1. What is the name of the book where we would meet you? What genre is it?
You meet me in the first books of the Green Stone of Healing(R) epic fantasy
series. These novels include
The Vision, Fallout, and
The Scorpions Strike.
My story extends to several future books as well.
2. Who wrote the series?
C.L. Talmadge, who believes that she lived a past life as me.
3. What do you think of the author? You can tell us the truth.
She lets me be myself in the book, and I appreciate it. She's a bit of a
puzzle to me because she doesn't care nearly as much as I do about what
other people think of her. I find that strange.
4. Tell us a little about yourself. How would you describe your appearance?
That's more than just really cute or drop dead gorgeous. Give us enough
detail to get a clear idea of how you look.
I am more than six feet tall with large, steel blue eyes, a voluptuous
figure, and long, wavy coal-black hair that is fine yet very full. My skin
color is a cross between the two races in my society: not as deep red as the
dominant
Toltecs, yet not as pale as the subordinate Turanians. I look very
much like the half-breed I am.
5. What character are you in the book? Are you the hero, the best friend,
the side kick, the hero and heroine's child or someone else?
I am Helen Elizabeth Andros, the first-generation heroine.
6. Is there a specific reason why you're in the story? Don't give us any
story spoilers, but you can share some teasers if you want.
The entire plot revolves around the fact that I exist and the political
consequences of the discovery of my unknown father's identity. That is why I
am in the story.
7. What time period do you live in?
I live in what you might consider an alternate distant past in a society you
might consider just a myth.
8. Where are you from?
I was born in a desert country called Khemyt.
9. Do you live in the same place now?
No. I live in the island nation where my parents were born. It is called
Azgard.
10. Tell us about your hometown and your current home.
Memphys, the town of my birth, is a huge metropolis at the center of world
trade. It is a multicultural city with people of all races and nationalities
making a living from commerce and agriculture along the banks of the
Great
River that flows north to the sea. It is the nexus that connects East and
West in my world.
11. Tell us how your hometown or your current home affects you, the things
you do and how you feel about life?
Because I am a half-breed, I am an outcast in Azgard, my home since age 11.
After living in a place where no one gave much thought to my mixed-race
heritage, I was shocked and wounded to find that in Azgard, that's pretty
much all people see in me. Although my aunt (my mother's younger sister) and
her husband love me, I cannot feel it. I cannot feel any love for myself or
pride in who I am or what I do because there is so much prejudice and
bigotry in my world.
12. What special skills or abilities do you have?
I studied very hard and earned a full scholarship to the one institution of
higher learning in all of Azgard. I attended college there and then earned a
medical degree. But science-based medicine has never fully satisfied my
curiosity about healing, and I spend a lot of my time researching
alternative approaches to healing in an obscure book called the Arkana.
13. How do those affect your part in the story?
My medical training and abilities play a critical role throughout my story.
My skills at healing are what recommended me for a dangerous assignment that
launches all the action.
14. Are you happy with the story?
I am satisfied that the author is telling it like it was. But that was a
harsh life and I wouldn't relive it again for all the money in the
universe-unless I could know what I know now and retain the ability to act
on my hard-earned wisdom.
15. Do you have some ideas that the author should consider about the story?
You can share them with us. We're all friends here.
I want her to continue as she has started-telling the true tale of the life
I once lived.
16. Tell us about your past. Can you share one really good experience
and/or one really bad experience? I know that bad experience can be tough,
but it would tell us more about what you've been through.
Bad experience: During my first days at the Sacred Academy of Kronos, where
I completed all of my higher education, I made the mistake of entering the
chapel for weekly services. The enraged priests beat me because, as a
half-breed, I was not allowed on ground consecrated to Kronos. No one told
me about it.
Good experience: Cracking jokes and taking long walks with my best friend
from my medical school days, Lord Matthew Shinar. We bonded like siblings
and remained close throughout my life.
17. Who is the most important person in your life? Tell us about them.
The most important person in my life turns out to be the one I did not meet
until I was an adult-my father. He holds a very high and powerful political
office and is extremely wealthy. As a person he is intense, immensely loyal,
and not given to suffering fools lightly. Even without meeting him, I have a
lot of his mannerisms-so much so that those who know him and meet me often
wondered whether there might be a relationship between the two of us. He
works long hours to hide the anguish and loss he felt when my mother refused
to marry him and disappeared from his life.
18. Is that person in the story we're talking about?
Very much so, and plays a key role in the first four books of the series.
19. How does that person impact you and your life?
Learning his identity and meeting him turns my world completely inside out.
20. Do you have any children?
Not yet.
21. If you do, tell us about them. If you don't have any children, you can
tell us why not - but, only if you want to tell us.
Eventually I become pregnant by three different men, although not all of
those pregnancies end in childbirth.
22. What do you see in your future?
A few triumphs and a lot of heart-break. There's an old Chinese curse that
says, "
May you live in interesting times." Well, I had an "interesting"
life.
23. Do you think your author is going to write another story about you? Or,
are you part of a series?
A stated, I am part of a series.
24. Do you like being a character in a book?
I like being remembered. It helps me feel as though all the hell I
experienced has some meaning because it is forgotten no longer.
25. If someone ever decides to make a movie based on your story, who should
play you in the movie and why?
Gabrielle Reese has my height and physical strength/agility, but I am not
certain she has the acting skills to play me. I suspect the film producers
would have to find an unknown actress to pull off the role of playing me.
It's been great to talk with you. If you want to tell us anything else, feel
free. Also, tell us about a website where we can learn more about you and
where we can buy the book. If you have a picture of yourself, feel free to
send it.
More about my story:
www.greenstoneofhealing.com.
Browse for free through the entire first three books at:
http://www.greenstoneofhealing.com/browsebooks.shtmlBook buying links:
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www.healingstonebooks.comPaperbacks:
The Scorpions Strike-Green Stone of Healing(R) Series, Book Three
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780980053753Fallout-Green Stone of Healing(R) Series, Book Two
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780980053746The Vision-Green Stone of Healing(R) Series, Book One
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