So I have never done a blog before. Please forgive me. my body decided that it was gonna fail this week and I have the Flu. But I got some amazing questions from the always awesome Jessica Coulter Smith!! (seriously, read her books to) and she is helping flesh out some standard questions to ask. If you have suggestions, LET ME KNOW!!! even if it's for a specific Author!
So these are Cynthia Sax's awesome answers. And No it's isn't all of them!
Interview With Cynthia Sax
When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
Cynthia Sax: I have always written. Since I could hold a crayon, I’ve been writing, making up my own stories, observing the world. I didn’t think of it as a career, however, until I was asked to write an article for our regional daily newspaper. They paid me! I was paid for writing.
That was world shifting for me.
Why do you write cyborg romance?
Cynthia Sax: I love the conflict between man and machine, emotion and logic, love and duty. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved cyborgs. I didn’t see them as romantic heroes, however, until I read Laurann Dohner’s Burning Up Flint. I became an instant cyborg romance fangirl, devouring all the stories I could find in it. I read the niche for years before I wrote my first story in it (Releasing Rage).
How much of your writing is based in reality?
Cynthia Sax: The emotion in my stories is always real. I have to feel it to write it. The origins of those emotions are different. I might be thinking about how I lost a loved one to cancer, for example, not to a world-ending device as shown in the story. But the feelings are true.
I also try to base the science of my stories in reality. It might be a projection of what could happen but there is usually solid Earth science behind it. I consulted numerous scientists and business developers about how cyborg babies could be possible, for example. My aliens’ powers, as another example, are all nods to powers animals and other creatures have here on Earth.
How has the pandemic impacted your writing?
Cynthia Sax: There were weeks where I couldn’t write. I was too worried, too stressed. I couldn’t concentrate. The Dear Wonderful Hubby’s youngest brother is a COVID Long Hauler, has been one since March 2020, and that is taking much of our focus.
The writing, once I have some mental bandwidth left, is an escape. I can venture into a world I can semi-control, a story where I know everything will eventually turn out okay. That is such a gift.
I haven’t written a story about a pandemic…well…not since this Earth-based pandemic started. Doc’s Orders, one of my cyborg romances, is set during a planet-wide pandemic but that story was published in July 2019, long before COVID-19 had been detected. As I mentioned, I base my stories on current science and there was a feeling in the scientific community that we were due for a major pandemic.
I HAVE used the emotions many of us are feeling in my stories. In Under Strain, the next cyborg romance (releasing in May), for example, the heroine has been cut off from other beings for years. She no longer remembers the social niceties. I feel that same way. (grins)
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