Every Soul a Star is a metaphor for: “A Debutant  Author”. As a passionate reader I like to use representation titles or words that I see in my favorite books. Every Soul is a Star explores some professional and personal details about the interviewed author.   The interview is conducted with seven questions related to seven literature pieces that I like because number seven is related to two of my all time favorite novels: The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter, making number seven magical and powerful.

Jackie Dolamore is one of the 2010 debutant authors.   She has a passion for history, thrift stores, vintage dresses, David Bowie, drawing, and organic food.  She lives with her partner and plot-sounding-board Dade and two black tabbies who have ruined her carpeting.

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Magic Under Glass / 2010 / Bloomsbury

Magic Under Glass is about a girl named Nimira. She is a music-hall girl used to dance for pennies. So when wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to sing accompaniment to a mysterious piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it will be the start of a better life. In Parry’s world, long-buried secrets are about to stir. Unsettling rumors begin to swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry’s involvement in a group of corrupt sorcerers for whom the rules of the living and dead are meant to be broken for greater power. When Nimira discovers the spirit of a dashing fairy gentleman is trapped within the automaton, she is determined to break the curse. But even as the two fall into a love that seems hopeless, breaking the curse becomes a perilous race against time. Because it’s not just the future of these star-crossed lovers that’s at stake, but the fate of the entire magical world.

1. Would you consider your journey to be published as an author A Walk to Remember?

Absolutely! Being a published author was the number one dream of my childhood, and getting to this point has been both the most exhilarating and terrifying thing I’ve experienced. The thing I would not have expected is that when I achieved my dream I got very paranoid that something bad would happen to screw it up! But so far all the bad parts have been completely in my head. And the best part about being a soon-to-be-published writer is hanging out with the other fab writers.

2. How do you feel being part of The Chosen Ones?

The Tenners? Chosen ones? Hee hee, well, when you get a bunch of chosen ones together it’s just a big ego-fest. I can’t stand those people! No, seriously, the group has been wonderful, both for promotion — I get more e-mail thanks to being a part of that group — and for the friends I’ve made. It’s especially awesome when I get to encounter them in person.

3. Tell me about The Luxe of writing Magic Under Glass

• What was the most difficult part of writing?

I went through a lot of rewrites of the book over a period of two years. The hardest thing about that book was the characters. I’m usually more of a character driven writer, but Magic Under Glass was a plot driven book and it took a long time for the characters to tell me who they really were.

• Where did you come up for the idea for Magic Under Glass?

Well, this is random, but I was listening to a song by the Decemberists and they do some of those kind of macabre Victorian sounding things? And I thought, I want to write a book that has the vibe of this song. And also I wanted it to have amazing plot twists like the show Lost. I’m not sure I would ever be capable of actually pulling off that many plot twists, however.Your values and beliefs a part of your writing style?

• Your values and beliefs a part of your writing style?

Certainly every writer brings their values and beliefs to a book. I have a real love of stories about outcasts and underdogs who have to fight to succeed and become a part of society without compromising themselves. Every book of mine has some of that in it.

4. If you could see yourself in the Erised Mirror, what will it show you?

My deepest hearts desire? I really think I’m living that now. I just hope I can make a real lifelong career of telling stories. I guess my desire is to feel fairly secure in my career.

5.  If you could wear Dorothys shoes, what your wish would be?

Right now?  To move to a place with four seasons and better farmers markets!

6. You find yourself in The Wardrobe … Lucy went to Narnia … where would be you?

I’ve been writing stories set in a particular fictional world since I was 12. (Not the world in Magic Under Glass.) I would definitely go there.

7. Silver is for Secrets, tell me one of yours.

I’m not a very secretive person. In fact, I tend to babble and say things I probably shouldn’t say like that I don’t wash my bath towel that often, ha ha. I disturbed my mother with that one. If it comes to cleaning my house it probably should be a secret!

Acknowledgment:

I want to thank Jackie Dolamore  for visiting Windowpane Memoirs.   It’s been a pleasure.