Ceril N Domace
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The fae are on the brink of war.
It's been nearly a year since the Battle of Tearmann. With their last
legitimate trade routes cut off, the fae increasingly rely on the Corps away
teams to get essential supplies. Owen Williams, now a Corps member, has
spent the last ten months running the border to get the haven what it needs
to survive. But his last mission nearly killed him and his decision to join
the corps threatened his fragile relationship with his family—a relationship
that was already stressed to the breaking point by his son's death.
But after Percill, a battleborn vampire, reveals the location of a group of
the fae captives, the corps leadership makes it clear that there isn't much
they won't do to rescue them. When Percill refuses to say more without a
guarantee that Owen will be on the team that rescues them, Owen agrees even
though going on this mission could shatter what's left of his family.
Success means he gets to retire a hero and go home to his family. However,
failure wouldn't just risk the captives, but could end with him held
alongside them and separated from his family forever.
Author Interview
I wrote Haven in my sophomore year of
college, mostly between the hours of 10 PM and 2 AM. I spent the next few years
changing it from something written in a sleep deprived haze by a college
student with class in a few hours into something publishable and it came out in
April 2021.
2. What sparks
your creativity/how do you get your ideas?
My ideas come
mostly from the world around me. Haven was the love child of late-night Wikipedia binges about de-extinction and Scottish legends about fairies and
humans getting married and having children. Bringing the fae back from
extinction turned into 12 unique species and more world-building than anyone
sensible would let me shove into a novel. One day I'll release the hidden
secrets, just you wait.
Anyway, my list
of future projects are a combination of tropes I'd like to see turned on their
heads and concepts I've seen played with that didn't quite do it for me.
3. What do you
like to do when you’re not writing?
When
I'm not writing I like playing video games. I'm playing through Skyrim now and
hopefully I can actually beat it this time. I own it on three platforms and
still haven't beat the main questline, so we'll see how it goes. I'm also
playing through Dragon Age Inquisition again because there's nothing like a Bioware
dating sim to spice up a boring afternoon. I'm also finishing up a three year
DND campaign where my players assumed the roles of a dead pantheon, so that's
fun.
As
for active hobbies, I enjoy fencing, hiking, and camping.
4. What’s a
typical writing day like for you?
I usually write in the evenings. My brain
doesn't want to focus on creative stuff right after I wake up, so I have to
wait until later in the day to write if I want anything good to come out of it.
I'll usually do a few writing sprints to get started and then I'll keep going
until I reach a good stopping point. My personal goal every day is 400 words or
three pages of edits at the minimum, but I don't beat myself up if I can't hit
that goal in a given day.
5. Do you listen
to music when writing?
I usually listen to orchestral music when
I write. Video game and movie soundtracks are designed to suck you into what
you're doing, so I've usually got one of those running in the background while
I hammer away at any given scene. The extra bonus to this is that I can fine
tune that music to the specific mood I'm going for so I don't end up with a
particularly aggressive picnic because I was listening to climatic battle scene
soundtracks while writing my family bonding moment.
6. If you could
have a dinner party with 3 other authors, who would they be?
Three authors?
Ooh, that's a tough one. Tolkien, obviously, because LOTR was a huge influence
on me; Patricia Wrede because the Enchanted Forest Chronicles taught me that I
can spin tropes on their head and call them out while doing so; and maybe GRRM
because he and I share a fondness for realism even if mine is less aggressive
than his. Also because it'd be hysterical to see him go after Tolkien for
bringing Gandalf back.
7. If you had to
pick a celebrity to cast for your main character, who would it be?
Luke Evans as Owen, no doubt about it.
He's actually my face claim!
8. If you could
travel anywhere in the world to write, where would you go?
I think I'd like a small valley town.
Somewhere I could walk anywhere I needed to but was also relatively isolated so
I'd get distracted by less.
9. Would you ever
write under a pseudonym?
Ceril N Domace is my pseudonym, picked
because I jokingly told my DND group that I was about to commission my cover so
they had five minutes to come up with any suggestions or I was publishing under
my given name. My sister scrambled the letters of my given name around and came
back with that and the rest is history.
10. Do you have a
favorite food/snack/drink when writing (or anytime)?
I'm a grazer by nature, so having boxes
of something I can eat a few handfuls of at a time is essential. I like
Cheeze-its and peanut butter M&Ms the best. Beverage wise, I always write
with my water bottle on hand so I can stay hydrated while I work.
11. How do you
choose your book covers?
So far, my covers have all been scenes
from my books. Haven's cover is the moment Owen sees his first dragon and
Avalon's is... well, that's a little obvious. For the Fae Queen's Court, I'm
using a few concepts over and over again. Namely, Owen in his orange jacket
next to a dragon in a blue-ish setting.
12. What’s one
thing you’d like to say to your readers?
Thank you for your support! Doing this
wouldn't be the same without you and I hope you enjoy Avalon!
Author Bio:
Author Links:
https://www.instagram.com/notceril/
https://twitter.com/cerilndomace
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1145148
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/avalon-ceril-n-domace/1141413967?ean=9781736430125
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