Interview With Coral Russell Author of Amador Russell

 I recently wrote a review about this very interesting ghost story you can read it here.

 

It was my favorite genre to read growing up.

While other girls were reading romance, I read horror.

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4.      How do you handle bad reviews?

I handle them in private. I never respond to public reviews on sites like Amazon. Now blog reviews are different because you're expected to have a conversation. But again people are free to have an opinion and you respect that. You can't please all the people all the time.

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7.      When you write, do you write for a long period of time or do you write in short burst?

I don't think I'm typical. I'll set writing goals if I have to in order to get done. But otherwise, I write until I'm tired, until the mood lasts, until the ideas flow and sometimes it's a long time and sometimes it's not. I need time to percolate ideas and if it happens while I'm sleeping then I'm tired the next day and can only take notes. Right now I'm working on doing one book a year.

8    Where did your inspiration for this book come from?

There is an actual Amador Lockdown through the El Paso Ghost Hunters and I went to it and thought this would make a great story.

     What is your favorite character in your book and why?

There's a lot of me and my values in Hector, so I guess he's my favorite character.

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What is your favorite scene from the book and why?

My favorite scene is the ending. I love twist endings and when I started writing this I wasn't sure I could pull it off and then I did, it seems. At least that's what other people who've read it think.

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      If your book was turned into a movie who would you want to direct it?

Robert Rodriguez, my books have Hispanic settings.

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  What is your favorite time of year?

FALL – it's the best weather in the southwest, not to hot, not too cool, not a lot of wind.

      

  Where is your favorite place to read?

Anywhere. I love my Kindle Fire and I always carry a book with me and now I can carry a lot of books with me to read wherever I may be. It's great!

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     What is the worst book you have ever read?

Hehe I don't finish them so I'm not sure.

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What is the best book you have ever read?

My two favorites are The River Sutra because even though I've only been able to read it once the story was so vivid it stayed with me and War and Peace because even when it ended I could have kept going and I would have kept right on reading it.

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What is the most inspiring quote you have ever heard?

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

-Rumi

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2  What projects do you have planned for the future?

My untitled WIP is set on the border between Mexico/US and seems to be taking the shape of a thinking person's crime thriller.

2  What do you hope to say to people with your writing?

You know I just realized with Amador Lockdown that I CAN have something to say through my writing. I'm a very opinionated person, so those big themes of love, right/wrong, truth/lies, sacrifice, living, reality... can all be explored and that is making me very excited and eager to write.

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              Is there another hobby you have that you would like to share?

I've done BodyRockTV for over a year and love playing RPG games. I'm playing Fable III, finishing FinalFantasy13, and looking forward to FF13-2 and El Shaddai. I'm interested to see what they come up with for the Xbox Kinect as far as RPG games go. There's some interesting possibilities there. I also love catching up on movies/TV series on Netflix. I use that as background to my writing quite a bit.

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           What do you dislike the most about the publishing world?

Since I'm not in the publishing world I don't have to worry about it and that makes me happy that all those things that were not so great, don't apply to me now. I can pretty much do what I want that makes me happy and hopefully it entertains others as well.