The
Witchkin Murders
Magicfall
Book 1
by
Diana Pharaoh Francis
Genre:
Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Four
years ago, my world—the world—exploded with wild magic. The
cherry on top of that crap cake? The supernatural world declared war
on humans, and my life went straight to hell.
I
used to be a detective, and a damned good one. Then Magicfall
happened, and I changed along with the world. I’m witchkin
now—something more than human or not quite human, depending on your
perspective. To survive, I’ve become a scavenger, searching
abandoned houses and stores for the everyday luxuries in short
supply—tampons and peanut butter. Oh, how the mighty have fallen,
but anything’s better than risking my secret.
Except,
old habits die hard. When I discover a murder scene screaming with
signs of black magic ritual, I know my days of hiding are over. Any
chance I had of escaping my past with my secret intact is gone.
Solving the witchkin murders is going to be the hardest case of my
life, and not just because every second will torture me with
reminders of how much I miss my old life and my partner, who hates my
guts for abandoning the department.
But
it’s time to suck it up, because if I screw this up, Portland will
be wiped out, and I’m not going to let that happen. Hold on to your
butts, Portland. Justice is coming, and I don’t take prisoners.
Diana Pharaoh
Francis is the acclaimed author of a dozen novels of fantasy and
urban fantasy. Her books have been nominated for the Mary Roberts
Rinehart Award and RT’s Best Urban Fantasy. The Witchkin
Murders is the first book in her exciting new urban fantasy
series—Magicfall.
GUEST POST
What
are your top 10 favorite books/authors?
I
have so many favorites! Okay, so let’s see. I’m going to stick
with contemporary stuff, though I’m a huge Austen and Dickens fan.
So here it is, not in any particular order:
Ilona
Andrews
Devon
Monk
Laura
Griffith
Carol
Berg
Patty
Briggs
Robin
McKinley
Seanan
McGuire
R.J.
Blain
Lisa
Shearin
Grace
Draven
What
book do you think everyone should read?
You
like to ask really hard questions, don’t you? Robin McKinley’s
Sunshine
is just amazing. I don’t know that everybody should read it, but if
they try, they’ll certainly love it.
Do
the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them
come to you as you write?
Both.
Some I start with, others just come into being. Some are supposed to
just come and go but end up staying and becoming main characters.
What
kind of research do you do before you begin writing a book?
I
do all that I have to in order to write. Sometimes that’s a whole
lot, sometimes that’s a little. I often have to research a lot more
as I go as well. For instance, in my Path books, my main character is
a healer. I had to do a lot of research on plants and herbal
remedies. I read a lot of old herbals and dug into websites and
looked at preparations and growing and collecting of all the plants.
For
The
Black Ship, I needed to know all about sailing ships and
the language of them. I went sailing on The Lady Washington, a tall
ship. I joined a Facebook group of tall ship captains. I read novels
set on ships, I read true accounts of sailing, I looked up pinmaps of
ships, I looked at manifests and I read manuals. I had to learn the
language of the ships in order to write it. If I had to look up
language every other word, then I didn’t know enough. Once I could
write comfortably, I started writing. I still had to do research and
look things up, but once I had the language, I could be in the minds
of the characters.
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