a day to walk through a museum, watch an
opera, listen to a symphony, go to the movies, and check out as many books from
the library as they will let you carry forth. Sorry, there is no one perfect
piece and you need to see and experience as much as possible. I'll happily send
you a list of all the great adventures you can have in Seattle if you visit.
Give one fact that most people would not believe about you?
Apparently that I can cook. Every time I host a large dinner, somebody always
says "wow, you can cook." This is because I do have the world's smallest kitchen
(by design) and love to eat out.
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