What are you working on next?
I am working on "Selkies' Skins: Temple and Skinquest" to release in print and ebook formats. This is the second book in Kirsty and the Makay family's saga. The Selkies' Skins story I expect to cover four books, each book divided into three sections following the descent, trial, and return formats of the initiation series. There are several side stories and branches that will have books of their own.
Illya Leonov, the narrator of my first Selkies' Skins book is currently preparing "Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals" for audiobook release.
The other book I plan to work on is "Dragon Shaman Book Three: The Forge and the Well" following Ryu, BlowingWind, and some of the O'Drake family. The Dragon Shaman series is expected to be eight books long and ties in with "Selkies' Skins" and "The Shadow Chronicles" which is still unpublished.
JoAnne Spiese is working on a fantasy book "Help, my Mother's a Witch" as well as having plans for some other projects, which have been approved. I also plan to be returning to editing and preparing Marantha D. Jenelle's "The Ihmayran Chronicles Trilogy." There is of course a long workline after this.
Who are your favorite authors?
I have so many favorite authors. Tolkien, Peter S. Beagle, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Anne McCaffrey, Hiyao Miyazaki, Eastman and Laird of Ninja Turtle comics fame, Anne Rice, Hushicho, M.C.A. Hogarth, Cerridwen Morningstar. I've read whole libraries in my time, and my personal library is split between my apartment and my mother's house...so I've read so many that it is very hard to choose a favorite or even a handful of favorites. I'll need a wheelbarrow.
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