Welcome to the Campfire, Claire Corvey.

​Happy Saturday and welcome to the campfire. Despite the issues going on around us, let's take a few minutes away from all the craziness and relax. That's what a campfire is for. Turn off the news, silence your phone for a few minutes and step into my world. Grab a beverage of choice. Light a candle and pretend it's your own campfire. Take a deep breath and imagine yourself in the woods. There's a stream bubbling nearby. Smell the smoke and maybe something cooking over the fire. Hear the birds calling to each other. Are you there yet? Good. Now, lift your cup, mug, or glass and help me welcome today's guest, fellow Wild Rose Press author ​Claire Corvey.

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Hi Claire, welcome and thank you for joining us today. What’s your preference coffee, tea, cocoa, or wine? 
In the morning, I love coffee, made over the campfire, of course. Evening is for wine!

You're my kind of girl. The coffee is always on at the Campfire. Tell us have you ever camped, or as I call what I do, Glamp?
I’ve camped so many times and have such great memories. Almost always in a tent. I’ve camped with my family in the mountains of Wyoming, Colorado, Montana…and there are bears there! One of my favorite memories is an afternoon in the Snowy Range outside Laramie, Wyoming. I hiked with my children and our dog along a river, not another person in sight. So beautiful. Until the kids pushed each other in the freezing cold water. Let’s just say glamping is starting to look very attractive to me!

Ha! I'll bet it is. Heat and hot showers can never be oversold to me. Now, tell us about your latest project. What’s the title and genre?
I’m working on the second installment of my “High School is Hell” trilogy. It’s a young adult contemporary, with a dollop of romance and a side order of the paranormal.

How long did it take you from conception to publication?
With High School is Hell it was about a year and a half between when I started the first draft and when I was accepted for publication by the Wild Rose Press.

Not bad. It takes me a bit longer to have a finished product. I also have a myriad of projects at various stages of development, how about you? Anything you’re itching to get to?
I always have way too many ideas, and I find it’s more fun to start a project than to slog all the way through! But currently, I’m also working on a collection of my short stories, as well as my novel. And I’ve started a third project, a post-apocalypse story, and I have no idea what that is going to end up being. A novella? A novel? Who knows?

I agree! Starting and meeting new characters and places is exciting. Are there any mentors, authors, or books,  you would like to give a shout-out to?
One of my critique partners, Liz Roadifer (and the whole gang at CAWG—our secret acronym), has been a great mentor and helped my writing grow. And there are so many authors I love…I find Nora Roberts and Stephen King, inspiring. They both put their butts in the chair and write and tell great stories while doing it. Charlaine Harris has an amazing imagination and a way with her words. Kurt Vonnegut has made me a better person. And my secret vice—or pleasure—is poetry. Nizar Qabbani, Rilke. Such beautiful words and images.

Tsk, I'm jealous.  I want to belong to a secret society, too. They are amazing authors. I'm a Stephen King fan.  Claire, tell us, what does literary success look like to you?
Wow—that’s a hard one. I think every author wants respect for one’s body of work, but really, I think success is having someone tell me that my stories have entertained them or brought them the happiness I’ve found in books.

You nailed it. I think most artists hope for the same thing. Now the fun questions, 

1. Favorite childhood book? Or writing that inspired you to become an author.    I loved Little Women, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Going on Sixteen, all the Nancy Drew I could get my hands on. Reading was and is the best.
2. If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be?  The intro to “Born to Run.” Or “Even the Losers” by Tom Petty. That might be more appropriate.
3. If you could eat anything in the world right now, what would it be?  High dollar cheese. As the French say, “Smells like the feet of angels.”
4. Would you rather have unlimited international first-class tickets or never have to pay for food at restaurants?  THE TICKETS!!!
5. Did you ever win something? What?  I’ve actually been bizarrely lucky at winning things. I once won $700 at the racetrack when I bet on the wrong horse.

You crack me up. Smelly angel feet? I never heard that. Before you go can you tell us where we can learn more about you and your book?

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​Seventeen-year-old Lauren Baker is in a bind. In addition to trying out her cleavage-enhancing bra for the first time, she has to figure out how to expose the new high school principal as evil incarnate. ​




Lauren has enough on her hands. Her best friend is being bullied, she's the newly installed editor of the school newspaper, and to top it all off, she has a secret, massive crush on an older boy. Yet all of this seems like small potatoes when mutilated animals, vandalism, and Lauren's bizarrely realistic dreams indicate something—or someone—is rotten in Rushton.
When Lauren connects the dots between the new principal and the freakish occurrences, she has to act...before she and everyone she loves fall victim to a centuries-old evil.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F96SNNX/
https://clairecorveybooks.wordpress.com/

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Recommended Movies base on High School and Horror.
Of course, you knew it had to be here...
Carrie by Stephen King 1976. I recently watched this one. It hasn't lost a bit in the years.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992

This weeks recipe is courtesy of Claire's Blog. I bet it would work over the fire on a backing sheet as well. I've done this in a non-stick pan on the stove as well.
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Did you know that if one places cheese on parchment paper and microwaves it for one minute, delicious cheese crisps result?
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