VBT: The Fallenwood Chronicles

Leslie D. Soule 

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 GENRE: Fantasy 

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BLURB:

The Fallenwood Chronicles is the ongoing story of Ash Kensington, a young woman who finds

herself transported into a fantasy world, where she must take up arms in a battle of Good vs.

Evil, against the Dark Lord Malegaunt. Tragedy strikes her life in the real world, but she finds

friends in Fallenwood, like her mentor Will Everett, a talking cat named Greymalkin, and a court

jester named Terces. Working together, they battle against the odds as Ash faces attacks from

the world and from within. Eventually Ash finds the strength within herself, to attempt the fight

against Malegaunt, against overwhelming odds, come what may 

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EXCERPT:

Her heart raced and she breathed slowly, trying to calm her frazzled nerves. Glancing around,

she wondered how far off the road she’d wandered. She knew it had been midday when she’d

started running, and now looking up into the star-filled sky, it had to be late into the night. A rush

of air greeted her the moment she reached this strange part of the forest, before her eyes had

temporarily forsaken her. The wind whipped around her from all sides. She backed away from

where she stood, and the wind felt like it was whooshing up from a precipice. Ashley paused to

allow her eyes to adjust to the dark. When her sight returned, she realized that she was

standing nowhere near a cliff—it was just an unfamiliar area of forest. Suddenly, a ball of fire

hurtled overhead in an arc toward her. Her mind screamed at her to run, but she found that her

legs wouldn’t move. The flaming orb continued its descent, burrowing itself into the soft ground

only inches away from Ashley’s boots. Two men rushed toward her, arguing all the while as

Ashley stood immobilized. Her bones were in revolt. Her brain scrambled for an alias to give out

to the men if they asked, but she could only come up with Ash, because she was looking at the

little pile of soot at her boots. “Deflected,” the man in the lead announced.

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INTERVIEW

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Have you ever had an imaginary friend?

When I was younger, I always thought about having an imaginary friend, but the problem is just that –

it’s imaginary. I’ve never had a difficult time separating out the real world from fantasy. And I actually

used to tend toward hanging out with real creatures. I used to catch fat toads and bring them into my

mom’s bedroom to freak her out, and things like that.

Do you have any phobias?

Ooh, good question. Blood & gore. I’ve never been able to stand it.

Do you listen to music when you're writing?

Typically, no. I prefer silence, so I can let my mind wander. Of course, if I’m in a Starbucks or another

coffee shop and the music’s already going, it doesn’t bother me. I can still write with that in the

background.

Do you ever read your stories out loud?

I try not to. LOL!

Tell us about your main character and who inspired him/her.

I wrote Ash as a person loosely based on myself and my experiences in trying to mentally grapple with

the state of the world. But I have a nagging thought, about Ash evolving somehow, after the events of

Fallenwood, into some kind of creature that is more unlike myself and harder to figure out. I’m still

churning that idea around in my head.

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AUTHOR:

Leslie D. Soule received her M.A. in English from National University. She is a scholar, artist,

citizen journalist, and martial artist. She has been an established writer for a decade, and has

novels published by Melange Books, Terror House Press, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, and Nat 1

Publishing. The Fallenwood Chronicles is her 4-book fantasy series and features the novels

Fallenwood, Forgetting Fallenwood, Betrayer, and Retribution.

Twitter handle: @Fallenwood1

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