Title: The Haunting Season
Author: Michelle Muto
Publication: December 21st 2012
Publisher: Dreamscapes, Ink
Genre: NA Paranormal/Ghosts
Author: Michelle Muto
Publication: December 21st 2012
Publisher: Dreamscapes, Ink
Genre: NA Paranormal/Ghosts
Be careful what you let in…
Siler House has stood silent beneath Savannah’s moss-draped oaks for decades. Notoriously haunted, it has remained empty until college-bound Jess Perry and three of her peers gather to take part in a month-long study on the paranormal. Jess, who talks to ghosts, quickly bonds with her fellow test subjects. One is a girl possessed. Another just wants to forget. The third is a guy who really knows how to turn up the August heat, not to mention Jess’s heart rate…when he’s not resurrecting the dead.
The study soon turns into something far more sinister when they discover that Siler House and the dark forces within are determined to keep them forever. In order to escape, Jess and the others will have to open themselves up to the true horror of Siler House and channel the very evil that has welcomed them all.
Siler House has stood silent beneath Savannah’s moss-draped oaks for decades. Notoriously haunted, it has remained empty until college-bound Jess Perry and three of her peers gather to take part in a month-long study on the paranormal. Jess, who talks to ghosts, quickly bonds with her fellow test subjects. One is a girl possessed. Another just wants to forget. The third is a guy who really knows how to turn up the August heat, not to mention Jess’s heart rate…when he’s not resurrecting the dead.
The study soon turns into something far more sinister when they discover that Siler House and the dark forces within are determined to keep them forever. In order to escape, Jess and the others will have to open themselves up to the true horror of Siler House and channel the very evil that has welcomed them all.
Interview:
How did you come up with the idea for
your book?
During a trip to
Savannah, I visited the Sorrel-Weed house, which is reported to be Savannah’s
most haunted house.
What is different about this book
compared to others you’ve written?
For starters, The
Haunting Season is New Adult. Secondly, the main characters are not
supernatural beings.
Most unique or unusual research you’ve
ever done for The Haunting Season?
Besides visiting
the Sorrel-Weed house? Asking a former mortician about embalming methods in the
early to mid 1900’s and how embalming and burial procedures have changed and
why. It’s both fascinating and a bit gruesome.
What is the hardest part about writing?
Keeping my butt
in the chair for as many hours as I need to per day. Resisting the urge to jump
on the internet when I’m having difficulty with a scene.
If you could meet any author who is no
longer living, who would it be?
Tough call.
Edgar Allan Poe, probably. But I’d also like to meet Rod Serling and Alfred
Hitchcock.
Can you tell us a little about your next
project?
It’s a adult
dark fantasy novel with action, castles, and gargoyles. It’ll be out early this summer.
If you could do one thing over again in
regards to writing, what would it be?
Write faster.
Vanilla or chocolate?
Chocolate.
Food you like the most? The least?
I tend to like
Italian food the most. I can’t stand brussel sprouts or peas.
Favorite television show?
Supernatural
What weapon would you choose in the
zombie apocalypse?
Harry Potter’s
wand or maybe Dean Winchester. He’d be a formidable weapon against zombies,
right? <grin>
What scares you?
Humanity. The
way people treat others, animals, or the environment.
Excerpt:
Something
stirred under the bed again and she took a few safe steps away from the
bedskirt.
“Jess!” a
child’s voice whispered. Her heart in her throat, Jess bent down and carefully
lifted the bedskirt, nearly tumbling backward at the sight. Gracie looked out
from under the bed, then slid the Ouija board forward.
She wasn’t
afraid of the girls, but that didn’t make her any less nervous. Jess still
rationalized that good ghosts could be trapped in the same location as evil
ones. If Grams appeared inside Siler House right now, Jess would still be
jumpy. No, what scared her was that the girls had shown up under the
bed.
“Geez, Gracie!
You scared the crap out of me!”
Gracie’s
bottom lip took on a pout. “We didn’t mean to scare you. But she scares us.
We’re sorry Allison won’t help you. She doesn’t want to help us, either.”
Jess took
in a steadying breath. “It’s okay. I’m fine now. Hey, we were just talking—”
“We said
we’d help,” Gracie interrupted, still staring unblinkingly at Jess. She pushed
the board forward another inch. “Don’t be mad we took it.”
Jess’s
hands shook slightly as she took the Ouija board and planchette Gracie offered
her. She’d explain about taking the board to Dr. Brandt later. Maybe he
wouldn’t notice if it was gone for a few hours. “Thanks,” Jess managed to say.
Gracie smiled, then scooted
backward, disappearing behind the bedskirt. From underneath the mattress came
the sound of Gracie and Emma’s echoing laughter.
Author Bio:
Michelle Muto lives in northeast Georgia with her husband and two dogs. She loves changes of season, dogs, and all things geeky. Currently, she’s hard at work on her next book.
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