Amanda Arista

Wow! 1 June has been and gone already — the year feels as if it is sprinting by!

Nonetheless, you know what the first of the month means: I’ve posted on Supernatural Underground (Which I have also been doing for eleven years, along with m’own blog, as mentioned on Monday.)

This month’s post is with fellow Supernatural Underground author, Amanda Arista, who writes two urban fantasy series: Diaries of an Urban Panther and the Merci Lanard Files.

Amanda writes heroines with strong ‘voices’, spins tales with a great sense of place, and rocks a pretty good mystery/thriller to go with her paranormal urban world and Wanderer (predominantly but not exclusively Shifter) societies.

Here’s a sample of what Amanda has to say in the interview:

“As I look back on what I have written and the stories that interest me the most, it is the universality of the traditions that interest me, where I find real magic and meaning in life. For example, every folklore has a Shifter story. Japan, German, Native American. There is a fundamental story about a person who slips their skin into another form. Some are the good guys and some are the bad guys. That informed the origins of my own story, that wanderers came first, before humans, and then humans spread out across the world telling the stories of these magical creatures. Again, it was all about finding something in the real world and building the magical explanation around it.”

There’s so much more and all of it good: just head on over to Supernatural Underground to read the rest:

Amanda Arista Talks the Magic In Her Diaries Of An Urban Panther & Merci Lanard Files Series