Interview with Carmilla Voiez
by Julia
Currently I have a writing and an editing project on the go. I am completing the third book in the Starblood Trilogy and putting together a horror anthology with short stories and poems from various talented indie writers. My next project... I think I might play with either a Vampire tale or write a spin off book from the Trilogy about an undeveloped character which will be completely separate from the series. Decisions, decisions...
What's your motto in life?
My motto in life, it's a bit sad, TBH. "Keep Living" if you had shared my last two years you'd understand. TBH = to be honest (woops guilty of my own pet peeve)
What's your passion?
My passions are writing, Goth music and feminism, probably in that order. I get joy from many things, including my lovely family, but passion is like a fire in your belly, right?
What's your pet peeve? What's your worst? My pet peeve... writers who use text speak on Facebook.
What's the one thing, you can't live without?
I couldn't survive more than a few days without books. Maybe that's a cliche, but I truly believe I could lose most of what I hold dear, but not stories. Stories are hope and escape.
What's your favorite love story? (movie or book)
My favourite love story, that's a tricky question for me to answer. Some of my favourite books are love stories but also tragedies: Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary and Wuthering Heights. I am sure that speaks volumes about the disaster often referred to as my love life.
What's the funniest prank ever played on you?
I can't remember a funny prank which has been played on me. I can remember cruel ones which perhaps the perpetrator thought was funny, the whole flushing the toilet while someone is sitting there gag. Those damned old fashioned school toilets with chains.
What's the naughtiest thing you have done in school?
I was such a good student. Outside school I was a terror. I'd get into building sites and wander round, I'd get drunk, smoke cigarettes and get snuggly with my boyfriend, but at school, no, I worked hard.
What's the silliest thing you have heard people say about you?
The silliest thing said about me... A good friend once asked me how "Someone with a brain the size of a planet could say such stupid things?" Does that count?
Blurb
In a seedy Goth club, a beautiful woman dances, waiting to be set free. Along an unlit street, another woman stumbles, fleeing her pursuer. In a darkened room, a man speaks to demons. Lust, obsession, terror and humiliation storm into the lives of Star and Satori, proving the age-old maxim – be careful what you wish for. Starblood, the debut novel by Carmilla Voiez, is a tale of magic and horror. Blinded by love, Satori, a young magician, attempts a spell that goes horribly wrong, resulting in the demon Lilith returning to Earth. Satori knows he must send Lilith back. The dark goddess brimming with power makes it her mission to wreak havoc on Satori's life by ensnaring Star, the woman he loves, and her friends in a web of chaos and deceit. ‘Carmilla Voiez makes Clive Barker look like Stephanie Meyer.’ Jef Withonef, Houston Press.
Blurb
Satori is caught between two worlds. There is something he needs in one, but the other keeps drawing him back. However, he is in love and he isn’t going to let a little thing like death get in his way. To reach his goal, he must face unimaginable horrors, not least of which is his true self. Star’s tortured and broken body awaits Satori, but does she really need him to save her? His rival, a rage-filled young woman, grows more powerful and becomes as twisted as the ribbons in her hair while the demon, Lilith, draws each of them inexorably towards her. Who will survive the coming battle? Full of sex and magic, “Psychonaut” is an exploration into the human psyche and the second book in Voiez’s “Starblood” trilogy. "Carmilla Voiez is more of a singer than a writer. She tells her compelling story in a hypnotic, distinctive voice that brings her eerie world vividly to life." Graham Masterton “Psychonaut is a book of mad impulses, inner vision, sadism, escape and belief. You feel uncomfortable reading it, like Alex strapped to the chair in Clockwork Orange being taught to feel sick at atrocity. Rather than leave us crippled by response, though, Psychonaut bears you through the hurt towards the only paradise we can be assured of...a love past fault.” Jef Withonef, Houston Press.
Carmilla Voiez is a British horror writer who resides in Scotland. She is currently writing the final book in the Starblood Trilogy from her family home in Banff, where she lives with her husband, daughters and numerous cats, Carmilla sold her Gothic Clothing business last year and has been writing and releasing top selling books and short stories since then.
A Goth for over 20 years, her books are inspired by the Gothic subculture, magic and dark desires, exploring sexual obsession and violence in often hard-hitting ways.
The first book, Starblood, which has been nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize, is set partly in the beautiful Cairngorm mountains and partly in the city where she grew up, in South West England, she finds inspiration in local beauty, stately homes, the Moray Firth and woodlands around the Scottish town where she has lived the past 10 years.
Carmilla Voiez has been nominated for Horror Author of the Year. Her literary interest also extends to the Aberdeen Write Club she co-founded in 2011 a forum where local writers gather to discuss ideas and writing techniques.
"Carmilla Voiez is more of a singer than a writer. She tells her compelling story in a hypnotic, distinctive voice that brings her eerie world vividly to life." Graham Masterton.
Vamptasy publishing have published two of Carmilla’s novels “Starblood” and “Psychonaut” and one of her erotic short stories has been published by Hot Ink. This year she is editing a horror anthology, releasing an online horror magazine and another of her erotic short stories is set to be published in an anthology.
“Psychonaut is a book of mad impulses, inner vision, sadism, escape and belief. You feel uncomfortable reading it, like Alex strapped to the chair in Clockwork Orange being taught to feel sick at atrocity. Rather than leave us crippled by response, though, Psychonaut bears you through the hurt towards the only paradise we can be assured of...a love past fault.” Jef Withonef, Houston Press.
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