You’re much admired for conveying humor in your novels. The idea stuck with me, and when I turned it into a book, I took my travel writer, now a human writing guides for monsters, to New York for my first book, but always intended to go back to New Orleans. I had an idea about a tour guide who loved her job so much that after she died, she kept doing it. Ghost Train was born from a story I wrote in 2005 to benefit the Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. Tell us about your new book The Ghost Train to New Orleans. What inspired this book?
I’m so delighted to welcome Mur Lafferty to ‘The Practice of Creativity’. I recently caught up with Mur and invited her to talk about her work and the writing life. In Ghost Train, we find out more about Zoe’s mysterious background, the different factions of coterie, all while enjoying the sights, sounds and cultural history of New Orleans. Although I am not doing a review of the book here, let’s just say when I finished TSG, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Lafferty’s latest novel, Ghost Train. Hilarity, a bevy of misunderstandings and juicy subplots ensue. Enter Zoe, the most unlikely editor of a travel guide for the coterie. They travel and they need to know places to stay (and where to eat) when they do. Yes, they do exist, everyone from zombies to water sprites. It told the tale of Zoe, a young human woman who finds herself working with monsters, or “coterie” (the preferred term for nonhumans). Her nonfiction essays have appeared in Knights of the Dinner Table, The Escapist, and on the podcast ‘The Dragon Page’. She has hosted and/or created shows for Tor.com, Lulu, and Angry Robot Books, as well as created several of her own shows like ‘Geek Fu Action Grip’ and ‘I Should Be Writing’. In 2012, she won the distinguished John W. Its sequel, The Ghost Train to New Orleans, came out March 2014.
The Shambling Guide to New York City won the 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award. She has published two novels with Orbit Books. Mur Lafferty has an MFA in popular fiction from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. ‘I Should Be Writing’ has won the Podcast Peer Award and three Parsec Awards. She has inspired many people and has served as a model for some to start their own podcast about writing, including, ‘The Dead Robots Society’ (of which I am also a fan). She periodically conducts interviews with leading authors and also an occasional feedback show where people can send in questions that she answers. She’s very encouraging and a master at sharing tips on how to keep one’s self writing (and why it is important to do so). Mur’s honesty about the ups and downs of the writing process really speaks to me. She has been hosting this podcast for ten years. Long before Mur Lafferty became a well-regarded speculative fiction author, she was known for her compassionate, funny and engaging podcast called, ‘I Should Be Writing: A Podcast for Wanna be Fiction Writers’.
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