Leaving Ashwood, author Cynthia Kraack takes future with her! VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob An

Today's Guest: Speculative fiction novelist Cynthia Kraack, author of the Ashwood trilogy: Ashwood, Harvesting Ashwood and Leaving Ashwood.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with speculative fiction novelist Cynthia Kraack, author of the Ashwood trilogy: Ashwood, Harvesting Ashwood and Leaving Ashwood, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of NSA spooks who have highlighted and dog-eared the pages of each book in the Ashwood trilogy and say a prayer each night to thank Cynthia Kraack for all the insight… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I miss Anne Hartford already.

This is not a spoiler for Leaving Ashwood, Cynthia Kraack’s third and final book in the “Ashwood” futuristic fiction trilogy. I’m just sad to see it come to an end.
CYNTHIA KRAACK podcast excerpt: "Anne Hartford came to me when I was doing my MFA program. I started writing a story about a young woman standing with all of her earthly possessions in front of this big, forbidding residence. It took six months after that to understand who she was and what was going on."
You can LISTEN to this interview with novelist CYNTHIA KRAACK, author of THE ASHWOOD TRILOGY, by clicking the audio player above!

I still remember reading the first book, Ashwood, and finding it a little bit of a slow starter. But about 50 pages in – the point at which I’ll often put a book down and move on – the narrative caught fire, the characters grabbed me by the collar, and I couldn’t put it down.

Harvesting Ashwood was more of the same. Kraack created a world sometime in the future of the United States of America when a Second Great Depression has beaten down its citizens, reduced freedom of movement, discussion, and even thought to an illusion, and corporations have a death grip on the Constitution itself.
CYNTHIA KRAACK podcast excerpt: "A part of 'Leaving Ashwood' is about