Drollerie Blog Tour: Joely Sue Burkhart’s Herakles from Beautiful Death

[annathepiper]

For this month’s Drollerie Blog Tour the theme is Character Interviews. This is the piece that resulted with my working with Joely Sue Burkhart on an interview of her character Herakles from the novel Beautiful Death. Enjoy!

Only when she is safely behind the protection of her closed and locked apartment door does Iris let herself explode. She can swear with impunity; her domicile, after all, was the best that the salary of one of New Olympia’s top news anchors could be. The walls are very well insulated, both to keep any urban din without, and her own temper within. For good measure she seizes a few expendable and satisfyingly fragile trinkets, and takes vicious pleasure into hurling them into her fireplace. Each one shatters, and one, a slender glass bottle filled with potpourri, sends sharp bursts of fragrance into her living room as its contents burn.

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Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Dayum. (a) good segment... (b) between the different voices in the writing and the extremely professional presentation of WordPress, I totally forgot I was reading *your* blog...

Very, very nicely done, both presentation and content. The level of awesome in my world has just been kicked up yet another notch.

[annathepiper]

Why thank you! Joely and I had great fun working on that piece, and I in particular quite liked making up a suitable character to fit into her world. As you might guess, she caught my attention with her take on borrowing Greek mythos with Beautiful Death. :)

[joelysue.livejournal.com]

Anna, this "interview" is made terrific by your creation of Iris! It's perfect. Thank you for hosting Herakles!

[annathepiper]

You're very welcome, and it was a pleasure!