Ask the Author: Marie-Claude Bourque
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Marie-Claude Bourque
That is such a hard question. But usually, my mind just wander, especially if I am listening to music, and I have actual character conversations or visual imagery in my mind and I just have to put it down. It's like I have these people inside me who just need to have their story told.
Marie-Claude Bourque
I don't really get writer's block. I basically have ideas for a lifetime and more 😃 I do however have times when I am too exhausted from my day job and family responsibility to have the energy to write (I write at 5am before work) and I also get distracted easily so I have to install a social media blocker on my laptop!
Marie-Claude Bourque
I get all my ideas from a complex mix of my French Canadian heritage (lots and lots of old songs and legends I was taught as a child in Quebec), my travels (I lived all over Europe and America), the many jobs I had (Physicist, Oceanographer, fitness expert, science teacher...), the people I met and the media I consume. It's a really weird mix!
I was inspired to write about vampires in Montreal, first because I am from there and I have been fascinated by vampire stories for a while (Dracula movies, Anne Rice, Buffy). The witch/magic part of the book comes from all my research and interest in paganism since before I wrote my first novel which is full of witchcraft (Ancient Whispers) and the new vampire book is full of catholic references because our French Canadian society is steeped in.
Also I love the dilemma of someone being immortal. I think is must be a terrible burden and I wanted to explore that theme.
I was inspired to write about vampires in Montreal, first because I am from there and I have been fascinated by vampire stories for a while (Dracula movies, Anne Rice, Buffy). The witch/magic part of the book comes from all my research and interest in paganism since before I wrote my first novel which is full of witchcraft (Ancient Whispers) and the new vampire book is full of catholic references because our French Canadian society is steeped in.
Also I love the dilemma of someone being immortal. I think is must be a terrible burden and I wanted to explore that theme.
Marie-Claude Bourque
Of all the fictional world, it would the LOTR world. I'd stay with the elves in Rivendell :)
I don't think I could leave! It's too peaceful and beautiful.
I don't think I could leave! It's too peaceful and beautiful.
Marie-Claude Bourque
In the summer 2019, I reread the entire Janet Evanovitch Stephanie Plum series and Sue Grafton alphabet series. Then moved on to re-read MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. I was really really sad to hear when both Grafton and Beaton passed away. Both are in my top favorite mystery writers.
Marie-Claude Bourque
I just finished book 1 in The Order of the Black Oak - Vampires, the story of the Immortals of Mount-Royal. Set in Montreal, it has the same world and emotional, character-based timeless love stories found in the Warlocks series.
I just started book 2 in the same series (in Feb 2020)
I just started book 2 in the same series (in Feb 2020)
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