like The Two Mrs. Price’s or something like that.
I thought it’d be interesting to have two women,
very different from each other, married to the
same man, who ended up either dead or missing.
Then the question would be, what happened to
him? Who killed him?
Shannan Harper: Several of your stories, including
the one you have coming out is set in Blink, Texas.
Is that a real place? And if it is, why do you have
the stories set there?
J.D. Mason: It’s not real, to my knowledge. But
Blink, Texas was introduced in a book called
Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, and has since gone on to
become like its own character. It’s pretty much
patterned after any small Texas town. I’m from a
small town in Texas and there is nothing like small
town drama. It’s larger than life. I would visit my
grandparents every summer, and my mother, who
did grow up in that small town, used to tell me the
most outrageous stories about that place. Every
now and then, stories still manage to surface from
my home town, and I just scratch my head and say
“well damn” a couple of times.
Shannan Harper: You also have an alter ego in
Jayde Brooks where you write under the genre of
Science Fiction and Paranormal. Was this a genre
you always wanted to write?
J.D. Mason: I’ve always been a science fiction buff.
I’ve always wished that I could write it, but didn’t
actually try until recently. It’s harder than it looks.
LOL There are three books in the series. The first is
a 2-books-in-1 offering called Inherit the Crown
(consisting of Daughter of Gods and Shadows and