📚 A Bookish Chat with 'The Sound of Creation' Gabriella Zielke @gabdraney #AuthorInterview #BlogTour #Interview

Today we welcome Gabriella Zielke to The Writer's Life e-Magazine! Gabriella is the author of the scifi novel, The Sound of Creation. This interview is part of her The Sound of Creation Blog Tour by Pump Up Your Book. Enjoy!

Gabriella Zielke founded one of the world’s first tech accelerators where she was fortunate to mentor and fund hundreds of founders whose ideas previously only existed as science fiction. Fast Company named Zielke one of its Most Creative People, among other accolades from her business career. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing at Harvard University Extension while living on St. Croix with her husband and their zealous Great Dane. When she’s not writing, you can find her dancing with fire.

Her latest book is the scifi novel, The Sound of Creation.

Visit her website at www.gabriellazielke.com or connect with her at Twitter and Facebook.

TWL: Welcome to The Writer's Life! How did you come up with the idea to write your book?

Gabriella: So I was in the shower one day. I had recently experienced a few incidents where I heard my intuition loud and clear, and it was right. I trust that voice deeply now, and that morning is posed a question. What if we really do live in a simulation…and it was created by an apprentice? I entertained the thought for a minute because it’s, well, entertaining. Then that voice told me it would be my first published novel. It was strange, but here we are.

TWL: Can you give us a short excerpt?

Gabriella: Chapter 1

Los Angeles – present day

It was the scratching that woke her.

The noise reached Ava Lawson’s ears not long after she laid down on her office futon to catch a few hours of sleep. She had two weeks to prove to her investors that her trading system produced alpha or she and her team were finished.

Alpha, known as the truth to some investment managers, career life or death to others, in reality measures an investment return against a market return like the Dow Jones. It was as elusive to Ava as it is to most return wranglers.

Until the music began to play.

The other sounds: a conch shell, leaves rustling, a wolf maybe, entered and exited her subconscious without ringing any alerts.

The scratching though. She would know it anywhere. A sound from her childhood when her father came to visit.

She sat up. There was more to the sounds than what she could hear. The only way to describe it was a presence, some life force, was in the room with her. Across the long office, past the small conference table, all the way to the wall behind her white desk; she was alone.

TWL: What part of the book was the most fun to write?

Gabriella: A game is developed that Ava, the main character, must stop from destroying the minds of everyone who plays. Her time inside the game was a lot of fun to write. I basically got to design a game and describe people playing it.

TWL: What’s one fact about your book that would surprise people?

Gabriella: This is a story I’ve only shared with a few people. There is a cabin in the book that I modeled after my uncle’s cabin in Minnesota. He’s a blacksmith and cooper who creates replicas of tools and old weapons for the Smithsonian and movies like Pirates of the Caribbean. In my book, the cabin suffers a terrible demise (no spoilers). A few months after I completed the first draft, my uncle’s cabin that he’s had for decades, suffered the exact same demise. I was so spooked that I put the book away for a while.

TWL: What other books are you working on and when will they be published?

Gabriella: The Billionaire Pledge is a near future tech thriller starring one of the world’s best hackers and her equally talented sister. A new cryptocurrency is set to go live and with it the promise that no human will ever be without the basic necessities of life. One of the billionaires has a different plan. The sisters must reunite to stop him.

Sistren is a speculative fiction novel about a female led society that is the world’s only superpower due to the robotics its founder developed. They are forced to go through a change of leadership that threatens to collapse the global order the Sistren have built.

My book ideas like to compete with one another, so I give them attention as they demand, knowing that one will eventually win to be my next novel published.

TWL: Finally, what message are you trying to get across with your book?

Gabriella: Living authentically according to your own truth is one of life’s biggest challenges, but is necessary for the world to move beyond its divisions and cruelty.

TWL: Do you have any final words?

Gabriella: Writing a story about an apprentice who created Earth was an interesting challenge for this missionary’s kid. I wrestled with so many beliefs and fears, but am ultimately happy I persisted in writing the story that wanted to be told. It was a lot of fun once I got past my worries about what other people would think.

Title: THE SOUND OF CREATION
Author: Gabriella Zielke
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Science Fiction

BOOK BLURB:

Brilliant and relentless tech CEO Ava Lawson built a system to play the currency market and make her billions. Instead, it begins to play strange music and makes normally level headed people behave irrationally, violently, dangerously.

While on the run from a coup to steal her code, Ava meets an ethereal stranger who seems to know more about her than she does.

The stranger calls himself an apprentice. He pleads for her help to stop what they have started.

“The Sound of Creation is a mind-bending book filled with big questions about our existence. It takes you on a journey disrupted by action scenes and strange characters. You will find yourself floating on dimensions you did not know even existed. This book is a mind game. You have been warned.” ~ George Papa, author of The Manual and The Architect’s typist for The Code

Book Information

Release Date: February 2, 2022

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1509239139; 342 pages; $17.99; E-Book, $5.99

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3B8ILUz