Today’s Author Interview is with L.G. Fabbo-Gonnella, author of many books, most recently The Case of the Deadly Dish: A Mark Julian Vampire PI Mystery Book #8. Fabbo-Gonnella specializes in the Mystery, Detective, Erotic, Supernatural and MM genres and hails from the NYC area. His books are available via Kindle on Amazon.com. In The Case of the Deadly Dish: A Mark Julian Vampire PI Mystery Book #8, Mark is clearly a vampire who solves crimes for the supernatural community and governing council of NYC. He is aided by his partner a NYC detective and his feisty secretary who is a shape-shifting, sex demon who only dresses in styles from the 1940’s Here’s the blurb, to whet your appetite: New York City's supernatural community is ablaze with reports about an upcoming literary publication. An anonymous human, who claims they are intimately involved with a real-life vampire, has written a new tell-all book. The work threatens to publicly “out” New York City’s powerful vampires and “dish the dirt” on the goings on in their world. The entire vampire population is enraged. Many are demanding that the author be found and silenced. Some are also insisting that their collective safety requires that any human involved with a vampire be either executed or turned. Tortego insists this is a local matter, which he can solve without outside help. Jean-Claude, however, as head of the entire city's supernatural community thinks otherwise. Mark and his friends are called upon to join forces to find the author and stop the book from being published before things spiral out of control. As vampire attacks in the city increase, the crafty Tortego devises a scheme to destroy both Mark and Jean-Claude. When more violence erupts and murder is committed, it becomes, “The Case of the Deadly Dish." Tell us something(s) about the book that the blurb doesn’t reveal: Well in Mark Julian book the reader gets to see that characters, who usually stay on the side of justice, must sometimes enter into grey areas. The question is whether it is sometimes necessary to do a minor cruelty to prevent a greater one. What was your favorite or most surprising comment/review about the book? Why? A fan wrote the Julian books showed them beauty and cruelty can co- exist side by side. I never considered that as a theme in his books. It intrigued me. A reviewer said both my mystery series were also a love letter to my city of NY. I confess that is true. If your book was made into a movie, who would you cast as which characters? For Mark Julian it has to be the actor who is the face on the cover, Jacopo Rampini. He is not only super-talented but his look subtly changes in every role he does. Go find his actor page and check out his pictures then tell me if you agree What books influenced you growing up? Agatha Christie for mysteries and Alan E. Nourse in Sci-Fi. I’m sure everyone knows the former but the latter is sadly not as well known. I read his “Raiders from the Rings”& “The Blade Runner” and they opened my imagination. What gave you the idea to write this book? The Julian book was inspired by, what I feel, is a growing bigotry. A married couple, who are dear friends, once asked me “why are we never inspiration for characters in one of your books?” The Max et al book is my playful tip of the hat to them. What are you working on next and when do you expect it to be on the shelves? Book #9 in the Mark Julian mysteries comes out around December 24th. I was quite industrious and book #10 is out 2/14/17. When I finished #9 I realized there should be a follow up to show how good, necessary actions have consequences that hurt. If you’re curious Amazon has them listed and it comes with plot blurbs for each. #9: The Case of the Vengeful Virgin #10 : The case of the Parisian Vendetta Currently I’m in my research mode for both the next Julian and Max et all books. Since Julian has been a tad dark, this one will be a fun plot. He, as a vampire, once did a sex scene in a silent film with his fling of that era. Now someone found the film. He is in a panic and must retrieve it before his current and first real love sees it in some NYC revival. What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of publishing today? Publicity. I am quite shy about self-promoting. I do it. I know it’s necessary but I am ALWAYS self-conscious. Editing. Affording a good editor is a horror and beta readers are few and far between {I do ask on my pages for volunteers. Hint, hint haha.) I try my best and do use a editor I can afford. Then I pray my readers realize independent publications do carry the typo of grammar issue. What advice do you have for other writers based on your experience? Write. Write. Write. Do not let commenters discourage you. Read them of course & learn from them too. Do not be afraid to toss something out and begin all over again. Have an idea of plot but do not be so inflexible you will not stray from it as you write. I soon learned that my stories ended up in ways I had not thought about when I began. I always say I am not an author, just a scribe who takes dictation from my characters. Anything else you'd like to tell us? LOL. I was once asked, during a blog tour, what sex device I would buy in a sex shop. I replied “the one on sale”. Let me end on that note, haha.
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1. I'm running a Kindle Countdown Promotion for Expired Listings. Price will be only $.99 from December 16-19 (but I'm not sure of the exact starting time!), and then $1.99 from December 20-13. 2. Expired Listings will be featured on Bookmovement.com and I'll be running a contest where the lucky winning Book Club will receive 12-15 free paperback copies of the book. I'm available for any book club discussion of Expired Listings, either in person or via Skype or Google Hangouts if I can figure out how that works (lol). 3. I will be reading at the Jefferson Market Library in NYC on January 18th as part of the Sisters in Crime Open Mic Series. 4. I will be participating in Mystery Thriller Week with a one hour discussion on Facebook on Feb 13 from 11am-Noon. Ask whatever and I'll try to answer. 5. I will soon be featuring interviews with some amazing authors so in the words of Rachel Maddow, watch this space. This is the Literary Exhibitionist Blog where I'll be discussing the writing/publishing process, reviewing books and interviewing authors that have Must-Read Books! |
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