Author Spotlight: Bernita Harris

July 6, 2010 by admin  
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Our guest today us author, Bernita Harris, who has worked as a short-order cook, a library assistant, and a less-than- serious actress before winning a university fellowship and earning a Masters in English Literature. Subsequently, she worked in public affairs and later as a forensic consultant in occult-related material, events, practices and beliefs.

A Libra and left-handed, she is drawn naturally to the sinister side of justice. She has grown four splendid children and now lives in an old house in the Thousand Islands with a German shepherd, a “mostly” corgi and ten thousand books. A Canadian who hates the cold and thrives on spring, she spends her time writing, tending her herb and flower gardens and negotiating with the dead.

Previous to DARK AND DISORDERLY, her first novel, she has published occasional pieces of non-fiction, poetry and several short stories.  Welcome Bernita!

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT

Name: Bernita Harris

Porn Star Name: ~snicker~ Rowdy Hunter

Website Address:
http://www.bernitaharris.blogspot.com/
Writing Age:
As a child I had ambitions to be a poet.
First Published Work:
A poem in The Fiddlehead. In this incarnation a short story, Stone Child in Weirdly: A Collection of Strange Stories (Wild Child Publishing.)
Current ReleaseDark and Disorderly, The Adventures of Lillie St. Claire, from Carina Press.
INSPIRATION & MUSE
If you could live in any fictional universe/world what would it be?
Andre Norton’s Witch World! I love those books. I love her skill at suggestion.
If you could have lunch with any author dead or alive whom would it be and why?
Guy Gavriel Kay. I consider him simply one of the finest  fantasy writers of our age. From reading all his novels I know he admires and appreciates women, but I especially like his themes of paradox and choice and his ability to illustrate the more noble aspects of the human character.
If you were locked in a room for 48 hours and forced to watch one TV show the entire time, which television series would you choose?
CSI — for the drma, justice, and characters.
What is the most outrageous or bizarre thing you have done in the name of research?
There’s nothing really that qualifies as bizarre or outrageous. Wandering around graveyards doesn’t count–genealogists do it all the time.
What is your latest release?
Dark and Disorderly. Just released, June 28, all shiny and new.
What inspired you to write said story/book?
The classic “what if” question. What if ghosts began to appear all over the place. How would society react if ghosts became a civic nuisance,  impeding traffic, affecting property values. What would be possible advantages as well as detriments to an influx of spirits, specters and wraiths?
Fab Five
  • Coffee or tea? Coffee, though floral teas are delicious.
  • Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla.
  • Vampire or werewolf?  Vampire…no werewolf, no…
  • Meatie or veggie? Meatie.
  • Salty or sweety? Salty- french fries over chocolate.
Last but not Least: Three Words that Describe You
Shy.Loving. Lonely.

Read and Excerpt of Dark and Disorderly

Once again, a big thanks to Bernita for joining us at Wicked Jungle. As a special treat for readers, here is a teaser excerpt from the newest release.

Dark and Disorderly Back Cover Blurb

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Lillie St. Claire is a Talent, one of the rare few who can permanently dispatch the spirits of the dead that walk the earth. Her skills are in demand in a haunted country, where a plague of ghosts is becoming a civic nuisance.

Those skills bring her into conflict with frightened citizens who view Talents as near-demons. Her husband comes to see her as a Freak; so when Nathan dies after a car crash, she is relieved to be free of his increasingly vicious presence. Lillie expects to be haunted by Nathan’s ghost, but not to become Suspect #1 for her husband’s murder and reanimation.

But what’s most surprising of all is the growing attraction between her and psi-crime detective John Thresher. He thinks that Lillie killed Nathan–and Nathan must agree, because his zombie is seeking revenge. Now she and Thresher must work together to solve her husband’s murder–before his corpse kills her…

Read the Full Excerpt Here

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