Today, I give you S.M. Schmitz's newest fantasy. In addition, I ask her some really weird and annoying, possibly non-sensical questions just to test her mettle.
WEIRD, STUPID QUESTIONS
CREATED BY SILLY LIZA
WEIRD, STUPID QUESTIONS
CREATED BY SILLY LIZA
Q: Do you
ever put demi-gods, people, dogs, or cats that you know in real life in your
stories?
A: Ha! Well,
it would be pretty cool if I knew some demigods that I could incorporate into
my stories. I don’t base any of my characters on anyone else I know – they are
entirely made up. The only person I borrow attributes from is myself; most of
my protagonists have pieces of my personality written into them.
Q: Do
demi-gods let you plan out their lives, or do they just run amuck in your
stories?
A: They’re
surprisingly well behaved. It’s the gods I have to watch out for!
Q: How do
you think the human race will end: Super
Volcanic Explosions, Pole reversals with deadly solar flares radiating humans
while the electro magnetic field collapses, Global Warming, Global Freezing,
Methane poisoning due to the methane rising from the oceans, Global war,
the Zika virus, or some other way involving demi-gods?
A: I think
what will kill humans will end up killing most mammals, and it will most likely
be to abrupt environmental changes that we can’t adapt to.
Q: Exactly
how does a half God come to be?
A: Demigods
are the descendants of gods and humans and in many western mythologies, the
great heroes of these cultures’ legends are demigods. We’re most familiar with
Greek heroes like Heracles and Perseus, both of whom were fathered by Zeus. In
my retelling of these mythologies, gods’ genes continue to be expressed through
generations so a demigod usually has one parent that is fully human and one who
is a demigod. In this way, I have been able to trace ancestries of demigods
back to gods who have been dead for hundreds of years (quite a few western
mythologies also demonstrate a belief that gods could be killed).
Q: Who do
you think should run our world: Demi-Gods, Artificial Intelligence, or some
idiot with orange hair?
A: Out of
those choices, I suppose I would have to go with demigods. I’ve seen Terminator – AI just seems like a bad
idea. Demigods are at least partly human so depending on their personalities,
they could either work together to solve global problems or end up fighting and
destroying the world… I guess that could go into the above question about how
the world will end. J
Q: What is
the smartest animal on earth?
A: I used to
think humans. I’m not so sure anymore. One of my favorite book quotes is from Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith: “I read somewhere that human beings are
genetically predisposed to record history. We believe it will prevent us from
doing stupid things in the future. But even though we dutifully archived
elaborate records of everything we’ve ever done, we also managed to keep on
doing dumber and dumber shit.”
Hmmm...she did pretty good answering the questions, so let's check out her book.....
And as Cameron and Selena will learn, in the
final Battle of the Gods, no one can be trusted.
As a special introductory price, you can get Shadows of the Gods for only $0.99 until
June 1, when the price will increase to $2.99.
Blurb:
As a powerful demigod, Selena
has been running from the gods who control the government agency, the New
Pantheon, for the past three years, but now, they’ve caught up to her.
When they trap Selena in an
alleyway in New Orleans, she is ready to admit defeat. But an unfamiliar
demigod rescues her, and the more she learns about Cameron, the more she
discovers their common bonds may be the key to unraveling her own mysterious
history.
In the first book of The Unbreakable Sword series, Selena and
Cameron must not only evade the New Pantheon, which is ruthlessly hunting the
remaining gods and their descendants, but an angry Aztec god that wants
Selena’s power to himself. And they will discover in the impending final battle
of the gods, no one can be trusted.
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Author Bio:
S.M.
Schmitz has an M.A. in modern European history and is a retired world history
instructor. Her novels are infused with the same humorous sarcasm that she
employed frequently in the classroom. As a native of Louisiana, she sets many
of her scenes here, and like Dietrich in Resurrected, she is also convinced
Louisiana has been cursed with mosquitoes much like Biblical Egypt with its
locusts.
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