Ask the Author: Beth Hilgartner
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Beth Hilgartner
Since there's still over a foot of snow on the ground, I'm not really ready to think about my summer reading list. That said, I'll probably re-read some Patricia McKillip (Od Magic is probably due, and maybe Fool's Run); hope that Lois Bujold has another Penric novella out; and read what ever's new in the Liaden chronicles (by Sharon Lee). There will also be things I haven't got on my radar yet; I listen to a ton of Audiobooks, and there's new stuff coming along all the time. Hope this helps.
Beth Hilgartner
Horror really isn't my jam, but how's this?
An unelected, ethically challenged billionaire takes over the US federal government and starts dismantling it. His twenty-something computer hacking henchmen screw up the system controlling the nuclear arsenal and bombs are launched accidentally.
An unelected, ethically challenged billionaire takes over the US federal government and starts dismantling it. His twenty-something computer hacking henchmen screw up the system controlling the nuclear arsenal and bombs are launched accidentally.
Beth Hilgartner
I'm afraid you'll find this a bit of a cop out, but I actually really like it, here. I do "travel" to other worlds, but I like doing it through the pages of the author's book (so I can close the book and come home, whenever I like). I do really enjoy Lois Bujold's Five Gods world, but I'm not sure I'd want to actually go there!
Beth Hilgartner
The way my creative process works, even if there were a mystery in my life that I could make into a plot for a book, you wouldn't recognize it when I was done. I'll give you an example: when I wrote Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom (which, in case you haven't read it, is a fantasy dealing with what happens when the main character stops her car on the Interstate, walks into the woods, and ends up in another world, where it turns out she has a destiny and a task to fulfill), what I was working on in my own life was my call to the priesthood (in the Episcopal church): something I felt I was being called into, but that I felt unequal to. Not exactly mystery-book material, but there it is.
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