Ask the Author: C.S. O’Cinneide

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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

C.S. O’Cinneide Everything was as it always was.
Then suddenly, it wasn't.

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

C.S. O’Cinneide I think I'd like to go to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World so I could go on "soma holiday." But only for a little while.

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How do you get inspired to write?

C.S. O’Cinneide Music. I can't play it when I am actually writing, but each character in my books has their own theme song that I like to listen to before I start. Candace Starr, the six foot three hitwoman featured in my tongue-in-cheek crime novel,The Starr Sting Scale (Feb 2020) really likes grooving to Bad to the Bone.

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

C.S. O’Cinneide Tell the stories you love, not the stories you think people want to hear.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

C.S. O’Cinneide Just start writing, even if you think it is stinks. Somewhere in that heap of dung will be a whiff of brilliance.

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

C.S. O’Cinneide I walked the 800 km pilgrimage in Spain called the Camino de Santiago. While I was there a woman was abducted and murdered. This served as the inspiration for my novel, Petra's Ghost, a gothic mystery thriller set on the Camino.

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

C.S. O’Cinneide My great great aunt was a maid in the Roosevelt household. After several failed pregnancies Mrs. Roosevelt and she went away for a while. When they came back they had a baby with them that would become the 32nd president of the United States.
When my aunt died she was buried in the Roosevelt family plot. Could she have provided services to the household that went deeper than the typical maidservant?

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