Keira: How many
books do you read per year?
Not as many as I used to before I was writing and in a
writing group. Since I am usually doing
3-4 chapters every two weeks from the group that cuts into it. However I normally have a fiction and
non-fiction book going so I would say better than thirty a year. Before I was writing it would have been two
or three times as many.
Keira: Who is
your favorite literary character?
Oh you are killing me.
How do I keep it to one? If I
have to commit to one, let me go with Dard Nordis of the Stars are Ours, brave,
decent and devoted he was a real young person trying to fit into a universe
that did not make easy allowance for him
Keira: Is there
one author that you have read every book that they have written?
There are two. Andre
Norton and CJ Cherryh
Keira: In your
opinion what is the best movie adaptation of a book that you've read?
It would have to be the Lord of the Rings. Jackson did a near perfect job of balancing
the needs of the movie with respect for the text
Keira: When you
are browsing book stores what is the first section you go to?
What I read, SF & F, then over to the History Section.
Keira: If you had
the chance to have a sit down with any author alive or deceased who would it be
and why?
I have been fortunate to sit down with some living
ones. Of the living I have yet to meet
would be CJ Cherryh. Of those who have
gone into the great beyond, Andre Norton.
A little bit about Edwards work.
Was Once A Hero, for sale now.
Reluctant privateer Robert Fenaday searches the stars for
his lost love, Lisa, a naval intelligence officer whose ship disappeared near
the end of the Conchirri War. He’s joined by the genetically engineered
assassin, Shasti Rainhell, whose cold perfection masks her dark past. Both are
blackmailed by government spymaster, Mandela, into a suicidal mission to the
doomed planet Enshar. Leading a team of scientists and soldiers, they must
unravel the mystery of that planet’s death before an ancient force reaches out
to claim their lives.
The classic Planet Stories of S/F have suffered abandonment,
without a rescuer, until now. Edward McKeown's "Was Once A Hero"
combines adventure and romance with the dark humor and human complexities
absent from a more black-and-white age. Robert Fenaday and Shasti Rainhell are
real people. They make mistakes, they hurt, they stumble in the dark
emotionally, and they save the world. They are flawed, wounded heroes, and they
make you realize, as you hungrily turn each page, that the best fiction
contains excitement and passion; and the best aspect of life is the possibility
of personal redemption. Was Once a Hero provides both." Tim McLoughlin,
author of "Heart of the Old Country" (Movie Title: The Narrows) and
Editor of "Brooklyn Noir"
Buy it now on
Amazon
Coming in the late fall of 2012
Fearful Symmetry is the second of three novels concerning
Robert Fenaday’s search for his wife Lisa, and his companion and sometime lover
Shasti Rainhell’s search for her humanity. The trilogy is written so the reader
can pick up any of the books and have a complete SF adventure in hand, yet all
three form the overarching story of Robert’s quest and Shasti’s emotional voyage
of self-discovery. Robert Fenaday, reluctant privateer, and the genetically
engineered, but emotionally crippled, Shasti Rainhell have survived the terror
of the doomed planet Enshar. Fenaday, now wealthy, returns to New Eire to
restart his life. Something unexpected has grown between he and Shasti. Love?
Perhaps, Shasti cannot tell. Her hard, cold life has little prepared her for
such feelings, which both exhilarate and terrify her.
On a mission to Earth, Shasti is intercepted by the
Confederate spymaster, Mandela, who offers her one of her heart’s desires,
revenge on her abusive creator, Jalgren Pard, leader of a guild of assassins on
her homeworld of Olympia.
Torn between a new life and an old hate, Shasti falls back
on what she knows best, death. She joins a Confederate team dropped on Olympia
to assassinate Pard. But disaster overtakes the team. Shasti and the survivors
must flee and hide on a world rife with murder and intrigue. Fenaday learns of
the mission and launches a rescue, gathering old friends and new, as well as an
old enemy, the cyborg, Mmok, who serves only Mandela.
Edwards tour will be concluded on
Thank you for stopping by :)
Keira Kroft
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