1) What is your favorite part of
the process of writing a book?
Finishing
it. There’s nothing like that feeling
when you type the final word of what may be more than a hundred thousand words.
2) Tell us more about your main character. What would his/her dream holiday destination be? Which celebrity would he/she love to meet in real life?
The Vineyard has
three main characters, all women, all former roommates in college. Dory is
filthy rich and can afford any vacation she wants, but she aspires to be a
“down-to-earth” girl in spite of herself. She would most enjoy chilly fall
mornings on a cottage on the coast of main, or summers in the Tuscan
countryside. Turner is all Las Vegas, where
her favorite celebrity would be any man with a lot of money and free time. Charlotte would love nothing more than to be
able to take her daughter Meredith, who died three years earlier, on a marathon
vacation to Disneyworld.
3) What are some of the challenges your main character faces?
Dory is
running from a stuffy and joyless life that awaits her as the heir to her
family’s centuries-old fortune and legacy on Martha’s Vineyard. Charlotte has
fallen into a suicidal depression over the loss of her young daughter to
cancer, three years ago. Turner is
running from financial troubles and the unwanted attention of men created by
her blog.
4) Is there a villain in your book? What is the villain's reasons for struggling against the protagonist?
Yes. The
Vineyard is an allegorical tale, and one character in particular, occupies
the role of supreme villain. I won’t
spoil the story and say who he is, as his discovery in this role is one of the
themes of the book.
5) What projects are you working on at the moment?
I have
started my third novel, The Passage,
which will be a romance, as part of NaNoWriMo.
I am about 8,000 words along so far.
About The Vineyard
Title: The Vineyard
Author: Michael Hurley
Genre: Literary Fiction
From Michael Hurley, winner of the
Somerset Prize for his debut novel, THE PRODIGAL, comes a complex and
ambitious, allegorical tale of old money, young passion and ancient
mystery in a classic New England seaside village.
Ten years after their college days
together, three wounded and very different women reunite for a summer on
the island of Martha’s Vineyard. As they come to grips with the
challenges and crises in their lives, their encounter with a reclusive
poacher known only as “the fisherman” threatens to change everything
they believe about their world–and each other.
“Hurley writes beautifully,” says Kirkus
Reviews, “especially when describing island and nautical life.”
Publishers Weekly praises “his well-crafted prose.”
Author Bio
Michael
Hurley and his wife Susan live near Charleston, South Carolina. Born
and raised in Baltimore, Michael holds a degree in English from the
University of Maryland and law from St. Louis University.
The Prodigal, Michael’s debut
novel from Ragbagger Press, received the Somerset Prize for mainstream
fiction and numerous accolades in the trade press, including Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, ForeWord Reviews, BookTrib, Chanticleer Reviews, and IndieReader. It is currently in development for a feature film by producer Diane Sillan Isaacs. Michael’s second novel, The Vineyard, is due to be released by Ragbagger Press on November 25, 2014.
Michael’s first book, Letters from the Woods, is a collection of wilderness-themed essays published by Ragbagger Press in 2005. It was shortlisted for Book of the Year by ForeWord
magazine. In 2009, Michael embarked on a two-year, 2,200 mile solo
sailing voyage that ended with the loss of his 32-foot sloop, the Gypsy Moon,
in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti in 2012. That voyage and
the experiences that inspired him to set sail became the subject of his
memoir, Once Upon A Gypsy Moon, published in 2013 by Hachette Book Group.
When he is not writing, Michael
enjoys reading and relaxing with Susan on the porch of their rambling,
one-hundred-year-old house. His fondest pastimes are ocean sailing,
playing piano and classical guitar, cooking, and keeping up with an
energetic Irish terrier, Frodo Baggins.
Links
YouTube Video Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/iXfSuF1t9ss
Website: www.mchurley.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mchurleybooks
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/5445584.Michael_C_Hurley
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/5445584.Michael_C_Hurley
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