Most Unique of Settings

In Mouth of the Muse, a photographer and his assistant set out on parallel journeys to face the ghosts of their pasts while trying to prevail against supernatural forces. What was your inspiration for the wild journey you take readers on in this novel?

I have been to Burning Man many times, and I thought it would be a great setting for some of the book’s action. As to the other places, they come purely from imagination.

Was there a reason why you chose this location as the backdrop for your story?

I wanted to bring something fresh to the party, as it were. It was also a lot of fun to have the characters’ different personalities interact with this most unique of settings.

Did any of the characters’ development occur organically throughout the story?

Most of my writing is organic. There is only the vaguest sense of who ends up where. If I try to push that more, the characters get crusty and clam up. So I kind of let them do what they want. And it all seems to work out in the end.

Will there be a fourth installment in The Dark Photography Folio series? If so, where will Saxon and Juliette find themselves next?

Yes, there will be a fourth and final book in the series. It will be called HEART OF THE WARRIOR. And it will be dark. VERY dark.

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With the greatest shoot of his career in ruins, cut short by a past he had hoped to keep buried, Saxon Payne must race to retrieve the stolen nano-viewfinder if he hopes to save himself and all he holds dear. But he must do this without Juliette, his attraction to the mysterious Persephone now between them. Meanwhile Juliette discovers who her real father is and unbeknownst to Saxon, begins her own perilous journey to finally solve the mystery of what happened to her. From supernatural places that border this world to the Carnival at the End of Time that is Burning Man, Saxon and Juliette must both confront the past and the dark forces arrayed against them.