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Author Interview: Henry Mitchell

1. How did you choose your genre? What made you write this book?

I’ve never considered genre as a particularly valid classification. Publishers and marketers seem obsessed with it, though. I’m always attracted to things that appear out of place, not to fit in the commonly accepted scheme. My stories tend to contain characters and events that are contrary to ordinary. Other people assign them to genre. My first publisher, after three novels, suggested delicately, “Maybe you should search out a genre publisher for this one.” It turned out to be good advice.

2. Writers write what they know, and must observe the world. Are you a firstborn, middle or last child, and how does this shape your view of the world?

I am a firstborn who was a great mystery and disappointment to my parents. Through my life, I’ve found my welcome most readily among strangers. I tend to get attached to places more than to people (there are exceptions, few, and significant).

3. Where is your favorite place to write?

I share a workspace with my wife (aka The Main Muse). When we moved to this old (ca 1893) house, it was an open porch, which we enclosed and winterized.

We call it the newsroom because we often sit out here and stream the evening news. It is on the back of the house, quiet, and has a view of our vegetable garden.

4. How do you feel about killing your darlings, and what do you do with the remains?

No darling that does not serve the story is safe with me, although might hope for resurrection in some future tale.

5. You are introduced to your favorite author. Who is it, and what is that one burning question you must ask them?

If I were introduced to Ron Rash, I would ask, “What are you working on?”

6. Inquiring minds want to know…tell readers something about you that no one knows.

Of course, all your readers know it now, but I once voted for Richard Nixon.

7. You are stranded on a deserted island with only a backpack for company. What three items are in your survival pack?

Tea. Notebook (paper). Pencil.

8. If you could have one superpower in your existence, what would it be?

Mind reading. Do we really do anything without thinking?

9. Favorite snack?

Kale chips. We grow our own.

10. Indy 500 – Do you know how to get where you’re going or do you drive the speed limit?

I know where I am and I drive as fast or slow as need requires.

The Winged Child

by Henry Mitchell

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GENRE: Fantasy

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BLURB:

An adult fairytale about a girl who might know how to fly, a neurobotanist who might be a dragon, an innkeeper who might be a machine and a politician who might be the antichrist.

Millicent McTeer grows to adulthood in Ashton, an Appalachian tourist town, convinced she knows how to fly. With a new president in power, the life Millicent knew changes. The government has spies on every corner, coercing citizens to follow the new order. As the country descends into anarchy, Millicent is drawn into political activism by her professor and becomes an exile.

In the Laurel Creek Containment District, separated from the chaos of the Atlantic American Republic, she finds a new life. As she develops her unique abilities and leads the exiles, incursions from the outside world threaten to destroy the tranquil life they have built together. Will Millicent reclaim her reality and discover the peace that has eluded her?

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Excerpt:

“Do you have wings, Dad?”

“Sure I do. Runs in the family.”

“So, why don’t you ever fly?”

Joshua shot her a convincingly wistful glance. “Grownups aren’t allowed to fly in this country, Angel. Otherwise, on special occasions, like birthdays, I just might.”

“That would be showing off,” said Millicent, affecting her mother’s stern expression.

“I suppose it would, but that didn’t stop you trying, did it?”

Millicent couldn’t summon a proper retort, stared intently at the road ahead.

 Joshua rescued her from silence. “Anyway, grownups can’t fly, except on airplanes. It’s the law.”

“Then, I don’t want to grow up,” declared Millicent. “Ever.”

“I truly hope you don’t,” said her father, watching the truck in front of them turn without flashing a signal. “I hope that when you become a woman grown and strong, you are still my little girl inside.”

Millicent found no more words to say over the next two blocks until they turned onto McTeer Street. Ahead, she could see Hillhaven, the inn that had been run by their family ever since her great-grandmother Alice inherited it from her employer and life-long friend, who had no family of her own to whom she could pass it on.

“Will you always be my dad?” Millicent asked, gazing up at her father, who kept his eyes on his road.

“I’ll always be your dad, Angel,” he said. “Ever and ever amen.”

That sounded to her like an impossible promise. “Even when you are dead and gone?” she asked, using a phrase she’d overheard from one of the guests at the inn.

“Nobody’s ever dead and gone, Angel.”

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Henry Mitchell reads and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

He has written five novels and two collections of short stories.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/henrymitchellauthor/

http://www.thewingedchild.com/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Henry-Mitchell/e/B00GZC7YWE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Buy links:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-winged-child-henry-mitchell/1140568857