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Author Interview Kirsten Weiss

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

I sort of made up my own genre with this one! Legacy of the Witch started off as paranormal women’s fiction mystery about a woman who joins an online mystery school, and the messages she gets from the school parallel what’s happening in her life. That genre usually features a woman in mid-life who is going through a dramatic change (plus a murder mystery). But I quickly realized that it provided an opportunity for readers who wanted to go deeper into the big metaphysical questions that can strike us at any transition—am I on the right path? What’s the meaning of my life? Am I following my soul’s calling or what other people want me to be? So I included the actual emails and worksheets from the school for readers to contemplate and play with should they wish. Readers don’t have to participate in the fictional mystery school lessons—they can just read and enjoy the supernatural mystery. But so far, the feedback about the downloadable worksheets and included UnTarot app has been really positive. Is it metaphysical fiction? Do the extras make it experimental fiction. Whatever people decide to call it, I think it’s an ideal book for a book club!

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

I’m first born, and I think that’s left me more with the idea that we can shape the world—or at least our own corner of it—that we can have an impact, and that we can make change.

3. Where is your favorite place to write?

In the winter, I sit at my upstairs dining table. It’s warmer, and has a wonderful view of the trees. In fact, it feels like I’m writing in a treehouse. But in the summer, it gets a little too hot upstairs, so I retreat to my office in my walk-out basement. The windows give me a view of the deer and other animals wandering past.

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

If they don’t fit, I cut them. But I’ll usually save them in a file, because a nice turn of phrase might work somewhere else.

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

PG Wodehouse. I’d ask him about how he came up with the hilarious absurdities in his Jeeves and Wooster stories.

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

Every May a bobcat makes a den under my back porch to have her kittens. They’re adorable, but I can’t use my backyard for the duration, because mama bobcat doesn’t like it. This year, I’ve hung windchimes and am spraying the area to try and discourage her. Summer is short in Colorado, and I want as much porch time as I can get! But my friends are annoyed because they want more bobcat videos!

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

A pot, a flint, and a knife.

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

Flight.

9. Favorite snack?

Anything chocolate.

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

I usually speed a little, but only a little.

LEGACY OF THE WITCH

Kirsten Weiss

 

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GENRE:  paranormal women’s fiction mystery

 

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BLURB:

Seeker: As societies grow increasingly fragmented, hopelessness, nihilism, and division are on the rise. But there is another way—a way of mystery and magic, of wholeness and transformation. Do you dare take the first step? Our path is not for the faint-hearted, but for seekers of ancient truths…

All April wants is to start over after her husband’s sudden death. She’s conjuring a new path—finally getting her degree and planning her new business in bucolic Pennsylvania Dutch country. Joining an online mystery school seems like harmless fun.

But when a murdered man leaves her a cryptic message, she catches glimpses of another reality she’s unwilling to acknowledge. A reality where bygone enchantments cast cryptic shadows, and the present brims with unanswered questions.

As April works to unearth the mystery, every step brings her closer to a truth she’s been evading. And to a conspiracy of hexes that may end in her demise.

Legacy of the Witch is a spellbinding, interactive tale of a woman’s midlife quest to understand the complexities of her own heart. A paranormal women’s fiction murder mystery for anyone who’s wondered if there might be more to their own life than meets the eye…

Book 1 in the new Mystery School Series featuring the UnTarot, a deck of cards for meaning making. Start reading now!

UnTarot deck app included!

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Excerpt:

Of all the life-ruining mistakes I’d ever made, being late was not going to be one of them.

I double checked the campus map. My advisor’s office should have been directly ahead of me. Instead, there was a wide swathe of grass dotted with crimson leaves and way-too-young students.

At least they seemed too young to me. They had to be too young, because the alternative was that at forty-seven, I was too old. Too old to start over. Too old to rid myself of my growing collection of ghosts. Too old to get a degree. Too old to use that degree as a springboard for my dream business and dream life and dream whatever the hell I was doing.

But I couldn’t think that way. I had to have hope or I’d be stuck in the purgatory of widowhood.

I crumpled the campus map in my gloved hand. What was I doing? Everything was shifting—inside and out, above and below, and—

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

I believe in free-will, and that we all can make a difference. I believe that beauty blossoms in the conscious life, particularly with friends, family, and strangers. I believe that genre fiction has become generic, and it doesn’t have to be.

My current focus is my new Mystery School series, starting with Legacy of the Witch. Traditionally, women’s fiction refers to fiction where a woman—usually in her midlife—is going through some sort of dramatic change. A lot of us do go through big transitions in midlife. We get divorced or remarried. The kids leave the nest. Our bodies change. The midlife crisis is real—though it manifests in different ways—as we look back on where we’ve been, where we’re going, and the time we have left.

Now in my mid-fifties, I’ve spent more time thinking about the big “meaning of life” issues. It seemed like approaching those issues through witch fiction, and through a fictional mystery school, would be a fun and a useful way for me to work out some of these ideas in my own head—about change and letting go, faith and fear, and love and longing.

After growing up on a diet of Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie, I’ve published over 60 mysteries—from cozies to supernatural suspense, as well as an experimental fiction book on Tarot. Spending over 20 years working overseas in international development, I learned that perception is not reality, and things are often not what they seem—for better or worse.

There isn’t a winter holiday or a type of chocolate I don’t love, and some of my best friends are fictional.

http://www.kirstenweiss.com

https://www.facebook.com/metaphysicaldetective/

http://www.twitter.com/kirstenweiss

 

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