Day 3 - Blog Tour

I am ecstatic when I was asked to be a part of a blog tour. And I thought this was the perfect opportunity to ask the basic questions that everyone would love to know about the paranormal genre. I had the opportunity to ask five authors these questions, and I love the answers:

Who is your favorite paranormal author? Why?
     Mark Tufo: I waver on this one depending on who I'm reading at the time but I guess I'll always go back to Mr. King. Why? He was my first foray into the supernatural when I was a kid. I remember talking with my dad and my brother as we read his books together, it was a fun time and reading him now is nostalgic for me.
     Tonia Brown: Anne Rice, because even though I don't care for vampires, she made me like hers. I rather enjoyed the Interview series. Rice managed to make vampires sexy, yet still allowed them to retain their true horror. That is something a lot of authors strive for today but fail to achieve.

What is your favorite paranormal character? Vampires? Werewolves? Witches? Fairies? Etc.
     John O'Brien: I actually like them all and would be hard put to come up with a favorite. It's all about the story in which they're cast.
     Armand Rosamilia: As a kid nothing scared me more than vampires. Sadly, times have changed. I think the unnamed paranormal monsters you find onscreen and in books are my favorite because they have no set tropes you come to expect and get bored with.

If you were with the paranormal community, what would be your powers?
      Tonia Brown: I think shape shifting would be a fun power. And not just one shape. Any shape. A lamp. A dog. A cumquat. Oh yeah!
      James N Cook: I always thought it would be cool to have a shotgun that fires white phosphorous and never runs out of ammo. Pretty much anything paranormal is vulnerable to fire, except ghosts. That, invisibility, and the ghost knife from Harry Connolly's Twenty Palaces series. The ghost knife cuts ghosts, magic, and dead things, and when passed through a living person, robs them of their will for a time. I could kick a lot of ass with that.

What is your favorite paranormal book?
     John O'Brien: There are so many I enjoy that I would really have a hard classifying any as a favorite. The Amityville Horror was a great read.
     Tonia Brown: HOWLING MAD by Peter David. What happens when a wolf is bitten by a werewolf? Apparently the wolf turn into a human during the full moon cycle. It was so much fun! I loved the heck out of that book.

What made you love the paranormal?
     Mark Tufo: the escapism from the real world, from the ordinary, the ability to allow your mind to expand.
     Armand Rosamilia: As a young kid, reading horror and paranormal books exposed me and my imagination to something that had no boundaries. It was the escape from the humdrum reality of being a kid, and then a teen and then an adult. It never stops, and I'm always exploring new worlds and new paranormal ideas.

There have been many paranormal books that have been made into movies. Which movie based on the paranormal book do you love most?
     John O'Brien: The Sixth Sense, The Exorcist, or the Omen series have to be my favorites
     James N Cook: Twilight. (No, just kidding, absolutely not.) Actually, Stephen King's classic Silver Bullet is the one that stands out in my mind the most. I mean come on, the protagonist is a kid in a wheelchair, and the werewolf is the town preacher. That's just horror brilliance right there; the desperation of being disabled and fighting a creature out of a nightmare who also happens to be one of the people you've been taught your whole life to trust. Terrifying.

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All five of us - Tonia Brown, James N Cook, John O'Brien, Armand Rosamilia and Mark Tufo - hope you have been following along on the Haunted Halloween Blog Tour 2012. We love to see comments after the posts, and we also love to pick a random commenter and give away a free eBook or even a signed print book, so maybe you'll get lucky!

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 **Note: There is a HUGE giveaway at the end of the month after Halloween!!! To enter for the giveaway, comment on the blogs. The more you comment, the bigger chance you have at winning!!! There will only be 1 winner, and the winner will be announced 1st week of November!!! Good Luck!!!

John O'Brien

James N Cook

Mark Tufo

Armand Rosamilia

Tonia Brown