And FREE BOOK ALERT!
Well, would you look at that?
A bonus Monday!
I guess that means I need to bring out the big guns to end the month, don't I?
Meet Roh Morgon!
Roh Morgon writes fantasy, supernatural suspense, and horror for adult, young adult, and middle grade readers. She is best known for her supernatural suspense series, THE CHOSEN and WORLD OF THE CHOSEN, and is a past winner of the International Vampire Film & Arts Festival Silver Stake Award.
Roh dreams up her dark tales while driving and hiking through California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. But it’s her time spent in more remote locales—the soaring peaks of Colorado, the windswept plains of Wyoming, the mysterious Carpathian Mountains of Romania—that provides the settings for her stories, and opens the door into hidden worlds filled with seductive, lethal creatures and the secret lives they lead.
Based in Central California, Roh shares her home with her very patient husband and an extremely demanding cat who helps her write by periodically walking on the keyboard.
Roh Morgon links
· Website: https://www.rohmorgon.com/
· Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RohMorgonWriter
· Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rohmorgonschosencrew/
· Other social media links: https://linktr.ee/Author_Roh_Morgon
Roh Morgon booklist (optional)
· The Chosen novels: Monster: A Prequel of The Chosen, Watcher: Book I of The Chosen, Runner: Book II of The Chosen, Seeker: Book III of The Chosen (2024)
· The World of The Chosen novellas: The Games Monsters Play, The Last Trace
1. Firefly – gone too soon or overrated?
a. Browncoat here, so definitely gone too soon! I miss Mal and his crew, and periodically re-watch the series, along w/ the movie, Serenity.
2. A book you’re looking forward to release (by someone else)?
a. Blackfire, the sequel to the Spell Weaver and the Steel & Stone fantasy series by Annette Marie – I love everything she writes!
3. A book that pleasantly surprised you?
a. The imPerfect Cathar series by C.N. Rowan. A ‘perfect’ blend of humor with dark urban fantasy, and characters who delve deep into their emotions while kicking butt (or having their butts kicked).
4. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
a. As a child, I used to make up stories to help put myself to sleep at night. It wasn't until I was in my late thirties, when I had an idea for a middle grade time-travel series, that I thought about writing books. But at that point, I was a full-time college student AND a single parent of two kids, so I shelved the idea for sometime in the future.
5. When did you write your first book and how old were you?
a. I wrote my first book nearly twenty years later at the age of 52. Don’t ever think you’re too old to start writing!
6. How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
a. I've written and published five books so far in The Chosen supernatural suspense series—three novels and two novellas—with a sixth in progress. My favorite? That’s hard to say. I love Monster: A Prequel of The Chosen because we meet Sunny before tragedy destroys her life and struggle with her as she tries to adapt to her new supernatural existence. In Watcher: Book I of The Chosen, we reconnect with a more confident Sunny whose world is once again turned upside down—this book is special to me because it was my first. And in Runner: Book II of The Chosen, we meet a wider range of characters and are more deeply immersed into the world of The Chosen. So I guess they’re all my favorites for one reason or another!
7. Where do you get your information or ideas for your books?
a. Most of my inspirations come from dreams about a character with a problem, which I then develop into a story. Both my vampire series and my shapeshifter series were initiated from dreams.
8. How did publishing your first book change your process of writing?
a. My first novel, Watcher: Book I of The Chosen, was written in a complete vacuum with no knowledge of the publishing industry. I really wrote it for myself, and had little thought of actually publishing it or worries about what others might think of it. But once it was finished, my daughter wanted to read it—and ended up staying awake all night to read the 120,000 word manuscript, unable to put it down. It was at her urging, and the urging of others who read it, that I spent the next two years learning how to write properly and how to self-publish. Since then, I feel the pressure of meeting reader expectations with each book I write, while simultaneously dealing with the distractions of marketing and maintaining a social media presence. I do long for those days when I could just write and not worry about anything else—just me, the characters, and the words on the page.
9. What does your family think of your writing?
a. They are all proud of the fact that I've written and published my books, though my parents aren't sure about the subject matter (vampires) and wonder how they raised such a weirdo. :)
10. Do you like to create books for adults?
a. I do, though I look forward to working again on my young adult shapeshifter series, and will someday write that middle grade time-travel series I mentioned earlier.
11. As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up?
a. A better question would be, "What did I want to be?" Actually, I wanted to be a horse, or a wolf, or anything but human. So I guess writing about vampires and shapeshifters is a way to realize that dream!
12. What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
a. The best one was a 2016 trip to Romania with Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker. We spent 12 days exploring the history of Vlad Tepes, said to be the inspiration of the iconic vampire, and following the route of character Jonathon Harker (from the novel) as he traveled to Dracula's castle. Hiking the mysterious Carpathian Mountains was one of the trip's highlights. Much of my next novel, Seeker: Book III of The Chosen, takes place in the Romanian state of Transylvania and the Carpathian Mountains.
13. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
a. My hobbies have included everything from horses to Harleys, renaissance faires to ComicCons, star gazing to eclipse chasing. The past couple years, I've focused on raising organic vegetables and enjoy eating my pesticide-free produce straight from the garden.