Author Interview: Kate O'Hegarty author of Mieradome

BP:     Describe Mieradome in as few words as possible. 

            Mieradome is ‘like a twisted Alice in Wonderland’, about a young faerie girl Amavia who is on a search of self-discovery. The book is essentially about good and evil and how that can sometimes over take us. It is also about the duality of our internal natures, the yin & yang.

      BP: What was the most challenging part about getting your book published?

            The most challenging part of the publication process was where the story ended! I stopped it originally where Amavia flies out of the bedroom with Ami Dar’ya, and that was the end. I didn’t have any thoughts beyond that. But then after thinking about it, I didn’t like how that ended. There were way too many loose ends. So I started writing and characters like Captain Mielseki, Sasha & Walji Tookie, and Jenie Eiram came from that. I then went back and put them in places at the beginning of the book, so you saw them but probably didn’t notice them too much until later in the book.

BP:   Did you always wanted to be an author?

 Oh yes! I have always wanted to be an author. It’s my life’s passion. I became interested in being a writer when I was really little. I would tell stories to my gal friends at recess and that was a big success. We even did little plays about the stories I made up. I would tell the story and my friends would each be a character and then dramatically fall on the grass on the track or spin around the money bars.

BP:    Do you have any hobbies (reading and writing don’t count!)?

 Yes. I love to paint! 

BP: That's quite awesome.

BP: Where is your favorite place to read/write?

In a comfy big chair in the front room of my house.

BP:  What is your favorite book?

I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann. 

BP:     What was your inspiration for Mieradome?

I had a dream about a girl in a bedroom looking out her window where a bright light zips past her ear and out into the dark of night. That little light ended up disappearing into a large oak tree. The dream made me wonder why that light would go in the tree, what the tree was hiding, and what the little light actually was. So in essence, I just expanded on the small idea I had and built a world around that.

BP: Do you like cats?     

      I think cats are fine, I just don’t think they like me!

BP: Woe. 

BP:   Anything else you'd like to add?

Thank you so much for reading this interview! And I hope you enjoy reading Mieradome!

Thank you Kate for sharing your thoughts with y readers, and more importantly for the opportunity, if you'd hadn't ask I'd probably never had the guts to do an author interview!

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