Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine April Issue - Heaven & Hell | Page 81

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