The Soulweaver
Heidi Catherine
Publication date: January 19th 2018
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Romance
She’s loved and lost him a hundred times across a thousand years. She can’t bear to lose him again.
Lin’s dreams are haunted by faces of people she’s never met. Unable to shake the feeling she’s lived before, she’s drawn to Reinier—a stranger whose soul is heartbreakingly familiar from a time gone by.
Reinier helps Lin unravel the mystery of her past life as Hannah, a girl who sacrificed herself for her true love, Matthew. As Lin falls hopelessly in love with Reinier, her memories of her life as Hannah sharpen and she finds herself unable to let go of Matthew.
With her heart torn in two, Lin must decide whether she should stand by Reinier’s side or track down Matthew and fight for his love. What she doesn’t know is that her decision will ripple across our troubled planet, affecting far more lives than just her own.
Winner of Romance Writers of Australia’s Emerald Pro award, The Soulweaver is a story that will change the way you see the world.
Interview
with Heidi Catherine
Can you tell us a
little bit about the characters in The Soulweaver?
We meet Hannah in the opening chapter. She’s young,
beautiful and in love. Her life is cut short by a blinding light in an
Australian forest and we see her re-born far away in Hong Kong as a girl named
Lin. She’s held onto her memories of Hannah and struggles to make sense of her new
life.
Reinier was in the forest the day Hannah died. He’s wise,
brave and determined. He’s also Lin’s soulmate and he tracks her down to ask her
to do something seemingly impossible, telling her that it will impact all the
souls in the world.
Matthew was Hannah’s boyfriend and is the key to everything,
including her mysterious death. He now lives in London as a famous musician
having never gotten over Hannah’s death.
As Lin’s memories of her life as Hannah sharpen, she finds
herself unable to let go of Matthew and she becomes torn between the man she
yearns for as Hannah and the man she now loves as Lin.
Can you tell us a
little bit about your next books or what you have planned for the future?
My next books are the final volumes in The Soulweaver
trilogy, both due for release in 2018. They’re called The Truthseeker and The
Shadowmaker and follow the lives that the main characters from The Soulweaver
are re-born into next. The story takes some unexpected turns before looping back
to the events of the first book and tying it all together. I’m really excited
to get these books out into the world.
How long would you
say it takes you to write a book?
It takes me about six months from getting down the first
word to having a draft that I’m happy with. But it really depends on the book
and how much I have to juggle in my ‘real world’. Although when an idea grabs
me, I’m very committed to sitting in my chair and letting the story pour out.
What is your favorite
childhood book?
It would have to be The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. It
really swept me away with its endless possibilities and magic. I also loved
rediscovering it as an adult by reading it to my children and watching their
faces light up.
If you could spend
the day with one of the characters from The Soulweaver who would it be? Please
tell us why you chose this particular character, where you would go and what
you would do.
I’d have to choose Reinier. He knows so much about the world
and the afterlife that I’d take him to a quiet café where I could drive him
crazy asking him a long list of questions. I’m not sure how patient he’d be
though! He’s a pretty busy guy.
What was the hardest
scene from The Soulweaver to write?
There’s a scene where a mother sings a lullaby as she
watches her child die. As a mother myself this was very confronting, and I
cried alongside the mother in the scene. No mother should have to experience
this kind of tragedy. The challenge of course was to convey this emotion
without making the book too dark or depressing. I wanted the reader to
experience the pain while holding onto hope for the future.
What made you want to
become a writer?
Being a writer is one of those vocations that chooses you, rather
than the other way around. It’s something you just have to do. My mother loves
writing and had a children’s book published and it really just felt very
natural for me to follow in her footsteps.
Just
for fun
(a
Favorite song: A Thousand Years by Christina Perri
(b
Favorite book: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
(c
Favorite movie: Good Will Hunting
(d
Favorite tv show: Game of Thrones
(e
Favorite Food: Pasta
(f
Favorite drink: Sauvignon Blanc
(g
Favorite website: www.PsychWriter.com.au - it’s filled with writing tips, put
together by a friend of mine who’s both a writer and a psychologist. It’s
extremely clever.
Thanks so much for visiting with us today!
Thanks for having me!
Author Bio:
Heidi’s debut novel, The Soulweaver, won Romance Writers of Australia’s Emerald Pro award and will be released by Crooked Cat Books on 19 Jan 2018.
Not being able to decide if she prefers living in Melbourne or the Mornington Peninsula, Heidi shares her time between both places. She is similarly pulled in opposing directions by her two sons and two dogs, remaining thankful she only has one husband.
2 comments:
Thanks for hosting today, Nancy!
A great interview thank you.
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