Hello! My name is Katelina, and welcome to Weekend Character Interviews. Using state of the art-mumbo-jumbo author magic, Jo has temporarily bent the laws of fictional space and time to allow various literary universes to converge long enough for me to ask different characters a few questions. Since I spend a lot of time in the Amaranthine series quizzing vampires on what they’re doing, where they’re going and why, Jo thought I would be the perfect interviewer.
Today we have Maureen Rogers from Mark Mackey’s Maureen: A Vampire Tale.
Maureen: A Vampire Tale
Katelina: Hello, Maureen, and welcome! Could you tell us a little about yourself?
Maureen: Sure, Maureen Rogers, eighteen, believe it or not, I’m five foot nine, completely unmanageable jet black hair, a body to kill for.
Loren: *suddenly appears – as if summoned by something Maureen said* Well hello there.
K: Did you need something, Loren?
L: Well, it’s just you’re interviewing a vampire and all, and since Jorick’s busy I thought someone should keep an eye on… things. *winks at Maureen*
K: Uh-huh. And it has nothing to do with that “body to kill for” line, right?
L: No, of course not!
K: *rolls eyes* Anyway, where were we. Oh, right. You were telling us about yourself.
M: My best friend is Wendy Listers, she’s obsessed about vampires, and has fantasy dreams about them
L: Really?
K: You’ve been down that road before, remember? Jorick had to chase them off.
L: Yeah, but they were crazy.
K: Moving on. *looks back to Maureen* So, is Maureen: A Vampire Tale you’re only book?
M: I’m also in a short story in The Comet: An Alison Duncan Tale and Other Stories
K: sounds like you’re pretty busy! How would you say that you evolve or change during the course of your story?
M: Tough one. I started off as a super smart, gorgeous geek, and ended up a blood craving vampire hell-bent on revenge.
K: Okay, that’s a pretty big change.
L: Yeah, it is. I remember when I got changed and-
K: Loren, I’m not interviewing you. Chat Maureen up on your own time. *back to Maureen* I imagine that’s probably going to figure pretty prominently in the events that changed your life and shaped your personality, huh?
M: Yeah, My violent death ranks number one.
K: I could see that. DO you think your life would have been better if you hadn’t been turned into a vampire?
M: No, and this issue will be shown in a future book.
K: That sounds interesting. I always like to see what would have been, you know?
L: Yeah, me too! So-
K: As I was saying-
L: Aw, come on, let me ask some questions at least. I’ve got one! A real one! *turns to Maureen* So, do you have a boyfriend – or a girlfriend *waggles brows*?
M: My precious Peter, he’s my heart and soul, but Miriam’s a close second. It’s sort of unconventional, what with the whole werewolf thing.
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M: Figuring out this whole vampire thing.
L: So is this Peter like, a vampire, too or-
K: *talking over him* So do you have an arch nemesis or enemy, or is your author nicer than that?
M: Hands down it would be Chelsea Chaseford.
K: Ah. I suspected as much. I’ve met a few of Mark Mackey’s characters before and he seems to be especially evil to them. If you could say something to him, what would it be?
M: Thanks for giving birth to me, to Miriam, a werewolf who was created back then as well, and to the individual who eventually would become Michael Argus, and be responsible for my becoming a vampire – all of which was in a now-lost- forever short story entitled Maureen, that Mark wrote while he was attending Northeastern Illinois University. All his other characters were an afterthought.
K: So, do you think you’re his favorite character? Does he like you better than, say, Elizabeth Duncan?
M: I used my vampire powers to probe in Mark’s mind, and as I came into existence a few years before her, yes, I am.
K: Wow. This is what he does to his favorites? I’m just saying.
L: Our author isn’t any better.
K: No joke. And it looks like we’re almost out of time. If you could say one thing to your readers, Maureen, what would it be?
M: Value life, for you never know when it can be taken away from you.
K: And with that excellent advice I want to say thanks a lot for stopping by and-
L: you know, if you and that Peter ever split up, or you just feel like a change for a night-
The Comet
K: Loren! My God, you’re all hormones! Go away! As I was saying, you can find more of Maureen in Maureen a Vampire Tale and in The Comet: An Alison Duncan Tale and Other Stories.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Maureen-Vampire-Tale-Mark-Mackey/dp/1461139147
B&N : http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maureen-a-vampire-tale-mark-mackey/1034092297
And a special thanks to Mark Mackey for playing along!
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https://joleenenaylor.wordpress.com/character-interviews/
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- Maureen: A Vampire Tale by Mark Mackey (joleenenaylor.wordpress.com)
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SharonS
/ November 12, 2011he is such a horndog 😉
Joleene Naylor
/ November 15, 2011He’s like a little hormone on feet sometimes, LOL!!
Sue
/ November 12, 2011Well he’s still a teenager after all – I wanted to hear more about the were…
Joleene Naylor
/ November 15, 2011yeah, me too!
DM
/ November 14, 2011I love the humor in this piece. It sounds like her book would be great reading.
Joleene Naylor
/ November 15, 2011Mark has some of the most awesome synopsis.. I need to take a year sometime and read them all 🙂
Juli Hoffman
/ November 14, 2011Sounds fun like a fun read! I suppose if Loren’s author won’t given him a little romance, he has to make his own. LOL Like Sue said, he is a teenager!!!
Joleene Naylor
/ November 15, 2011I know. Poor kid 😉
thejissilly
/ November 16, 2011It looks like an interesting book. 🙂