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Do you have any tattoos? Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body?

I DO have a tattoo, as a matter of fact, and it’s Shadowmere from Fallenwood, with the words “Life’s a battle” underneath. I got it right after I was awarded my M.A. degree from National University, as a way to celebrate. It’s on my left shoulder.

Is your life anything like it was two years ago?

My life has gotten so much better over the past several months, as I’ve surrounded myself with meaningful work and good people. It has done me no end of good. So no, my life is not much like it was two years ago, and that’s a good thing.

How long have you been writing?

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember – writing since I was a child.

What advice would you give a new writer just starting out?

Don’t be too hard on yourself, and don’t try to be perfect. I feel like it’s easy to do that, when you’re starting out – you feel like you won’t ever get published and the journey is incredibly difficult. But just keep giving things a go. You’ll get to where you want to be, eventually.

Tell us something about your newest release that is NOT in the blurb.

So I originally thought of having Ash climb a tower, as a metaphor for the state building I worked in with the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, where the board members had gotten themselves a penthouse suite. That’s why, like Roland in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, Ash finds herself having to ascend a tower to get to the ultimate evil villains. It was in no way intended as copying the Dark Tower series, and in fact, I wrote all the Fallenwood books long before I ever finished all the Dark Tower books, although I must admit that I do love that series.

The Fallenwood Chronicles is the ongoing story of Ash Kensington, a young woman who finds herself transported into a fantasy world, where she must take up arms in a battle of Good vs. Evil, against the Dark Lord Malegaunt. Tragedy strikes her life in the real world, but she finds friends in Fallenwood, like her mentor Will Everett, a talking cat named Greymalkin, and a court jester named Terces. Working together, they battle against the odds as Ash faces attacks from the world and from within. Eventually Ash finds the strength within herself, to attempt the fight against Malegaunt, against overwhelming odds, come what may.

Enjoy an Excerpt

Her heart raced and she breathed slowly, trying to calm her frazzled nerves. Glancing around, she wondered how far off the road she’d wandered. She knew it had been midday when she’d started running, and now looking up into the star-filled sky, it had to be late into the night. A rush of air greeted her the moment she reached this strange part of the forest, before her eyes had temporarily forsaken her. The wind whipped around her from all sides. She backed away from where she stood, and the wind felt like it was whooshing up from a precipice. Ashley paused to allow her eyes to adjust to the dark. When her sight returned, she realized that she was standing nowhere near a cliff—it was just an unfamiliar area of forest. Suddenly, a ball of fire hurtled overhead in an arc toward her. Her mind screamed at her to run, but she found that her legs wouldn’t move. The flaming orb continued its descent, burrowing itself into the soft ground only inches away from Ashley’s boots. Two men rushed toward her, arguing all the while as Ashley stood immobilized. Her bones were in revolt. Her brain scrambled for an alias to give out to the men if they asked, but she could only come up with Ash, because she was looking at the little pile of soot at her boots. “Deflected,” the man in the lead announced.

About the Author:

Leslie D. Soule received her M.A. in English from National University. She is a scholar, artist, citizen journalist, and martial artist. She has been an established writer for a decade, and has novels published by Melange Books, Terror House Press, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, and Nat 1 Publishing. The Fallenwood Chronicles is her 4-book fantasy series and features the novels Fallenwood, Forgetting Fallenwood, Betrayer, and Retribution.

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