I have known Siobhan for about six months now In those six months she’s become a really good friend and a published author. She was really nice and let me interview her for this little corner of my world. (Ed. Note. It refuses to let me put this under a cut no matter how many times I try. Sorry for messing up your dashboard)
1. Please explain The Darling Rebels to someone who has never ever heard
of it?
The Darling Rebels takes place in 1898 in Alabama. It features a group of four seventeen-year-olds who through a series of events become rebels. The main focus is on the scandalous union between Charlotte Abrams, the richest girl in Asebrook, and Jack Camden, the penniless and homeless outcast. While everyone else is screaming at them that they shouldn’t be together and that Charlotte is too good for Jack, Charlotte remains steadfast in her heart’s decision. The story is about overcoming adversity in the face of overwhelming odds.
2. What got you into writing The Darling Rebels?
I really just started writing. The first scene I ever wrote is the action sequence that takes place in the October chapter and after that, I could not let it go. Charlotte and Jack in particular would not leave me alone.
3. How long did it take from first writing The Darling Rebels to the
publishing world?
Oh God, it took forever. Realize first that I am an incredibly slow writer. I can only write when I’m inspired. I started the book in 2003 and finished it in June of 2008. It didn’t take long to get a contract but then it took a year until the book came out in print. So 2003-2009.
4. What is your dream job that is not in the literary field?
I want to be a rockstar. I still do, even with my writing career. Singing is so cathartic and completely different from writing books. I sing all the time and while I doubt I am any good, there would be nothing better than playing for sold out crowds on a 35 city tour.
5. What book, or book series do you consider to be highly overrated?
Twilight. Don’t even get me started. And Shakespeare, I just…really hate him. Everyone bows down and kisses the ground he walked on and I just think he was pompous, a show-off, and a copycat. There, I said.
6. Is there a certain genre of books you just cannot get into?
Would anime count as a genre? I don’t like comic books and science fiction is kinda ehhhh for me.
7. If you could only read five books, a series could count as one book, for
the rest of your life which five?
Harry Potter, The Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats, The Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Lolita, and Peter Pan.
8. What is a completely useless fact about yourself?
I cannot mix gold and silver jewelry. It literally pains me to do so.
9. What is your favorite 90’s cartoon?
POKEMON. I still know the theme song and I cried at the first movie. I am not ashamed.
10. Anything else?
Buy my book! I need to pay off my student loans!
