June 15, 2010 | 
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Join me on Patricia’s Vampire Notes for an interview about hoodoo and nomads. We’ll be giving away a signed copy of Black Dust Mambo along with a bottle of attraction oil and a mojo bag.
Here’s a taste of the interview:
PVN: How did you find the native voices for your characters and then turn them into the written word?
AP: Listening to people talk, picking up cadences from character speech in movies and on TV. Often when I’m writing, I’ll speak the dialog to get the rhythm right and to make sure it’s the way people would actually speak it. Meaning – proper grammar is a no-no. Most of us don’t use it in our conversations with friends and family. At least, I don’t. (I do for professional contacts and conversations, however.)
PVN: How does Hoodoo differ from Voodoo?
AP: The main difference is that Voodoo is a religion, with priestesses (mambos), priests (houngans) and devoted practitioners who participate in ceremonies to summon the loa (natural spirits and those of the dead), while Hoodoo is a system of folk magic following the same belief system as Voodoo, including the same gods/loas/saints.
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