I met Pauline Creeden earlier this year, and I recently had the opportunity to interview her. Pauline’s upcoming release, Scales, a mermaid novella, is a part of the Falling in Deep collection and will be available on Tuesday. (Be sure to enter the giveaway!)
Tell me about you. What do you write?
I’m a work-from-home mother of one fourteen-year-old boy, horse trainer, blogger, and author. I write hopeful fiction from a dark prospective. My characters go through hard times but always come out stronger in the end.
When did you start writing? When did you start publishing?
My father gave me a typewriter for Christmas when I was about 9 years old, because I wanted to be a writer. I wrote several short stories for classes in Creative Writing, a few of which were published in e-zines and newsletters. My first novel was written in 2011, and that’s when I also started my self-publishing career. It wasn’t until after I started self-publishing that I also began submitting works to publishers and presses. That first novel I wrote in 2011 wasn’t the first one I published, but it was published by Prism Book Group in 2014.
Has there been a progression through genres in your writing?
Whatever story hits me hardest is the one that I write. It’s easier for me that way. I don’t limit myself to reading one genre, and though my editor tells me I need to stick with one, I can’t write in one, either.
What authors do you like to read?
Tommie Lyn, Sheila Hollinghead, Susan Ee, Amy Bartol, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis – my tastes are pretty eclectic.
You have something coming later this month. Tell me about that.
Scales is coming out later this month. It’s a mermaid fantasy story from the Falling In Deep Collection. The mermaids in the story are written from a more realistic marine biology prospective – with claws – and have Vulcan-like personalities. I originally was writing a different story for the Falling In Deep Collection, but it turned into a novel – so Scales is actually a prequel story for the novel.
Part Two of my interview with Pauline Creeden will post on May 26, 2015.
Here is an excerpt from Scales:
TO KEEP FROM SCREAMING, I bite hard on my lip. The copper mixture of blood and saltwater mingles on my tongue. Mer claws rake against my back. The barnacles on the post to which I’m tied stab me in the chest. Pain sets my body on fire. Everything burns. I squeeze my eyes shut tight and keep my silence.
“Ugly.”
“Repugnant.”
“Unsightly.”
“Ignorant.”
“Bottom Feeder.”
Each word cuts as deep in my flesh as the physical wounds my clan inflicts. It can’t last long. I can endure this. As soon as the sharks catch scent of my blood they will come, and the Mer will scatter.
The world spins around me like a whirlpool. My breaths come quick and shallow, my heart pounds faster in my ears. Each second is an eternity, until I realize fresh wounds are not adding to the burning in my skin.
The elder’s sharp tongue whispers in my ear. “Now you will be measured.”
My wrists fall free of the post as he cuts the ties.
Exile. My Reckoning has begun.
Buy Scales for your library (:
I was able to get my hands on an ARC copy – you’re going to love it!
About the Author:
Pauline Creeden is an award-winning author, horse trainer, and overall book ninja. She becomes the main character in each of her stories, and because she has ADD, she will get bored if she pretends to be one person for too long. Her debut novel, Sanctuary, won 1st Place Christian YA Title 2013 Dante Rosetti Award and 2014 Gold Award for First Place YA Horror Novel.
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Website: http://paulinecreeden.com
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/P_Creeden
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As a part of the Falling in Deep Collection, we’re offering a giveaway!
Love mermaids? Looking for a great beach read? The Falling in Deep Collection, a collection of 15 unique tales of creatures of the deep, is rolling out the first novella in their collection at the end of May.
From mermaids to sirens, Miami to Athens, dark paranormal romance to contemporary stories with steam, the fifteen award-winning and best-selling authors of the Falling in Deep Collection are bringing you mermaid tales like you’ve never seen before.
Every week beginning May 26th, 2015, we’ll be releasing one unique, never-before-published novella! Each novella will feature our favorite creature of the deep: mermaids.
The Falling in Deep Collection (May – September Releases)
Ink: A Mermaid Romance by Melanie Karsak
Of Ocean and Ash by A. R. Draeger
Deep Breath by J. M. Miller
At the Heart of the Deep by Carrie Wells
The Mermaid’s Den by Ella Malone
The Water is Sweeter by Eli constant
The Glass Mermaid by Poppy Lawless
An Officer & a Mermaid by Blaire Edens
How to be a Mermaid by Erin Hayes
Cold Water Bridegroom by B. Brumley
A Beyond the Sea Prequel by Emily Goodwin
Immersed by Katie Hayoz
Siren’s Kiss by Margo Bond Collins
To Each His Own by Anna Albergucci
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