Part #4 of our interview with @angelique.migliore.author You can read the opening chapters of My Weekend With Death in the books section now! LUV: Tell us about your current release. Is there a particular inspiration? How long did it take you to write? Angelique: MY WEEKEND WITH DEATH is my latest release, and I specifically wrote it for a monster-love romance anthology. It was accepted into the anthology, and then the anthology was cancelled the next day. Writing this story during the pandemic, I was feeling the need to explore what it really means to be alive. What does it mean to be living? And how do we define that? As a personal lover of gargoyles and grotesques, I wanted a grotesque as my male main character. I chose Chicago because of its plethora of gorgeous Gothic architecture. And although I’ve lived in “Chicagoland” twice in my life, I still tried to do a respectable amount of research on the city. My initial findings led to the bulk of not only my character-building, but also my plot points. First, Lake Michigan has a “Triangle” not unlike the Bermuda Triangle. From here, I researched the ships that have sunk in Lake Michigan. One ship, the Rosa Belle stood out as most mysterious. She sank without a word on October 31, 1921, and her crew were never found. As I was coming up quickly on the 100-year anniversary of the Rosa Belle sinking, I chose to self-publish the story in honor of her lost crew. Second, the history of Chicago as a city cannot be written without the contributions of the Polish immigrants. I wrote the heroine, Zosia, as the haunted Polish app-designer. She’s specifically coding an app to give back to her Polish community, but it’s difficult for her to focus with all the voices in her head. Errat is my grotesque who has been in love with Zosia for a while as she comes to sit and talk to him, believing he can’t hear her. But he’s an excellent listener. I wrote, had it edited, and published their “save each other” love story in less than two months (it’s a novella), and I absolutely love it. I adore The Angel of Death as a side-character and how I wrote her so much that I’m thinking of writing two more novellas for her and make it a trilogy of sorts.

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-03-09 20:00:31 UTC