Other influences include the likes of Barbara Pym, P.D.

Talking of inspiration and influence, her biggest has been the empathetic, imaginative and sensual writing of Barbara Hambly. Nonetheless, she does relate to Wicca and has found inspiration for some of her novels from the religion. She is more of an idiosyncratic person that loves the pantheistic and new agey conventions of everyone doing their own thing. While she has had generations of family that lived and grew up in New Orleans she denies being a witch and even finds Wicca to be too organized for her liking. A few years after the birth of their children, the family moved to Durham North Carolina, a suburban city very different from New Orleans. But even as she found New Orleans an important and primal place for her children to be born in given the generations of her family that lived there, she felt it was time for a change.

Smith’s blockbuster title “The Secret Circle”, she moved back to New Orleans with her husband.Ĭate Tiernan lived in New Orleans for the best part of five years during which time she has two children. Eight years after moving to New York where she had helped edit L.J. There were so many interesting people to interact with and watch and so much to see and do, though after a while the frenetic energy started wearing her down. She found life in Manhattan incredible even though she earned very little money. It was while she was working in New York that she wrote her first novel, a children’s books that she published in 1990. She attended college in New York moved back home to New Orleans then back to New York, where she had got a job in publishing. Despite the constant humidity and humidity she found the city beautiful, particularly its acceptance of colorful and eccentric behavior and the air of indolence. While children in other American cities sold lemonade on their front yards, Tiernan and her fellow New Orleans kids made wax dolls of their enemies and sold voodoo dolls. Tiernan was born in 1961 New Orleans, one of the most exotic and rich cultures in the American South that had a profound influence on her life and later writing. She currently has more than thirty titles spread over the” Immortal Beloved”, “Balefire” and “Sweep” series. She is best known for the “Sweep” series of novels that follow the magical adventures of a set of high school students, and particularly that of the lead Morgan Rowlands. Cate Tiernan is the pseudonym of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American writer of young adult paranormal and fantasy novels.

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