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Today I am hosting my blog for a book called The Train. My guest blogger has interviewed the author and I am posting that interview here. Check out all the details, the interview and of course, enter the giveaway if you would like to. Without further ado...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Release date: January 20, 2023
**Only .99 cents!**
Hello, my name is Cendrine Marrouat (“san-drEEn mar-wah”). I am a poet, photographer, fiction writer, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. I have authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including A Particle of You: Love Poetry (2022), Tree Reflections (2022), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Songs in Our Paths: Haiku & Photography (2020- 2021), Seizing the Bygone Light: A Tribute to Early Photography (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).
My work has appeared in many publications, including Synkroniciti Magazine, On Landscape, Real Creative Magazine, Spillwords, Sweet Deluge, Life Pixel, Still Waters Run Deep (Lovely Silks Publishing, 2016), and eight cuts. I am the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.
I live in Winnipeg, Canada.
THE INTERVIEW:
How did you come up with the concept and characters for the book?
For many years, I had wanted to write a complex short story that encompasses several
generations. I also wanted the setting to be in a fictional town in France, my birth country.
The only things I did not have were the names of the characters and their purpose. When I sat
down to create the outline for The Train, Maggie was still a secondary character and the third-
person POV seemed inescapable.
Everything changed during the first draft. There was something logical, albeit powerful about
telling this story in the first person.
What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
How challenging it was! As soon as I started writing, I realized that I had a unique concept that
needed to be taken to its conclusion. But it took me many drafts to get it right. When I showed
the manuscript to my beta readers, they only had great things to say. The more readers share
their feedback with me, the happier I am that I released the book.
Do the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them come to you as
you write?
Usually, one character comes to me before the others. The rest of the cast and their actions
kind of fall into place as I write the first and second drafts.
There has been one exception to that rule: In the Silence of Words, which is a play I wrote in
2007. Before outlining the story, I knew exactly how many characters there would be, the roles
they were supposed to play, and how most scenes would unfold.
Describe your writing style.
I am a minimalist; I write in a haiku-like fashion. I rely on dialogues and the unsaid to deliver
stories with uplifting and/or inspirational conclusions / lessons.
I visualize all my scenes, speak every bit of dialogue out loud, move with my characters, and
feel all their emotions.
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
I believe that fiction should not just entertain. It should also convey important messages or
lessons to the reader. (The same goes for non-fiction.)
Unfortunately, it is something that we do not see enough in modern indie fiction. I try to focus on
topics that people might be uncomfortable to discuss, so I can change the status quo one story
at a time—and in my own way.
As the great Toni Morrison said: “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been
written yet, then you must write it.”
THE GIVEAWAY
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Thank you for hosting my book!
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