Reading Lark would like to welcome author Arianna Skye to the Dark Nest today.
Author Interview:
RLAD: When and why did you begin writing?
AS: I’ve always been a writer, but I didn’t start seriously pursuing a writing career until 2006. It was a good way to pass time after recuperating after my appendectomy. A couple months later, I discovered a writing contest sponsored by a publisher, and that’s really where my interest in actually writing a novel began.
RLAD: Do you have a specific writing style?
AS: Each book I write has its own individual style. I tend to include a lot of comedic and snarky elements.
RLAD: What inspired you to write Wings of Desire?
AS: This is a really long and complicated story. I’ll try to abridge as much as possible. I am an IT support tech by trade, and back in the day I used to spend way too much time in chat rooms. A lot of the screen names were that of mythological deities. Demeter, Aphrodite, and Osiris to name just a few---including my own name. One night I was chatting during a thunderstorm and thought what if someone’s computer got struck by lightning. What if someone from ancient times was trying to summon that particular god/dess and instead summoned the person in the chat room. I just rolled my eyes and turned off the computer. I contemplated writing an erotic novel, and it brought me back to that what if moment ten years prior. It then hit me. She wouldn’t be a goddess. She’d be a faerie, and not just any faerie. She was the princess. Guess I didn’t abridge it that well. LOL
