WOLFKIN is Elaine's first novel, at least the first one that she thought was good enough to be published. WOLFKIN was completed in 1996 and garnered an impressive pile of rejection letters, (not rejection forms). They liked her characters, the story, but it just wasn't right for them, i.e. traditional publishers. So she turned to e-publishing.
Currently she has two other fantasies published by Novel Books. WINTER'S ORPHAN and TYRANT MOON. http://www.novelbooksinc.com/authors/ela... http://www.novelbooksinc.com/authors/ela... A third one, THE GHOST EATER, is due out from Novel Books in Feb. 2003.
Elaine Corvidae has wanted to be a writer since she was eight years old. She refers to writing as an addiction, something she just has to do. Since I am similarly addicted, I understand completely. But that isn't all she does. Currently Elaine is earning her Masters degree in Biology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Her thesis compares the wing structure of three different raptors.
She lives near Charlotte, NC, with one very handsome husband, judging from his picture on her web site, and three cats to whom she is devoted.
Her website is http://www.onecrow.net
INTERVIEW
Tell us more about how you came up with the idea for WOLFKIN.
WOLFKIN evolved over many years. In a sense it was my first book, because the
characters have been with me for a very long time in some form or another. Escaping
to their world and their problems was one of the ways I made it through adolescence!
Poor Yozerf got a lot of my fears and insecurities dumped on him, I'm afraid.
So naturally, with such a long and evolving relationship with the characters and the story, inspiration came from many different sources over many years. Everything from LadyHawke (my favorite shape-changer movie) to the artwork of Robert Gould. And I always enjoyed reading books about the loner, the outcast, who somehow finds out that he is worthwhile after all. I felt that I could identify with those heros, so it was natural to cast Yozerf in that role.
