Interview with Molly Zenk & Sarah Biglow for Hunted
Hunted
by Molly Zenk & Sarah BiglowRelease Date: November 17th, 2020
Synopsis:
In order to save his younger brother from a vampire recruitment weekend disguised as a live action role-playing game, Vampire Hunter Darren Paxton must team up with Vampire Edith Dorset and things get…complicated.
On the hundredth anniversary of being turned into a vampire, Edith joins her adopted daughters and their friends at the Heartsong Clan’s annual "vampires vs humans" LARP recruitment event where she meets an eager Dan Paxton. Dan’s older brother and vampire hunter, Darren, thinks he is merely chaperoning a trip to a nerd convention, but when Darren discovers Dan missing, he follows the only lead he has to the Heartsong Clan’s residence on Tombstone Row. He’s determined to keep his Hunter instincts in check, rescue his brother, and make a clean escape. When an impromptu late-night encounter leads Darren and Edith to be honest with each other about who and what each of them are, Edith longs to keep Darren and his brother close, even though it goes against Clan rules. The two start to grow closer as they seek out the truth from Edith’s Sire, Mr. Heartsong, and soon Darren is finding it harder than he thought to snuff out Edith and her family.
Can you briefly describe HUNTED and its characters?
Hunted is an alt history vampire novel with twists on the traditional vampire myths and legends. In the world of HUNTED, vampires are marginalized citizens living in clans on government lands. Blood is rationed through the Red Cross. Because of restrictions and how they’re viewed by humans (and especially by the Vampire Hunters), they need to come up with creative methods to recruit potential new members. Vampire Edith and Vampire Hunter Darren must team up to save his brother from a recruitment week end gone bad.
Could you describe your story with emojis?
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?
Darren because of his lack of filter. He says whatever is on his mind and doesn’t care if he comes across as an “asshole.” He owns up to it.How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?
Back in the fall of 2018, we decided we wanted to try co-writing together for a multi-author boxed set that was aiming to hit the USA Today Bestseller list. We ended up putting a shifter story into that set (and we hit the list), but our first foray was this quirky alt-history social justice novel about two people really striving for humanity in different ways. We had a blast building the world, ensuring there were parallels between how vampires were treated throughout history and how marginalized groups were treated in reality. We wanted to make our vampires sympathetic.If you could choose one song to describe your book, which one would it be?
Into Dust by Mazzy Star
If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?
Such a good question! Edith – Shay Mitchell. Darren – Matthew Daddario
What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date?
Some red wine and music of your choice.
Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish HUNTED?
If readers enjoy HUNTED, we’ve written two other series together. Captivity series where shape shifters try their best to find freedom and love in a post-apocalyptic dystopian society. Celestial Academy series where the descendants of Archangels and Saints go to school, relatively peacefully, until the daughter of Lucifer shows up hunting for her father’s missing relic.
What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?
Finding the time to sneak in word count in our very busy daytime schedules.
What’s next for you?
Books 2 and 3 of the Hunted series (Allied and Fated).
MOLLY ZENK
SARAH BIGLOW
USA Today bestselling author Sarah Biglow is a lawyer, tv addict, wife and mother.
With a passion for cozy mysteries, urban fantasy and paranormal romance, she is the author of the Geeks and Things cozy mystery series and the co-author of the bestselling Captivity series.
She owes much of her writing career to National Novel Writing Month (find out more here) and has been an active member of the Boston region since 2009. NaNoWriMo as it’s known by its participants not only gives writers an outlet to get their stories down on paper, but it helps promote literacy worldwide.
Sarah adores connecting with readers so reach out any time!
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