LILIAN'S INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE IRWIN
As a writer how would you manage negative and or positive feedback?
To be honest, sometimes both of these are as frightening as each other. Dealing with them comes back to the same thing though, take what you can on board but try not to let it affect you too much. If you get too wrapped up in the positive feedback, you can easily get an overinflated sense of your ability. If you get too wrapped up in the negative, you’re likely to hide under a blanket and never come out again.
Have you always had the passion to become a writer?
I’ve always loved English and admired authors. I never really thought it was a possibility for me though. I kind of just walked the line of the “proper” day job in accounts but was never able to silence the voice. I still don’t know whether or not I’ll ever be able to be a full-time author but right now I’m happy just getting my stories out there and having people enjoy them.
How do you find inspiration to write your stories?
From everywhere. It might be a conversation, a song, a book, a TV show. The most powerful tool in an author’s arsenal is the question, “what if.” That one little question can spur a hundred ideas.
What is the weirdest thing a fan has asked you?
It wasn’t even a fan but when I first published, I had someone basically tell me that I should them a paperback for free because I can afford it. My response (perhaps a little rude) was to laugh. I mean, at that stage, I hadn’t made a single cent and books (and postage) cost the author money. The silly thing is I’ve given out a tonne of free books. I’ve given away probably more than I’ve sold. When people help me out bigtime, I tend to send them surprise paperbacks as a thank you. If this person had been willing to give, I probably would have too.
Who/what gives you inspiration for you characters?
This varies massively depending on the character. Mostly, they’re amalgams of people I’ve met or experienced, but I couldn’t just point and say oh such and such is this character. As for physically, that is also a character by character thing. Evie was inspired by what type of paranormal creature she is. Both the red/gold fiery hair and the purple eyes are colors often associated with what she is. Evan & Drew were both going to be similar in appearance from the earliest of drafts so they kind of formed each other.
ALL AMITY ALLOWS
sYNOPSIS
Amity is a disillusioned angel.
For countless millennia, she's helped her assignments find truth in their experiences and improve their lives. Once, she'd been tender and caring, but humanity's misuse of free will and her own missteps have left her jaded.
Now, all Amity allows is the truth. Get in, get out, and never let them know that she’s there. That’s the motto she's lived by for years. She considers her latest assignment nothing more than the next in a long line of jilted lovers that she’s had to help. When her presence exposes more than either of them was ready for, will they be able to find the truths hidden deep within the other? Or will the fallout leave them both in tatters?
The truth will set them free.
Won’t it?
PURCHASE LINKS
Amazon:
US: www.amazon.com/dp/B00UPXINFG/
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UPXINFG/
AU: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00UPXINFG/
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/539973
TEASERS
AUTHOR BIO
Michelle Irwin has been many things in her life: a hobbit taking a precious item to a fiery mountain; a young child stepping through the back of a wardrobe into another land; the last human stranded not-quite-alone in space three million years in the future; a young girl willing to fight for the love of a vampire; and a time-travelling madman in a box. She achieved all of these feats and many more through her voracious reading habit. Eventually, so much reading had to have an effect and the cast of characters inside her mind took over and spilled out onto the page.
Michelle lives in sunny Queensland in the land down under with her surprisingly patient husband and ever-intriguing daughter, carving out precious moments of writing and reading time around her accounts-based day job. A lover of love and overcoming the odds, she primarily writes paranormal and fantasy romance.