Erica Ferencik
Author Interview - Erica Ferencik
Author of GIRL IN ICE
A linguist, broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to a remote climate research center in an attempt to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from a glacier alive.
Author Interview - Erica Ferencik
Author I draw inspiration from: I draw from countless authors, a few are: Ian McEwan, Claire Messud, Audrey Aubrain, Joe Hill, William Golding, Ian McGuire, Hernan Diaz, Ian McGuire, Helen Phillips, Sabina Murphy
Author Interview - Erica Ferencik | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book: Anywhere, everywhere, but especially my bed with a cup of tea at the end of a long day.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Well...I read some pretty frightening stuff, but I wouldn't mind hanging with ship surgeon Patrick Sumner from Ian McGuire's THE NORTH WATER.
Author Interview - Erica Ferencik | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: I was twenty-six years old, a fine artist. I woke up one day and it hit me - these paints, these canvases - they're just not doing it for me anymore. There is so much more I'd like to express, and I want to do it through the written word.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Prefer paperbacks because they don't hurt your face as much as hardcovers when you wake up on them.
The last book I read: BATH HAUS, P.J. Vernon
Author Interview - Erica Ferencik | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer: Both. Pen and paper for notes on the go, computer for everything else.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Julie Weathers, THE SECOND MOTHER, by Jenny Milchman
Author Interview - Erica Ferencik | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: a filmmaker
Favorite decade in fashion history: 40s
Place I’d most like to travel: Galapagos
My signature drink: Limoncello martini
Favorite artist: Rodin
Number one on my bucket list: At this moment: Tanzania and Svalborg, Norway
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Author Bio: Award-winning novelist Erica Ferencik has received glowing critical praise for her literary thrillers featuring women who face extreme physical challenges in nature, even as they grapple with internal struggles. Devoted to authenticity in her craft, Erica spent weeks in the wilderness of northern Maine as research for her debut novel, The River at Night, an Indie Next Pick that New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware called “raw, relentless, and heart-poundingly real.” For her “hair-raisingly vivid” (Kirkus) follow-up, Into the Jungle, Ferencik journeyed a hundred miles up the Amazon to experience firsthand the lush and perilous Peruvian jungle. Now, inspired and informed by a month-long trip to Greenland, Ferencik sets Indie Next Pick GIRL IN ICE (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review “Exemplary…Ferencik outdoes Michael Crichton in the convincing way she mixes emotion and science.”) in one of the most unforgiving, unforgettable landscapes imaginable.
