Author Interview: Mary Monroe

Virtual Book Tour: Best-selling author, Mary Monroe Visits sLiterary
by Meek (for SLNN.com)

October 1, 2007


sLiterary, Second Life—In the late afternoon Sunday, at sLiterary’s Events Center, Authors in Your Pocket on SL hosted a live talk featuring New York Times Bestseller, Mary Monroe, to discuss her career as a writer and her latest novel Deliver Me From Evil, released in September.

Monroe’s latest novel, whose main character is the attractive Christine Thurman, involves greed, sex, forbidden love, and a terrific scheme. Deliver Me From Evil, like Monroe’s other works, is told with loads of the emotionally-stirring detail, promising to send imaginations awhirl.

Monroe’s claim to fame is largely due to the realness of her characters. Monroe’s fans will find the characters in Deliver Me to be just as believable. When asked whether she has ever been accused of using real people in her novels, Monroe said, “People might think they recognize themselves in my books, but they are always wrong. I do pattern characters after myself and others I know, but very well disguised.”

Monroe graciously answered audience questions and offered helpful advice to the aspiring authors who were in attendance, admonishing them to read often and write daily. She credits other authors, including Toni Morrison and Alice Walker for offering her valuable advice early in her writing career.

Interestingly, as Mary Monroe spoke to an audience of over thirty avatars, in the virtual world of Second Life, she admitted that she is not very technically inclined. Her SL appearance was due to the diligent work of avatar, TriComPodSquad Writer of Authors in Your Pocket on SL, who happens to also be the real-life L. Peggy Hicks of TriCom Publicity Inc. Hicks is Monroe’s technology-savvy literary publicist. To Monroe, sLiterary was just another great stop on her latest book tour.

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