Inheritance by Gail Z. Martin - Audio Book Tour
Author: Gail Z. Martin
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Series: Deadly Curiosities, Book 4
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Released: Oct. 20, 2020
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curio shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them, and she teams up with friends and allies who use magic and paranormal abilities to get rid of cursed objects and keep Charleston and the world safe from supernatural threats. Caribbean ghosts terrorize Charleston and start racking up a body count. Then Beckford Pendlewood, the heir to a powerful family of dark warlocks, shows up raving about a bound demon locked in a lost box and begs sanctuary. Can Cassidy and her friends find the demon box, stop the killer ghosts, and break the Pendlewood curse before Beckford's murderous cousins and the vengeful demon destroy them all?
Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy and steampunk for Solaris
Books, Orbit Books, Falstaff Books, SOL Publishing and Darkwind Press. Urban
fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and the Night Vigil (Sons of
Darkness). Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, the Chronicles Of The
Necromancer, the Fallen Kings Cycle, the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and the
Assassins of Landria. Together with Larry N. Martin, she is the co-author of
Iron & Blood, Storm & Fury (both Steampunk/alternate history), and the
Spells Salt and Steel comedic horror series. Newest titles include Tangled
Web, Vengeance, The Dark Road, and Assassin’s Honor. As Morgan Brice, she
writes urban fantasy MM paranormal romance, with her Witchbane and Badlands
series.
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Courtney Patterson is an Atlanta native who has been working as an actor on
stage, screen, and behind the microphone for close to two decades. She has
been narrating audiobooks since 2011 and has fallen in love with the craft of
storytelling through narration. Courtney is the mother of two wonderful little
weirdos and the wife of a brilliant sommelier. There's also a cat and some
fish in the mix. Courtney couldn't be happier with her crazy artistic
lifestyle and is keenly aware that having good wine always within reach is
most likely the reason for her family's success.
Making the Supernatural Believable
By Gail Z. Martin
Inheritance, which is part of my Deadly Curiosities series, has ghosts,
curses, demons, witches, supernatural creatures and haunted objects. I love
writing about spooky stuff, and I do my best to make the paranormal elements
believable so that readers get an exciting thrill ride of a book.
For me, the first step in making the supernatural believable is to research
the lore, urban legends and ghost stories of an area. My urban fantasy books
are set in real cities, most of which have a long, reputedly haunted past.
Those stories arise from an area’s history and the people who came to live
there, so understanding the history of a place is also important.
My goal is to make the location of a book so much a part of the plot that the
story couldn’t happen in the same way anywhere else. That requires research
into the culture, and how the people who live there see themselves and their
heritage. Of course, those elements wind back to the supernatural, because
people tell stories about their ancestors, the people who settled the area
before them, the rogues, scoundrels and criminals, the people most likely to
have their spirits stay behind when their lives end.
Magic is always a part of my urban fantasy books, and to make magic
believable, it has to have rules and come at a cost. People with magical
abilities need to have limits, or they become super-powered and so there’s no
suspense. Rules are important so that magic doesn’t just conveniently solve
all problems. Also, since I draw from real-world belief systems around the
practice of magic, I do my best to be faithful and respectful to those
traditions and represent them and their practitioners accurately.
I research the urban legends and ghost stories of a place because those are
rooted in the area’s unique history, the people who settled there, and the
physical nature of the location. The real legends provide wonderful plot
bunnies for ways to incorporate some of those old stories and elements into my
new stories, so that the tale feels organic, arising from its location.
The other key element is consistency, which comes back to rules. If creatures
act a certain way in one book, or magic has certain abilities or limits, then
that has to remain consistent throughout unless you provide a very good
reason. That also helps with believability, because the supernatural elements
shouldn’t solve every problem easily so they don’t feel like a cheat to get
the characters out of tight situations.
I love writing spooky stories and weaving in supernatural elements—and I’m
thrilled that readers like to read about ghosts, magic and haunted places. For
me, getting to research and write paranormal plots is the best job ever!
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