Please welcome Paul DeBlassie III author of The Unholy
Paul DeBlassie III will be awarding $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
The Unholy
by Paul DeBlassie III
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GENRE: Thriller
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INTERVIEW:
1. What or who inspired you to start writing? I’ve been writing for decades, The Unholy dramatizing the culmination of years treating and writing about patients in therapy battling the dark magic of religion gone bad.
2. What elements are necessary components for this genre? In gothic fiction you need the supernatural, an ancient setting, and rough and tumble violence that gets bad set against good and winner take all!
3. How did you come up with your idea for your novel? Real life horror birthed The Unholy, a thriller that pulls the reader into dark dimensions of religion and one woman’s struggle to make her way into the light and discover life.
4. What expertise did you bring to your writing? I’m an award winning writer and practitioner of depth psychology for over thirty years, lived-out heartaches and nightmares making their way into keep-you-up-at-night storytelling.
5. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?I am entranced by gothic fiction, occult horror, supernatural thrillers. They roll out front and center, the real stuff hiding behind the smiley and quaint things of daily life.
6. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans? Goddess of Everything, a supernatural thriller about mother love gone bad and the need to break free, is into professional edits and should hop out onto the literary scene Fall 2020!
7. If you could be one of the characters from this book, who would it be and why? There’s no way I could just be one character in The Unholy. Each is a facet of self exposed to the light of literary day. I gotta’ tell you, it took some bloodletting to write this truthfully. But, it earned itself the International Book Award, so there’s got to be something good and true about it.
8. Can you give us a sneak peek into this book? A sneak peek. . . .mmmm…how about this: You’ll never guess what happens to the most powerful of medicine women when confronted by the dark magic of religion gone bad!
11. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing) If you feel there’s a story in you, write it, and let nothing stop the go and the flow.
13. How do you maintain your creativity? I respect my limits. When the muse demands more and more, I stop and pack it in for the day. That way I leave energy in the creative bank account and it builds up for the next day
2. What elements are necessary components for this genre? In gothic fiction you need the supernatural, an ancient setting, and rough and tumble violence that gets bad set against good and winner take all!
3. How did you come up with your idea for your novel? Real life horror birthed The Unholy, a thriller that pulls the reader into dark dimensions of religion and one woman’s struggle to make her way into the light and discover life.
4. What expertise did you bring to your writing? I’m an award winning writer and practitioner of depth psychology for over thirty years, lived-out heartaches and nightmares making their way into keep-you-up-at-night storytelling.
5. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?I am entranced by gothic fiction, occult horror, supernatural thrillers. They roll out front and center, the real stuff hiding behind the smiley and quaint things of daily life.
6. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans? Goddess of Everything, a supernatural thriller about mother love gone bad and the need to break free, is into professional edits and should hop out onto the literary scene Fall 2020!
7. If you could be one of the characters from this book, who would it be and why? There’s no way I could just be one character in The Unholy. Each is a facet of self exposed to the light of literary day. I gotta’ tell you, it took some bloodletting to write this truthfully. But, it earned itself the International Book Award, so there’s got to be something good and true about it.
8. Can you give us a sneak peek into this book? A sneak peek. . . .mmmm…how about this: You’ll never guess what happens to the most powerful of medicine women when confronted by the dark magic of religion gone bad!
11. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing) If you feel there’s a story in you, write it, and let nothing stop the go and the flow.
13. How do you maintain your creativity? I respect my limits. When the muse demands more and more, I stop and pack it in for the day. That way I leave energy in the creative bank account and it builds up for the next day
BLURB:
Winner of the International Book Award and Pinnacle Book Award for Visionary Fiction! The Unholy is a dramatic story of Claire Sanchez, a young medicine woman, intent on discovering the closely-guarded secrets of her past. Forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop, William Anarch, she confronts the dark side of religion and the horror of one man's will to power.
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EXCERPT:
“Hush now, child,” said a voice she recognized as that of her mother’s closest friend. “The man cannot harm you, mijita, as long as you are with us. We will make him think you are dead. But you must be very quiet. Ya no llores,” the woman warned, raising a finger to her lips.
The woman then carried her into a dark cave illuminated by the light of a single candle. The cave was frightening, with shadows of what appeared to be goblins and demons dancing on the red sandstone walls. “I will return for you soon. You will be safe here,” the woman said. The girl watched the woman walk away, shivering as a breeze blew through the cave’s narrow passages.
Closing her eyes, she rocked back and forth—imagining herself safe in her mother’s arms—then opened her eyes to the light of the full moon shining through the mouth of the cave. The shadows on the walls were just shadows now, no longer goblins and demons. As she slipped into a trance, images flickered in her mind. She saw the woman who had brought her to this place scattering pieces of raw meat around the open mesa where her mother had
struggled, helped by two other women the girl could not identify.
Suddenly, the scene shifted to a stone ledge jutting over the mesa, and she heard the pounding footsteps of a man running toward the women. The girl felt her heart race and her breathing quicken, afraid that the bad man would spot them and kill them. Then the image shifted again, and she now saw on the mesa three gray wolves circling the raw meat and the man walking away from the granite ledge. As he left, she heard his thought: The child is dead.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D. is a depth psychologist and award-winning writer living in his native New Mexico. He specializes in treating individuals in emotional and spiritual crisis. His novels, visionary thrillers, delve deep into archetypal realities as they play out dramatically in the lives of everyday people. Memberships include the Author’s Guild, Visionary Fiction Alliance, Depth Psychology Alliance, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the International Association for Jungian Studies.
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Paul DeBlassie III will be awarding $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f3300
Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Angel's blog. I hope you have a great tour. Allana Angel
ReplyDeleteGreat interview, I enjoyed reading it!
ReplyDeletethank you for hosting The Unholy!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your interview. Thanks for letting us hear your thoughts.
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