Now available to purchase from Shadow
Alley Press Inc. is the urban fantasy, cyber punk novel, titled "Jubal Van Zandt And The Revenge Of The Bloodslinger" by Eden Hudson.
The author has taken a few minutes out of her busy schedule for a Q&A about her newest novel.
When did you become interested in storytelling?
When I was little, I spent tons of time in my grandpa’s shop listening to farmers, cowboys, and hunters tell each other stories while they worked on tractors or waited for the fur buyer. There’s an art to storytelling, a science to carrying on a conversation with your listeners, and those guys and gals were masters. I fell in love with the way they talked—their voices, speech patterns, and dialects—as much as I did with the adventures they were relating. Maybe more. When I learned to read, it opened up a whole new world of storytelling for me. I realized that people could write books as a job. Once I realized that, I never wanted to do anything else.
What was your first book/story published?
In 2014, I published Halo Bound, the first book in the Redneck Apocalypse series. I finished out the fourth and final book in the Redneck Apocalypse this past February with God Killer, and now with Jubal Van Zandt and the Revenge of the Bloodslinger, I’m starting a whole new series.
What inspired you to write Revenge of the Bloodslinger?
Everything from videogames, comic books, and good anime to friendships, nightmares, and my grandpa. But the initial spark came one night a few years ago, while I was talking with a friend about the way he viewed time and how neither of us felt we had enough of it. To cheer him up, I wrote him up a couple hundred word flash fiction about a self-centered thief who snuck into the garden of time while his beautiful partner fought off the immortal guardian. Jubal and Carina were born.
What character in Revenge of the Bloodslinger is the most like you, and in what ways?