Interview with Earl T Roske, author of Tale of the Music-Thief
Tale Of The Music-Thief is a fantasy adventure tale with music as the focus. In the story, Allegra, the protagonist, is at the center of a seemingly incurable illness. Music is disappearing from everyone’s minds. A person might know a song one minute, and in the next minute the song will disappear. Worst, they know they knew the song, they just can’t recall it anymore. It might seem like an illness, and many people in City-Along-The-Lake believe it is and that the medicos will find a cure. But Allegra has seen something. She has seen someone, who is present when music disappears from her mind. And he wants nothing to do with Allegra, escaping into the night when she attempts to confront him. She knows he is behind the music theft, now she has to find him. With the aid of the gangly magicnician, Gerendorf she begins her pursuit across the country, magic map in hand. Only, the map has it’s boundaries and Allegra must catch the music-thief before he disappears off the edge of the map, taking all the music with him. Oh wow, that’s really interesting. Though we’d love it if he could steal Gangnam Style from our minds! It’s a fantasy novel, you say? It’s a fantasy because magic is involved. But this isn’t wave your wand and say a word kind of magic. Magic in the book is slowly being industrialized. There are “magicnicians” who design spells, charms, crystals, cloth, to perform tasks. One of the most visible presence of this new magic are the golems – once the soldiers of the defeated dark magicians. They are now programmed as street sweepers, street light attendants, door guards, servants of the populace. There are trolls and giants and sirens, as well, so that also puts Tale Of The Music-Thief into the fantasy category. What kind of readers will it appeal to? This question might seem unfair, then. Complete this sentence for us: if you like _________________, you’ll love Tale Of The Music-Thief. Is this book a stand-alone novel? Do you leave us on a knife edge? So there’ll be a follow up novel? Have you written any other books? Tell us a bit about yourself. Do you have a website where we can keep up with your work? How can we follow you on Twitter and/or Facebook? What’s next? |
Leave a Facebook, Google+ or Wordpress Comment