For the final installment of my Five on Friday feature, today, I spotlight Michael Scott Clifton. I absolutely love his covers! Please check his new book out and be sure and follow him on social media!!
What is one of your favorite quotes?
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world,” Albert Einstein. Most of the greatest accomplishments in history started out as an idea, the fruit of someone’s imagination. The Constitution of the United States (“All Men are Created Equal”), Space Flight, and vaccines such as Polio and Tuberculosis are all examples. Without imagination, you can have no progress.
Ann: LUV the quote!!
If there was one person, real, fiction, or fantasy, you could spend time with, who would it be and why?
It would be a tie between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, both for the same reasons. I love fantasy and have always been fascinated by the similarities of these two literary giants—Tolkien the Father of the Fantasy genre, and Lewis, who followed The Lord of the Rings with his own classic, The Chronicles of Narnia. Both were also devout Christians. I would love to ask them where they got the inspiration for their stories and characters, and how their faith influenced this process.
Ann: I’m always fascinated by the answers I get to this question! So interesting!!
What is your favorite book and why?
My favorite book is The Stand by Stephen King. It is one of the few books I have read more than once and, in fact, I have read it several times. The Stand is classic tale of Good versus Evil, and in my opinion, is King’s best work. I like “good versus evil” stories, and my own books reflect this.
Ann: I have a cyber friend who studied under Mr. King and said the class was the best he’d ever taken. So, if you ever get a chance to do that, you should.
Name your three favorite TV shows.
Star Trek, The Big Bang Theory, and of course, Andy Griffith. Star Trek is my all-time favorite show, with Kirk, Spock, and “Bones” iconic characters who have few equals in television history. The Big Bang Theory is simply funny and has remained so every season. The Andy Griffith show never gets old, and is one of the few TV shows with the rare quality of being both hilarious and heartwarming at the same time.
Ann: Although, none you listed are my favorites, I do enjoy all of those!
What were you like in high school?
I was quite introverted in high school, and I had well over one thousand students in my graduating class. Its easy to disappear when you rarely pass the same person twice in the hallways. However, this led me to find myself in books, and I read voraciously. To borrow from Dr. Suess, “Oh, the places you will go”. Later in college, I joined a fraternity, and the rest—as the saying goes—is history!
Ann: Wow! A thousand students!! We didn’t have that many in my entire high school. My graduating class had a whopping total of 32.
Michael Scott Clifton, public educator for over 38 years as a teacher, coach, and administrator, currently lives in Mount Pleasant, Texas with his
wife, Melanie and family cat, Sadie. An avid gardener, he enjoys all kinds of book and movie genres. His books contain aspects of all the genres he enjoys…adventure, magic, fantasy, romance, and relationships. He has been a finalist in a number of of short story contests with Edges of Gray winning 1st Place in the Texas Authors Contest. Clifton’s fantasy novel, The Conquest of the Veil, won a First Chapter Finalist award. Professional credits include articles published in the Texas Study of Secondary Education Magazine. Clifton’s latest book, The Janus Witch, the July Book Cover of the Month, is a featured book on the We Love Indie Books website. Currently, Clifton is completing Book I of The Conquest of the Veil, which will be released in March 2019. He can be reached at [email protected] Follow him at:
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A beautiful witch with a violent past, forms an unlikely love affair with a compassionate young doctor…until she fears she may end up killing him.
https://books3read.com/The-Janus-Witch
Tressalayne is a member of a murderous witches’ coven. An attack by witch hunters forces the coven to escape through a hastily constructed portal of magic. Ripped from her medieval world, the portal hurls Tressalayne and the coven’s malevolent leader, Morganna, into East Texas. Critically injured in the passage, Tressalayne awakes in a hospital with no memory of her previous life. A kind young doctor, Lucas Beckett, helps her with her recovery and she falls deeply in love with him.
Their happy life together disintegrates when Tressalayne experiences flashbacks which reveal snippets of her dark past. These nightmares—accompanied by uncontrolled manifestations of magic—cause Tressalayne to fear she may one day hurt Lucas. Torn, she can’t bear the thought of life without Lucas, but at the same time, can’t bear the thought of injuring him.
When corrupt hospital CFO, Mason Crick, learns of Tressalayne’s strange abilities—along with Morganna, who also survived the passage to Texas— he is determined to use the witches’ talent to further his illicit drug empire. He lays an elaborate trap to capture Morganna and force her to do his bidding.
Into this mix comes, Robert Lockstone, the witch hunter whose hatred for Morganna causes him to risk his life and follow her through the portal. Vowing to kill her no matter the cost, Lockstone follows her trail and discovers her whereabouts. This sets up a final epic confrontation which forces a collision course of the past and the present within Tressalayne’s mind and soul. Murderous intent, or love and devotion?
Only one nature can survive and the Janus Witch must decide.
Also by Michael Scott Clifton
Nick Hollister’s luck usually ran only one way-bad. At thirty-two, his life was a disappointment, nothing but a series of dead-end jobs, poor decisions, and broken relationships. One especially bad day, Nick manages to lose his job, his girlfriend, and even gets beaten up. While on a road trip to get away from it all, he discovers a book hidden within the frame of a cheap painting he bought from Hank Harper, the dwarf-sized and eccentric owner of an unusual antique shop.
This mystical book, The Book of Lost Treasures, proves to be able to find the location of anything lost. Nick quickly realizes the book’s potential, and with a group of friends, forms The Treasure Hunt Club. He meets and falls in love with Abby Summers, and together with his friends, they engage in a cross-country trek to recover lost rare and valuable items. In a short period of time, Nick, Abby, and the rest of the Club members are wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. Good times and easy living stretch as far as the eye can see.
And that’s when their troubles begin…
