Interview with Hawk MacKinney Author of Inanna Phantom
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Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Hawk and Inanna Phantom. First up Hawk!
What defines you as an author? Languages-linguistics, the origins of spoken sounds, syntax & how it reflects cultures.
As a person? The fundamentals of a solid grounding, a culture before the artificial (i.e. `toys’) blurred those values.
Are they one in the same? Definitely not.
What inspired this particular story? Preparing and planting a flower bed.
What disgusts you or makes you angry? Hearing someone use lazy as an excuse to fail & not considering the consequences of selfish decisions on others.
Why did you choose the cover concept you did? I didn’t. I sometimes offer suggestions, but I never question my marketing team or the graphic artists and designers of my titles. The graphic artists are part of that very honest reliable successful team.
Tell us something about yourself and allow us to get to know you. I hold postgraduate degrees with studies in languages & history, & I have taught postgraduate courses in the United States & Jerusalem, Israel. I am noted for using unique “Southron” dialog, especially the origins and derivation of the vocabularies and languages in the South to give distinction to my characters without the use of tags. This “Southron” speak is something I was raised on.
What secret do you use to blast through writer’s block? I’ve never experience it – I don’t understand it. I have too many tales yet to tell.
What inspired you to write? The love of the written word – the King’s English properly spoken is a beautiful language – & then I enjoy breaking the rules.
Do you see yourself in your characters? I would say that most of my characters reflect a part of me, and this is true of most writers.
What do you want your readers to take away from your books? A jolly good time of trying to outguess the writer – many readers like doing that.
Where do your story ideas come from? Everywhere-anything – setting, plot, dialogues – the whole basket, and a lot of people-watching. If they come to you in the middle of the night, do you get up and write them all down?
Do you find it easier to write from a male or female point of view? Female
Why? Makes me explore all manner of cobwebs between my ears while I people-watch.
If writing is your first passion, what is your second? Reading – maybe that’s #1.
What do you like to do when you are not writing? Read – walk through the backwoods.
You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do? Versailles – Louis XVI – but ONLY for an hour – OR less.
What’s your favorite part of being an author? The whole smear – spinning the tale, editing, drawing characters, mixing settings-cultures-languages, breaking words/grammar/syntax to color dialects. And then marketing my published books; having the opportunity to interact with my readers.
Any tips to share with fellow authors/aspiring authors? What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard? Never quit UNLESS you don’t want to write.
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer! <evil laugh>
<No torture – it’s part of the magic-FUN of writing…single words are marvelous grammar-edits to get rid of wordy clutter.>
Favorite movie: Forbidden Planet
Favorite book: Midway
Last book read: Napoleon/Jefferson Davis – more than 1bk at a time
Favorite color: blue
Stilettos or flipflops: barefoot
Coffee or tea: a.m. – coffee/afternoon & later – tea
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: paperback
Pencil or pen: pen
Favorite song: Má vlast – Vltava
Favorite dessert: crème brûlée
Favorite junk food: fatback
Favorite thing to do to relax: read on the porch swing
Champagne or gin: neither
Paranormal or Historical: historical [often> the same]
Wonder Woman or Top Model: neither
Favorite TV show: Walter Cronkite
Hot or cold: both
POV: I’d die if I don’t have: peace of mind
Review or Not: review
3D illustration. Sci-Fi futuristic abstract gradient blue violet pink neon. A glowing corridor on the reflection of the concrete floor. A dark interior room.
Tell us a little about Inanna Phantom.
The threat of rift invasions seem long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Murian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory.
An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe.
The Lantaraan database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc.
Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is assassinated.
As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to dangerous discords.
How about a sneak peek between the pages of Inanna Phantom.
The first anomalies were logged by remote nanoparticle quantum-field sensor arrays positioned on uninhabited dwarf planets, moons and long-orbit asteroids of the star systems of the League. The inconsistencies were short sub-fracture durations and were seismically unremarkable. Across the League’s far-flung frontier systems, seasoned operators monitored the encoded decryption of the scan-logs. Through decades of use, the linknet had become indispensable; supplanting the slower interstellar particle entanglement-based trans-light travel. Linknet protocols established allowances for such random background fluctuations with standard deviations measured against system parameters. The diverse configurations of the link systems were accepted as fail-safe.
Senior specialists assigned to Terminus Terra II protocol-consoles maintained continuous scans for minor time-sync misaligns. Scan records were stored in Murian-designed crystals in tiered sublevels of mantle crust beneath Terminus and in Myraa City. Link schedules of freight shipments, personnel, and communications remained on tight schedules.
The erratic anomalous spacetime oscillations data was logged. The ruse was almost perfect. Except star-core substrate logs registered converter power for the unsanctioned personnel requisition of translinks coordinates for specific network portals. It was a simple oversight but one that had sa s’Blikova’at consequences. Besides, waiting one more day wouldn’t matter.
The following morning Marleen and her three sons would be alone.
About the author.
Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.
With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.
Book Video: https://youtu.be/MUnhN8U0Zp0
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ HawkMacKinney
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/698008.Hawk_MacKinney
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Inanna-Phantom-Cairns-Sainctuarie-Book-ebook/dp/B07Y2DQRT3/ref=sr_1_1
Barnes&Noble.com: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inanna-phantom-hawk-mackinney/1133914447?ean=9781732918252
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER:
Hawk MacKinney will be awarding a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Inanna Phantom!
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