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A Little Q & A With Stacy K
Q. So. Why a demon lover? Why a
psychologist?
A. Hmm. The demon lover came to me first,
I guess, because Tera the witch was the
first character in the world I came up with. Shortly after Tera was the idea
of the demon/witch animosity and the demons themselves. Then I came up with the
tagline -- "How can I slay your personal demons?" -- and how it could be used,
and thought Megan would have to be a
psychologist who wrote a book or there would have to be some other way for her
to use that line. But I didn't want her to be the type of person who would come
up with the tagline all on her own and like it, so...that's where the radio
show, and the idea that she kind of got suckered into doing it, came from. And
it clicked from there.
Q. So, really, the novel could have been
about Tera, but it morphed into this book.
How big is your "Personal Demons World"? How far have you gone in
imagining it?
A. Oh, it's pretty big, at least in some ways. It has a full history and
I know how
it all impacted our history, and there's a lot of characters and places and
events that I'm aware of, a lot of mythology. There's still some things I don't
know--I don't know what exactly happened in Hell, for example, that sent the Old
Ones away. I'm hoping to find out at some point. I suspect Vergardering had a
hand in it.
Q. You are fairly prolific -- writing e-erotica and
other novels as well as Personal Demons and its
sequel, Demon Inside. How do you balance two young daughters, a spouse, and
writing?
A. I lose a lot of sleep. Really. I have to wait until everyone goes to
bed, which
is easy with the girls because they go to bed at eight but my husband insists on
staying up later and I sit around trying not to glare at him. Plus I'm
constantly interrupted in order to hand out juice or cookies or make sandwiches
or whatever. So I've had to learn to jump in and out of the story quickly.
Q. You live in England. (Which, if nothing else gave you some great
background for cockney demons!)
What advantages have you found living as an American in the UK? Disadvantages?
A. Hmm. Well, I think one distinct advantage, for my career at least, has
been that
I have a lot more time to work. Less socializing, more working. (Smile.) And it
is
beautiful here; the scenery alone inspires. I think it's always good to see how
other people live and to explore different places and things, so it's definitely
broadened my range of experience and introduced me to a lot of new people and
things. But the disadvantages are there, too. Certainly I think as far as having
books come out and simply being in the business, the time difference and the
distance make it harder. Even if I wasn't something of an insomniac I'd be up
half the night, simply because that's when I get emails and people are around.
And it's a bit depressing to know the chances of seeing my book on the shelf at
the local store is pretty slim; American urban fantasy hasn't really caught on
here yet so there's very little of it in stores.
Q. What are you working on now? Where's your career
going other than the
Personal Demon series?
A. Well, right now I'm working on the second book in a series I just got
agent
representation for, a very dark urban fantasy. Very different from Personal
Demons, I think, which is where I get to be funnier and the characters have
a
lot more lightness to them. But equally fun to write. So I'm hoping that goes
somewhere, and I'm looking forward to writing the third Megan Chase book too,
and...just hoping everything doesn't come crashing down around me, basically!
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