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Author of the Month: an interview with Lora Innes

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For this month’s Author, I’m very pleased to present Lora Innes– the author, artist, and creator behind the the critically acclaimed comic “The Dreamer,” from IDW Publishing. “The Dreamer,” a sweeping time travel romance set in both the modern day and the Revolutionary War, is one of the breakout hits of the webcomic world, because Lora is someone who can do it all: write, draw, paint and conceptualize on an epic scale. (She’s even the co-host of the Paperwings Podcast, which I highly recommend for any creative.) Lora is actually the reason I’m doing interviews in the first place; I wanted to interview her back in 2008, but I haven’t had the chance to do it until now. Lora’s been interviewed many times before about her artwork, but this time I wanted to take a different tack and ask her about being an author.

Lora Innes

Hi Lora! Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from? Where did you go to school?

I’m from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I lived there my entire life until I went to the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. Met a boy, fell in love, married him… you know the drill. So I’m still in Columbus. Continue reading “Author of the Month: an interview with Lora Innes” »

Take me back to Camelot

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Camelot with Michael York

I’ve been having a lot of problems with the internet lately– I’ve hardly been able to get online at all, except at Starbucks (which explains why I haven’t been able to blog as much as I would like). So I’ve been reading a lot of time travel romances. That genre has been on my brain a lot, since I just wrote one.

My absolute favorite time travel novels ever tend to be soft science-fiction– I’m thinking mainly of the brilliant and surreal “The Green Futures of Tycho” by William Sleator, Octavia Butler’s classic “Kindred,” and “The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis, which makes the 14th century so alive, you feel like you’re actually there. But if we’re talking about time travel romance, my tastes vary. There’s “The Mirror” by Marlys Milhauser (an edgy, twisted but sexy book which is really more romance/horror/paranormal)– but I also like books less dark, like Elizabeth Chater’s “The Elsingham Portrait” and Laurie Viera Rigler’s “Confession of a Jane Austen Addict.” I also enjoyed Amy Elizabeth Saunder’s “Enchanted Time” and Rebecca East’s “AD 62,” which is flawed but very fun, with a sexy but scholarly Roman hero. (How often do you see that?) Continue reading “Take me back to Camelot” »