Today we have an author making a first time appearance at Bad Moon Rising. I read a wonderful review of Diaballein last week at D. Wallace Peach’s blog HERE The list of three items to take into a haunted house totally makes sense – well thought out. Welcome Cage Dunn!
Would you rather sleep in a coffin for one night, or spend a night in a haunted house?
For prickly-skin inspiration, I’d like to walk through a haunted graveyard at midnight on my way to sleep in the abandoned haunted house, but not in a coffin.
What three items would you take to the haunted house?
- eReader, of course, ‘cos how else am I going to get weird reflections of the ghosts who think I can’t see anything behind me?
- Pump-up mattress, ‘cos even sleeping with ghosts should offer some comfort, and old haunted houses are not conducive to a good night’s sleep, are they?
- A notebook, so I can offer to relay the stories the ghosts want to have told.
Ghosts have many stories to tell, many woes to share, and if I can steal one idea from any of them, or show a reader what it feels like to be there, how the heart races at the tickle of cold air that touches the face like a dead lover’s caress – that’s a good moment. Fear is the anticipation of something bad happening, and I love to talk to the things that cause fear, find out why they do it, how it works.
Would you rather boogie down to Monster Mash or get your groove on to Thriller?
For musical inspiration, I’d like to boogie down with Monster Mash followed closely by Thriller. Music is the soul of writing stories. A piece of music can inspire a story or enhance it. The rhythms of the sound transferred to the story demonstrate the subtext, the pace, and the sense of movement. Not every piece of music works for a story, but when it’s right, it’s so very, very right.
Do you write to music?
Funny you should ask that. I do, but only sometimes. I’m tone deaf, so the music can’t have voices, and if it’s the wrong music, I can’t write. So the music has to be non-vocal, and clearly defined between beats. It’s the beats I feel that need to be expressed into the pacing of the story, or the feel and atmosphere. It may not make sense, but it’s fun.
What is the hardest part of writing an author bio?
Do I have to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I mean, I tell stories … but in the end, I told enough of the truth mixed with enough of the dreamer to satisfy both me and the muse. Maybe.
What are you working on now?
There are two series, or maybe serials, in novella formats.
The stories are based on the paths taken to achieve the highest level of magic. Not the type of magic that waves a wand, but the real magic where a person calls on their elemental nature, their strengths through familiars, and patterns of power to assist the people in the world who need it.
The second is a series about a man I’d call a negotiator, a fixer. He knows everyone on the dark side, and everyone knows him. The man youu call when you want a good thief to retrieve the family secrets, or to barter for the return. This man employs the skills of psychics and future-tellers as well as punishers and common thieves. You want something done on the quiet, he’s your man.
One man, one woman, one Diaballein — who will survive?
Kano Varre seeks a rare mineral in Outback Australia to prove his controversial and dangerous research — what he finds is a nightmare.
His body is possessed by the Diaballein, whose purpose is to open a gateway for his brethren, Kano must defeat the enemy while there’s only one, and he needs Eyza’s help to do it before the world falls into slavery, torture, death — worse than any nightmare ever imagined.
The gate is open …
Purchase Links
Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/cagedunn
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/cage-dunn
Books2Read: https://books2read.com/ap/nkG5gn/Cage-Dunn
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/CageDunn
Author Bio
Cage Dunn is a dedicated Fibber, Fabricator, Teller of Tall Tales who writes Australian stories, rural and outback urban/dark fantasy, horror, and twisted tales, stories about fearful things, dreams and horrors.
Cage was born in the wide-open landscape of inland Western Australia, lived all over the startling country of Australia – now in Adelaide – and worked at everything from sewage collection to computer programming. Still learning, still writing, still scaring the pants off those willing to listen to the stories …
Social Media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cage_dunn @cage_dunn
Blog: https://cagedunn.wordpress.com
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