Colette L. Saucier
Louisiana
USA
Welcome to Vision and Verse, Colette. Can you tell us a little about what you’ve written?
My published works are Pulse and Prejudice—the paranormal
adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic—which retells the story from Mr. Darcy’s
point of view as a vampire. (Austenprose Readers’ Choice Top 5 Book of 2012);
the contemporary romance All My Tomorrows,
selected a 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semi-finalist; and my new
release, the romantic suspense thriller, Alicia’s
Possession.
What is your favorite genre to write?
Literary and metaphysical fiction, but
I haven’t published in those genres yet!
So I would have to say Romantic Suspense.
Favorite food.
Lobster.
Where would you like to visit?
My goal is to visit all the continents,
and I only have Australia and Antarctica remaining.
Favorite musical artist.
Pink Floyd
How old were you when you started
writing?
I was reading and writing even before I
began kindergarten, but I wrote my first short story in the third grade when I
was eight. By junior high, I wrote novellas that my classmates would pass
around.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Anything can be an inspiration. With my
new release, Alicia’s Possession, my
daughter had just bought a house on a lake that got my creative juices flowing.
All My Tomorrows resulted from an
argument I had with my other daughter. For Pulse
and Prejudice, I wanted to do something that hadn’t been done before. I had
read adaptations of Pride and Prejudice
from Darcy’s point of view and a vampire variation, and I decided to blend the
two. My current work in progress, The Widow? I’m keeping the inspiration a secret for now.
What do you do when you get a writer's
block?
First, I try meditation, which is how I
work out any scene anyway. If that doesn’t work, I use a technique called
proprioceptive writing. I took a workshop on it, and it is an amazing tool to
get your juices flowing. If all else fails, I go to Amsterdam.
Who is your favorite author?
William Shakespeare
Best book you ever read.
When I am reading The Magic Mountain, I think it is the best book ever written, but
when I am reading The Brothers Karamazov,
I can’t imagine anything better.
Who is the one person who has influenced
your personal life the most and why?
It cannot be one person because I had
twins. My children completely changed my life. From the moment they were born,
I didn’t make a single decision, I didn’t move, without thinking of how they
would be affected. They were the primary motivating factor in most of my
behavior until they left home. Even
today as adults, they still influence me. I want their happiness more than I
want my own.
If you could sit down and have a
conversation with ONE person, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it
be and why?
John Lennon. Although Pink Floyd is my
favorite band, The Beatles are a close second. I think I might love George
more, but I have always felt a certain affinity with John, like we shared a
certain level of insanity. In Strawberry Fields, he wrote, “No one I
think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low;” but the original lyrics
were that no one was on his wavelength; everyone was either higher or lower. He
changed it to make it more esoteric. I empathize with him and that feeling,
especially when I was growing up and had trouble making friends. Of course, I
can always fall back on another line from that song: “Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding
all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't
matter much to me.”
What advice would you give someone who
aspired to be a writer?
Marry well.
Colette is the
bestselling author of Pulse and Prejudice—the
paranormal adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic—which retells the story from Mr.
Darcy’s point of view as a vampire. Colette was selected a “2013 Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Award Semi-finalist” and Austenprose's “Debut Author of the
Year” for 2012.
Colette has
been writing poems, short stories, and novellas since grade school. Her
interest in literature led her to marry her college English professor, but
eventually a love of history encouraged her to trade up to a British historian.
Technical writing has dominated Colette’s career for the past twenty years, but
finding little room for creativity in that genre, she dedicated 15 months
traveling to Europe and Britain, researching Regency England and vampire lore
and literature, to complete her first full-length novel Pulse and Prejudice. She is currently researching and writing a
sequel entitled Dearest Bloodiest
Elizabeth set in Antebellum New Orleans, as well as the romantic suspense
thriller, The Widow.
Colette lives
in South Louisiana with her historian husband and their two dogs.
About Alicia’s Possession
Haunted by a traumatic accident and her
husband’s betrayal, Alicia believes she can never trust again. Now she must
surrender her will to Mason if she wants to find out if the bizarre events
terrorizing her are the work of the paranormal, her own paranoia, or something
far more sinister.
After recovering from
a freak car crash that put her in a coma and left her with no memory of the
accident, wealthy socialite Alicia Pageant becomes convinced there is a
connection between the mysterious disappearance of her neighbor and a series of
bizarre occurrences inside her own house; but everyone—including the detective
called to investigate—thinks the woman’s head injury has left her unable to
distinguish reality from fantasy.
As Detective Mason
Crawley investigates this “suspicious incident,” Alicia’s palpable sadness and
vulnerability awaken his instinct to protect her and lead her into the light;
but when her story begins to unravel, each new piece of information creates
more questions than it answers. He begins to wonder if he is falling in love
with a woman who is a witness to a cleverly-concealed crime, dangerously
delusional, or a murderer.
“A
great story. It's got everything—sex, crime, cops, more sex, a twisted mystery,
knot tying, and a superb denouement.” —
Chuck Hustmyre, screenwriter and bestselling author of THE AXMAN OF NEW ORLEANS
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