Our second Author Spotlight this week introduces Maria S. Picone. Maria is a new Insignia contributor, joining us for Southeast Asian Fantasy Drabbles. She has 3 drabbles featured: ‘A Royal Request’, Uneasy Alliance’ and ‘The Dead Can Only Haunt You’. Hopefully we’ll see her work in future Insignia anthologies too.
Please enjoy Maria’s ‘Twenty Questions’ interview.
Maria S. Picone has an MFA from Goddard College. She loves cats, noodles, and oil painting. Her Twitter is @mspicone, and her website is mariaspicone.com.
TWENTY QUESTIONS
- Author Name/s: Maria S. Picone
- Years active as a writer: all the years! Recently, 2019-2020
- What genre/s you write: poetry, fiction, nonfiction
- Favorite genre to write: short-form works
- Favorite length of story to write: flash—sweet spot 300-500 words.
- Your nationality: USA
- Country you live in: USA
- Number of Asian countries visited: 6
- Favorite Asian country (visited): Korea
- Favorite place in Asia (visited): Barhouy Waterfall in Cambodia
- Place (city or country) you most want to visit in Asia: Jinhae-gu
- Favorite Asian cuisine: Korean
- Favorite Asian dish: kimchi jjigae
- Favorite Asian movie (any genre): Hero by Zhang Yimou
- Favorite Asian book (any genre): The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
- Day writer or night writer: Night
- Drink and snack of choice (while writing): Green tea, rice crackers with nori
- Number of short stories/poems submitted each month (av): In 2020 so far, 51 (av)
- Most active on (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram): Twitter @mspicone
- Currently working on: about one flash fiction or CNF for every twenty poems.
Southeast Asian Fantasy Drabbles is OUT NOW!
Universal Link: https://books2read.com/insignia-seafd
Direct Links:
Amazon US– Amazon UK – Amazon AUS
Amazon JP – Amazon CA – Amazon IN
KOBO – NOOK – Scribd – Smashwords
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And Horror Matsuri starts TOMORROW!
See you October 1st!
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