AUTHOR INTERVIEW: RJ Mirabal:The Rio Grande Parallax Series

Welcome all to The Magic of Solstice Fantasy Writers Tour hosted by DKC Fantasy Publishing Company  Authors and Angels is proud to be a part of this exciting tour. All through the month of June I will be featuring interviews, book reviews with smoldering new fantasy authors you should be paying attention too! To kick off this event I had the lovely opportunity to sit down with fantasy author RJ Mirabal of the The Rio Grande Parallax Series


JC: If you could sum up your book in two words what would they be?

RJM: Passionate adventure.

JC: What is your target audience for your book? And why Fantasy?

RJM: Adult readers with leanings toward fantasy/magical realism, ages 18 and up. I have found most of my readers are women in the 40-70 age range which surprised me because I expected a gritty fantasy adventure book written from the male point of view would have more appeal to men. However, I know women read more than men, so there you are! I choose fantasy because I can create my own world with my own rules, doing all the research in my mind, but I have to be careful to keep it all straight!

JC: Who is your muse when writing? What is your inspiration?

RJM: Strange as it may seem, I am my own muse because I write what fascinates and appeals to me inspired by my own odd view of things. Outside of me—the terrain, climate, environment, cultures, people, history, and atmosphere (are those enough features?) of New Mexico provides constant inspiration.

JC: Do you have any secret writing tips?

RJM: No secrets: plain old bashing my way through words, sentences, and paragraphs until it reads and feels right… Then I let my editor loose on my manuscript so I know it’ll fly professionally!

JC: Straight and simple, I like that. Now what do you love most about writing?

RJM: Creating the story, characters/motivations, and setting followed by writing it out hammering away at the ideas, dialogue, and images. After that the revising, marketing, promotion, etc. leaves me cold—just can’t enjoy that part, not in my nature. Although I do like talking about the stories with readers.

JC: I can perfectly relate to that. Okay next question. I prefer mornings to write. Sometimes that doesn’t always happen, but do you have a personal favorite time of day to write?

RJM: Best time for me is after lunch until about 5 pm. But, that doesn’t happen often so I write when I can. Life interrupts a regular writing schedule, especially all the other things I enjoy doing along with volunteering! So it’s “catch as catch can.”

JC: Amen to that! Thank you so much RJ.
CHECK OUT RJ MIRABAL’S EXCITING SERIES!

o Don Vargas, a man who has lost his way.
o A rundown casita near the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico.
o Nightwing, a bat offering an unlikely hero a formidable quest.
o A Portal to another valley, the Valle Abajo, where lifestyles are primitive.
o Clans in the Valle Abajo begging for help to overcome the Soreyes, a wily clan terrorizing the valley for generations.
o A Tower erected by the Soreyes which seems to be a mysterious source of their power. All this leads to a unique modern fantasy involving curanderas, an alcoholic looking for escape from the failures of his life, an enigmatic bat who manipulates events behind the scenes, adventures, a beautiful woman, and more surprises in this contemporary New Mexico-based tale.

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　 Signed copy from the author or other questions, email: rjmirabal@gmail.com

Extreme Dust Storms May Exist(Book 2 of the Rio Grande Parallax series) Release date Mid July 2015

(release date coming up in mid-July 2015):
It is five years after the final events of The Tower of Il Serrohe and Esther, a sixteen-year-old honor student and athlete, suffers a mysterious accident and dreams of a valley much like her Rio Luna home, yet ominously different. Next, a bat repeatedly slams its body against her window during a powerful wind storm and she hears a whispering in the darkness.
It is the bat, Nightwing, who persuaded Don to take on his mission in The Tower. Nightwing begins to persuade Esther, Don’s younger cousin, to use her intelligence and resourcefulness to drive away the Soreyes from the Valle Abajo—the valley of her dreams. As she shares these disturbing details with her best friend, Markey, they both worry Esther is going insane. However, new dangers threaten when word reaches the Valle about a murderous clan in the far away Mountains of Sky east of the Valle while in the west there lives another band of Soreyes. Meanwhile, a mysterious presence lurks in the background as the saga of the Rio Grande Parallax continues.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:RJ Mirabal loves the Middle Rio Grande Valley having lived there for most of his life. Los Lunas High School 2006 Teacher of the Year, author RJ Mirabal, went on to win the Excellence in Education Award for NEA-New Mexico in 2007, having taught English, speech, drama and computer literacy. Now happily retired, he purses writing and music while volunteering with a motorcycle club and teachers’ organizations. RJ enjoys exploring New Mexico’s wilderness areas on his four-wheeler and traveling with his wife, Cheryl. The Tower of Il Serrohe is his debut novel
  



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