{"id":21261,"date":"2017-09-19T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/?p=21261"},"modified":"2017-09-30T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T06:29:41","slug":"author-viktoria-faust-shares-their-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/author-viktoria-faust-shares-their-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Interview: Viktoria Faust"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Author<\/b>
\nI’m Croatian horror, SF and children’s\/fantasy author. I published more then 30 books – novels, short story collections, essays. I have few Croatian SF and horror awards, but best award is acceptance of my readers. I’m best known for my vampire novels.<\/p>\n

What inspires you to write romance books?<\/b>
\nI grew up on black and white vampire novels. I love the symbolism and idea of vampires. And when I was much younger there was not many vampire novels translated in Croatian. So i decided to write myself one. I liked it. Many people did.<\/p>\n

Tell us about how you write:<\/b>
\nI have one thing – every novel I write is like love affair, so I always have ‘our song’ – some song I’m obsessing about the whole time I’m writing that novel. When I wrote Beauty of The Beast that was Right Beside You by Sophie B Hawkins. Now I’m writing third part of my vampire serial and I’m obsessed with Miracles Out Of Nowhere by Kansas. I’m not choosing a song. Song is choosing me.<\/p>\n

Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?<\/b>
\nOf course. Sometimes I must struggle with them to have story my way. Other times I just can hear the whole chapters in my head before I write them down.<\/p>\n

What advice would you give other writers?<\/b>
\nTo write and learn from your own mistakes.<\/p>\n

How did you decide how to publish your books?<\/b>
\nThis book was first published in Croatia in 2000 and readers loved it. To publish it in English was just another step.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the future of book publishing?<\/b>
\nStories and story telling are old as human race. There will always be some kind of stories \/ books \/ ???<\/p>\n

What genres do you write:<\/b>: vampire, horror, SF, fantasy, children’s<\/p>\n

What formats are your books in<\/b>: Both eBook and Print<\/p>\n

Website(s)<\/b>
\nLink To Author Page On Amazon<\/a>
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Link to Author Page on other site<\/a><\/p>\n

Your Social Media Links<\/b>
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https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1420027.Viktoria_Faust<\/a>
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https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010336441547<\/a>
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/viktoriafaust<\/a>
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https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/search\/pins\/?q=viktoria%20faust&term_meta%5B%5D=viktoria%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=faust%7Ctyped<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m Croatian horror, SF and children’s\/fantasy author. I published more then 30 books – novels, short story collections, essays. I have few Croatian SF and horror awards, but best award is acceptance of my readers. I’m best known for my vampire novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wantonreads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}