What Music Inspires Sophie Masson @SophieMasson1 #InspirationalMusic

Who is Sophie Masson?

Trinity Koldun Code for Zena ShapterBorn in Indonesia of French parents, and brought up in Australia and France, Sophie Masson is the author of over 60 books for children, young adults and adults, published in Australia and many other countries. Her historical novel, The Hunt for Ned Kelly (Scholastic Australia), won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She has also written four popular YA romantic thrillers under the name of Isabelle Merlin. Under the name of Jenna Austen, she has also published two romantic comedies for tweens and early teens.

2014 was a big year for Sophie, with several novels for young people published: The Crystal Heart (Random House Australia), 1914 (Scholastic Australia) and Emilio (Allen and Unwin).

As well, her latest adult novel, Trinity: The Koldun Code, first in the Trinity thriller series set in Russia, was published by Momentum Books in 2014, and her non-fiction adult title, The Adaptable Author: Coping with Change in the Digital Age, featuring interviews with over 40 authors, agents and publishers on the state of authorship and the publishing industry today, was published by Keesing Press in the same year.

Forthcoming in 2015 are Hunter’s Moon (Random House Australia, June 2015) and Trinity: The False Prince (Momentum, October 2015).

Sophie is also one of the founding partners in new children’s publishing house, Christmas Press, www.christmaspresspicturebooks.com

Sophie has served on the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the Book Industry Collaborative Council, the Board of the Australian Society of Authors, the Board of the New England Writers’ Centre and the committee of the New England and North West sub-branch of the Children’s Book Council of NSW.

Where can I read more about this fabulous author?

www.sophiemasson.org

What music do they like?

The music I’ve chosen is a gorgeous Russian song called ‘How young we were’, sung by the great, thrillingly-voiced modern Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. His songs, along with the great classics of the Red Army Choir are very much a soundtrack to the Trinity series I’m writing–the first book has been published last year, the sequel coming out in October this year. The series is a big thriller saga with supernatural elements, set in Russia, and that big big music is very inspirational, with its mix of melancholy, gripping beauty and hint of impending doom! Here’s the link to a You Tube live performance of it:

Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud, reaching across age and genre into the heart of storytelling. A multi-award-winning author of speculative and contemporary fiction, she teaches writing at festivals, libraries and schools, judges various literary awards, mentors and edits other writers, and encourages everyone to value the importance of creativity. She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, and potatoes, though not at the same time!

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