Wendy Delsol
1) You have a great trilogy of books, when you started out with
Stork had you planned to write three, or did the story just build that way?
Once I began plotting out
Stork, I knew I had sufficient
material for future books, but I wrote the first as a stand-alone novel. Stork was the project that landed me an
agent. In our very first conversation, she asked me if I had considered future
books with the same characters. We shopped it to editors as a potential
trilogy.
2) What was your inspiration for Stork? The idea is so beautiful
and really intrigues me I just have to know where you came up with it!
Can you believe the spark
for the series came from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries? Long ago, there was
a story about a very young boy who claimed pre-birth memories of hovering and
choosing his mother. It freaked me out. Enough that I remembered it years later
when brainstorming something unique in the paranormal genre. I added the idea
of white witches or human Storks (borrowing from our cultural symbol of the bundle-bearing
bird), who act as intermediaries between the undecided of awaiting souls and
potential mothers.
3) Now that the Stork Trilogy is over what's on your plate in terms
of a new book or series?
I have two books that I’m
presently working on. One is a modern-day Pride
and Prejudice. I use politics and religion as the gulf between my Lizzie
Bennet and Mr. Darcy. I’m about two-thirds of the way through this manuscript
but can’t yet decide the age of my protagonist (which could potentially change
the genre from adult to YA).
The other is a dystopian
and deals with fertility manipulation and its unforeseen consequences. As it’s
a work in progress and I’m not done plotting, I can’t share much more than that
(as even I don’t know where things are headed).
4) You ended Flock very definitively, have you ever thought about
doing a follow up short story into the lives of Katla and Jack 10 years from
now?
Gosh. Ten years into
Katla and Jack’s future. Hmm. No, I haven’t thought that far in advance. They’d
be twenty-seven and twenty-eight respectively. I know that they’re both college
educated by then. I see them still together. Beyond that, I guess I will leave
it up to the reader to imagine their paths.
5) You have another book out called the McCloud home for Wayward
Girls, what can you tell me about this book?
The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls is adult fiction. It’s the story of
three generations of Iowa women who run a bed and breakfast from their historic
home, once a haven for pregnant teens. A funeral brings past residents to town
and sets into motion events that reveal a long-held family secret. If you like
books with surprise elements, I’ve stumped many a reader with this book’s plot
twist.
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And don't forget to come back tomorrow for a giveaway of all three autographed books!
Great interview to you both.
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