About Yvonne Navarro:
Yvonne is the author of twenty-three published novels and a lot of short stories, articles and a reference dictionary. Her most recent published book isSupernatural: The Usual Sacrifices (based in the Supernatural Universe). Her writing has won a bunch of awards and stuff. She lives way down in the southeastern corner of Arizona, about twenty miles from the Mexican border, where there is no need for a wall.
You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, and her website.
Interview:
SK: How are you involved in the world of horror?
YN: Ha! I never thought of myself as “involved” in the world of
horror—it’s just that I’ve always loved a good, scary story. I write what I
like to read: tales about interesting people trying to do interesting stuff,
who then get into deep... uh... trouble. Because monsters and evil people who
creep around in the night.
YN: I get asked this a lot, and over the years—decades—the answered hasn’t changed: People. Do I believe a vampire will
float up to my window like in SALEM'S LOT, or do I think a zombie’s going to jump out of the bushes at me when I
take out the garbage? No (at least not yet, but with chemicals and fuddling
around with viruses and human DNA, I’m starting to get a little unsure about
those zombies). Do I think a couple of crackheads might try a home or car
invasion one of these days? Oh, yeah. People
scare me, because they’re a whole lot of them who are unpredictable,
hate-filled, and psycho... and most of the time you wouldn’t know an insane one
from a sane one behind you in the grocery line.
YN: To me it’s always been irrelevant. I never started out
thinking or being told that because I was a woman I couldn’t expect the same
treatment as anyone else. I was on a convention panel years ago when another
panelist said she had to write like a man to be published. That made me
furious. I yanked the microphone out of the hands of the person next to me and
snapped, “I don’t write like a man. I write like a writer.” I ended up with a standing ovation.
YN: Here’s the thing: a lot of the ladies will grab the
opportunity to name all their friends here. I appreciate that, but I’m not
going to follow suit. I have many, many female friends who write wonderfully.
Here, however, I’m going to name a few authors and their books not just because
they’re great writers, but because what they wrote haunted me. If a story someone tells does that... wow. Just wow.
So:
You know what? I’ll go back on what I just said and put a
shout-out to Elizabeth Massie, because I don’t think she’s ever written a story
that didn’t stick in my head and think twice about the dark.
YN: I’ve been painting instead of writing for awhile, and really
enjoying myself. Still, that story-telling itch has been digging around in my
head, so it probably won’t be long until I hit the keyboard again. As to
promoting, not too long ago my first novel, AFTERAGE,
was reprinted for the first time in sixteen years (in 2002 it came out as a
limited edition hardback). The original paperback dates back to 1993, but the
reprint is a trade paperback with a stunning new cover. The story is
post-apocalyptic, so it never grows old. Folks can pick it up here.
About AFTERAGE:
A plague of vampirism has crept across the country, reducing once-thriving cities to ghost towns. In Chicago, a few scattered survivors hide behind the fortified walls of office buildings and museums, raiding deserted stores for dwindling supplies of clothing and food.
Meanwhile a hungry vampire population also struggles for survival as their prey grows scarce, forcing them to capture alive the last remaining humans as breeding stock for the blood farms that will ensure their future.
Now a small band of humans makes a desperate last stand against their vampire masters, fighting back with the only weapon that can kill the dead...
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