Talia Mason

Biography

Talia mason is the author of The Hunted Heir, The E Killer and Aynesworthy House (all available on amazon.com).
Talia lives in a large village in the countryside of Yorkshire, England with the youngest of her three daughters, her partner of ten years and her three cats and three dogs.
Now in her early forties, with her youngest child in the final years of her high school education, Talia who had trained in canine psychology has turned a passion for books into a writing career and is currently working on her fifth book.

You would never guess that this prolific scribbler of tales could barely read at all until the age of twelve and left school with little reading ability and so when one particularly unpleasant (and rude) teacher angered the then precocious child sufficiently to cause her to sit up all night just so that she could tell that teacher what she could do with that book.
From then on books became an obsession, an addiction, much to the chagrin of her friends and family.
As an imaginative child she found that books could take her anywhere and everywhere that she might want to go, she could slay dragons, ride rapids, wage magical wars or just solve a crime all without leaving her chair and it also gave the fourteen year old Talia something to do whilst she was supposed to be tidying her bedroom, procrastination between the covers of a book.
Yet upon the completion of some of those many books Talia was often dissatisfied with either a plot twist or the ending and so she took to writing her own tales, as there is no point in complaining about a thing if you are not going to try to do something about it.
Then was born a new obsession, writing, weaving tales or just writing for the sound of the flow of the words.
Within months she had filled notebook upon notebook with tales, ideas and interesting phrases.
The notebooks then filled shoe box upon shoe box and after almost thirty years of reorganising and restacking these boxes to fit them into the average family home, and after repeatedly hearing the words can you do something with these boxes, she created her first book.
That book was THE HUNTED HEIR which was soon to be followed by THE E KILLER, AYNESWORTHY HOUSE and DEATH SAID NO.

Smashwords Interview

Many of your characters suffer from mental health issues, why is this?
Mental health has always been a subject that fascinates and concerns me and I believe that it is another one of those subjects, that as a writer, I am in a position to illuminate and bring a slight understanding of to those who may have been lucky enough to have not experienced it.

In The E Killer I put Allie Murphy, the main character, in a position that would affect anybody's mental well being and her mental state was as much a cause of her actions as it was a result of them. I felt that showing this would enable the reader to better understand the woman that was before them and doing such terrible things.

In The Hunted Heir, Denna could not have the childhood that she needed to have to fit the story line without her having lasting psychological effects, to have such a horrific experience in early childhood is bound to leave a psychological scar.
In your third book, The E Killer, you briefly dealt with the subject of sexual and psychological abuse. Did you have any concerns about approaching such a subject?
Yes. For some time before and during the writing of that scene I was unsure whether or not to go ahead and keep the scene or whether I would rewrite it yet this is a terrible experience that a lot of women, and men, face in their lives and I don't think that we help anybody by shying away from the subject.
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Talia Mason online

Books

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