Interview with Colleen Houck (2012); english
Colleen Houck is the author of „Tiger Curse“, the first one in a series of five books. (Photo: Copyright Boone Rodriquez) Thank you for taking the time for this interview. You first published your book on your own. Why did you choose this particular course of action? I self-published because none of the traditional publishers or agents I submitted my book to were interested. I gave it about two years and then I decided that it was okay with me to just write as a hobby. I was very surprised when an agent and a Hollywood producer contacted me about my self-published books because I’d kind of given up on the idea that anyone in the publishing world would want them. An enchanted prince – that comes straight from a fairy tale. Did you love those stories as a child? Was it easy for you to write something like that? Fairy tales have been important to me since I was a child. My parents gave me a copy of Aesop’s Fairy Tales and I read one every night for years. I knew that I wanted a handsome prince in my series and then I ended up with two. Why did you choose YA-books and the genre? Marjorie M. Liu for example has chosen to write a paranormal romance for adults with her story about an enchanted tiger in „Tiger Eye“. […]
