Ask the Author: Frank Talaber
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Frank Talaber
The noose swings in time to the memories of the past. As I sit smoking and ponder how I got here in the first place?
Frank Talaber
Anything about Scottish celtic legends, myths.
Frank Talaber
Why or what was scratching my tent when I went for a hike in about eight kilometers and camped in a tent with no one else around.
Frank Talaber
My son is a chef at Nautical Nellie's in Victoria and he said the kitchen is haunted. In my research I found out it is and so is a lot of Victoria. In fact Victoria is the most haunted city in Canada.
Frank Talaber
That comes from the storyteller inside of me. I always ask myself the question, What if? What if this happened with this. Or What made that person the way they are today?
Frank Talaber
I'm wrapping up the edits to my new Series, The Ainsworth Chronicles. Book One, The Joining. Here's A blurb about it:
Undercover at Victoria’s Empress Hotel, police detective Carol Ainsworth has to deal with two American Mafia cartels coming in for a wedding. Easy-peasy, everyone has a lovely cup of tea, says their ‘I Do’s’ and everyone is happy. Or so it seems until young boys start disappearing, a crazy old psychic woman shows up bearing a crystal skull and one of the mobsters is found hanged in his room by what appears to be a ghost. Carol quickly discovers that Victoria has several satanic cults and more resident ghosts than all of Canada and something is rattling their chains.
Toss in a hunky FBI agent, a hunkier Italian mobster, both of which want to investigate more of Carol than she is willing to reveal and you’ve one threesome that is going to raise some hell. Literally.
Speaking of unwanted hellions being invited to town, and I’m not talking the red-headed whip-wielding dominatrix that shows up, there is one guest that generates more heat than a habanero-infused curry.
Come visit Victoria. No longer the staid, stiff-upper-lip, more-English-than-the-English town of fish and chips. Stick around while the tea is hot, the ghosts are walking and - did I mention? - the scones are pretty darn good as well.
Undercover at Victoria’s Empress Hotel, police detective Carol Ainsworth has to deal with two American Mafia cartels coming in for a wedding. Easy-peasy, everyone has a lovely cup of tea, says their ‘I Do’s’ and everyone is happy. Or so it seems until young boys start disappearing, a crazy old psychic woman shows up bearing a crystal skull and one of the mobsters is found hanged in his room by what appears to be a ghost. Carol quickly discovers that Victoria has several satanic cults and more resident ghosts than all of Canada and something is rattling their chains.
Toss in a hunky FBI agent, a hunkier Italian mobster, both of which want to investigate more of Carol than she is willing to reveal and you’ve one threesome that is going to raise some hell. Literally.
Speaking of unwanted hellions being invited to town, and I’m not talking the red-headed whip-wielding dominatrix that shows up, there is one guest that generates more heat than a habanero-infused curry.
Come visit Victoria. No longer the staid, stiff-upper-lip, more-English-than-the-English town of fish and chips. Stick around while the tea is hot, the ghosts are walking and - did I mention? - the scones are pretty darn good as well.
Frank Talaber
Write, write and write some more. Best advise is learn writing flow. Everyday sit down and write for 10-20 minutes, nonstop. Eventually it becomes natural and you can't stop what begins to flow from the mind.
Frank Talaber
It allows me use of my creativity. Otherwise I'd be locked up in a loony bin. I'm a natural storyteller.
Frank Talaber
Oddly I don't get writers block. If I get stumped on a scene in a novel, I just let it sit in my mind and work on something else. Trusting that the answer is busy percolating away in my subconscious and sooner than later it just comes out. If that doesn't work I put pencil to paper and begin sweating blood until I get my answer. LOL.
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