Jeffrey Cook & Katherine Perkins

Jeffrey Cook

Jeffrey Cook lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He's the author of the YA Fantasy Foul is Fair (first of the Fair Folk Chronicles), the Dawn of Steam trilogy of alternate-history/emergent Steampunk epistolary novels, and the YA Sci-fi thriller Mina Cortez: From Bouquets to Bullets. He’s a founding contributing author of Writerpunk Press and a contributor of RPG writing to Seattle’s Deep7 Press. When not reading, researching, or writing, Jeffrey enjoys role-playing games and watching football. Click Here to visit Jeff's Website.

Kathrine Perkins

Katherine Perkins lives in Coralville, Iowa, with her husband and one extremely skittish cat. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will defend its cuisine on any field of honor. She is co-author, with Jeffrey Cook of the YA Fantasy Foul is Fair. She is also the editor of the Dawn of Steam series and serves as Jeff’s co-author of various short stories, including those for the charity anthologies of Writerpunk Press. When not reading, researching, writing, or editing, she tries to remember what she was supposed to be doing.

Lots of girls play Fairy Princess when they're little. Megan O'Reilly had no idea the real thing was like playing chess, guitar, and hockey all at once. Megan had known for a long time that she wasn't an entirely typical girl. But living with ADHD—and her mother's obsessions—was a very different thing from finding out she wasn't entirely human. Somewhere out there, in a completely different world, her father needs help. There's a conflict, revolving around Faerie seasonal rituals, that could have consequences for humanity—and if Megan's getting the terminology straight, it sounds like her family aren't even supposed to be the good guys. As she's further and further swept up in trying to save her father, Megan may be getting too good at not being human.

Megan O'Reilly, tell me a little about yourself. Where are you from? Is there anything you would like your fans to know about you that maybe wasn’t revealed in your story?

I'm a 16-year-old high school student from Seattle, WA. Apparently, my dad is some kind of Faerie king, not that I'd ever heard anything from him until recently. Much as I don't really like Faerie politics and weird things trying to kill me, a lot of it kind of makes more sense than living under all of my mother's rules, school, and all of the supposedly normal stuff. It's definitely more exciting.

Where did you grow up and what was your childhood like?

I grew up in West Seattle. My dad left when I was two -- all I really remembered was his voice, sort of. My mother used to be some kind of local rock star, but you certainly wouldn't know it now. She's really big on rules, schedules, routines, and lots of doctors appointments to try and deal with my ADHD every time my grades slip a little.

Otherwise, I guess it was pretty normal. We have a house, I have some good friends, especially Lani Kahale. Lani's apparently like me, in the half-faerie thing, except instead of half-sidhe like me, she's half-menehune, which is kind of a Hawaiian lawn gnome or something. The other difference is that her father stuck around.

My favorite classes were all about art and music, and I'm hoping to somehow convince my mom to let me go to art school when I graduate..