About The Author:
Traci L. Slatton, author of Fallen, is a graduate of Yale and Columbia, and she also attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, sculptor Sabin Howard, whose classical figures and love for Renaissance Italy inspired her historical novel Immortal and her contemporary vampire art history mystery The Botticelli Affair. Fallen is the first in a romantic trilogy set during the end times.For more information please visit http://www.tracilslatton.com and follow the author on Facebook and Twitter.
Guest Post:
Traci: "Blog readers, please meet Emma Anderson from FALLEN, Laila Cambridge from THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR, and Luca Bastardo from IMMORTAL. Guys, who'd like to talk about my inspiration for writing?"
Emma: "I'm a painter and illustrator, and before the apocalypse, I got my inspiration from looking into the faces of people around me. Especially my loved ones' faces."
Laila: "Who needs inspiration? It's just so much fun to forge the Old Masters! I don't wait for inspiration. I just have a blast doing what I do best. Gimme a paintbrush and some terra verde green and a little lapis lazuli blue: voilà, a Vermeer!"
Emma: "You're lucky. I live during the end times. Billions of people have been killed in a global eco-disaster. We survivors are left struggling to stay alive, fighting vicious rogue bands, and haunted by strange psychic powers that dissolve us into madness."
Laila: "What a drag! But you know, it's not easy for me, either. My dad is missing and he's being pursued by vampires. Evil, remorseless, blood-hungry vampires."
Luca: "Inspiration? I get inspiration from Giotto's frescoes, from Botticelli's ravishing female figures. Such inspiration gives me the courage to endure a brutal indenture in a brothel of horrors."
Laila: "I can paint just like Botticelli."
Emma: "It's not painting that saves me now. It's love. When the world ends, all that's left is love."
Luca: "I am waiting for the great love who has been promised me. I chose her, and I know that the Laughing God will bring her to me, when His joke is ripe. I love her already and I haven't even met her yet. Love is the only immortality we can know."
Laila: "I'm waiting for my love, too. I can be close to him, but I can never quite have him. It's too perilous. The hottest guy I ever met, and he smells so yummy, too. I just want to wrap myself around him and squeeze!"
Luca: "My great love smells like lilacs and clear light."
Laila: "What does clear light smell like? Hey, there's a beautiful Botticelli painting for sale, it has a pristine provenance provided by my friend Lord Cromer. I can get you a good deal . . . "
Luca: "Sandro Botticelli is one of my best friends. I already get good deals. Though he does negotiate relentlessly. It's the Florentine way. At heart, Florentines care about money, food, and art. And wine. I myself have a fondness for vino nobile di Montepulciano. Though I don't know if I'm Florentine. I don't know my origins."
Laila: "I'm a margarita fan, myself. Nothing like tequila to inspire a rowdy game of strip poker!"
Emma: "We don't have the luxury of money, wine, and art. Food is the luxury now. I don't know if the human race even has the luxury of a future. Arthur says we do, but I am not certain. He believes that we'll rise out of the ashes and create a better life. He's like that, always trying to do something noble and good. I just want to keep a few children alive . . ."
Luca: "God's grace sees us through. There's always God's grace, even when we can't see it. But we know it's there. We're receptacles for it, because of our souls."
Laila: "The man I love has half a soul. What does that mean? What is a soul, anyway? Does having a soul explain why I'll spend my last dollar on a pair of above-the-knee white patent leather boots with six-inch stiletto heels? Is there an explanation for that?"
Emma: "Soul has something to do with the invisible field of information that holds us all, the way the ocean holds fish and algae and seaweed and its myriad other creatures. I think soul may be what got us into trouble with the mists. Our souls make us vulnerable to psychological influence via the biomind."
Laila: "What's a biomind? Never mind, I don't want to know!"
Emma: "Arthur knows. He's brilliant."
Laila: "I hope he's hot, because he sounds like a smarty pants."
Emma: "He's beautiful beyond the dreams of women."
Luca: "The most beautiful man I ever met was Leonardo, son of Ser Piero da Vinci. He was also the most talented and intelligent. I was his tutor, but he taught me more than I ever imparted to him."
Laila: "You're not so bad yourself, Luca Bastardo. Too bad I'm six inches taller than you!"
Emma: "You both have red hair, though Laila, yours is flame-colored, and Luca, yours is yellow-red. I'd love to paint you both. Laila, your laughter is infectious. Luca, your soulfulness emanates from you!"
Traci: "So did you guys figure out what inspires me?"
Laila: "Tequila and patent leather boots?"
Emma: "No, silly, it's love!"
Luca: "Love and beauty!"
Laila: "Love, beauty, and laughter!"
© 2011 Traci L. Slatton, author of Fallen
Fallen:
Title: FallenAuthor: Traci L. SlattonPublisher: Telemachus Press, LLCPublication Date: July 12th, 2011
Fiction - dystopian romance
FALLEN: A mystical odyssey...
FALLEN is the powerful story of love at the end of times. Emma is a woman struggling to survive and keep seven children alive in a world ravaged by chaos, madness, and war.
Emma meets the charismatic Arthur, who leads a strangely well-provisioned camp of men who seek to rebuild civilization. But Arthur hides a devastating secret. Slowly she falls for him, but can she stay with him, when his secret is revealed? (Source).
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